Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael Korie

On the second of eleven consecutive days of Spinal Tap Moments, opera librettist and Broadway lyricist Michael Korie learns not to cry over spilt Milk. #harveymilk #opera -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, I'm thrilled to announce my episode with Broadway star Elena Shaddow. Elena will be appearing in my next concert at 54 Below, Backstage Babble Celebrates Joe Allen Restaurant, singing from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, along with a fantastic lineup including Tony nominees Anita Gillette, Michael Korie, Amanda Green, and Willy Falk, plus Jim Walton, Robert Creighton, Heather MacRae, and more. The link to in-person and livestream tickets is here: https://54below.org/events/backstage-babble-celebrates-joe-allen-restaurant/ Tune in today to hear some of the stories of her legendary career, including why she smoked a cigarette in NINE, the difficulty of performing in DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES every night, the insight she got from Chita Rivera, working with Joanne Akalaitis on THE BACCHAE, getting close to the title role in MARY POPPINS, Trevor Nunn's specific way of working, working with Audra McDonald on TV, how she decided to stop understudying, telling Harvey Fierstein she was pregnant, the joys of starring in FANNY, going on at the last minute in NINE, the freeing nature of finding her own technique, and so much more. You won't want to miss this episode.

Tony-Nominated composer Scott Frankel is truly one of the best. U Guys, get the latest Bway updates in my segment, the BroadwayWorld Recap. Then I'm joined by the incredible Bway composer and conductor, Scott Frankel, to chat about his incredible works. Scott shares about his process as a composer, as well as his collaborations with other artists like Michael Korie. From being nominated for a Tony Award for his incredible score of Grey Gardens, to writing War Paint for such heavy-hitters as Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, Scott has truly put his stamp on the world of Musical Theater writing. We talk about his influences as a musician, and how his own works have influenced future composers and artists. Scott is such a delight, U don't wanna miss this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet the creators of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO - lyricists Michael Korie and Amy Powers, book writer Michael Weller and arranger Eric Stern as they recount the making of the show with their collaborator Lucy Simon. Show stars Sierra Boggess & Ramin Karimloo perform “On The Edge of Time”. Rolling Stone writer, editor and Broadway producer, Loraine Alterman Boyle, moderates.  Featured Song: ON THE EDGE OF TIME from DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Music by Lucy Simon, Lyrics by Michael Korie and Amy Powers  Performed by Sierra Boggess and Ramin Karimloo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the latest edition of NYTF Radio, we invite you to meet the creative team behind The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, opening in less than one week and running from Jan. 27 – Feb. 6.What makes a production happen? Who are the people that create a world-premiere opera where there never was one before? In this series of interviews with representatives from NYTF and the New York City Opera's latest production, get behind-the-scenes scoop on the creative process that brought The Garden of the Finzi-Continis to life over the past few years. For tickets to The Garden of the Finzi Continis please go to  nytf.org/finzi-continis

A new musical follows the stories of three real historical figures--- author Aldous Huxley, actor Cary Grant, and politician Clare Boothe Luce--- as they experiment with LSD. Writer and director James Lapine joins us to discuss his new show "Flying Over Sunset," along with Tom Kitt, who composed the music for the show, and Michael Korie, who wrote the lyrics. "Flying Over Sunset" is playing at Lincoln Center Theater through January 16.

Keturah speaks with Ricky Ian Gordon about how he collaborates with multiple composers, as well as compositions for which he has written the libretto.The episode begins with clips from last season: Michael Korie discussing how Ricky helped convince him to collaborate on The Grapes of Wrath (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1180661/5613223), and Leonard Foglia talking about Ricky’s phrase “Boil it down to stock,” and how it helped him as a writer. (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1180661/5280550). We also hear mezzo-soprano, Frederica Von Stade talking about how meaningful it was to work on A Coffin in Egypt. (http://www.fredericavonstade.com/)List of Ricky’s works in order they are mentioned:Orpheus & Euridice (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/orpheus-euridice/)Green Sneakers (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/green-sneakers/)Sycamore Trees (https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2010-05-27-bs-ae-arts-sycamore-trees-20100527-story.html)Ellen West (https://www.brightshiny.ninja/ellen-west)My Life with Albertine (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/my-life-with-albertine/)Intimate Apparel (https://www.lct.org/explore/blog/lemon-ia-ricky-ian-gordon-crafting-intimate-apparel/)Garden of the Finzi-Continis (https://nycopera.com/shows/finzi/)The House Without A Christmas Tree (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/christmas-tree-wsj2017/)The Tibetan Book of the Dead (https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/interview-ricky-ian-gordon/Content?oid=8573366)The Grapes of Wrath (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/the-grapes-of-wrath/)Rappahannock County (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/rappahannock-county/)A Coffin in Egypt (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/a-coffin-in-egypt/)27 (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/27/)Other people/places mentioned:UCross Artists’s Colony - https://www.ucrossfoundation.org/Richard Nelson - https://www.broadwayplaypub.com/play-authors/richard-nelson/Lynn Nottage - http://www.lynnnottage.com/Frank Bidart - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/frank-bidartAriel by Sylvia Plath - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395090.ArielBravo! Vail Valley Music Festival - https://www.bravovail.org/Godard’s Vivre Sa Vie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056663/

