From our producer…
For many of us, the cost of going to a Broadway musical has soared out of reach. They are either too expensive to attend or infrequent visitors as they pass through town on tour. And its slowly vanishing cousin, the local high-school musical, is often low-risk, and above all harmless.
In contrast, Micro-Musicals are bite-sized productions, like a radio play. They may not be staged in large theatres, but are performed with a full cast and accompaniment on intimate stages. They are typically audacious, witty and topical —even edgy. Often they are works-in-progress on their way to Broadway.
There doesn’t seem to be much of an outlet for the aspiring composer, actors, singers, and storytellers of these fledgling musicals between the limited audiences of cabarets and speakeasies and the big stages off-, near-, or on Broadway. So we thought we’d create one. A site, a venue, a stage/platform for these fantastically talented folks and the fans that appreciate them.
…also…
I’m a fan of short stories, short films, and now short musicals, a.k.a., Micro-Musicals.
Musicals tend to be big and brash and over the top— and that’s fine. I like that. Sometimes. They are also very expensive to stage and the access to stages is very, very limited. However there are more musicals out there —just as good— which may not necessarily fit on a big stage. So, here we are.
I was in a musical once. In grade school, I played the role of the fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof. In middle school choir, I sang from the Great American Songbook until my voice changed and I could no longer sing on key. (That was a bit of a relief, actually.) I realized my place was not on stage and soon documented musicals as a Media Department student at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston.
I studied piano and organ as a kid. Dad toured with Concordia College Choir, and —among many other things— he was obsessed with the way a choir sounded in a church. Here’s more about me on LinkedIn.
All of these experiences lead us to the here and now.
I started this project to create and to support the micro-musical creators. This is an expensive endeavor and we are fair to those who participate by paying them a decent wage for their time.
I sincerely believe in the opportunity being created here and hope you believe in it as well. I aim to build a community of the most dedicated supporters, who will grow with us and help shape the future of The Micro-Musical Theatre Show.
~ Alton Christensen
EP, TMMTS

• Executive Producer
•TMMTS Founder
Alton Christensen is a broadcast TV veteran of 39 years, and web content producer/creator for 20 years. A graduate of The High School for the Performing & Visual Arts (HPSVA), Alton started at KPRC-TV (NBC affiliate, Houston); later a senior animator on USAToday-The Television Show (Washington, DC); a senior animator as part of the NBC Sports graphics team for the XXV Olympiad in Barcelona.
He won two Sports Emmy Awards (Graphic Design and Graphic Production) and went on to found Edgeworx, a disruptive post-production environment —the first entirely desktop-based visual effects and non-linear editing facility— working on broadcast, cable, and film projects with offices in New York, London, and Los Angeles.
He has created and produced internationally syndicated television programming and original web content, and been involved in many nominated and award-winning documentaries.
As an Adjunct Professor at NYU, he taught a class on the digital production process.
He has also participated in the development of several projects through the incubator program at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP.

• Recording Producer
• Post-Production Producer
Ralph Kelsey is a Sandblast Productions founding member, percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and award-winning sound designer.
A graduate of SUNY Fredonia with a B.S. in Sound Recording Technology, he was nominated in 2014 for an Emmy for his outstanding audio mixing work on HBO’s Vice.
He has mixed and sound-designed for ABC, CBS, NBC, Showtime, HBO, USA, Syfy, ESPN, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH-1, Lifetime, Spike, and History Channel, among others. Ralph and partner Mike Ungar have mixed the ESPYs for an unprecedented sixteen consecutive years.
From the first season of NBC’s 30 Rock and parody commercials for SNL to National Geographic’s Amish Out of Order and Sesame Street’s Abby’s Flying Fairy School, Ralph continues to explore the power of sound and the way it elevates good work to great.
In 2019, Ralph mixed and sound-designed the feature film The Lennon Report. He also mixed Brett Eldredge’s CMA Nashville show and created sound design for an interactive VR 360 project.