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What's New

New Musicals is actively built in close collaboration with our composer community. Here's what we've been working on.

May 28, 2026

🔗 Also by these artists — because rabbit holes are good, actually

  • —🎭 Every show page now has an "Also by these artists" section at the bottom. It automatically surfaces other shows on the site that share any of the same collaborators — composer, lyricist, or bookwriter. One click and you're exploring someone's whole catalogue. The way discovery should work.
  • —🧩 The tricky part: musicals aren't solo endeavors. The composer on one show might be the lyricist on another, and the bookwriter might have co-written with three different composers across three different projects. So we built it to match on any artistic collaborator — if you share even one credit, the show shows up. And each card displays the full credits for that show, so you can immediately see who the connection is and how they fit in. Clean, automatic, no curation needed.
  • —✨ This one came straight from the community — a shout-out to Eamonn O'Dwyer for the suggestion. The best features on this site have all come from composers who actually use it. Keep them coming. 💜

May 18, 2026

📬 New Musicals is now on Substack & Instagram!

  • —📰 We launched a Substack! Every week we'll be featuring new works posted to the site — spotlighting shows, composers, and the stories behind the music. If you're a composer on New Musicals, getting featured on the Substack is a real chance to put your work in front of new eyes. Subscribe now at newmusicals.substack.com— it's free, it's good, and every subscribe genuinely helps. Tell your friends! Tell your composer friends! Tell literally everyone! 🙏
  • —📸 We're also on Instagram at @newmusicals_net. Follow us there for show spotlights, composer features, and the occasional peek behind the curtain. If you're already on Instagram, give us a follow — it takes two seconds and it means a lot to a young site still finding its audience. 💜

May 13, 2026

📸 Composer headshots, easier collaborators, and a brand-new look

  • —📸 Composers can now upload a profile photo — a headshot, a candid from opening night, a selfie where the lighting was finally good, whatever says 'this is me.' It appears right on your public composer page in a clean two-thirds bio, one-third photo layout. Profiles with a face on them are just more human, and that matters when a producer is deciding who to reach out to. Go ahead and add yours. (Edit Profile → Profile Photo, near the top.)
  • —🤝 Adding collaborators to a show got a lot more personal. Now that composers have profile photos, when you search for a collaborator by name you can be confident you're tagging the right person — the one you actually worked with, not the other Daniel. Fewer awkward 'wait, which one are you?' moments. Collaboration the way it should be.
  • —✨ New Musicals has a new logo. The wordmark is now a proper gradient — deep purple through magenta to pink — set in Space Grotesk 700 with a little pulsing circle as the dot in '.net.' It looks like it means business. The favicon got the same treatment: a crisp gradient circle generated programmatically, so it's pixel-perfect at every size and never goes stale. Tiny things, big difference.

May 12, 2026

🎨 Show artwork, sheet music links, agent contact, and new style tags

  • —🖼️ You can now upload a hero image to any of your show pages — poster art, a production photo, whatever best captures the feel of the work. It appears right-aligned next to the title and description, and it adapts to whatever you throw at it: portrait, landscape, square, odd-ratio festival poster from 2019. The image is automatically compressed on upload (no giant files, no fuss), and the result is a show page that finally looks like it belongs in a season brochure. Go upload something. Seriously.
  • —♫ Added a Sheet Music link field to each show. If your music is available for purchase anywhere on the web, paste the link and a clean '♫ Buy sheet music' link appears on your show page. Producers and curious fans can find their way to the dots in one click.
  • —🤝 Composers can now add their agent's name and contact email to their profile (Edit Profile → Agent section at the bottom). It shows up on your public composer page as 'Represented by [Your Agent]' — a clickable mailto link so professional producers know exactly who to call. Because not every inquiry should land in your personal inbox at 11pm.
  • —🎼 Three new Musical Style tags are now available: Contemporary MT, British MT, and Electronic. Find them under Musical Style when editing any show's tags. British musical theatre is absolutely its own thing — Eamonn O'Dwyer told us so, and he's right.

