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Our Indiegogo campaign has closed (thanks so much to everyone that contributed!), but we’re continuing to fundraise off line as we get ready for an incredible production of Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon’s Goblin Market.

We’re holding a VIP after-party after our opening night performance Friday, November 15, with great food and drink, swag bags and a chance to meet our poster artist, illustrator Don Higgins and experience his work for yourself. We’re getting really excited for it, and we hope you are too!

VIP tickets will be available here (notyourmomsmusicaltheater.com) soon. In the meantime, make sure you grab your tickets for the show at the Hatbox, as they’re very limited and may sell out!

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Have you heard? Literally? Ross and Jamie have gotten together and created a musical theater comedy podcast, Finishing The Season. Ross poses a challenge for Jamie, where she needs to create a three show season that matches his criteria. And then Jamie shares it.

You’ll laugh, you almost certainly won’t cry, and you’ll probably learn about a new musical or two along the way. They’re ridiculous, after all.

The latest episode tackles renewal as a theme for the New Year. Check it out online or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!

The Musical of Musicals: The Musical! – the hilarious off-Broadway parody returns to New Hampshire! 

Featuring Mario Arruda, Jocelyn Duford, Ally Holmes, Joey T.

accompanied by Jamie Feinberg

narrated by Nat Ward

Thursday, February 11 – Amoskeag Studios, Manchester, NH

Friday, February 12 – Medallion Opera House, Gorham, NH

Saturday, February 13 – Chandler Opera House, Randolph, VT

Because it’s closing, of course…leave them wanting more, right?

On November 22, Not Your Mom’s Musical Theater presents the final concert in its Something Wonderful I Missed concert series. The series has been sponsored in part by Appletree Business Services.

Join us for one more show at the beautiful, historic Derry Opera House in downtown Derry, NH (29 W. Broadway, Derry, NH)

Not Your Mom’s Musical Theater’s final concert in its series on musical theater history explores the 2005 Broadway and off-Broadway seasons! Take a trip back and explore musicals like The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Little Women, Spamalot, Dessa Rose, The Light in the Piazza, The Great American Trailer Park Musical and many more, including selections from See What I Wanna See, performed by NYMMT in the fall of 2012. The concerts are emceed by local performers and personalities who will illustrate the often ridiculous and always interesting history of the songs. This concert, the final one in the series, features more than a dozen of southern New Hampshire’s best musical theater performers.

November 22nd’s 4 p.m. concert at the Derry Opera House will be followed by a free reception and presentation in celebration of four years of concerts in the Londonderry/Derry area. When the series is complete, the cast will have performed twenty unique concerts (each with original scripts) covering twenty different years in musical theater history!

The concert is directed by Jamie Feinberg and the cast is the company’s largest to date, with all who have participated in past concerts invited to join for the final song. (RSVP by November 15 if you want to join the cast!) This concert features Mario Arruda, Ross Boyd, Amber Byron, Christie Conticchio, Jocelyn Duford, Lauren Friedman, Rose Harmon, Don Higgins, Allyson Holmes, Dan Holmes, Elliot Owens, Sheree Owens, Judy Pancoast, Jessica Plummer, Melody Reese, Angelica Rosenthal, Deb Shaw and Joey T. Jamie Feinberg and Tom Holmes accompany, with assistance from Jesse Reese.

Tickets can be purchased at the door. Suggested donation for admission is $10 adults, $5 students to insure that all are able to attend the performance. All audience members will receive a free ticket to participate in the Audience Choice raffle!

Melody Reese, Sheree Owens and Jessica Plummer rehearse "I Gave It Away", part of a special video presentation for the 2005 concert.

Melody Reese, Sheree Owens and Jessica Plummer rehearse “I Gave It Away”, part of a special video presentation for the 2005 concert.

When a theater company applies for the rights to a show, they are not GUARANTEED the rights until they’ve paid for them. Therefore, they aren’t allowed to promote the show, or even announce it in any way.

