| Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein - L&L Season Opens Oct 26, 27 & 28 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 03:35 pm EDT 09/12/24 | |
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| 92NY’S LYRICS & LYRICISTS™ Presents COCKEYED OPTIMIST: WHERE HAMMERSTEIN FOUND HIS HOPE Dick Scanlan – Director, Co-Writer Malcolm Gets – Co-Writer Joey Chancey – Music Director Richard Stafford – Choreographer Featuring Kerstin Anderson, Mikaela Bennett, Patrick Breen, Eddie Cooper, Omar Lopez-Cepero & Katie Mariko Murray All Performances In Person Saturday, October 26, 7:30 pm Sunday, October 27, 2 pm Monday, October 28 7:30 pm Tickets from $40 New York, NY: September 12, 2024 — It starts at the very beginning – with the source. Cockeyed Optimist: Where Hammerstein Found His Hope, the Lyrics and Lyricists™ 2024/25 season opener, takes a deep dive into the plays, novels, and films that inspired Oscar Hammerstein – resulting in such masterworks as Oklahoma!, The King and I, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Show Boat and more. The show is written by Tony Award nominees Dick Scanlan and Malcolm Gets and directed by Scanlan, and features a cast including Kerstin Anderson (Broadway - My Fair Lady); Mikaela Bennett (L&L – E.Y. “Yip” Harburg: Follow the Fellow Who Follows a Dream and Lenny’s Lyricists); Patrick Breen (Broadway – The Normal Heart, Next Fall); Eddie Cooper (Broadway – Parade), Omar Lopez-Cepero (Broadway – On Your Feet) and Katie Mariko Murray (Broadway – Frozen). Performances are on October 26, 27 and 28 with tickets available here. “Beyond his deceptively simple lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein was a genius at finding unexpected sources,” says Scanlan. “All of his hits were adaptations: a bestselling novel by a feminist author that Hammerstein turned into an anti-racist musical; two lines of text in a Hungarian play that became the basis for Carousel’s epic ‘Soliloquy;’ a queer, Indigenous writer’s story of a love triangle—Laurey, Curly and Jud—left largely intact but transformed by Rodgers & Hammerstein’s score into the quintessential American musical.” Nicholas Russotto, Executive Director, Tisch Music, goes on to say "this Lyrics & Lyricists show looks at Hammerstein’s beloved body of work as never before and celebrates his genius in a whole new light.” Additional credits Stephanie Alvarado Prugh, Producer Musicians Sylvia D’Avanzo, violin George Farmer, bass Christian Marrero, trumpet Jason May, reeds Adele Stein, cello About The 92nd Street Y, New York: The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. Now celebrating its 150th anniversary, 92NY offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y, New York is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92NY’s programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit www.92NY.org. |
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