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Recent Kleban Awards News

Falcone, Kerrigan Receive 2009 Kleban Awards

BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop participants Beth Falcone and Kait Kerrigan have earned the 19th annual Kleban Awards. Bestowed on auspicious lyricists and librettists, each prestigious honor also includes a $100,000 cash prize to be paid in two $50,000 installments over the next two years. The composer and lyricist of Wanda’s World, Falcone snagged the most promising musical theater lyricist…


From News, posted 5.10.09

Kleban Award Honors BMI Theatre Writers

BMI's Musical Theatre department held a cocktail party on June 20 honoring the winners of the 2005 Kleban Award. BMI composer/librettist Cheryl L. Davis, an alumna of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, was among this year's winners for her new musical, "Barnstormer."


From News, posted 7.04.05

BMI Toasts 2003 Kleban Award Winner Susan DiLallo

BMI's Musical Theatre department recently toasted composer Susan DiLallo, the winner of the 2003 Kleban Award, at a reception in New York. DiLallo, a lyricist, won the prestigious award for her work on Once Upon a Time in New Jersey, a musical comedy set in 1956 Hoboken, NJ. Once Upon a Time in New Jersey tells the story of a deli worker who switches places with a local womanizer to…


From News, posted 6.26.03

Kleban Awards

BMI's Musical Theatre department held a cocktail party on June 5 honoring the winners of the 2001 Kleban Award including BMI writer Pat Cook (3rd from left), moderator of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop's First Year Class. The Kleban Award for Musical Theatre is given annually by the Kleban Foundation, established in 1988 under the Will of BMI composer Edward L. Kleban, best known for…


From News, posted 6.06.01

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…


From News, posted 2.22.00

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