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(Continued from page 1) A Scene from venue Q lives all kinda suck.” An exuberant Marx added: “But we’re here to tell you as living proof that things get better. L [L Cool J] and Carol [Channing] just gave us the Tony Award!” In his acceptance speech, Lopez’s list of thanks included, “especially the BMI Workshop.” The BMI Workshop demonstrated support for the writing team early on in the gestation of their show and careers. Songs from Avenue Q were presented by the Workshop in the “smoker” series of in-house cabarets as well as the 2002 BMI Showcase at Manhattan Theatre Club. The Workshop showcased earlier work by the team as well: a ten-minute musical, Borreguita and the Coyote, based on the folk tale by Verna Aardema. The short musical was subsequently produced by Musical Mondays Theatre Lab and then on tour by Theatreworks/USA as part of their Reading Rainbow series. The Workshop also showcased the team’s Kermit, Prince of Denmark, a spec project intended for Henson Productions, which was 20
the project for which, in 2000, they became co-winners of the coveted Kleban Award (in a four-way tie that included Workshop veterans Marion Adler and David Spencer). The $100,000 prize (increased that year to $150,000, at the behest of Kleban chairman Maury Yeston, to up the ante on the unprecedented divided pot), given annually to both a lyricist and a librettist, was established by the late Ed Kleban, lyricist for the Tony Award-and Pulitzer Prizewinning musical A Chorus Line and himself an alumnus, teacher and Committee Member of the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. That same year, Marx and Lopez were presented with the BMI Workshop’s Harrington Award. The Award, established through the BMI Foundation by Harrington’s longtime friend and colleague, BMI Assistant Vice President and Counsel Evelyn Buckstein, is given each year in Harrington’s honor to celebrate the late attorney’s lifelong love of musical theater. Avenue Q originally opened Off- Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre (as a co-production with the New Group) in March 2003. It was extended four times before moving to Broadway’s John Golden Theatre in July, 2003 where it is playing to sellout crowds. Avenue Q also won the 2003 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Musical, and earned a nomination for the 2003 Outer Critics Circle Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical Award. 21 BMI, the performing rights organization, joined forces with Lehman Engel, dean of the Broadway Musical, to found the Workshop in the 1960’s. There is no fee for the Workshop and admission is based on merit. It is the first institution to formalize the teaching of the craft of writing for the Musical Theatre. The Workshop continues to have the most successful track record for the creation of new works and writers for the musical stage. BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop 320 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 212-830-2508 theatreworkshop@bmi.com Jean Banks – Senior Director Steering Committee Patrick Cook Richard Engquist Frank Evans Frederick Freyer Nancy Golladay Annette Leisten Alan Menken Susan H. Schulman Jane Smulyan David Spencer Maury Yeston
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