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JILL LÉGER
COMPOSER/LYRICIST
"[Léger's] songs are delightful and funny, and I loved [her] performances of them." - Rebecca Luker
"You'll love Jill Leger's songs--her heart and wit and her ability to apply a classic sensibility to contemporary situations." - Composer/lyricist Tom Toce
Jill Léger is a Toronto-based composer/lyricist specializing in cabaret music about the complications of life and love in the 21st century. In April 2009, her musical revue "Googling My Ex (And Other Obsessions)" played to a packed house at Statler's Piano Lounge in Toronto. "Googling My Ex" also performed to sold-out crowds at Playbill Café in Washington DC in June 2008. Léger's music was recently featured in "Planet Michael" at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in DC and "The Greatest Holiday Musical Ever" at Don't Tell Mama in NYC.
Léger comes to Toronto from Washington, DC, where she spent more than a decade working in TV journalism, sharing a 2000 Peabody Award for C-SPAN's year-long series on the American Presidents and receiving a 2008 Emmy nomination for her documentary work at National Geographic Film and Television.
Though she is a life-long lyricist and lover of wordplay, she didn't begin writing music until 2004, when she became fascinated with the life and career of silent-film comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Eager to celebrate his lost talent and restore luster to his unfairly tarnished name, she began work on what would become "Call Me Fatty!" a full-length musical about Arbuckle's life. In the process, she was introduced to DC's vibrant cabaret and theater community and became hooked on writing music.
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