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info, excerpts and accolades by<br />
Larry Gelbart, Richard Maltby,<br />
Jr., Alan Menken, Gerard<br />
Alessandrini and others, go to<br />
www.aislesay.<strong>com</strong>/NY-GUIDE.<br />
html. Published by Heinemann<br />
Drama.<br />
SEX KITTENS AND HORN<br />
DAWGS FALL IN LOVE<br />
A new novel by Maryrose Wood<br />
for teens and other people who<br />
want to know the secret of love,<br />
published by Random House, will<br />
be in stores January 24, 2006. Preorder<br />
on Amazon.<strong>com</strong> now<br />
(www.maryrosewood.<strong>com</strong>). As<br />
described: “Meet Felicia, 14-yearold<br />
student at the Manhattan Free<br />
Children’s School (also known as<br />
the Pound). In Felicia’s world, she<br />
and her best friends, Jess and Kat,<br />
like to refer to themselves as the<br />
Sex Kittens, and the boys they<br />
know as the Horn Dawgs. Felicia<br />
is getting tired of waiting for a<br />
Horn Dawg to notice her uniqueness,<br />
however. So she devises a<br />
project she and the object of her<br />
affection, Matthew the Science<br />
Brain, can work on together. Felicia<br />
is determined to discover the<br />
Secret of Love with Matthew while<br />
winning both Matthew’s heart and<br />
the science fair. But love has other<br />
plans. (Doesn’t it always)”<br />
And the<br />
Winner Is...<br />
CHAVEZ<br />
a play by Richard Aellen<br />
(Librettists), was selected as a runner-up<br />
in the MetLife Foundation<br />
Nuestras Voces National Playwriting<br />
Competition. The play<br />
received a $500 prize and a staged<br />
reading directed by Cyn Canel<br />
Rossi at the Repertorio Espanol<br />
theater in New York.<br />
HARRINGTON AWARDS<br />
The <strong>BMI</strong> Foundation recently<br />
announced the winners of the 6th<br />
Annual Jerry Harrington Musical<br />
Theatre Awards in recognition of<br />
outstanding creative achievement<br />
in the <strong>BMI</strong> Lehman Engel Musical<br />
Theatre Workshop. Patrick Cook,<br />
artistic coordinator of the workshop,<br />
presented certificates and<br />
cash prizes during a cocktail reception<br />
June 13 at <strong>BMI</strong>’s New York<br />
office.<br />
The <strong>2005</strong> recipients of the Jerry<br />
Harrington Musical Theatre<br />
Awards are First Year Workshop<br />
member Phoebe Kreutz (now in<br />
Second Year); Second Year Workshop<br />
member Jill Abramovitz<br />
(now in Advanced); Librettist<br />
Workshop member Adam B.<br />
Matthias; and Advanced Work-<br />
Nancy Ford<br />
Kristen Maloney & Frank Evans<br />
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