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Friday, September 30, 2011
NEW RELEASE – A Man of No Importance
Friday, September 23, 2011
NEW RELEASE – Next to Normal
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Stars and Stripes - American Musicals Volume 3 of 3
and Leonard Bernstein. Please enjoy our final installment on American musicals and
make sure you take advantage of our special perusal offer - full details below!
 | Stephen Sondheim Stephen Sondheim, one of the most influential and accomplished composer/lyricists in Broadway history, was born in New York City and raised in New York and Pennsylvania. As a teenager he met Oscar Hammerstein II, who became Sondheim's mentor. Sondheim graduated from Williams College, receiving the Hutchinson Prize for Music Composition. After graduation he studied music theory and composition with Milton Babbitt. He worked for a short time in the 1950s as a writer for the television show Topper. His first professional musical theatre job was as the songwriter for the unproduced musical Saturday Night. Works include: Anyone Can Whistle Assassins Company Follies Into The Woods Into The Woods JR. Marry Me A Little A Little Night Music Merrily We Roll Along Pacific Overtures Passion Putting It Together Saturday Night Side By Side By Sondheim Sunday In The Park… Sweeney Todd West Side Story You're gonna love tomorrow The Frog Sweeney Todd (Schools) A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum Read more about the shows..... |
 | Stephen Schwartz Stephen Schwartz was born in New York City on March 6, 1948. He studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School of Music while in high school and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 with a B.F.A. in Drama. Upon coming back to live in New York City, he went to work as a producer for RCA Records, but shortly thereafter began to work in the Broadway theatre. Under the auspices of the ASCAP Foundation, he runs musical theatre workshops in New York and Los Angeles, and serves on the ASCAP board. He is also currently the President of the Dramatists' Guild. Works include: The Baker's Wife Children Of Eden Pippin Working Captain Louie Disney Mulan JR. Disney My Son Pinocchio Captain Louie JR. Read more about the shows..... |
 | Frank Loesser One of America's great composer/lyricists, Frank Loesser began his songwriting career during the Depression as a lyricist, contributing songs to Broadway revues and nightclub acts. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 1961. Works include: Guys and Dolls Guys and Dolls JR. How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying The Most Happy Fella Where's Charley? Greenwillow Read more about the shows..... |
 | Meredith Willson Meredith Willson was born in 1902 in Mason City, Iowa. He learned to play the flute as a child and began playing semi-professionally while still in high school. After high school he left Iowa to study at the Damrosch Institute of Musical Art (later the Julliard School), receiving flute instruction from Georges Barrere, the world-renown flutist. He became musical director for various radio programs throughout the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, including Tallulah Bankhead's program, The Big Show," for which he wrote the hit song "May The Lord Bless and Keep You." He composed the scores for the movies The Great Dictator and The Little Foxes and wrote three Broadway musicals: The Music Man, his first and most successful; The Unsinkable Molly Brown (music and lyrics), and Here's Love (later to be renamed: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmans and then Miracle on 34th Street). Works include: Miracle on 34th Street Music Man Music Man JR. The Unsinkable Molly Brown Read more about the shows..... |
 | Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein is generally recognized as music’s most exuberant hero. Composer, conductor, pianist, teacher, humanitarian, thinker, entertainer and adventurous spirit, he forged his many talents with an irresistible personality to transform the way people everywhere hear and appreciate music. He broke rules, shattered precedents and opened doors, insisting that the art of music could and should play a vital role in the lives of all people. Works include: Candide Side By Side By Sondheim West Side Story On the Town Trouble in Tahiti Wonderful Town Read more about the shows..... |
 | Jerry Ross and Richard Adler Jerry Ross and Richard Adler wrote two of the most popular and enduring musicals in Broadway Theater, The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, two shows which personify the innocence and exuberance of the Golden Age of Broadway. The Pajama Game opened to rave reviews, winning the coveted Tony Award for best score, as well as the Donaldson Award and the Variety Drama Critics Award. Works include: Damn Yankees The Pajama Game Read more about the shows..... |
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Stars and Stripes - American Musicals Volume 2 of 3
We continue our homage to American musicals, this time celebrating a mix
of classic and contemporary shows from iconic Fiddler on the Roof to the
modern 13 - the musical. Please enjoy our second installment on American
musicals - there's something for everyone! Make sure you take advantage
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 | Jason Robert Brown Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as “one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim” (Philadelphia Inquirer). The Last Five Years was cited as one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best of 2001 and won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics. Jason won a 1999 Tony Award for his score to Parade and subsequently won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best New Musical. Works include: Last Five Years Parade Songs For A New World 13 Read more about the shows..... |
 | George Gershwin In 1924, when George teamed up with his older brother Ira, “the Gershwins” became the dominant Broadway songwriters, creating brisk, infectious rhythm numbers and affectingly poignant ballads, invariably fashioning the words to fit the melodies with a “glove-like” fidelity. This extraordinary collaboration led to a succession of musical comedies, among them Of Thee I Sing (1931), the first musical comedy to win a Pulitzer Prize. Works include: Let 'Em Eat Cake Of Thee I Sing Strike Up The Band Read more about the shows..... |
 | Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt wrote The Fantasticks for a summer theatre at Barnard College. After its Off-Broadway opening in May 1960, it went on to become the longest-running production in the history of the American stage and one of the most frequently produced musicals in the world. It is currently running in a successful revival in New York. In addition to an Obie Award and the 1992 Special Tony Award for The Fantasticks , in 1999, their “stars” were added to the Off-Broadway Walk of Fame outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Works include: Celebration Colette Collage The Fantasticks I Do! I Do! Mirette Philemon Roadside Read more about the shows..... |
 | Jerry Bock and Sheldon HarnickBock and Harnick’s celebrated collaboration yielded five scores in seven years including Fiorello which won Broadway’s triple crown - The Tony Award, The New York Critics’ Circle Award and The Pulitzer Prize in drama - only the fourth musical to do so. Since then, Bock and Harnick were triply honored by being inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame, receiving the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Spirit of American Creativity Award from the Foundation for a Creative America. Works include:Fiorello Tenderloin She Loves Me Fiddler on the Roof The Apple Tree The Rothschilds Read more about the shows..... |
 | Charles Strouse A long-standing member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in January 2002, an inductee into The Theater Hall of Fame, Charles Strouse’s first Broadway musical, Bye Bye Birdie, won him a Tony Award and the London Critics Best Foreign Musical Award. Strouse created the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop in New York, where he encouraged the talents of countless young composers, writers and performers. In 1999, Strouse received the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award for Career Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre. Works include: Annie Annie JR. Annie Warbucks Bye Bye Birdie Superman Read more about the shows..... |
 | Frank Wildhorn Frank Wildhorn's works span the worlds of popular, theatrical and classical music. In 1999 Wildhorn became the first American composer in twenty-two years to have three shows running simultaneously on Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde, which received two Tony nominations; The Scarlet Pimpernel, which received four Tony nominations; and The Civil War, which received two Tony nominations. Works include: The Civil War Jekyll & Hyde Dracula Read more about the shows..... |
THREE PERUSALS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE ON THE
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Stars and Stripes - American Musicals Volume 1 of 3
America is home to some of the world's most popular and best loved musicals.
From classics such as Guys and Dolls and West Side Story to the latest hits
Legally Blonde and Rent - there is something for everyone! Please enjoy our
first installment on American musicals - you're sure to find something to inspire
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