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Musicals Available for Rental

Emerald Green

Music, Lyrics, and Book by James Olm

During a blizzard, in a Minnesota nursing home, four elderly residents must negotiate and reconcile the harsh feelings between each other, by reflecting on their own personal, haunted, and forgotten pasts. A beautiful, uplifting story of hope and love through the often “forgotten and tossed away” generation – our beloved elderly.

Sittin' On This Bench

A Safe Place

The Art's The Thing

Kneading Bread

At The Barbershop

For So Long

Emerald Green

What Is Left

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The Magdalene

Music by James Olm

Lyrics and Book by Shad Olsen and James Olm

Mary Magdalene, incorrectly dismissed for almost 2000 years as a “penitent prostitute,” may well have been not only a disciple of Jesus, but placed in a position above the other Apostles. Why was a powerful female figure downgraded as the church was created? Inspired by the Gnostic Gospels and new research. Produced Off Broadway.

What Did You See in Me

Closer to God

Something Greater

What Is He

The Waters of the River

Two Lives

Mary the Magdalene

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Mulberry

Music, Lyrics, and Book by James Olm

In the heart of Wisconsin, a dairy farm family, spanning three generations and three wars, faces the tug-of-war of societal attitudes that deal with tradition, family, growing up, and what it is to be a man. A home-grown musical that explores many of the conflicts of the 1960’s and how they affect the family. Honest and painful, yet fascinating in its exploration.

Brothers Unite

Be a Man

Rolling

It's Tradition - Part II

Just Swing

What Is Love

The Draft Lottery

Invisible

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Obits

Music, Lyrics, and Book by James Olm

A small, Midwestern town hardware store manager’s only dream in life is to own his hardware store; but, before that dream is fulfilled, he’s killed by a falling piano! On his way to the after- life, he’s met by an angel who gives him one more week of life to achieve his ultimate dream. A funny, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” feel-good musical.

I Love My Hardware Store

There's More to Me than Nuts and Bolts

Life Without Life

A Conversation

What's Special to Me

The Confrontation

A Day in the Store

Carving the Dream

Tick Tick Tick

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A New Opera in Development

The Lake Between Us

Music, Lyrics, and Book by James Olm

In Duluth, Minnesota, comes a story of love and finding one’s dream. The only thing that comes between them is the most ferocious of lakes – Lake Superior – and trying to cross it on the ship, The Mataafa, during the November, 1905 storm of the century.

Sailing Forward

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Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Ages

How many times have you experienced a musical that was fabulous or just didn’t work at all, but you had no idea how to communicate why? How do you differentiate between a flaw in the performance portrayal of a character to a structural flaw in the musical itself?