Boston Musical Theater

Photo © Stephen Rostler

BOSTON MUSICAL THEATER, based in Newton MA, is a vocal and instrumental ensemble formed in 1976, specializing in the performance of historical American popular music. From 1981 to 1987, Boston Musical Theater was in residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, under the name Friends of Dr. Burney, where they performed 18th-century ballad operas annually, as part of the Museum's music series. Since 1992, Boston Musical Theater has broadened its repertoire with thematic programs encompassing the history of American song and the development of the American Musical Theater. Boston Musical Theater specializes in the performance of cabarets and programs of classic American popular music both here and abroad.

In March 2004, BMT performed ALL THAT JAZZ in Moscow at The International Festival of Musical Theaters, from which a live recording was made. While in Moscow, the group gave lectures and master classes in Jazz and American musical theater at the Moscow Conservatory. In the United States, BMT has performed at the Regattabar in Cambridge, the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, the Berkshires at the New Marlborough Festival, the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Bentley College, and Brandeis University. All BMT programs are conceived, scripted, and directed by Charlotte Kaufman.

BMT has played to sell-out crowds in the following programs:  Shaking the Blues Away - The Music of Tin Pan Alley, Fly Me To The Moon, Thou Swell Thou Witty, Jazz - An American Invention, and We'll Meet Again, Songs of WW II.  CDs are available for All That Jazz, We'll Meet Again, and Fly Me To The Moon.

Excerpts from the Press:

"Simple and skillful.....a tight musical ensemble."
- The New York Times

"A sheer delight!"
- The Boston Globe

"Without compare...This group of joyful musicians, under Charlotte Kaufman, constitutes yet another limb of the burgeoning authentic performance movement."
- The Washington Post

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