Sherman Yellen News

As BroadwayWorld has previously reported, the life of legendary Broadway composer Jerry Bock will be celebrated Monday January 24th at Roundabout's American Airlines Theater (227 West 42nd Street) at 2:30pm. The celebration is open to the public, on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors will open at 2pm. The latest list of performers scheduled to appear are Kate Baldwin, Brigid Brady, Susan Cella, Barbara Cook, Harvey Fierstein, Boyd Gaines, Roundabout's Todd Haimes, Bock's longtime collaborator Sheldon Harnick, Hal Linden (and his original Rothschilds' 'sons:' David Garfield, Alan Gruet, Paul Hecht, Tim Jerome and Chris Sarandon), Joe Masteroff, Howard McGillin, Brad Oscar, producer Stuart Ostrow, Austin Pendleton, Lonny Price, Harold Prince, Chita Rivera, Bock's longtime friend and attorney Richard M. Ticktin, Rachel Ulanet, Tony Walton, Sherman Yellen and Bock's daughter Portia, among others. Michael Montel will stage the event.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Bonnie Langford to the 2010 Brits Off Broadway festival with the US premiere of BONNIE LANGFORD: CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK, an intimate evening of songs and stories with Ms. Langford.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Bonnie Langford to the 2010 Brits Off Broadway festival with the US premiere of BONNIE LANGFORD: CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK, an intimate evening of songs and stories with Ms. Langford.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Bonnie Langford to the 2010 Brits Off Broadway festival with the US premiere of BONNIE LANGFORD: CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK, an intimate evening of songs and stories with Ms. Langford.

Producer Richard Winkler will present a reading of the new musical comedy LET ME SING starring Tony Award nominee Sam Harris as Al Jolson in New York City on Thursday, April 15. With a book by Sherman Yellen, new music & lyrics by Will Holt and featuring some of the most enduring Al Jolson standards, LET ME SING is directed by Matt Lenz. Carl Pasbjerg/Alchemy Productions is the General Manager.

THE CIVIC LIGHT-OPERA COMPANY, Toronto's Premiere Musical Theatre, proudly presents THE CANADIAN PREMIERE of Richard Rodgers' penultimate musical REX, which plays at the Fairview Library Theatre from Feb. 17-Mar. 6. This is the first-ever post-Broadway staging of the musical which amazed audiences on Broadway in the 1975-76 season.

Rex has a reputation as a big Broadway disaster. It is well known that the show had many problems on the rocky road to Broadway in 1976, but The Civic Light Opera Company's new production shows off the show's strengths. Sheldon Harnick attended the opening night performance and pronounced this production to be everything he had always hoped the show to be. * * * * 1/2 (OUT OF 5)

THE CIVIC LIGHT-OPERA COMPANY, Toronto's Premiere Musical Theatre, proudly presents THE CANADIAN PREMIERE of Richard Rodgers' penultimate musical REX, which plays at the Fairview Library Theatre from Feb. 17-Mar. 6. This is the first-ever post-Broadway staging of the musical which amazed audiences on Broadway in the 1975-76 season.

THE CIVIC LIGHT-OPERA COMPANY, Toronto's Premiere Musical Theatre, proudly presents THE CANADIAN PREMIERE of Richard Rodgers' penultimate musical REX, which plays at the Fairview Library Theatre from Feb. 17-Mar. 6. This is the first-ever post-Broadway staging of the musical which amazed audiences on Broadway in the 1975-76 season.

The Miami Herald reports that Miami producer and former director of Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse, Arnold Mittelman, who ran Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse from 1985 until it's closing in 2006 is planning the first Broadway revival of The Rothschilds, a 1970 musical written by Sherman Yellen and featuring a score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.

The 16th annual STAGES festival will kick off with SONGS IN THE KEY OF TODAY, a new topical review of songs written specifically for STAGES. The revue features musical numbers by Martin Charnin, George Stiles & Anthony Drew, Wally Harper and Sherman Yellen, Owen Kalt and Elizabeth Doyle and many other writers.

The 16th annual STAGES festival will kick off with SONGS IN THE KEY OF TODAY, a new topical review of songs written specifically for STAGES. The revue features musical numbers by Martin Charnin, George Stiles & Anthony Drew, Wally Harper and Sherman Yellen, Owen Kalt and Elizabeth Doyle and many other writers.

The 16th annual STAGES festival will kick off with SONGS IN THE KEY OF TODAY, a new topical review of songs written specifically for STAGES. The revue features musical numbers by Martin Charnin, George Stiles & Anthony Drew, Wally Harper and Sherman Yellen, Owen Kalt and Elizabeth Doyle and many other writers.

On behalf of the Kleban Foundation, New Dramatists presented the 19th Annual Kleban Award for the most promising musical theater lyricist has to Beth Falcone and the award for the most promising musical theater librettist has to Kait Kerrigan. The 2009 awards were presented on June 1, 2009, in a private ceremony at BMI.

It's the time of year where the Theatre World celebrates the best of the best and special recognition is bestowed upon certain individuals for their work. No...I am not talking about the Tony Awards...although I know where I will be that evening. I talking about the 19th Annual Kleban Awards, which will be presented in a private ceremony on June 1st, 2009.

The Triad Theatre presents the World Premiere of GOING THROUGH A STAGE: Broadway's Best Sing the Songs of Charles Bloom, a musical journey exploring the quirks, longings and joys we face while going through the stages of our lives, at The Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd Street, 2nd floor, NYC on Mondays, May 18 & 25, 2009 at 7pm.

The Triad Theatre presents the World Premiere of GOING THROUGH A STAGE: Broadway's Best Sing the Songs of Charles Bloom, a musical journey exploring the quirks, longings and joys we face while going through the stages of our lives, at The Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd Street, 2nd floor, NYC on Mondays, May 18 & 25, 2009 at 7pm. Tickets are $10 (plus a two-drink minimum) and reservations are available online at www.triadnyc.com.

The Triad Theatre presents the World Premiere of GOING THROUGH A STAGE: Broadway's Best Sing the Songs of Charles Bloom, a musical journey exploring the quirks, longings and joys we face while going through the stages of our lives, at The Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd Street, 2nd floor, NYC on Mondays, May 18 & 25, 2009 at 7pm.

The Triad Theatre presents the World Premiere of GOING THROUGH A STAGE: Broadway's Best Sing the Songs of Charles Bloom, a musical journey exploring the quirks, longings and joys we face while going through the stages of our lives, at The Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd Street, 2nd floor, NYC on Mondays, May 18 & 25, 2009 at 7pm. Tickets are $10 (plus a two-drink minimum) and reservations are available online at www.triadnyc.com.

The Triad Theatre presents the World Premiere of GOING THROUGH A STAGE: Broadway's Best Sing the Songs of Charles Bloom, a musical journey exploring the quirks, longings and joys we face while going through the stages of our lives, at The Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd Street, 2nd floor, NYC on Mondays, May 18 & 25, 2009 at 7pm.