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BMI ‘Book of Mormon’ Composers Triumph at 2011 Tony Awards
BMI’s tight-knit musical theatre family had plenty to celebrate Sunday night as BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop alumnus Robert Lopez and veteran BMI composer Larry Hochman took home statuettes in every music category at the 65th Annual Tony Awards. Lopez earned Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical honors for his work on The Book of Mormon, while Hochman won Best…
From News, posted 6.14.11
BMI Sweeps 2011 Drama Desk Awards for Music
The Drama Desk Awards illustrated once again how deep the BMI’s musical theatre roots run, as trophy after trophy went to members of the BMI family on Monday night in New York City. Robert Lopez took home two awards: He garnered Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics for runaway hit The Book of Mormon, which was also named Outstanding Musical overall. Larry Hochman’s superb work on The Book of Mormon also…
From News, posted 5.25.11
Outer Critics Circle Awards Tap BMI Musicals ‘The Book of Mormon,’ ‘The Kid’
The Outer Critics Circle recently announced recipients of its 61st Annual Awards, and BMI’s musical theatre vanguard earned three of the organization’s prestigious honors. Robert Lopez garnered two trophies: Outstanding New Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score, both for runaway hit The Book of Mormon. Lyricist Jack Lechner and composer Andy Monroe earned Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical honors for The Kid.…
From News, posted 5.17.11
BMI Musical Theatre Family Dominates 2011 Drama Desk Nominations
The musical theatre award season is in full swing, and BMI’s family of composers and lyricists, from young torchbearers to veteran game-changers, are earning recognition of jobs very well done. The recently announced list of 2011 Drama Desk nominees underlines BMI’s longtime tradition of cultivating and celebrating musical theatre creators: Nominees See Rock City and other Destinations, The Kid and In Transit were all born in the prestigious BMI
From News, posted 5.06.11
BMI Broadway Composers Sweep Tony Score Nominations
BMI’s deep-rooted tradition of acclaimed musical theatre grew even deeper as the nominees were announced for the 2011 Tony Awards. Every nominee in the Tony's prestigious Best Original Score category was penned by a BMI composer, and from breakout hit The Book of Mormon, which with 14 nods leads the overall list of nominees, to beloved musical The Scottsboro Boys, which earned a resounding 12 nominations, BMI’s musical theatre family…
From News, posted 5.05.11
Monroe, Lechner Awarded Larson Grants
The American Theatre Wing has announced that two BMI members, composer Andy Monroe and lyricist Jack Lechner, have been awarded Jonathan Larson Grants. The Jonathan Larson Grants are distributed annually to bourgeoning composers, lyricists, and librettists in honor of the late Larson, who wrote the musical Rent. The grants, totalling $10,000, will be presented March 29 at a private event in New York. Monroe and Lechner, members of…
From News, posted 3.09.11
Daniel Israel: Musical Theatre in Motion
The direction of Daniel Israel’s career is decidedly more clear than that of the characters in his new musical, who bounce from parking lot to parking lot following the eccentric orbit of the brightest star in their universe, the jam band Liquid Brick. The musical, which goes by the working title “The Dirty Hippie Jam Band Project,” is the beautiful love child of Israel’s collaboration with Pheobe…
From MusicWorld, posted 2.11.11
Beth Falcone’s Sweet Delusions
“Successful people have to be somewhat delusional,” Beth Falcone, composer and lyricist of the musical Wanda’s World, half-jokingly confesses. But if Falcone suffers from any sort of delusion, it’s the perfectly healthy kind that should afflict more of us. For Falcone, delusion has manifested as Wanda’s World, which has been optioned for Broadway and is scheduled to open in fall 2011. The musical is “spinach in a…
From MusicWorld, posted 1.23.11
New ‘BMI Live’ Program Allows Performing Songwriters To Register Live Concerts for Royalty Payments
BMI has launched BMI Live, a program enabling performing songwriters to register their concerts and set lists online to be considered for payment in live music venues, regardless of size. To qualify, songwriters need to enter their live musical performances on BMI’s website (a BMI Live video demo is available) . BMI will pay royalties to both writers and publishers via direct deposit in its June…
From News, posted 1.11.11
Jerry Bock Dies
Influential BMI composer Jerry Bock has died. He was 81 years old. He was the creative firestorm behind scores for Broadway musicals including Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!, She Loves Me, The Rothschilds, The Apple Tree and Tenderloin. Along with his frequent collaborator, the lyricist Sheldon Harnick, Bock charmed critics and mesmerized the public. In 1959, he and Harnick shared the Tony for Best…
