CY
COLEMAN DEBUTS AT FEINSTEIN'S
FEINSTEIN'S
at the Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue, NYC - 1-212-339-4095 - http://www.feinsteinsattheregency.com/
) will present the debut engagement of Grammy and Tony Award winning
Broadway composer Cy Coleman from October 12th through 23rd. He will
perform his own standards including "Witchcraft," "The Best Is Yet
To Come" and "I've Got Your Number," along with songs from his classic
musicals. The show will also debut new material from his upcoming
musicals Like Jazz, with Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and Pamela's First
Musical with Wendy Wasserstein. Mr. Coleman, on piano and vocals,
will be joined by acclaimed jazz musicians Gary Haase on bass and
Buddy Williams on drums. Performances are Tuesday through Saturday
at 8:30 pm with late shows on Friday and Saturday at 11:00 pm. All
shows have a $60 cover. There is a $40 minimum for early shows and
a $30 minimum for late shows.
Cy Coleman is a composer
whose scores have distinguished Broadway musicals for three decades,
the most recent being the much-acclaimed and multi-award-winning musical
The Life, which he also co-wrote and co-produced; The Will Rogers
Follies (winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best
Score, and the Grammy Award for Best Musical); and City of Angels
(winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Score).
His first complete Broadway musical score was Wildcat, which starred
Lucille Ball and introduced one of his most popular songs "Hey Look
Me Over." In 1962 Little Me won Mr. Coleman the first of his twelve
Tony nominations and introduced "I've Got Your Number" and "Real Live
Girl." The smash hit Sweet Charity followed with the showstoppers
"Big Spender" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now." In 1986, Charity
returned to Broadway, winning new acclaim for Mr. Coleman's score
and earning four Tony Awards, including Best Revival. Charity will
again return to Broadway in the Spring of 2005 starring Christina
Applegate.
The 1970s introduced three
more Cy Coleman musicals to Broadway: Seesaw, On The Twentieth Century
and I Love My Wife, which won him a Drama Desk Award. Twentieth Century
won both a Drama Desk and Tony Award for Best Score. In 1980, Mr.
Coleman made his debut as a producer with the musical Barnum, for
which he also wrote the score. He was most recently represented on
Broadway with the 1998 revival of Little Me starring Martin Short.
Mr. Coleman began his
career performing at the piano in Steinway, Town and Carnegie halls
between the ages of six and nine. He played clubs in New York in the
1950s and composed many pop standards. He has won three Emmys Awards,
for writing Shirley MacLaine's TV specials, and an Academy Award nomination
for Sweet Charity. Mr. Coleman has been honored with 13 Grammy Award
nominations and star-studded tributes at Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie
Hall & Kennedy Center. In 2001, the premier of the new Coleman musical
with Dutch collaborators, Grace, opened in Amsterdam for an extended
run. In 2002, Cy appeared at Carnegie Hall with Skitch Henderson and
the New York Pops.
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