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Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story is a jukebox musical with a book by Daniel Goldfarb and music and lyrics by Bert Berns.Based on the life and music of songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, the musical made its world premiere Off Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center on July 21, 2014.
Her Off-Broadway work includes the title character in the Beebo Brinker Chronicles (2008), Closer Than Ever (2012), and a staged reading of Twelve Angry Men (2018) with an all-female cast. In 2008, Colella performed in abridged versions of Girl Crazy and Side Show , two of the parts of Broadway: Three Generations at the Kennedy Center .
The only Broadway musical ever with a cast and band entirely made of teenagers. [3] 21 Chump Street: 2014 Off-Broadway Lin-Manuel Miranda: Miranda Miranda 14-minute musical based on a true story told on This American Life. [4] The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: 2005 Off-Broadway and Broadway: William Finn: Finn Rachel Sheinkin
Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and book by Rice.The story involves a politically driven, Cold War-era chess tournament between two grandmasters, one American and the other Soviet, and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other.
It has been produced Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in 2014 [8] and 2015, [9] and at New World Stages in 2016. [10] In 2019, a limited run was produced at the Bluebarn Theatre in Omaha, Nebraska. [11] [12] [13] The play has received critical praise, and won a 2016 Obie Award for Ortiz's puppet design.
"Piece of My Heart" is a romantic soul song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns, originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967. Franklin's single peaked in December 1967 at number 10 on the Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart in the United States.
The show was first performed off-Broadway in 2006 at the Village Theatre. [3] The original off-Broadway cast included Farah Alvin as Marcy, Stephanie D'Abruzzo as Diana, Colin Hanlon as Austin and David A. Austin as Jeff, with Courtney Balan and Jordan Leeds playing a variety of bit parts as chorus members New York Woman and New York Man.
Grumpy Old Men: The Musical was the brainchild of actor/producer Jeff Gardner. [3] With a goal to produce a Broadway musical, he felt the 1993 film Grumpy Old Men—with its midwestern backdrop and rich emotional story—was well-suited to musical adaptation. Gardner envisioned a traditional Golden Age musical with a strong book and old-style ...