Theatre Workshop Gets Special Trip to ‘Avenue Q’
Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, co-writers of the hit Broadway show Avenue Q, gave a special lecture to the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop as part of a series entitled "Year of the Tune" developed by Workshop moderator Richard Enquist.
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| Pictured after the lecture are Workshop moderator Richard Engquist, composer/lyricists Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, and BMI's Jean Banks. Photo by Eric Miller |
Marx and Lopez, who met in the Workshop and developed the breakthrough Sesame Street parody there, received the 2000 Kleban Award. The coveted prize of $150,000, given annually to a lyricist and a librettist, was established by the late Ed Kleban, lyricist for the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Chorus Line and an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.
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