A computer-animated fantasy comedy starring Vanessa Hudgens, Kimiko Glenn, James Marsden, Sofia Carson and Liza Koshy, A New Generation is set many years after the events of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, in a magic-less era where the story of Twilight Sparkle and her friends has become a mere legend, and the three pony kinds – earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns – have grown apart, living separated from one another in paranoia and prejudice. The film follows Sunny Starscout, an earth pony who, after meeting the unicorn Izzy Moonbow, embarks on a quest to reunite all pony kinds and restore magic to the land.

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Production company Entertainment One, Boulder Media
Distributor Netflix
Co-music & co-lyrics Michael Mahler
Music co-production Ron Fair & Michael Mahler

↑ Featured vocalist “Sprout” (singing voice of Ken Jeong)

Kidding is an American comedy-drama television series starring Jim Carrey, Frank Langella, Judy Greer, and Catherine Keener. Michel Gondry serves as executive producer and directed several episodes. It featured musical guest stars Ariana Grande, Dick Van Dyke and Kesha. Kidding is set in Columbus, Ohio, and follows Jeff Piccirillo, aka beloved children's television presenter Mr. Pickles, appreciated by children and parents alike. Mr. Pickles anchors a multimillion-dollar branding empire, but he faces a personal tragedy and difficult family life.

Network Showtime
Creator Dave Holstein

A musical pilot about technology and connection in the nascent social media era of the early 2000’s, Boyfred tells the story of Fred Grafton, twentysomething web designer and serial monogamist, thrust into the Chicagoland singles scene when his long-term girlfriend joins the Peace Corps and decides to stay abroad indefinitely. It’s time for them to stop hiding in their relationship and start growing up, but they want to stay friends, so Fred creates a website just for them, where he can upload videos of his life back in Chicago (and show Teresa what she’s missing). Featuring Grammy®- and Tony Award®-winning actor Jessie Mueller.

Network ABC
Production company Sony, Shoe Money Productions
Co-creators Michael Mahler, Blake Silver, Jarrod Zimmerman

Middle school, ugh. It’s the worst. But Greg is determined NOT to be at the bottom of the popularity chart. He’ll leave that to his weird neighbor, Fregley. Or maybe Greg’s best friend, Rowley Jefferson. But it’s not going to be Greg…no way. See Jeff Kinney’s popular character take center stage as Greg’s cartoon diary becomes a raucous musical. Will Greg’s plans lead him to sacrifice his one true friend? Can anyone avoid the dreaded Cheese Touch? Grab a hall pass and don’t be late for an adventure familiar to anyone who actually survived middle school.

Co-music & co-lyrics Michael Mahler
Book Kevin Del Aguila
Producer Kevin McCollum

World premiere Children’s Theatre Company, 2016
Revised & remounted Children’s Theatre Company, 2022

Is success money? A powerful job? A happy marriage? Brantley Foster, a young ambitious midwesterner, moves to New York City to start his dream job at a major corporation, only to be laid off on the very first day. In his relentless enthusiasm to succeed, Brantley finds himself tangled up in a sidesplitting scheme in which he assumes the identity of a rising executive named Carlton Whitfield. The Secret of My Success is a wild look at corporate culture, ambition and making your own way in life.

Co-music & co-lyrics Michael Mahler
Book Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen
Producer NBCUniversal

World premiere Paramount Theatre, Chicago 2020
Theatre Under the Stars, Houston 2022

A musical exploration of our obsession with murder as entertainment, Wait Wait Don’t Kill Me is a darkly comedic new musical satire inspired by the events surrounding the making of NPR’s Serial podcast. Moving seamlessly between the 1998 timeline of the murder and the present day investigation, Wait Wait Don’t Kill Me shines new, musical light on the making of the world’s most successful podcast and, in doing so, tackles and satirizes much larger questions about America’s relationship to the media.

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Book Dave Holstein

World premiere The Flea Theater, NY

A spiky, dreamlike musical about finding someone to love and being someone to love at the same time. Tessa moves back in with her separated, cohabitating parents after her wedding falls apart. She has to share the space with Frank, Tessa’s bookish, repressed dad; Maria, her flamboyant, destructive mom; Edmund, Frank’s gentle partner; and Francois, Maria’s selfish lover. Loosely adapted from three plays by Charles Mee.

Book Laura Eason

World premiere Writers Theatre, Chicago
Workshop Playwrights Horizons, NY

In this family musical, the frivolously fashionable Emperor and his opinionated daughter Sam just can’t get along. But with the help of some colorful characters and not-so-colorful threads, the two come to see themselves—and appreciate each other—for the first time.

Book Dave Holstein

World premiere Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago
Subsequent productions Worldwide
Licensing Concord Theatricals →

After-school detention becomes an adventure when a stranger shows six students the power of a good story. The Tortoise and the Hare, The Ant and the Grasshopper, Androcles and the Lion – Aesop’s timeless fables take an entertaining turn in this new musical that reveals universal truths through simple, appealing, age-old allegories. Original cast featured Grammy®- and Tony Award®-winning actor Jessie Mueller.

Co-music, co-lyrics & co-book Michael Mahler

World premiere Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago
Subsequent productions Nationwide

A showstopping original Broadway-style opening number, LEGO Store: The Musical celebrates the launch of another iconic NYC experience: the new flagship LEGO Store on Fifth Avenue. Featuring the original musical showtune “Always Building,” LEGO Store: The Musical shares the story of a young girl (Brianna Cameron) who joins a cast of Broadway stage actors, real front-line workers and a menagerie of fan-favorite LEGO Minifigures on a full-day adventure of building, creativity and reveling in the spirit of New York that culminates in a magical opening night at the LEGO Store on Fifth. LEGO Store: The Musical stars Tony Award®-winning actress Renée Elise Goldsberry (Girls5Eva, Hamilton).

Co-music & co-lyrics Michael Mahler
Production Company The LEGO Group, Hugo Six
Distributor Digital platforms worldwide

An interactive, choose-your-own-adventure-style musical short film, My Little Red/Green Coat features Jessie Cannizzarro (Puffs) with violin performed by Tony Award®-winning actor Katrina Lenk.

Distributor Eko

A musical exploration of our obsession with murder as entertainment, Wait Wait Don’t Kill Me is a darkly comedic new musical satire inspired by the events surrounding the making of NPR’s Serial podcast. Moving seamlessly between the 1998 timeline of the murder and the present day investigation, Wait Wait Don’t Kill Me shines new, musical light on the making of the world’s most successful podcast and, in doing so, tackles and satirizes much larger questions about America’s relationship to the media.

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Book Dave Holstein

Producer Wondery