<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><span class=""></span></div><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div class=""><span class=""></span></div><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">There’s still time to submit your original show to Theatre in the Circle’s COCOON incubator for new musicals. </div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="text-align: center; " class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center; " class=""><a href="http://theatreinthecircle.com/cocoon.html" class="">http://theatreinthecircle.com/cocoon.html</a></div><div style="text-align: center; " class=""><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><br class=""></strong></div><div style="text-align: center; " class=""><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Theatre in the Circle's COCOON </strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""> is an incubator for new musicals where ideas, songs, characters, scripts and scores can develop and get professional support and mentoring. There are local new play workshops and development opportunities, but no one locally is offering a place to grow fledgling musicals. </span></div><div class=""><div class="paragraph" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><strong class="">Imagine</strong> Playwrights Local, Playwrights Gym, Test Flight and Entry Point in 5/4 time on Sondheim-steroids. “Putting it together” with a</font><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""> faculty of veteran musical theatre mavens: playwrights, composers, story tellers, conductors, musicians, directors, designers and producers will review submissions, offer suggestions and help musical theater imagineers refine concepts, clear thorny plot problems, restructure and consider appropriate questions.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><font class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Promising projects will be selected for workshops, staged readings or even fully-realized productions. COCOON submissions are now being </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">accepted. </span></div></font></span></div><div class=""></div></div><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center; " class=""><a href="http://theatreinthecircle.com/cocoon.html" class="">http://theatreinthecircle.com/cocoon.html</a></div><div style="text-align: center; " class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center; " class="">Theatre in the Circle</div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center; " class=""><a href="http://theatreinthecircle.com/" class="">theatreinthecircle.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>