While the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford continues to roll, the center’s equally acclaimed National Music Theater Conference kicks off its public staged readings this week.

The trio of shows are:

“Soft Magical Tofu Boys”

Book, lyrics and music by Kevin Wong

7:15 p.m. July 6, 10 and 12

Three brothers live together. They have a useless magical ability: to conjure images and sounds into the air. All three of them are trying to find a place for a soft magical boy in a hard, unmagical world.

“Fountain of You”

Book and lyrics by Tasha Gordon-Solmon and music by Faye Chiao

7:15 p.m. July 13, 17 and 19

When a thirty-something actress is suddenly aged out of the industry, she undergoes a wildly unconventional spa procedure to get her old life back. It sets her on a whole new path to pursue true power and equality ... at a cost. This gleefully dark comedy takes on our obsession with youth and beauty — and the system underlying it all — with a pop-infused score and lots of blood.

“LIGHTHOUSE”

Book, lyrics and story by Abs Wilson and music and story by Veronica Mansour

7:15 p.m. July 20, 24 and 26

With graduation in the rearview mirror, Bus is desperate to get away from her Minnesota hometown and everyone in it. The only problem? She can’t outrun herself. “LIGHTHOUSE” is a sweeping pop-country musical that celebrates the idea that maybe every version of yourself is worth being.

National Music Theater Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, 305 Great Neck Road, Waterford; $33; theoneill.org.