Board of Directors

Irwin Fingerit, ChairmanMichael Presser, PresidentHoward Zipser, Vice PresidentElliot Altman. TreasurerWilliam Tung, SecretaryRichard BasiniDavid I. CohenJoseph V. CozzaJohn DiazAnthony W. GuidoEric GuralMark IrgangMary LandolfiAlan MomeyerGeorge Stonbely

Advisory Board

Carol Channing –Honorary ChairRoger BartMary Ellin BarrettLaura BenantiStephen W. BogardusDanny BursteinTheodore S. ChapinKristin ChenowethBarbara CookAlan EisenbergTovah FeldshuhSutton FosterJoel GreyJasmine GuyNathan LanePaul LibinPia LindstromRebecca LukerPeter L. MalkinKaren MasonDonna MurphyBebe NeuwirthFred PapertFaith PrinceGerald SchoenfeldSusan L. SchulmanSusan StromanKaren Ziemba

Our Mission:Inside Broadway is a professional New York City based children’s theatrecompany committed to producing Broadway’s classic musicals in acontemporary light for young audiences.

Our Supporters:The New York City Department of Education; New York State Office ofChildren and Family Services; New York City Department of CulturalAffairs; New York City Department of Youth and CommunityDevelopment; New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and HistoricPreservation and New York State Department of Education.

New York City Council; Christine Quinn, Speaker, Domenic Recchia,Chair Cultural Affairs Committee and Council Members JosephAddabbo, Jr., Tony Avella, Anthony Como, Erik Martin Dilan, Lew Fidler,Dan Garodnick, Eric Gioia, Vincent Gentile, Sara Gonzalez, Melinda Katz,Michael McMahon, Annabel Palma, Joel Rivera, Larry Seabrook, HelenSears, James Vacca and Thomas White, Jr.

New York State Assembly Members Peter Abbate, Michael Benedetto,Jonathan Bing, Barbara M Clark, Vivian E Cook, Adriano Espaillat,Michael Gianaris, Richard Gottfried, Rhoda Jacobs, Brian Kavanagh,Micah Kellner, Felix Ortiz, Mike Spano, Michele Titus, Mark Weprin andEllen Young

New York State Senators Andrew Lanza, John Flanagan, George Onoratoand Tom Duane

These programs are supported in part, by public fundsfrom the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Inside Broadway also receives support from The Shubert Foundation;American Friends of Theatre; Theatrical Stage Employees, Local OneIATSE; Associated Musicians of Greater New York; Local 802, AFM; Fundfor the City of New York; Bank of America; Loews Corporation; ClearChannel Spectacolor; Newmark & Company Real Estate; Con Edison;The Rockefeller Group Development Corporation; The Malkin Fund;New York Community Trust; RHI Entertainment; Max and Victoria DreyfusFoundation, Inc., Spectacular Ventures, Cushman & Wakefield, CiprianiUSA, High Rise Systems, Inc., Stadtmauer Bailkin LLP, The ShubertOrganization, Inc., The Times Square Alliance, The Town Hall Foundation,The Vesper Foundation and The Joelson Foundation.

Inside Broadway is a member of The Broadway League, Producers Leagueof Theatre for Young Audiences, Inc. (PLOTYA); Alliance of ResidenceTheatres/New York (A.R.T./ New York); New York City Arts in EducationRoundtable (AIE), NYC Arts Coalition, The Mayor’s Midtown CitizensCommittee and The Broadway Association.

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Administrative Staff

Michael Presser,Executive DirectorNicholas M. Sala,Company ManagerKatie McAllister,Program DirectorAbigail Jones,ComptrollerLaura Jean Hawkins,Government RelationsThe Dryfoos GroupDavid Jaffe,Marketing & EventsJaffe Management, IncMelissa Fisher,Development ConsultantReva Cooper,PublicityJeremy Howowitz,Web Design

Honorary Members

Barbara J. FifeMrs. Bernard B. JacobsJames L. NederlanderVicki Singer

Teaching Artists

Clark AusloosJen Faith BrownNathan ChristensenMichael FlanaganBJ GandolfoDan GordonSamantha HancockAdam HoseAngela JamiesonAbigail JonesMark LingenfelterBraddon MehrtenEvan PaquetteKerry PrepShay Saint-VictorEthan WagnerBritton WilliamsLindsay Wood

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How did a composer from Long Island, and a lyricist fromBaltimore end up on Broadway? Well, in 1995 SmokeyJoe’s Café, a musical revue of the songs of Leiber andStoller began its run at the Virginia Theatre on Broadway.The show was directed by Jerry Zaks with choreographyby Joey McKneely and featured 40 of Leiber and Stoller’sgreatest hits. The production played for 2,036 perform-ances and was nominated for 5 Tony Awards, includingbest musical. Professional productions are still playing intheatres around the world, most recently in China.

