Prizes
will be as follows:
Winning/Featured Musical $500
The first-place winner will be offered courtesy
round-trip transportation within the continental
U.S., and hotel accommodations during the festival
based on availability.
Competition
Rules
SCRIPT
LENGTH & TYPE
MUSlCALS
45-60 minutes running time, with a flexible
act-break
TARGET
AUDIENCE
MUSICALS Ages 5-12
CAST
SIZE
MUSICALS
Maximum eight (8) adult actors to play any number
of roles.
Musicals
lending themselves to simplified and suggested
settings will be at a distinct advantage in
this competition. Shows suitable for touring
are desired. The NCTF will employ qualified
directors, designers, and technicians to realize
the vision of the winning playwrights, and final
design choices will be the sole province of
the Festival production team.
CONTENT
While scripts should target the appropriate
audience, those musicals appealing to adults
as well as children will be at an advantage.
Contemporary relevance is to be preferred over
mere topicality--we seek plays whose appeal
will last beyond this season's headlines. In
addition to English-language submissions, we
will also consider bilingual (English and Spanish)
scripts. We will accept new adaptations of traditional,
public-domain titles as well as new stories.
MUSIC
Authors of Musicals must submit legible sheet
music with chord symbols and/or accompaniment
and lyrics included, also a Vocal CD of music
with vocals in show order. No videos, please.
ORIGINALITY
All materials submitted must be original, unpublished,
not accepted by any other publisher at the time
of submission and not be subject to publisher-owned
copyright or licensing. Claim to copyright is
the author's responsibility. Author(s) will
obtain the consent of any individual or other
entity involved in the development of submitted
materials. Ineligible titles for the 2010 competition:
Alice in Wonderland, Charlotte's Web, Cinderella,
Hansel & Gretel, The Princess and the Pea,
Puss-in-Boots, Wizard of Oz or any shows with
a Christmas/Holiday theme.
LICENSING
and royalties
Actors' Playhouse reserves all production rights
for exclusive live performances and staged readings
of the winning Musical, during the Festival
period. The prize money shall constitute any
and all royalties due the author(s) with respect
to these live performances produced by Actors'
Playhouse through June 30, 2010.
Royalties
for subsequent Actors' Playhouse productions
of the winning Musical, after June 30, 2010,
including film and television rights, shall
be the subject of a separate agreement. Actors'
Playhouse reserves the right of first refusal
for worldwide video and film rights to the winning
Musical through the end of June 2010. Actors'
Playhouse and the author(s) shall engage in
good faith negotiations for all royalty payments
and other contractual terms of such contracts
according to industry standards.
TRAINING TAPES
Actors' Playhouse reserves the right to make
video and audio tapes of the competition finalists
for use as an educational adjunct in its theatre
workshops and the Actors' Playhouse Conservatory.
Such tapes shall bear the copyright of the author(s)
and shallnot be assigned or transferred to any
third party. Actors' Playhouse shall not receive
any compensation or profit from use of these
tapes, and presentation of such tapes shall
only occur in classroom and research settings.
Winning author(s) will receive one copy of such
tapes.
PUBLICATION
Author(s) of the winning Musical agree to note
the following information in all future publications
of this work: 1) Its production by Actors' Playhouse
Productions, Inc., as the winning entry in the
Fifteenth Annual National Children's Theatre
Festival, February, 2010, at Actors' Playhouse
at the Miracle Theatre, Coral Gables, Florida;
and 2) The following production staff: Dr. Lawrence
E. Stein, Chairman of the Board; Barbara S.
Stein, Executive Producing Director; David Arisco,
Artistic Director; Earl Maulding, Director of
Theatre for Young Audiences. Such publications
will also note the Directors and Designers of
the initial Festival production and the names
of original cast members.
FINAL COPY
All entries must be produced by typewriter or
computer printer on 8 1/2"x ll" white
paper. Lines should be one-and-a-half spaced;
stage directions should be indented and single-spaced.
Please number your pages. Your name, address,
phone number, and the title of the musical,
must appear on a cover page separate from the
text of your work (Festival judges will not
know the names or addresses of authors submitting
work). Sheet music should be similarly arranged
and must be easily legible. Actors' Playhouse
reserves the right to reproduce copies for distribution
to Festival judges.
ALL
MATERIALS SHOULD NOT BE BOUND.
SUBMISSIONS
Manuscripts and accompanying materials will
be returned only with a SASE. A $10 reading
fee, payable in U.S. funds to Actors' Playhouse,
must accompany all entries. There is no restriction
on the number of entries you may submit, but
each entry must be accompanied by a separate
entry fee and official entry form. To have scripts
returned, please send a pre stamped envelope
with the correct postage.
DEADLINE
Entries must be postmarked by April 1, 2009,
or earlier. Works mailed without proper postage
will not be considered. Winners will be notified
by November 1, 2009, and all other entries (if
submitted with SASE) will be returned by January,
2010.
JUDGING
A screening committe will thoroughly examine
each entry to insure adherence to contest guidelines.
The contest panel will consist of judges of
prominent reputation in music composition, theatrical
literature and performance. Decisions of the
judges are final.
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