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Remembering Jean Banks: 1934-2012
Jean Banks, Senior Director of Jazz and Musical Theatre at BMI, passed away on February 2 in her Lower East Side home after a long battle with lung cancer. She was 77 years old. Jean got her first taste of show business when she worked as an executive secretary for the New York office of Seven-Arts Productions. After her stint at Seven Arts, she also worked for a time at…
From News, posted 2.02.12
‘Raisin’ Score Composer Judd Woldin Dies at 86
Judd Woldin, the theater composer who wrote the score for the Tony-winning musical Raisin and an original member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, died in Manhattan at the age of 86 on Sunday, November 27.The cause was cancer, according to his son Mark. Woldin first met Lehman Engel when Engel was musical director for The Beast in Me, based on James…
From News, posted 12.05.11
There’s Music Everywhere, and Sara Wordsworth Wants You to Hear It
If Sara Wordsworth is correct and there is “music all around you, all the time,” she must like what she’s hearing. Along with Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford and Russ Kaplan, Wordsworth served as a lyricist and librettist for In Transit, a critically acclaimed, award-winning a cappella musical. The show had a successful off-Broadway run at Critical Stages in 2010, and the production team anticipates its commercial reopening…
From MusicWorld, posted 11.16.11
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…
From News, posted 11.08.11
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…
From News, posted 10.21.11
Jill Abramovitz, Tirelessly—Doggedly—Writing Her Way
Considering her accomplishments, the last thing anyone would believe of Jill Abramovitz is that once, in the Dramatist Guild Fellowship Workshop, Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime and Seussical) warned her about writing in a lazy way. In addition to her credits in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, television (Ugly Betty and 30 Rock), and commercials, this alum of the BMI Lehman Engel…
From MusicWorld, posted 9.13.11
BMI Presents DJ Khaled & Rising Indies at Peachtree Music Festival
BMI will host a stage filled with rising indie talent along with hip-hop titan DJ Khaled at the inaugural Peachtree Music Festival in Midtown Atlanta on October 1, 2011, rain or shine. The Peachtree Music & Arts Festival is a one day, two-stage music and arts festival, on eight acres in the Midtown Community of Atlanta, GA (Spring Street & 8th Street, 48 8th Street…
From News, posted 9.12.11
Justin Townes Earle, Jason Isbell, Robert Ellis & Shelly Colvin Play SoundLand 2011
BMI will partner with Billy Reid and Ground Control Touring to present a Southern-bred showcase on Friday, September 23 at the Cannery Ballroom (One Cannery Row, Nashville, TN 37203) during SoundLand 2011 in Nashville. Headliner Justin Townes Earle will bring his provocative Tennessee-rambler songs; Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit will fire off their Muscle Shoals-steeped swamp rock; Houston kid Robert Ellis will reaffirm the folk-meets-twang still…
From News, posted 9.12.11
Hit Shuffle: The BMI Stage at ACL Fest 2011
Once again, BMI will pour homegrown cool and indie-bred heat into the eclectic mix at the 10th Annual Austin City Limits Music Festival, slated for September 16-18 in Austin, Texas. Nestled in a shady Zilker Park corner, the BMI stage is a perennial favorite, where crowd surfing is harmoniously followed by two-stepping. Texas’ rich artistic melting pot will be represented by Gary Clark, Jr., Patrice Pike and…
From News, posted 9.06.11
Second Annual Sandestin Music Festival Slated for August 12 and 13
Blue ribbon songwriters, tomorrow’s stars and a country songbird turned Broadway star compose the lineup of the 2nd annual Sandestin Music Festival, slated for the weekend of August 12-13 in the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. Co-sponsored by BMI, the free, open-to-the-public event will feature BMI contemporary country trendsetters Jeffrey Steele and James Slater; powerhouse country vocalist and Broadway star Lari White; and promising up-and-comers Kree Harrison, Thomas…
From News, posted 8.01.11
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