May 3, 2026

📲 Share-ready link previews for every page

  • —✨ Every page on the site now has a beautiful, custom-rendered preview image that appears whenever you share the link — in iMessage, in a tweet, on Bluesky, on Facebook, in a Slack channel, in a Discord server, anywhere. No more lonely, default-looking link cards. Your shows now show up like the marquee they deserve.
  • —🎭 Show pages now share with the title front and center, full title-page credits underneath (Music by / Lyrics by / Book by), and a quick spec line at the bottom — cast size and band size — so producers seeing the link in a feed know instantly whether it's a fit.
  • —🎤 Composer profiles share with your name big and bold, plus a quick stat line (number of shows, number of videos) and your most recent show. Drop your profile link into a producer's inbox and the preview does the introducing for you.
  • —🏠 The homepage preview shows live stats — current count of shows, writers, and videos on the site — so when someone shares newmusicals.net, the card reflects how the community has actually grown.
  • —🎨 Each card uses a warm cream-paper background with our purple squiggle accent, so the visual family resemblance is clear at a glance. No more boring default link previews — share away! 💜

April 28, 2026

🎉 Multi-platform music, title-page billing, and clickable licensing

  • —🎵 The Music section now accepts SoundCloud, Spotify, AND Bandcamp links — up to one per platform per show. Track, album, or playlist all work. Each card stays click-to-load, so adding all three doesn't slow the page down at all. Huzzah for choice.
  • —🎭 Show credits now display title-page style: 'Music by [composer], Lyrics by [lyricist], Book by [book writer].' Multi-role writers (composer-lyricists, lyricist-bookwriters, the rare composer-lyricist-bookwriter unicorn 🦄) finally render correctly across multiple lines, and writers sharing a role end up on the same line. Looks a lot more like an actual program.
  • —Under the hood, every collaborator on every show now stores roles as a multi-checkbox set instead of one rigid label. The same person can be a composer on one show and a lyricist on another, since that's how the world actually works. (Bonus: the bug where picking someone from autofill permanently branded them 'Composer' is dead. Vanquished. Slain. ⚔️)
  • —📋 Licensing rows are now clickable. Add the new optional Licensing URL field and the licensing line on your show page becomes a link with the same elegant arrow icon as your show website. Self-license? Paste your email instead — it auto-detects and turns into a mailto: link. Magic. 🪄

April 22, 2026

Age groups, show websites, and a homepage refresh

  • —Replaced the simple 'Family Friendly' checkbox with a proper age-group system: Young children (5 & under), Elementary (6–10), Middle school (11–13), High school (14+), and 18+ / Adults only. Check all that apply — this gives the PG-13 zone that so many shows occupy a real home on the site.
  • —Added a Show Website field so composers can link directly to their show's official site. It appears prominently on the show page, right under the collaborators.
  • —Refreshed the homepage hero with clearer, more welcoming copy and a new three-line hierarchy — including a punchy line about what you can actually do here (embed videos, TikToks, SoundCloud, share your work).
  • —Added a decorative purple underline to the headline because it felt right.
  • —Browse & filter page updated: the age group filters replace the old Family Friendly toggle, and show cards now display age group badges.

Early April 2026

TikTok embeds, SoundCloud playlists & licensing info

  • —Composers can now embed TikTok videos directly on their show pages — paste the share link and it just works.
  • —Added SoundCloud playlist support. If you have a playlist of demos or recordings, paste the link and a player appears on your show page. It loads on click so it doesn't slow down the page.
  • —Added a Licensing field so composers can specify how producers can inquire about rights — whether that's a licensing house like Concord Theatricals or a direct contact.

April 10, 2026

New Musicals launches

  • —The site is live at newmusicals.net. Composers can sign up, build a profile, and add their shows.
  • —Show pages support YouTube video embeds, a full summary, cast and band size info, and a tagging system with 90+ curated tags organized by category.
  • —Producers and collaborators can browse shows and filter by cast size, band size, original vs. adaptation, and tags.
  • —Composer profiles are public and shareable — a home for your work on the web.
  • —Shows can list multiple collaborators, and if a collaborator has a New Musicals profile, the show automatically appears on their page too.

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