Ron Sproat News

As a musical theater librettist, lyricist and lifelong connoisseur of Broadway and Hollywood musicals, Frank Evans would have been extremely sad to learn about the passing of screen legend Debbie Reynolds on December 28. But given his sense of humor and ability for self-deprecation, Evans might have also gotten a perverse kick out of knowing he died on the same day as one of his film favorites. Franklin G. Evans, 70, died last Wednesday evening at Methodist Hospital in Park Slope, Brooklyn, due to complications from multiple strokes that ravaged his brain over the last couple of months of 2016. Evans, who also suffered from Parkinson's-related dementia and diabetes, had spent the last year rehabilitating from a serious concussion sustained last December.

Richard 'Bick' Goss, a noted New York City-based theater director and choreographer, former Bob Fosse dancer, and the Founder and Co-Artistic Director (with Frank Evans) of the non-profit musical theater development organization, Musical Mondays Theatre Lab, died this past Saturday, August 3, from complications related to Parkinson's Disease, which Mr. Goss had battled for more than five years. He was 75 years old.

NYMF presents 'BACK HOME' with a book by Ron Sproat, music by Christopher Berg, lyrics by Frank Evans and directed by Bick Goss. Performances begin Monday, September 24 through September 30 at The Sage Theatre

BMI , in conjunction with Musical Mondays Theatre Lab and the New York Musical Theatre Festival, will host a reading of the award-winning musical War Brides on Tuesday, September 27 at 2:30pm.

Songwriters who honed their craft at the famed BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop joined together in song for a one-night-only concert on September 14 at 59E59 Theaters.

War Brides, a musical that will kick off the York Theatre Company's Developmental Reading Series, has been cast; it will be presented on August 23rd