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DISNEY'S CINDERELLA Kids: THE AUTHORS MARCY HEISLER (Book adaptation): Bookwriter/Lyricist Marcy Heisler and Composer Zina Goldrich have been collaborating since 1993. They were recently voted "Best Knocking on Broadway's Door Songwriting Team" in the Village Voice Best of NYC edition, and were the 2002 recipients of ASCAP's Richard Rodgers New Horizons Theatre Award. For Theatreworks USA, they have just completed Top Secret Personal Beeswax: The Life and Times of Junie B Jones, which will begin 2 national tours, and be featured Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel in July 2004. They are also the authors of Dear Edwina and Dear Edwina Junior, which have been performed around the world, and are set to be featured in the Chicago Humanities Festival later this year. In April 2000, they teamed with bookwriters Charlie Shanian and Shari Simpson to premiere their full-length musical Adventures in Love at St. Paul's Ordway Music Theatre. In 1998 they joined Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre as Joseph Papp Artists-in-Residence, where they workshopped Allison Under The Stars with bookwriter Susan Kim. Together and apart, they have provided original songs for CBS Television's Murphy Brown, NBC's Three Sisters, Disney, PBS and others.
As performer/writers, Goldrich and Heisler have appeared at Carnegie Recital Hall, The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, and The Ford Center of the Performing Arts, and are veterans of the Toyota Comedy Festival, Chicago Humanities Festival, and Montreal's prestigious "Just Pour Rire" Comedy Festival, and New York’s 24-hour A Train Musicals. They are MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) and Bistro Award winners in the categories of Outstanding Special Material, Outstanding Songwriters, and Song of The Year. Heisler is currently working with Disney Theatricals, penning new adaptations of 101 Dalmatians, Cinderella, and The Jungle Book for young audiences. Goldrich can be found on Broadway playing keyboards for productions including the current Avenue Q. Their new songbook is available for purchase at www.goldrichandheisler.com. BRYAN LOUISELLE (Music Adaptation and Arrangement): Bryan Louiselle has composed scores for the documentaries SAINT AND STRANGERS and PRISONERS OF HOPE, THE LATE MIDDLE CLASSES for Williamstown Theatre Festival, RED MEMORIES for Stage and Film, and PEARL PASSION for the Pearl Theatre Company. He has arranged/orchestrated for: BROADWAY'S BEST FROM BRAVO, The Yale Tercentennial, Radio City Music Hall, Cole Porter's 100th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION at Carnegie hall, two Presidential Inaugural Galas, the Super Bowl half time Show, and the Miss America Pageant. Louiselle conducted DREAM, BUTTONS ON BROADWAY the RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR and EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA. In addition, he is a composer, lyricist, arranger, orchestrator, producer, conductor and vocalist for the 2002 and 2005 editions of Silver Burdett Ginn's MAKING MUSIC CD series. Louiselle is the resident music adapter, orchestrator and recordings producer for Disney's Broadway JR and KIDS Collections. AL HOFFMAN (Music and Lyrics): Al Hoffman was born in Minsk, Russia. A composer and lyricist. His family emigrated to the United States in 1908 and settled in Seattle, Washington. In 1928, Hoffman moved to New York, where he started his career as a composer. He wrote a number of hits in the early 1930's before moving to England to start writing for theatre and film. In 1949, he began collaborating with Mack David and Jerry Livingston on the score for Disney's CINDERELLA. He was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Song in 1950 for "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo." Hoffman's other hit songs include "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are," "Fuzzy Wuzzy," "Hawaiian Wedding Song," "Mairzy Doats," "Papa Loves Mambo," and "Takes Two to Tango." JERRY LIVINGSTON (Music and Lyrics): Jerry Livingston 1909-1987(composer/lyricist) was born in Denver, Colorado. In 1932, he moved to New York City to try and "make it" in the music industry. Within a year he had written three hit songs and grew even more popular on the road in the midst of the Big Band craze. But when he married in 1940, he decided to quit the touring life and focus on a career in songwriting. He joined songwriters Mack David and Al Hoffman in the late 1940s to write the music for Disney's CINDERELLA. His efforts earned him an Oscar® nomination for the song "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo". He went on to earn two more Academy Award® nominations in collaboration with Mack David for "The Hanging Tree" in 1959 and "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" in 1965. His peers elected him to the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1980. MACK DAVID (Music and Lyrics): Mack David 1912 - 1993 , (composer/lyricist) was born in New York city. Before his career as a composer/songwriter, David studied law at Cornell University, where he encouraged his brother, lyricist Hal David, to choose a more stable profession. Not following his own advice, David soon started writing songs on Tin Pan Alley, where his career in the entertainment industry took off. David moved to Hollywood in 1948 and began writing for television and film. collaborating with Jerry Livingston and Al Hoffman, his songs were featured in the Disney animated films CINDERELLA (1950) and ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951). "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" and "The Unbirthday Song" were the first of eight Academy-Award®-nominated songs, which also include: "The Hanging Tree" (1959), "Bachelor in Paradise" (1961), "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1961), "Walk on the Wild Side" (1962), "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte"(1964), "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" (1965) and "My Wishing Doll" (1966). |
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