Keturah speaks with Lyricist and Librettist, Michael Korie, about his musicals and operas over the years, his thoughts on politics and art, and writing about real people.

Ricky Ian Gordon’s opera The Grapes of Wrath tells the iconic American story by John Steinbeck and premieres at Michigan Opera Theatre this Saturday. WRCJ’s Peter Whorf speaks with Gordon about the adaptation of the literary classic, his work with librettist Michael Korie and creating the piece in cooperation with the Steinbeck estate…

Michael Korie is a librettist and lyricist whose writing for musical theater and opera includes the musicals Grey Gardens and Far From Heaven, and the operas Harvey Milk and The Grapes of Wrath. His works have been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and internationally. His lyrics have been nominated for the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award, and won the Outer Critics Circle Award. In 2016, Korie was awarded the Marc Blitzstein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Michael Korie, the lyricist of Grey Gardens, War Paint, and more, talked about the similarities between writing for the theatre and for the papers, as well as . . . Why he does so much research for his shows and why you should too. The biggest mistake beginning songwriters make . . . and it’s an easy one to fix. Why he never speaks his lyrics out loud when working with a composer on a song. Rhyme . . . and the purpose of it, and how to use it for the greatest impact. A secret method to making sure a song that you love stays in your show. Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBway www.theproducersperspective.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Frankel and Michael Korie dropped by Derek and Romaine on June 6th for a fun and lively chat about their hit Broadway musical, War Paint. Starring Broadway legends Patti Lupone and Christine Ebersole, the Original Cast Album is available now. Hear how the show came together, what it was like writing songs for two big Broadway stars and most. It's a great conversation that takes you behind the current of one of Broadway's bit current hit shows.  For more on War Paint, visit their website warpaintmusical.com. To hear interviews like this, phone calls from listeners like you, and the hilarious banter you have come to know and love for Derek and Romaine, subscribe now to DNR 2.0. Live weekdays with hundreds of hours of great entertainment waiting in the Audio Archive. To subscribe, visit derekandromaine.com/start-here.     

In the mid-1970s Albert and David Maysles – first-generation sons of Jewish immigrants to the US from Eastern Europe – made Grey Gardens, one of their most famous films. The documentary told the story of a mother and daughter from the highest echelons of US Society, Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale, who were the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The two Bouvier Beale women were discovered living as reclusive social outcasts in Grey Gardens, a dilapidated mansion overrun by cats that was so squalid the Health Department deemed it “unfit for human habitation”. Now another creative Jewish pair, composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie, together with book writer Doug Wright, have brought their multi-award-winning musical based on the film to London.

Voice of the Musical returns after a long delay! It returns however, with a lovely interview with the honey-voiced Scott Frankel, who with his writing partner Michael Korie has been responsible for some of the most rich and sophisticated Broadway scores of recent times. I met Scott on the eve of the European première of […]

FAR FROM HEAVEN's Raymond, Isaiah Johnson, recounts his experience growing up military, working with Al Pacino in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and discusses the benefits of originating a role in a major new musical at Playwrights Horizons. Featuring original music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie. Produced by 2012/13 season Marketing Resident Katie Stoppiello.

The composer and lyricist of the musical FAR FROM HEAVEN, based on the 2002 film written and directed by Todd Haynes, discuss the genesis of the piece, their fruitful collaboration with Kelli O'Hara, and how Playwrights Horizons has become their artistic home. Featuring music from the production. (2012/13 season)

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award honored playwright Doug Wright discusses his virtually genetic passion for theatre and how that matched up with his conservative Texas childhood; his escape to New Haven and later New York for college and grad school; his early work at the O'Neill Theatre Center and the Yale Repertory Theatre; why he describes his early plays, including "Interrogating the Nude" and "Watbanaland", as having been fueled by rage; how "Quills" was inspired in part by the political culture wars of the mid-90s; where he found inspiration for the macabre and comic one-acts collected as "Unwrap Your Candy"; how he feels about having personally revealed himself in his writing, both as a character in "I Am My Own Wife" and in his essay for the book "The Play That Changed My Life"; why he signed on to collaborate with Scott Frankel and Michael Korie on the musical of "Grey Gardens" after the failure of his only prior musical, "Buzzsaw Berkeley" with Michael John LaChiusa; what drove him to actively lobby for the position of bookwriter on Disney's "The Little Mermaid"; and whether he plans to do more directing after adapting and staging Strindberg's "Creditors" at the La Jolla Playhouse in the summer of 2009. Original air date - January 25, 2010.