From News, posted 11.04.10
‘Newley Discovered’ Pays Tribute to BMI Great Anthony Newley
Hugh Sheridan will make his American debut in Newley Discovered, a musical dedicated to the life and legendary work of BMI songwriter Anthony Newley. The show is slated for 8 p.m. on Thursday, October 7 at Snapple Theatre (210 West 50th St) in New York City. Featuring music by Newley, as well as Leslie Bricusse and Lloyd Price, the performance will be a moving celebration of the…
From News, posted 10.01.10
Don Black: Sitting at Home, Writing Songs
London’s leafy Green Park means many things to many people, but to lyricist Don Black it will always be the place where he wrote the hit song “Tell Me on a Sunday” to the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. The kitchen in his ’60s home in Mill Hill in Northwest London always comes to mind when he thinks of the Lulu smash hit “To Sir with Love,”…
From MusicWorld, posted 9.29.10
Don Black to be Named Icon at BMI London Awards
Songwriter Don Black, OBE will be honored as a BMI Icon at the U.S. performing right organization’s annual London Awards. The ceremony is slated for Tuesday, October 5 at London’s Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane. Hosted by BMI President & CEO Del Bryant; BMI Senior Vice President, Writer/Publisher Relations Phil Graham; and Executive Director, Writer/Publisher Relations, Europe & Asia Brandon Bakshi, the invitation-only gala recognizes…
From News, posted 9.02.10
BMI Foundation Announces Harrington Award Winners
The 11th Annual BMI Foundation Jerry Harrington Awards for Creative Excellence were presented during a ceremony held on May 10 at the BMI New York offices. These 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…
From News, posted 5.13.10
BMI Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop Accepting Applications
BMI has announced that the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop is now accepting applications for membership. This unique writing program is dedicated to the development and discovery of bookwriters for the musical theatre. The deadline for applicants is May 15. Download the application. Now in its fourth decade of working with musical theatre writers, the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop was recently celebrated with Drama…
From News, posted 5.04.10
BMI Honors Peter Napolitano at annual Bistro Awards
The 25th annual Bistro Awards celebrated the glittery world of cabaret stars on Tuesday, April 13 in New York at the Gotham Comedy Club. During the all-star ceremony, BMI recognized director Peter Napolitano with the annual BMI Award. Napolitano has directed cabaret heavy weights including Maureen Taylor, Barbara Porteus and Marquee Five, as well as Charles Busch’s early solo work. He garnered the 2009 MAC Award for…
From News, posted 4.22.10
‘Next to Normal,’ Hank Williams Win 2010 Pulitzer Prizes
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The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday, April 12, and three prominent BMI songwriters and composers number among the heady list of honorees: Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey earned the Pulitzer for Drama in recognition of their acclaimed musical Next to Normal, while legend Hank Williams received a special citation of lifetime achievement. In the citation explaining their decision to…
From News, posted 4.13.10
Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway
If you’re looking for an authoritative — and hilarious — chronicle of the Broadway stage, look no further than Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain, the new book by Gerard Alessandrini. Ever since 1982, this stage writer, director and performer has taken wicked delight in parodying the Great White Way with his show Forbidden Broadway, which has gone through numerous updates over the years. In the process,…
From MusicWorld, posted 4.07.10
Remembering Richard Engquist
A compilation of the late Richard Engquist’s columns, as originally published in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop newsletter, was produced and distributed at a concert celebrating his nearly four decades as a lyricist for the musical theatre. Engquist, who passed away just eight days before the event, named the concert after one of his songs, the appropriately titled “Nice While It Lasted.” The complete document is…
From News, posted 4.07.10
Richard Engquist, Lyricist, Leader of BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Dies at 76
Richard Engquist, who led the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop for over 30 years, died on March 18. He was part of the transitional team composed of Alan Menken, Maury Yeston, Ed Kleban, Skip Kennon and David Spencer, who assured that the Workshop would continue to flourish after the death of Lehman…
From News, posted 3.24.10
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