NEWS!!!! (Updated 2/4/2010)
Leslie Kritzer and Andrew Schufman performed songs from MITMOAW and our new show Loving Leo on Monday January 11th at Feinstein's at the Regency for the annual Gersh Agency Showcase. It was a huge success!
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This July Sara and my new show LOVING LEO will have a workshop at the Adirondack Theatre Festival in Glens Falls, NY!!!!!! If you want to take a weekend trip...come on up! Stay tuned for details!!! :)
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On December 13th Etai Benshlomo will be singing Sara and my new cabaret song "Just Get Through" for Lincoln Center's Holiday Songbook Concert. The evening is "a collection of NEW HOLIDAY SONGS
by some of today's most talented composers and lyricists". Details below:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 2:30PM
The New York Public Library
for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center
Bruno Walter Auditorium
111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street
Produced and Hosted by John Znidarsic
WRITERS INCLUDE: Gaby Alter Kellen Blair Peter Brash David Caldwell Andrew Zachary Cohen Maggie Coleman Sara Cooper Oran Eldor Kirsten Gunther Ritt Henn Joe Iconis Anna Jacobs Sukari Jones Joe Kinosian Peter Lerman Robert Manganaro Sue Matsuki Mary Liz McNamara Tommy Newman Zach Redler Will Reynolds Steven Silverstein Joan Ross Sorkin Paul Stephan Joy Sun Robert Vest Sam Willmott Jay Zimmerman
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"Single Jewish Female Seeks Man" (from MITMOAW) and "Navigating" (from our forthcoming show with a working title Navigating) will be performed at the Gersh Agency Musical Showcase at Feinstein's at The Regency on January 11th.
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PEREZ HILTON SAVES THE UNIVERSE (and the greater Los Angeles Area) will be playing at the Landless Theatre Company in Washington D.C. from April 30th to June 3rd. More info soon!
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Sara and I have signed with Jessica Amato at The Gersh Agency!
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NAMT was a huge success! Thank you so much Leslie Kritzer, Catherine Cox, Vadim Feichtner, Joe Calarco and Kara Kaufman for making this happen. And of course all the people at NAMT were sooo helpful!! We can't wait to see where it takes us!
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NAMT is coming up! We have the same team that we had for the Barrington reading and we are sooooo lucky to have them! If you in New York on Oct 19th or 20th please come to New World Stages and try to see it! :)
Barrington went extremely well! Thanks Bill Finn and Julie Boyd for making that happen!
CAST ANNOUNCED FOR BARRINGTON!
Daughter - Leslie Kritzer
Mother - Catherine Cox
Director - Joe Calarco
Music Director - Vadim Feichner
Songs of MITMOAW to be featured in TWO new cabarets!
Songs from MITMOAW to be featured in New Songwriters Showcase at Baldwin-Wallace College in November 2009!
Songs from MITMOAW featured in Bright Lights Concert Series at Dreamlight Theatre Company in July 2009!
MITMOAW is looking forward to it's first public reading September 5th and 6th at Barrington Stage!!!!
MITMOAW is a NAMT finalist!!
Lower East Side Festival
Come hear selected songs from Memory Is The Mother Of All Wisdom at the Lower East Side Festival at Theater for the New City! We'll be playing a 10 minute slot on Memorial Day weekend. Details to come!
NEW SHOW!!! :)
Memory Is The Mother Of All Wisdom (Book & Lyrics by Sara Cooper, Music by Zach Redler) is a comic tragedy about the troubled relationship of a Mother (62) who has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her estranged Daughter (31) who moves back home to Brooklyn to take care of her. MITMOAW was developed at the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. (Special, special thanks to Sarah, Fred, Donna, and Mindi!!!) Also SPECIAL thanks to Brittney Borgstedt and Alissa Wyatt for singing for us! (It's their lovely voices you hear on the recording!)
The show will be premiered at the GMTWP on April 28th, 2009. Futhur performances will be announced after this date!
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