Recent Michael John LaChiusa Updates
BMI Musical Theatre Workshop Now Accepting Applications for First Year Class
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop is now accepting applications for its first year composer/lyricist class. The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2006. The first year class is co-moderated by Workshop Artistic Coordinator Patrick Cook (Captains Courageous, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) and Workshop alumni Frederick Freyer (Captains Courageous), both Drama Desk nominees. The class explores the basics of…
BMI Musical Theatre Workshop Wins Special Drama Desk Award
Past and Present Members Nominated for Outstanding Music and Lyrics The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop will receive a special Drama Desk Award "for nurturing, developing and promoting new talent for the musical theater." This prestigious award will be presented to the Workshop during the 2006 Drama Desk Awards ceremony, set for May 21 at LaGuardia Concert Hall at New…
Applications Now Being Accepted for BMI Librettists Workshop
Applications for the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop are now being accepted. This unique writing workshop, one of the four multi-tiered teaching environments sponsored by BMI, is devoted to the development of libretti or "books" for new works for the musical theater. Members of the Librettists Workshop have come to BMI from many diverse writing disciplines including theatre, journalism, fiction, non-fiction…
Composer/Lyricists: Apply Now for BMI Theatre Workshop
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop is now accepting applications for its first year composer/lyricist class. The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2005. The Workshop consists of approximately 250 composers, lyricists and bookwriters, most of who are actively writing new works for the musical theatre. Alumni include Tony Award winners Jeff Marx and
Applications Now Being Accepted for BMI Librettists Workshop
Applications for the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop are now being accepted. This unique writing workshop, one of the four multi-tiered teaching environments sponsored by BMI, is devoted to the development of libretti or "books" for new works for the musical theater. Members of the Librettists Workshop have come to BMI from many diverse writing disciplines including theatre, journalism, fiction, non-fiction and education.…
BMI Musical Theatre Workshop Now Accepting Applications
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop is now accepting applications for its first year composer/lyricist class. The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2004. The Workshop consists of approximately 250 composers, lyricists and bookwriters, most of who are actively writing new works for the musical theater. Alumni include Edward Kleban (A Chorus Line), Maury Yeston (Titanic, Grand Hotel, Nine), Alan…
Theatre Workshop Welcomes Guest Lecturers
BMI musical theatre composers Michael John LaChiusa and Paul Scott Goodman were guest lecturers in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop recently. Seen here after the workshop are guest lecturer Michael John LaChiusa, BMI's Jean Banks, and Workshop moderator Richard…
BMI’s Musical Theatre Workshop Celebrates 40th Anniversary
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, the theatre world gathered on March 11 at the famed Manhattan Theatre Club for a spectacular showcase of new and developing works from the prestigious workshop. This special event was created by MTC's Associate Artistic Director Michael Bush and Patrick Cook, the BMI Workshop's Artistic Coordinator. It was the…
‘A Class Act’ Puts BMI Theatre Workshop Center Stage
'A Class Act' Puts BMI Theatre Workshop Center Stage by Frank Evans Maury Yeston offers his insights to a current class of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.
Kleban Award Takes Note of BMI Theater Writers
Three members of the BMI Lehman Engel Music Theatre Workshop have been selected as recipients of the coveted Kleban Award: David Spencer and the team of Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx. The Kleban Award, given annually to a lyricist and a librettist, was established by the late Ed Kleban, lyricist for the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning A…
Michael John LaChiusa Makes the Story Sing
Since he’s now done three musicals at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont, composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa may regard the lobby there as his home away from home. When he’s about to give an interview, that’s where he decides to take his cup of coffee and settle into a graceful ice-cream parlor chair within reach of another chair he can pull over to rest his legs on. Casual in…
