The New Musicals Lab

The New Musicals Lab The New Musicals Lab @ Ferguson Center is a new musical theater incubator program. We source new mus

Join us at the Ferguson Center Wednesday, July 24 @ 7 p.m. for a reading of this new musical! In the late 19th century, ...
07/20/2024

Join us at the Ferguson Center Wednesday, July 24 @ 7 p.m. for a reading of this new musical! In the late 19th century, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show toured the vast, expanding American landscape, offering dazzling displays of sharpshooting, horseback riding and living history. Now in the 21st century, a new Wild West show makes its debut, starring Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Millie-Christine McKoy and other famous and infamous women who stood at the nexus of nation building and entertainment during the era of Westward Expansion. Reclaiming the stage to tell their own narratives, they will dazzle you with daring feats, while discovering that perhaps our national origin story isn’t quite as simple as some would like to believe. This reading is free and open to the public. Email Diana Ruffer at [email protected] to reserve seats. Please include your name and the number in your party.

Join us Thursday @ 7:30 p.m. in the Diamonstein Concert Hall for the "New Song Cabaret," featuring the entire 2024 New M...
07/15/2024

Join us Thursday @ 7:30 p.m. in the Diamonstein Concert Hall for the "New Song Cabaret," featuring the entire 2024 New Musicals Lab company presenting a collection of new works to the Newport News community. This event is free and open to the public! Email Diana Ruffer at [email protected] to reserve seats. Please include your name and the number in your party.

FREE open readings! Don't miss two opportunities to join us Sunday, July 14 (3 p.m. and 7 p.m.) for Ferguson Center New ...
07/11/2024

FREE open readings! Don't miss two opportunities to join us Sunday, July 14 (3 p.m. and 7 p.m.) for Ferguson Center New Musicals Lab open readings of Moonfaker, produced by Cynthia J. Tong with book by Sam French and music/lyrics by Kyle Wilson. It's 1969, and the United States is in a desperate race with the Soviet Union to land a man on the moon. Just in case they can't get the job done, the CIA is prepping for plan B: filming a fake moon landing. Leading the project is straight-laced Dougie Whittlebarker, an agent running from his tragic past. When no one wants in on the mission, Dougie is forced to assemble a team of total misfits and outcasts to envision, execute and fake one of the greatest moments in American history. These readings are free, open to the public and will take place in the Diamonstein Concert Hall. Email [email protected] to reserve seats!

Join us for a Ferguson Center New Musicals Lab open reading, Saturday, July 13 @ 7 p.m. in the Studio Theatre. The Disas...
07/10/2024

Join us for a Ferguson Center New Musicals Lab open reading, Saturday, July 13 @ 7 p.m. in the Studio Theatre. The Disaster Marathon of 1904 features a book by Tyler Joseph Ellis and Jacob Ryan Smith and music and lyrics by Jacob Ryan Smith and Daniel Mertzlufft. Based on shockingly true events, the musical follows six of the athletes in this infamous race. Meet us in St. Louis as we embark on a hilarious and sole-ful musical journey of cheating, rotten fruit and rat poison. The reading is free and open to the public. Email [email protected] to reserve seats!

Join us for a Ferguson Center New Musicals Lab open reading, Monday, July 8 @ 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre. Breakup i...
07/06/2024

Join us for a Ferguson Center New Musicals Lab open reading, Monday, July 8 @ 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre. Breakup is the story of experiencing your worst fears, hitting rock bottom, rising from the ashes and discovering how to create happiness on your own terms. Eric C. Webb (book) and Stephanie Bianchi (music and lyrics) tell this hilarious yet poignant tale of one woman’s awakening wrapped in big Broadway tunes and wry, witty lyrics. The reading is free and open to the public. Email [email protected] to reserve seats.

Join us Friday @ 8 p.m. at the Yoder Barn for last performance of Sh*tzprobe's The Improvised Broadway Musical! Everythi...
07/19/2023

Join us Friday @ 8 p.m. at the Yoder Barn for last performance of Sh*tzprobe's The Improvised Broadway Musical! Everything is improvised on the spot based on an audience suggestion of a title of a musical that has never been done before. Audience participation is encouraged. Recommended for ages 15+. All seats $15! https://bit.ly/3ryLLc5

It's The Improvised Broadway Musical! All music/lyrics are improvised on the spot (with your help) based on an audience ...
06/27/2023

It's The Improvised Broadway Musical! All music/lyrics are improvised on the spot (with your help) based on an audience suggestion of a title of a musical that has never been done before. The show you see will never happen again! Audience participation is encouraged. Recommended for ages 15+. Five performances July 7-21 at the Yoder Barn. All tickets $15! https://bit.ly/3NjBuYo

Loch Ness and Collisions are both hard at work this week at The New Musicals Lab!
07/22/2022

Loch Ness and Collisions are both hard at work this week at The New Musicals Lab!

Peyton Townsend is thrilled to be joining the company of this summer's New Musicals Lab! He is a recent graduate of Chr...
07/08/2022

Peyton Townsend is thrilled to be joining the company of this summer's New Musicals Lab! He is a recent graduate of Christopher Newport University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater (Concentration: Music-Theater/Dance) from Chesapeake, VA. His past credits include "Quarter Note Crisis" at Feinstein's/54 Below (Featured Performer) and Drew Gasparini's We Aren't Kids Anymore (Ensemble), as well as TheaterCNU's productions of Pippin (Ensemble), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Barfée), The Drowsy Chaperone (Underling), and Oklahoma! (Ali Hakim). Peyton thanks his family and friends for their support in his endeavors and the New Musicals Lab team for providing exceptional opportunities for young performers.

Remy Thompson grew up in the Washington DC area and is a recent graduate of ChristopherNewport University earning a Bach...
07/07/2022

Remy Thompson grew up in the Washington DC area and is a recent graduate of Christopher
Newport University earning a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Humanities with a major in Theatre
and a concentration in Music Theatre/Dance. Some of her past credits include Feinstein’s/54
Below performance “Quarter Note Crisis” (Featured Performer), Pippin (Fastrada), Like The
Wind (Ash/Emma/Heather) at The Brick Theatre, Madam President (Gracie Allen/Grace) and
?????: The Improvised Broadway Musical (Company Member) through the New Musicals Lab
at the Ferguson 2021, Drowsy Chaperone (Kitty), and Oklahoma! (Dream Laurey/Ensemble)
through TheaterCNU.

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