BOSTON MUSICAL THEATER, based in Newton MA, is a vocal and instrumental ensemble formed in 1976, specializing in the performance of cabarets and programs of classic American popular music both in the States and abroad. 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 1995, Boston Musical Theater has broadened its repertoire with thematic programs encompassing the history of American song and the development of the American Musical Theater.

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, We’ll Meet Again, Songs of WW II, The Fabulous Fifties, and Johnny Mercer’s 100th Birthday Party.  CDs are available for All That Jazz, We’ll Meet Again, Fly Me To The Moon, and Blues in the Night.