About Us

For more than 52 years Maine State Music Theatre has been bringing non-profit professional musical theatre to Maine in the summer months.  Now we are pleased to present our costume stock, acquired from the former Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach, Florida in 2009. In an effort to maintain this incredible costume collection, MSMT was able to purchase the entire stock of high-quality costumes for more than ninety musicals.  The collection includes costumes for many of today’s hottest musicals including Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Cats, AIDA, Singin’ in the Rain. Seaside Music Theater had been a popular place to rent costumes among professional music theaters for years, and at MSMT Costumes, we are proud to be able to continue this tradition.

As a branch of Maine State Music Theatre, MSMT Costumes remains a non-profit organization, utilizing the expertise of two theatre professionals and the help of local volunteers.  During the past two and a half years, we’ve successfully incorporated MSMT’s costume stock in with Seaside Music Theatre’s original stock and can offer even more rental packages for shows such as Sweeney Todd, Chicago, The Drowsy Chaperone, Xanadu, and many others.

We are the host rental company to the original costumes from Broadway’s RENT, designed by Angela Wednt.  These costumes are nearly in the same condition from when they were purchased twenty years ago for the Broadway run and have been very well cared for. We also own and rent out the original costumes from London’s production of Monty Python’s SPAMALOT, designed by Tim Hatley.

The Staff

Amy Mussman, Rentals Manager

Amy is the author of “The Prop Master: A Guidebook for Successful Theatrical Prop Management” published in 2008 by Meriwether Publishing.   Amy received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater from Kansas State University and spent her college years studying light, costume, and set design. After graduation, she began her first professional theater season at Delaware Theater Company as production assistant and worked as prop master for the next nine seasons. She has enjoyed a decade of summers as either the costume designer for Allenberry Playhouse and Forestburgh Playhouse, the prop master for Maine State Music Theater, or working as an instructor and director for Delaware Theater Company’s summer youth theater camp.  Amy has also worked at Washington National Opera as the costume stock coordinator,  taught at Cecil College, and been the guest lecturer at many high schools and colleges such as Webster University and University Southern Maine. Working year round for a theatre company in Maine is a dream fulfilled and Amy is elated to help run Maine State Music Theatre’s rental division, MSMT Costumes.

Kurt Alger, Rentals Coordinator/Resident Costume Designer

Kurt is thrilled to have relocated to Maine from NYC to become a year round member of the MSMT staff after 5 wonderful summer seasons. Having traveled the country and the world as head of Wardrobe on RENT, Hairspray, and the 25th Anniversary Tour of Les Miserables, he is happy to have found his home in MSMT Costume Rentals. At Maine State Music Theatre he has designed Jesus Christ Superstar, Light In The Piazza, The Drowsy Chaperone, Chicago, Spamalot, Always Patsy Cline, The Wiz, Xanadu, and The Marvelous Wonderettes, as well as been the Resident Wig Designer sine 2007. Elsewhere his designs have graced the stages of Ogunquit Playhouse, Pennsylvania Shakespeare, Orlando Shakespeare, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, The Fulton Opera House, and Drury Lane. A graduate of Wagner College in NYC he has also worked designing at the academic level at Julliard, NYU, Wagner College, and University of Southern Maine. NYC credits include NTMTF Best of Fest winners Caligula, Such Good Friends, Things As They Are, and Les Enfants de Paris, and work on the Off-Broadway smash hit Shockheaded Peter! Kurt Designed and produced the world premier of Born Blue directed by Anthony Rapp, and was a producer on the debut album of Marquee Five the Mac Award winning vocal group. Kurt is thrilled to continue designing at Maine State and to expand the stock of costumes by creating new packages like Hairspray to the ever growing stock!