92nd Street Y Announces Lyrics & Lyricists 2014 Lineup: MGM Musicals, Fanny Brice, & More!

92nd Street Y announces the 2014 line-up for Lyrics & Lyricists, with Deborah Grace Winer in her sixth season as series artistic director. To offer their unique perspectives on the American Songbook, L&L guest artistic directors this year feature three Tony Award winners-a director (Kathleen Marshall, in her L&L debut), music director (Ted Sperling) and lyricist (David Zippel)--a top musical theater historian (Robert Kimball), and Broadway royalty (Ted Chapin of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization).

Individual tickets and subscriptions are on sale now, with single ticket prices from $55. Please call 212-415-5500 or go to www.92Y.org/Lyricsfor more information.

As Deborah Grace Winer says about the country's preeminent American Songbook series: "The legendary jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli once remarked, 'If it's not fun, we should all go home.' That's how we feel at Lyrics & Lyricists...especially about our new season. With our stellar guest artistic directors-including our newest family member Kathleen Marshall-and performers and musicians from the cream of Broadway, jazz and cabaret, our one-of-a-kind concert style allows us to break out of the mold with exciting narrative journeys and great, great music."

L&L shows are Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 2 and 7 pm, and Monday at 2 and 7:30 pm. Subscriptions to the five-concert series running from January to June start at $225. Individual tickets start at $52; 92nd Street Y will also offer an "under-35" ticket price for all performances, with $25 individual tickets and $100 season subscriptions.

Lyrics & Lyricists: 2014 Season

January 11, 12, 13
GOING HOLLYWOOD: MGM MUSICALS
Kathleen Marshall, Artistic Director & Host
David Chase, Music Director
Want a great night on the town? How about a singing, dancing, Technicolor celebration of the silver screen's greatest musicals? Melodic nuggets from unforgettable movies, like The Band Wagon, Meet Me in St. Louis and Gigi, created exclusively for 92Y by three-time Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall. We promise you'll go home singin', even if it isn't in the rain.

February 22, 23, 24
SWEEPIN' THE CLOUDS AWAY: BOOM, BUST AND HIGH SPIRITS
Robert Kimball, Artistic Director and Host
Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
The Gershwins, Porter, Ellington, Eubie Blake-these and other star songwriters created the best toe-tapping, mood-busting, uplifting music ever written-in the heart of the Great Depression, just when people needed it most. Put on your happy feet and come listen once more, as noted theater historian Robert Kimball packs a show full of songs to shake our collective blues away.

April 5, 6, 7
GETTING TO KNOW YOU: Rodgers & Hammerstein
Ted Chapin, Artistic Director & Host

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were established hitmakers when they teamed up to make a musical about cowboys and farmers. What follows was a miracle-Oklahoma!, then Carousel and South Pacific; the list of extraordinary hits goes on. Ted Chapin, head of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, shares secrets and surprises gleaned from his years with the families of these great men, the first time the team has been the subject an L&L show. Come peek inside this legendary partnership-you're truly in for some enchanted evening!

May 3, 4, 5
ZIEGFELD GIRL: THE MANY FACES OF Fanny Brice
Ted Sperling, Artistic Director and Host
Funny girl, singular talent and American icon. Fanny Brice hit stardom in the 1920s and, almost a century later, still inspires the public imagination. Ted Sperling, the music director of South Pacific, pays tribute to Fanny with a night of songs she put on the Broadway map-classics like "Second Hand Rose" and "My Man"-as well as ones she inspired in Funny Girl. So, why'd you rather be blue? Come join us!

May 31, June 1, 2
PANNING FOR GOLD: GREAT SONGS FROM FLOP SHOWS
David Zippel, Artistic Director and Host

Sometimes a masterful song finds itself in the midst of an unsuccessful show. The show fades, but the song remains. For example, the not-so-hot Very Warm for May gave us the very cool "All the Things You Are"; the timeless "Here's That Rainy Day" came out of the less-than-sunnyCarnival in Flanders. Tony Award-winning lyricist David Zippel (City of Angels, Disney's Hercules) picks and polishes these hidden gems in a show that's perfect for the Broadway buff.

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