Music Licensing vs Musical Licensing

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents their July panel, Music Licensing vs Musical Licensing Acquiring Rights and Avoiding Wrongs on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 7:30pm at The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street, 3rd floor Loft Theatre, NYC. Doors open at 7pm for networking and refreshments, presentations and roundtable introductions start at 7:30pm (come prepared with your best half-minute summary of who you are, and what you need).

Speakers will include Michael Barra, President, Stageworks Media (former executive at Walt Disney Pictures and Disney Theatrical Group as well as with Daryl Roth Theatrical Licensing); Sean Patrick Flahaven, Senior Vice President of Theatre and Catalog Development for Warner/Chappell Music; Darnetha Lincoln M'Baye, Director of Licensing for Alchemation LLC, Music Consultant for Ibis Eye Consulting; Miriam Stern, attorney; and Fred Stuart, Director of Marketing Theatrical Rights Worldwide.

This panel will explore the differences between acquiring rights for existing music to use in theatrical works, including jukebox musicals, and extending the life of original musical theater works through a very different kind of “licensing.” We’ll also talk about licensing product from one media to another and address other questions that attendees may have.

Admission is $12 (free for TRU members). Please RSVP at least a day in advance (or much sooner) for reservations: 212/714-7628; or e-mail TRUStaff1@gmail.com.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is a twenty-two year old 501c3 nonprofit organization created to help producers produce, emerging theater companies to emerge healthily and all theater professionals to understand and navigate the business of theater. Membership includes self-producing artists as well as career producers and theater companies.

TRU publishes an email community newsletter of services, goods and productions; presents the TRU VOICES Annual New Play Reading Series and Annual New Musicals Reading Series, two new works series in which TRU underwrites developmental readings to nurture new shows as well as new producers for theater; TRU offers a Producer Development & Mentorship Program whose mentors are among the most prominent producers and general managers in New York Theater, and also presents Producer Boot Camp workshops to help aspirants develop the business skills they need. TRU serves writers through a Writer-Producer Speed Date, a Practical Playwriting Workshop and a Director-Writer Communications Lab; programs for actors include an Annual Combined Audition, scheduled for April 5th and 6th this year, and quarterly Resource Nights and “Speed Dating” as well as free monthly actor workshops, in partnership with Weist-Barron Studios.

For more information about TRU membership and programs, visit www.truonline.org or call (212) 714-7628.