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The Magnormos Prompt Musicals Program presents a ‘studio season’ of new, rarely performed and/or Australian musicals which may otherwise not get the opportunity to be seen by Victorian (or indeed Australian) audiences.

The presentations are staged with full choreography and blocking, but are supported by simple and slick design elements – a distinctive and robust performance style. With a streamlined production design, Prompt Musicals presentations retain a focus on the ‘performer’ as the catalyst for dramatic interpretation and the ‘writing’ of the text and music. A prompt script on a podium as part of the stage aesthetic, as well as low ticket prices, helps to frame audience expectations of the works as ‘studio’ presentations.

Compact but potent renderings of musicals, Prompt Musicals offers a polished artistic outcome utilising a meticulous economy of resources.

The Prompt Musicals Program evolved from Magnormos’ earlier Music Theatre Readings Program, established in 2003 with the Australian premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s first musical 'Saturday Night'.   For information on production history click here.