BOSTON MUSICAL THEATER, based in Newton MA, is a vocal and instrumental ensemble under the direction of founder Charlotte Kaufman 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. In 1995 the name of the group was officially changed to Boston Musical Theater which more accurately describes its present thematic orientation.

BMT has performed at The Arsenal Center for the Arts, The National Heritage Museum in Lexington, The Regattabar in Cambridge, at The New Marlborough Festival in the Berkshires and The Mahaiwe Center for the Performing Arts in Great Barrington, and as The Friends of Dr. Burney at The Museum of Fine Arts, the Library of Congress’ American Music Series, the Folger Shakespeare Library, The Mellon Center at Yale University, Bentley College, and Brandeis University.

Concerts abroad include a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of NATO in Brussels in 1999 in the residence of the American Ambassador. In July 2002 BMT performed in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In March 2004, BMT returned to Moscow and performed ALL THAT JAZZ 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 2008 BMT traveled to Korea and performed American music programs in the Ambassador’s residence, a public concert in Kumho Hall in Seoul and taught master classes in two Korean Universities. Five recordings of BMT concerts are available, We’ll Meet Again, the Music of WW II, All That Jazz, Fly Me To the Moon, Blues in the Night, the music of Johnny Mercer and Music of the Americas, South and North.

Boston Musical Theater is a 501 (c) 3 corporation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since 1985. Members of the Governing Board are Susan B. Jacobson, Esq., President, Anita R. Bender, Blair Brown, Charlotte Kaufman, Dan Loschen, David Morel, Mary S. Newman, Martha Rothman and Myrna Wilson. Members of the Advisory Committee are Ron Della Chiesa, David Lehman, David Ripley, Bunny Silverstein, Robert Sprich, Nicholas Tawa, Judith Tick and Cindy Van Wagenen.