On this episode of
STAGE GROK, I talk with composer, lyricist, and music director
Georgia Stitt, about musical theatre and copyright in this new age of bootlegs, smart phones, YouTube, and other social media platforms. Georgia is the chair of the
Copyright Advocacy Committee of the
Dramatists Guild. She's also the founder of
Maestra Music Inc, a support and advocacy organization for "female-identifying, non-binary, and gender non-conforming composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, rehearsal pianists and other musicians who are an underrepresented minority in musical theater."
Check out the Stage Grok interview with Georgia's husband, composer-lyricist
Jason Robert Brown.
STAGE GROK host
Scott Miller is the artistic director of
New Line Theatre in St. Louis, and the author of
seven books on musical theatre,
nine musicals, and the musical theatre blog
The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre. Opening and closing theme music: Overture from
Cry-Baby the Musical by Adam Schlessinger and David Javerbaum, from New Line Theatre's 2012 production. Used by permission. Logo designed by Matt Reedy. Stage Grok is available on iTunes.