Musical Mondays
Affirming the future
of the American Musical
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musical mondays theatre lab
bick goss and frank evans, producing artistic directors
marter productions and anne l bernstein, consulting producers
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AWARD WINNERS!
Beth Falcone, composer/lyricist of "Wanda's World" is recipient of the 2009 Kleban Award for excellence in lyric writing and will receive a $100,000 award from the foundation set up by Ed Kleban, lyricist of "A Chorus Line" and "A Class Act." Wanda's World had its first public performance at Musical Mondays in 2006.
"Come Home" by Mark Janas and Peter Napalitano from "Pinocchio of Chelsea," seen at Musical Mondays in 2007, received the 2009 MAC Award for Best Song of the Year.
"Next to Normal" by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, seen at Musical Mondays with the title "Feeling Electric" currently plays on Broadway at the Booth Theatre and has been nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including "Best Musical" and "Best Score." The 2002 Musical Mondays cast included Greg Naughton, Liz Larson and Tony Winner Norbert Leo Butts.
Friends of Musical Mondays receive a special discount code for "Next to Normal" tickets by going to this weblink: nexttonormal.com/friendsandfamily/
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Recently:
What: The BMI Smoker, modeled on the Cambridge University Smokers from Maury Yeston's undergraduate days. New theatre songs from members of the Tony® honored BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.
Where: BMI, 320 West 57th Street, Third Floor Media Room.
When: Thursday, April 30, 5:30 PM
Reservations: Sylvia Santana-Vega, 212 830-8360 or SSantana@BMI.com
Produced for the BMI Workshop by Patrick Cook and Frank Evans
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Tuesday, February 3, 6:30PM
From The Tony Honored
BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop
The Show: A 55 minute preview of
The Dirty Hippie Jam Band Project
An original musical about a gaggle of modern-day neo-hippies who follow a Phish-style band around the country.
Composer: Dan Israel
Lyricist: Phoebe Kreutz
Book: Adam Mathias
If you were with us at the last BMI Workshop Showcase, you already heard a few of the
delightfully humorous songs from this very entertaining new musical.
Jerry Orbach Theater in the Snapple Theatre Center
210 West 50th Street, just west of Broadway
Reservations: 212-989-6706 or musicalmondays@aol.com
$10.00 admission
Tuesday, December 2, 4 PM
The Thing About Joe
You may have seen Musical Mondays' first presentation of this quirky new musical comedy by Matthew Hardy and (Emmy and
Grammy Award Winner) Randy Klein.
No longer a one-man show, the full cast "The Thing About Joe" tells the story of Joe
Christiansen from Preston, Idaho, who rebels against his pill-pushing psychiatrist mother and journeys to New York
to pursue his dream of becoming a great Maitre d' like his father who was killed in a freak flaming Bananas Foster
accident!
Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 PM
The Suicide
Writers Raymond Bokhour, (currently Amos in Chicago) and Simon Gray (2007 BMI Foundation Harrington Award Winner) have adapted the 1928 Soviet play "The Suicide" by Nikokai Erdman.
Their hero, an unemployed grouch, believes a suicide may be his only chance for greatness.
MMTL presents a 55 minute
preview of this dark comedy with rich music and genuinely witty lyrics.
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