Matt Bogart, Alison Fraser, Mimi Hines, Greg Jbara, Rebecca Luker, Mark Lotito, Nora Mae Lyng, Karen Mason, Michael Winther, and Rachel York are

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Posted: 8/12/06 at 11:24am

All singing the lyrics of Charles Leipart
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Channel 28, The Broadway Channel.


Matt Bogart – GREED IS GOOD
From “Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class”
Music by: Richard B. Evans
Kansas City Crossroads Musical Theatre Festival, 2006

“Charles Leipart, an engaging left-coaster who penned sharp books and lyrics for two of last weekend's shows… his riotous economists-on-Broadway musical, Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class… Richard B. Evans' rollicking music breezily mixes vaudeville and ad jingles, ragtime and tango, all with great heaps of turn-of-the-century show tunes. Witty, inventive and wonderfully hummable, the show makes fun of brutal Gilded Age capitalism and the doomed spirit of reform… Leisure Class was the show of the festival…”
~Alan Scherstuhl, Pitch.com

“…the laughs were frequent… the idea is so audacious and the writing so impressive that it deserves a life.
~Robert Trussel, The Kansas City Star, KansasCity.com


Alison Fraser—SMOKE
From “espresso trasho”
Music by: Eric Schorr
New York Fringe Festival, 2003

“…a fine musical adaptation of Richard Sheridan's A School for Scandal, a number of catchy songs, a few solid laughs, and one genuine star-making performance… no one will be able to sleep for a night or two after seeing Espresso Trasho.”
~Matthew Murray, TalkinBroadway.com

Mimi Hines – WHAT I KNOW
From “Showgirl of 52nd Street”
Music by: John Kroner

Greg Jbara – ISN'T SHE A WONDER?
From “The Doctor’s Wife”
Music by: Eric Schorr

Greg Jbara – I REMEMBER EVERYTHING
From “Boz In Love”
Music by: William Goldstein

Rebecca Luker, Michael Winther - IF YOU THINK YOU’RE A FROG
From “Frog Kiss”
Music by: Eric Schorr
Winner, Global Search for New Musicals, Glasgow 2005
Chicago Stages 2005

“The hit show… a slick, tuneful, sophisticated musical adult version of the Grimm fairytale that contains a jazz, swing and pure Broadway musical style with doses of Taoist philosophy, a talking frog and a sex-starved princess in a witty, often hilarious script and lyrics. This show has tap dancing monks and a frog who wants to marry the princess. Frog Kiss passes the “Jerry Herman test”---it has several ‘take-home’ songs that you’ll be humming long after seeing the show.”
~Tom Williams, ChicagoCritic.com

“This is a smartened-up fairy tale about a brainy princess (the appealing and gifted Laura Obenauf) who falls for an exceptional frog (a delightful Derrick Trumbly), and the princess' mean sister… clever writing.”
~Hedy Weiss, Chicago SunTimes

Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2005
“Unmissable…daft but engaging”
~Jonas Green, EdinburghGuide.com

Kansas City Crossroads Musical Theatre Festival, 2006
“Leipart pieces have a pleasing pitch… a significant talent in the form of writer Charles Leipart… irreverent humor… Leipart’s dialogue was often as clever as his lyrics… It certainly isn’t children’s theater because much of the humor is too bawdy for kiddies. It’s essentially a PG-13 show that would seem to be tough sell for adult theatergoers. On the other hand, 'Wicked' and 'Spamalot' are huge hits, so who knows?
~Robert Trussel, The Kansas City Star, KansasCity.com

"...Just as pleasurable was Frog Kiss, Leipart's other show, this one a ribald fairy tale with a jazzy score from Eric Schorr."
~Alan Scherstuhl, Pitch.com

Karen Mason – ALL THAT I AM
From “Showgirl of 52nd Street”

Michael Winther, Mark Lotito, Nora Mae Lyng - TALENTS TO TAP
From “Frog Kiss”

Rachel York – WHEN THE CAMERA ISN’T THERE
From “Lady on a Carousel”
Music by: William Goldstein

“Producer Chase Mishkin said she is preparing for the May 22 first-reading of a new musical she is working on, Lady on a Carousel. Bill Goldstein wrote the music, and Charles Leipart wrote the lyrics and the book.”
~Harry Haun, PLAYBILL, May 4, 2006









XM Satellite Radio Updated On: 8/12/06 at 11:24 AM

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Posted: 8/12/06 at 5:28pm

Ohh sweet I'll have to tune in. Thanks for posting!