Recent Rick Freyer Updates
Learning from the Masters
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop recently held its second "Master Class," a new program launched in December that features theatre "Masters" critiquing two projects developed in the Workshop. The first Master Class included John Kander and Sheldon Harnick who critiqued Absolutely Anything by Erick Goldstein and Brian Cimmet and Up in the Air by Warren Loy and Chris Todd. Theatre composers Stephen Flaherty and Lynn…
Musical Theatre Workshop Holds In-House Cabaret
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop held an In-House Cabaret at BMI New York on March 13, presenting some of the best of the First Year, Second Year and Advanced Groups of the Workshop. Pictured after the performances are BMI's Jean Banks; Michel Ogborn; Pat Cook, co-moderator of the First Year / Artistic Coordinator of the Workshop and co-producer of the evening; Beth…
Clifford Lee Johnson, III
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop welcomed Clifford Lee Johnson, III, Director of Development of Musical Theatre at Manhattan Theatre Club, to the Workshop's First Year Group for a question-and-answer session. Pictured at BMI New York are Johnson; Pat Cook and Rick Freyer, co-moderators of the First Year; and BMI's Jean Banks. photo by Eric Miller
Musical Mondays
An evening of ten-minute musicals developed in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop was presented at Musical Mondays in residence at the Broadway Theater Institute. Pictured here after the performances are (front row): Workshop writers Maryrose Wood, Neil Bartram, Beth Falcone, Susan Murray, Martin Fernandi, Helen Guditis, CEO of Broadway Theater Institute and Pat Cook, co-producer of the evening and Artistic Coordinator of the BMI Workshop,…
Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop
Students from Valparaiso High School in Valparaiso, Indiana, meet with faculty of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop for a study session in New York. Sitting in the first row are Workshop faculty members Richard Engquist and Frank Evans, BMI's Jean Banks, Valparaiso Musical Theatre teacher Alice Gambel, and Workshop faculty members David Spencer, Pat Cook and…
BMI Foundation Presents 3rd Annual Jerry Harrington Musical Theatre Awards
The BMI Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the 3rd Annual Jerry Harrington Musical Theatre Awards in recognition of Outstanding Creative Achievement in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Certificates and cash prizes were given out during a reception on June 17 at BMI’s New York office.