Well, we’ve applied for the rights to a show. This show is such a certified winner that we have been sworn to secrecy, even AFTER we get the rights, from telling anyone in the Boston area about our show. We can’t even post the information to websites, except our own! shh

Why are we agreeing to go along with this crazy, covert, weird musical stuff? Well, because who wouldn’t want to be a part of a top-secret show? Also, clearly, the show is just THAT GOOD.

If you believe that we have good taste in material, or you just like that there is a southern New Hampshire company refusing to stage anything but high-quality, lesser-known musicals that you just wouldn’t be able to see anywhere else, we need your help.

To learn about all of the ways you can get involved, click here. 

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Join us at the Derry Opera House this Sunday at 4 p.m.! Fabulous music from Sondheim’s The Frogs, Assassins and Pacific Overtures, Children’s Letter’s to God, bare, Brooklyn, Fiddler and much, much more. Come catch some of the music of 2004’s Broadway and off-Broadway seasons performed by some of our finest performers. 29 W. Broadway, Derry. As always, no one is ever turned away (whether you can make the suggested donation or not), so grab your friends and come catch the show!

And if you haven’t marked your calendars for our tour, Something Wonderful I Missed: Holiday Edition arrives this December! You can catch our professional troupe December 6th in Meredith, December 7th in Littleton – AND on Tuesday, December 16th, join us for an incredible dinner & wine pairing at Amphora in Derry! In other words, this will be the best dinner theater performance EVER. Tickets are available here, or visit Amphora in Derry to purchase!

Hope you can join us soon, and thanks!

Our next concert at the Derry Opera House this Sunday has everything – from Sunset Boulevard and Beauty and the Beast to lesser-known gems like 3 Postcards, Hello Again and Passion, you won’t want to miss this concert.

As always, admission is by donation – and bring some cash for our popular raffle at intermission! Thanks for supporting innovative musical theater in New Hampshire!

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Hi friends!

Not Your Mom’s Musical Theater brings its unique brand of theater up north for two performances only – Saturday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Littleton, and Sunday, May 11 at 2:30 p.m. in Plymouth. Tell all your northern friends to join us – or come cheer us on yourself! We’re touring with the Arts Alliance of Northern NH and we can’t wait!

Who are we bringing? Oh, no one special…just a bunch of Top Ten and Finalist NH theater award nominees including Mario Arruda and Ally Bergendahl (our recent Zombie Prom leads), Jocelyn Duford (you remember, the woman who had you in a puddle at the end of Weird Romance?) and Joey T., Miss Strict herself!

Don’t miss this all-star cast singing their greatest hits. Learn more at www.aannh.org – no one is turned away for inability to pay, pretty cool! And make sure you’ve got May 25 at 4 p.m. on your calendar – all the stuff you didn’t know you’d missed from 1974’s theater season, including The Magic Show, Over Here!, Mack & Mabel, and much more!

See Something Wonderful at 4 p.m.!

Join us for all of the great songs you missed, plus a few you remember and love, from on and off-Broadway in 1964! Hello, Dolly!, What Makes Sammy Run, Ben Franklin in Paris, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty…

No one gets turned away, admission is a suggested donation only. See you there for the fun and the madness!

Not Your Mom’s Musical Theater is back for 2014 with auditions for its ground-breaking concert series! The series kicks off with Something Wonderful I Missed: The Musicals of 1964, which will feature selections from the 1964 musical theater season, fifty years ago. Strong singers and emcees are sought to join the concert cast for this season. Concerts are emceed by actors and comedians who illustrate the often ridiculous and always interesting history of the songs. 

The series chronicles lesser-known songs and musicals in a funny and engaging way, and concerts will be held on Feb. 16, May 25, July 13, September 28 and November 2. All are Sundays at 4 p.m. at the historic Derry Opera House in Derry.

Auditionees should prepare two memorized, contrasting selections from musical theater (32 bars max each) that show the variety of styles they are capable of, and should bring a resume and sheet music if possible. If performers are unable to attend auditions on January 6th or 7th, please email notyourmoms@gmail.com with a letter of interest and resume. No appointment necessary. Auditionees can audition for 1 or as many as all 5 concerts.

Learn more here!