Phyllis Green Steps in as Artistic Director for 92Y L&L Show

92nd Street Y announces that the Tony Award-winning Broadway star Phyllis Newman will step in as artistic director and host for the Lyrics & Lyricists^TM show "Carried Away: Being Comden and Green" on May 21-23. Ms. Newman, who was married to Adolph Green for over four decades, will take over for her daughter Amanda Green, who had to cancel due to a scheduling conflict. Newman previously appeared at Lyrics & Lyricists for the 1995 celebration of Jule Styne.

Phyllis Newman won a Tony Award for the Jule Styne/Comden & Green musical Subways are for Sleeping and earned a nomination for Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. She received her second Tony Award last year when she was honored as the first recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Award for creating the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of the Actor's Fund in 1996. She has also appeared on Broadway in Bells are Ringing, The Apple Tree, On the Town, The Prisoner of Second Avenue and Awake and Sing!, among others.

L&L shows are Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 2 and 7 pm, and Monday at 2 and 8 pm. Subscriptions to the five-concert series running from January to May range from $292 to $225. Individual tickets range from $67 to $52; 92nd Street Y will also offer an "under-35" ticket price for the Saturday and Sunday evening performances, with $25 individual tickets and $100 season subscriptions. Please call 212-415-5500 or go to www.92Y.org/Lyrics for more information.

Lyrics & Lyricists: 2011 Season

January 8, 9, 10, 2011
FRANK AND TONY AND PEGGY AND ME: MAKING MUSIC WITH THE GREAT SINGERS - CELEBRATING Bucky Pizzarelli'S 85TH BIRTHDAY
John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey, Artistic Directors
Legendary jazz guitarist (and 92Y audience favorite) Bucky Pizzarelli has performed and recorded with iconic singers from Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett to Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney, Sarah Vaughan and countless others. John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey host this party for Bucky, featuring great songs and inside stories.

February 12, 13, 14, 2011
ON A CLEAR DAY: THE MUSICAL VISION OF Burton Lane
David Loud, Artistic Director
One of the Songbook's great melodists, Burton Lane wrote the scores to Finian's Rainbow, Royal Wedding, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and standards like "How About You." Broadway music director David Loud leads the celebration of Lane's music and collaborations with lyricists from E.Y. "Yip" Harburg to Alan Jay Lerner.

March 12, 13, 14, 2011
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN: BROADWAY RESPONDS TO WWII
Ted Chapin, Artistic Director
Seventy years ago the U.S. entered World War II, and America's songwriters did their part - with the Stage Door Canteen, USO shows and a stream of hits from Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser and more. Ted Chapin offers this salute to some of the greatest songs of the Greatest Generation.

April 30, May 1, 2, 2011
THE CROWD'S AT EL MOROCCO: THE HEYDAY OF THE NEW YORK NIGHTCLUBS
DEBORAH GRACE WINER, Artistic Director
Legendary clubs like The Stork, Copacabana, Latin Quarter and Persian Room were meccas where songwriters, singers and starry society mingled and fueled American popular music. Deborah Grace Winer conjures the brassy spots and smoky boîtes that were the musical playpens for artists from the Gershwins and Ethel Merman to Sammy Cahn and the Rat Pack.

May 21, 22, 23, 2011
CARRIED AWAY: BEING COMDEN AND GREEN
Phyllis Newman, Artistic Director
Their partnership was one of Broadway and Hollywood's longest runs. Together, Betty Comden and Adolph Green's words gave life to On the Town, Wonderful Town, Bells are Ringing and Singin' in the Rain. Phyllis Newman, Tony Award-winner and Green's wife of over four decades, summons the essence of their genius: irreverence, humanity, sophisticated wit and joy.

ABOUT LYRICS & LYRICISTS

Long one of 92nd Street Y's most popular programs, the American Songbook series Lyrics & Lyricists^TM was launched in 1970 when longtime Broadway conductor Maurice Levine and lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (The Wizard of Oz) took to the stage to talk about the then unusual topic of songwriting. Over the years the series has featured every great Broadway and Hollywood lyricist including Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Johnny Mercer, Stephen Sondheim, Dorothy Fields, and Alan Jay Lerner. Since 2004, L&L has featured original programs created by accomplished champions of the repertoire, including Andrea Marcovicci, Rob Fisher, Sheldon Harnick, Robert Kimball, Rex Reed, Billy Stritch and Ted Sperling. Each show is designed to celebrate the American Songbook through a mixture of information and entertainment with a particular focus on lyrics. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org/Lyrics.

The performances of Lyrics & Lyricists' "Frank and Tony and Peggy and Me: Making Music with Great Singers - Celebrating Bucky Pizzarelli's 85th Birthday" are partially underwritten by the Edythe Kenner Foundation.

ABOUT 92nd Street Y
Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds - about 300,000 people each year.

Since launching its concert series in 1934, what is now 92nd Street Y's Tisch Center for the Arts has presented acclaimed classical musicians and exciting newcomers. The Center is also home to 92Y's legendary American songbook series, Lyrics & Lyricists, with artistic director Deborah Grace Winer and to 92Y's summer Jazz in July festival, with artistic director Bill Charlap. The Tisch Center's literary program, the Unterberg Poetry Center, presents the country's oldest and arguably most illustrious reading series as well as an extensive writing program that gives working adults access to teachers who are published authors - a rarity outside M.F.A. programs. 92nd Street Y's Tisch Center for the Arts is endowed through the generosity of the Joan and Preston Robert Tisch family.

For more information, please visit www.92Y.org.

 

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