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award honored playwright Doug Wright (2004 Tony Award winner for Best Play for “I Am My Own Wife”) discusses his virtually genetic passion for theatre and how that matched up with his conservative Texas childhood; his escape to New Haven and later New York for college and grad school; his early work at the O'Neill Theatre Center and the Yale Repertory Theatre; why he describes his early plays, including “Interrogating the Nude” and “Watbanaland”, as having been fueled by rage; how “Quills” was inspired in part by the political culture wars of the mid-90s; where he found inspiration for the macabre and comic one-acts collected as “Unwrap Your Candy”; how he feels about having personally revealed himself in his writing, both as a character in “I Am My Own Wife” and in his essay for the book “The Play That Changed My Life”; why he signed on to collaborate with Scott Frankel and Michael Korie on the musical of “Grey Gardens” after the failure of his only prior musical, “Buzzsaw Berkeley” with Michael John LaChiusa; what drove him to actively lobby for the position of bookwriter on Disney's “The Little Mermaid”; and whether he plans to do more directing after adapting and staging Strindberg's “Creditors” at the La Jolla Playhouse in the summer of 2009.

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award honored playwright Doug Wright discusses his virtually genetic passion for theatre and how that matched up with his conservative Texas childhood; his escape to New Haven and later New York for college and grad school; his early work at the O'Neill Theatre Center and the Yale Repertory Theatre; why he describes his early plays, including "Interrogating the Nude" and "Watbanaland", as having been fueled by rage; how "Quills" was inspired in part by the political culture wars of the mid-90s; where he found inspiration for the macabre and comic one-acts collected as "Unwrap Your Candy"; how he feels about having personally revealed himself in his writing, both as a character in "I Am My Own Wife" and in his essay for the book "The Play That Changed My Life"; why he signed on to collaborate with Scott Frankel and Michael Korie on the musical of "Grey Gardens" after the failure of his only prior musical, "Buzzsaw Berkeley" with Michael John LaChiusa; what drove him to actively lobby for the position of bookwriter on Disney's "The Little Mermaid"; and whether he plans to do more directing after adapting and staging Strindberg's "Creditors" at the La Jolla Playhouse in the summer of 2009. Original air date - January 25, 2010.

Theater writers Michael Korie and Arthur Perlman discuss the legendary lyricist/librettist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, and his musical “Finian's Rainbow.” Also, critics Michael Kuchwara and Jacques le Sourd review some of Broadway’s top new shows.

“The Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein:” Lyricist Michael Korie ("Grey Gardens,” Happiness") and Ted Chapin of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization discuss the legendary Broadway writer; includes musical performances by Liz Callaway and Andrew Samonsky.

Interviews with 23 Tony Nominees from 13 shows: Audra MacDonald. Christopher Plummer, David Hyde-Pierce, Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater Bill T. Jones, Gavin Lee, Laura Bell Bundy, Liev Schreiber, Orfeh, Raul Esparza, Charlotte D'Amboise, Debra Monk, Karen Ziemba, Steven Sater, Rebeka Luker, Jerry Mitchell, Julie White, Larry O'Keefe, Nell Benjamin, Douglas Carter Bean, John Earl Jokes, Scott Frankel, Michael Korie and Dana Ivey FROM A Chorus Line, Curtains, Spring Awakening, Mary Poppins, Legally Blonde, The Little Dog Laughed, Radio Golf, Grey Gardens, Butley, 110 in the Shade, Inherit the Wind, Talk Radio and Company!

The "Grey Garden"'s creative team, Scott Frankel (composer), Michael Korie (lyricist) and Doug Wright (book writer) discuss the genesis of this new, highly acclaimed Broadway musical - why they chose this "cult" documentary to be the basis for a musical; how they all came together as collaborators; and what it took to make these characters "sing". Later in the show the stars Erin Davie, Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson join director Michael Greif to talk about how they worked together to inhabit the "Edies", as well as their personal connections with the characters in the piece.