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New Songs Highlighted at Tony-Honored BMI Theatre Workshop Showcase

Musical theatre enthusiasts eager for new offerings from bourgeoning songwriters were treated to a smorgasbord of songs at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop biannual showcase, held November 3 at the Marjorie S Deane Little Theatre in New York. The showcase, presented in association with the Musical Mondays Theatre Lab, featured 14 new songs from a crop of lyricists and composers who are members of the…
Preparations Underway for BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop Annual Showcase

BMI’s Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop has helped develop top talent for half a century. Lyricists and composers behind award-winning productions such as A Chorus Line, Little Shop of Horrors, Nine, Once On This Island, Ragtime, Avenue Q, Next To Normal, and The Book of Mormon are members of the workshop, which received a special Tony Award in 2007 and a Drama Desk Award in 2006. The…
BMI Foundation Presents Annual Jerry Harrington Awards

The 12th Annual BMI Foundation Jerry Harrington Awards for Creative Excellence were presented during a ceremony held on June 13 at BMI’s New York offices. The prestigious awards, funded by BMI Assistant Vice President and BMI Foundation board member Evelyn Buckstein in honor of her colleague, the late Jerry Harrington, who was passionately devoted to musical theatre, are given to a member of each BMI Lehman Engel…
‘Broadway on Broadway’ Highlights BMI Musical Theatre Workshop Scribes

The Tony®-honored BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop participated in Symphony Space’s Broadway on Broadway, a 13-hour tribute to musical theatre, on Sunday, May 16. Three writers from the Workshop, Andy Monroe, Jack Letchner and Michael Zam, were interviewed by Workshop artistic coordinator Patrick Cook about their upcoming production of The Kid, based on the memoir by Village…
Spring Smoker Showcases New Lehman-Engel Workshop Material

On April 30 in New York City, BMI staged its semi-annual Spring Smoker showcase, where industry executives enjoyed performances from participants in the Tony-honored BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. The Smoker, now in its eleventh inception, was inspired by the Cambridge University gatherings of Workshop alumnus and mentor Maury Yeston. Twenty-two featured participants presented sections of twelve new musicals during the event, including…
Smoking Hot Songs Presented at Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Showcase
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop held its fall Smoker November 20 at BMI’s New York office. A semi-annual showcase for new songs from Workshop writers, the Smoker, now in its 11th season, is modeled after informal social gatherings at Cambridge University, where the Workshop’s two time Tony® Award-winning writer Maury Yeston performed his songs during his undergraduate days.
Valparaiso Students Receive “Fantastick” Instruction
Students in the Creative Musical Theatre Composition class at Indiana’s Valparaiso High School were treated to a one-day session of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop October 23, lead by Workshop steering committee member Frank Evans and facilitated by program designer Alice Gamble. The students, who actively write musical theatre pieces during the school year using the teachings of Workshop founder Lehman Engel,…
New Works Highlighted at Tony-Honored BMI Musical Theatre Workshop Showcase
The Drama League, Drama Desk and Tony-honored BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop held its biannual showcase of new songs from Workshop writers June 12 at the Jerry Orbach Theatre. The showcase, which highlighted 11 new musicals and 23 Workshop writers, was made possible by a generous grant from the Cameron Mackintosh Foundation. (Front row, L-R): Michael Bush, BMI’s Jean Banks,…
New Works Ignite Workshop ‘Smoker’

Members of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and invited industry professionals gathered at BMI's New York office for an in-house "Smoker," where the standing-room-only crowd enjoyed a presentation of new songs from the Workshop. Produced by Workshop committee members Frank Evans, who serves as Public Relations Coordinator, and Patrick Cook, who is Artistic Coordinator, the event is…
Broadway Dazzled by BMI Writers

The current Broadway season has theatre-goers scrambling for seats to shows from BMI’s ever-growing list of writers from the Tony-honored BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. A CHORUS LINE A revival of A Chorus Line opened Oct. 5, 2006, at the Schoenfeld Theatre in New York. The ground-breaking and record-breaking musical features lyrics by BMI writer Edward Kleban, who won the 1975 Tony,…
