The Society of Composers & Lyricists holiday party honoring BMI composer David Yazbek, along with Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, took place last night at the NY Institute of Technology in NY, with BMI proudly in attendance to support the award-winning Yazbek. // Read more...
Jean Banks, Senior Director of Jazz and Musical Theatre at BMI, passed away on February 1 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… Read more...
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),… Read more...
by Frank Evans Broadway producers, members of the New York Press as well as BMI officers and writers packed the BMI New York Media Room for a celebratory evening of songs inaugurating the 40th Anniversary of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre… Read more...
