A production of a new tuner by Melissa James Gibson and Michael Friedman and development workshops for new work by alums of the National Alliance for Musical Theater fest are among the seven inaugural recipients of grants from NAMT’s new National Fund for New Musicals.
Coin supporting full productions will go to two new musicals, including “Post Office,” the musical from Gibson (“[sic]”) and Civilians composer Michael Friedman, to play at Center Theater Group in a production underwritten by Broadway Across America.
Also getting a full staging, this one at Adirondack Theater Fest and underwritten by Stacey Mindich, is “Ordinary Days,” Adam Gwon’s tuner about a Gotham grad student who loses her thesis notes. Show appeared in NAMT’s annual fest of new musicals last year.