The award-winning York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) is happy to announce the winner of a new award celebrating musical theatre talent: The York Theatre Company Noël Coward Prize. This year's recipient is Douglas J. Cohen, author of The Gig, which is based on a screenplay by Frank D. Gilroy.
In honor of the talents of Sir Noël Coward, who often served as the writer/composer/lyricist for his musicals, the York Theatre Company - with the endorsement of the Noël Coward Foundation - administers the York Theatre Company Noël Coward Prize to a promising librettist/composer/lyricist whose work best exemplifies the "triple threat" standards set by Coward. The winning artist receives an honorarium and a special one-night-only staged concert of the musical submitted to the contest produced by The York Theatre Company. After receiving a large number of submissions, an esteemed panel of industry professionals selected the winning entry. The panel included Nancy Ford, John Kander, Richard Maltby, Mel Marvin, Brian Murray, Susan H. Schulman and Tony Walton. This year's winner will receive the award at a concert celebrating Noël Coward on his birthday, December 16, 2009 at 7:30 PM. The concert will feature Noël Coward songs (which Tony Walton and Barry Day have used in their new musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Hypocrite). A reception will immediately follow. A reading of The Gig is being planned for after the first of the year.
Tony Walton and Douglas J. Cohen
Stuart Hample, Douglas J. Cohen, Naomi Cohen-Hample and Howard Kissel
Joan Ross-Sorkin, Edwin Cahill, Jim Kierstead and Nancy Ford
Douglas J. Cohen and Sheldon Harnick
Douglas J. Cohen and Richard Maltby
Douglas J. Cohen and Jane Alexander
Douglas J. Cohen and Frank D. Gilroy
Charles Pistone, Douglas J. Cohen and Steve Routman
Brian Blythe, Jeremy Cohen, Douglas J. Cohen, Tony Walton and James Morgan
Barry Day, James Morgan, Geoffrey Johnson and Douglas J. Cohen
Barry Day, Geoffrey Johnson and Douglas J. Cohen
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