We are the very model of the modern musical festival! Once applications close, CMTF's selection committee selects 10 shows to participate. Those show reps then pay a participation fee, which along with the box office revenue split is what lets CMTF pay for the venue, festival-wide marketing, shared resources, and festival personnel. Festival productions get 50% of ticketing revenue from their productions.

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CMTF is designed to showcase musical theatre writing talent, and not to showcase how much you can spend on set design and fancy production whizbangs and flibbetygibbets. To that end, each show gets one full day of tech, a limited time to set-up and strike before/after each performance, and a whole lot of shared technical resources and personnel, including a state-of-the-art lighting and sound package, trained ops, and access to CMTF resources. The festival is designed to showcase your work, get it in front of people who can further develop and produce your show, and get you some fantastic publicity.

 

Each show gets at least 5 performances in their assigned venue over the course of the festival, with the opportunity for additional performances based on ticket sales. Leading up to the festival, producers are required to attend a series of workshops about producing, developing, and potentially publishing your show, in service of making the most out of your participation in the festival.