{"id":224108,"date":"2026-05-08T00:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224108\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:54:14","slug":"music-theatre-international-releases-trolls-jr-for-licensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224108\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Theatre International Releases Trolls Jr. For Licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music Theatre International (MTI) has added another kid-friendly hit to its licensing catalogue, with DreamWorks Theatricals&#8217;\u00a0Trolls JR.\u00a0now available for licensing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The musical production features music and lyrics by Joriah Kwam\u00e9 and a book and additional lyrics by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/krista-knight-writer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Krista Knight<\/a>.\u00a0Based on the hit DreamWorks animated film, it follows overly optimistic Trolls and their comically pessimistic enemies, Bergens,\u00a0who are only happy when they have Trolls in their stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Trolls Jr. was featured in the New Works Showcase at the 2026 Junior Theater Festivals in Atlanta and Sacramento.\u00a0The musical\u00a0was developed through the DreamWorks Theatricals\/MTI Emerging Writers Program. The program was created to identify teams of book writers, composers, and lyricists with unique voices and points of view to develop musical adaptations of popular DreamWorks Animation titles intended for the Music Theatre International catalogue. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trolls films are a colorful and sparkly staple of family movie nights and childhoods across the world,\u201d said MTI\u2019s Chief Operations Officer John Prignano. \u201cTrolls JR. brings that same sparkle to the stage, and I cannot wait to see the way that theaters adapt these works and showcase their young performers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Licensing information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtishows.com\/trolls-the-musical-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MTIShows.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music Theatre International (MTI) has added another kid-friendly hit to its licensing catalogue, with DreamWorks Theatricals&#8217;\u00a0Trolls JR.\u00a0now available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-224108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}