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1935-1977 Elvis Aron Presley was born in Tupelo,Mississippi on January 8, 1935. Elvis grew up sur-

rounded by gospel, blues and jazz and incorporat-ed those musical styles into his own brand of rockand roll. In 1957, he recorded the Leiber andStoller song “Houng Dog” which was an imme-diate success for both the singer and the song-writers. Elvis continued his collaboration withthem on the song “Jailhouse Rock” and cov-ered over a dozen of their songs throughouthis recording career. Elvis served in the mili-tary during the Korean War thus inspiringthe title character in the musical “Bye ByeBirdie”. He made 33 films, recorded 131albums and received the LifetimeAchievement Grammy at the age of 36.Elvis’ influence on American pop cultureand music is still felt today.

Want to buy the latest hit record? Prettyeasy, right? Just go to itunes or Rhapsodyand download it onto your ipod or computer.Well, before technology made it so easy forus to get our music from the internet, peoplebought records in stores. Not CDs or tapes oreven eight tracks. There were records, period.

There were two kinds of records – Albums,which had 12 songs (6 on each side) and45’s which had only 2 songs(1 on each side). 45’s werevery popular in the 50’s and60’s as they usually costabout a dollar and could beafforded by most teenagers.

A 45 typically had the “hit”song on one side and the“flip” or “B” side contained alesser known number by thesame artist.

Leiber and StollerBiography

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller met in Los Angeles,California in 1950 and began writing music togetherright away. Leiber served as lyricist while Stoller, a classicallytrained but jazz and R&B loving composer wrote the music. In 1952the pair was invited by Johnny Otis to write songs for Big Mama Thornton,an R&B singer from Montgomery Alabama. Their first song for her? “HoundDog” which was an immediate hit and #1on the Billboard R&B charts for sevenconsecutive weeks. Three years later this song would be re-recorded by ElvisPresley and become an instant classic. Leiber and Stoller went on to write additional songs for Elvis including “Jailhouse Rock” and “Treat Me Right”.Together Leiber and Stoller wrote some of the most popular songs of all time,including “Stand By Me”, “Love Potion #9”, “Charlie Brown”, “Poison Ivy”,“Spanish Harlem” and “On Broadway”. They have received a star on theHollywood Walk of Fame and in 1987, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hallof Fame. The song writing duo is still active in the music industry today, in facttheir music was recently used on American Idol.

How did Rock and Roll get started? Where did it come from? Who isresponsible? The roots of Rock and Roll are in several musical forms includingJazz , Gospel and R&B, but to really understand how it came to be, wehave to go back to 1951 and to what is regarded as the first rock’n’rollsingle. “Rocket 88” was written by Ike Turner and sung by Jackie Brenston.This song is widely regarded by many to be the first rock and roll song, butothers contend that 1954’s “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and theComets was the first. Still others think that the first was 1948’s “Rock andRoll” by Detroit boxer Wild Bill Moore. Since there are so many differentopinions on this subject, which one do we believe?

Well, like any art form, Rock and Roll was constantlyevolving, so our perception of what made a song “rock”changed with each new incarnation. All of these songsshare some of the characteristics of the genre like guitarlicks, drum snare accents and a “rockabilly” feel.

When Rock and Roll was at it’s golden age in the 1950’s, it waswelcomed by teenagers, but not so much by adults who didn’t understandwhy their children wanted to listen to music that was “loud and obnoxious”instead of the swing and big band music that they grew up with. Soundfamiliar?

Listen to the MusicToday when we want to listen to our favorite songs we pull out our ipodand go. It wasn’t always so easy to listen to music, in fact just over a hun-dred years ago you would have had to go to a concert to hear it.

People have been listening to music for hundreds, even thousands ofyears. The only thing that has changed is how we listen to it.

The first widely used mechanism for playing music was the phonograph,invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. Unlike modern record players, thephonograph was a wind-up turn table that emitted sound from a largehorn attached to the player. Next came the radio which started as ameans of communicating between ships and in the 1920’s became theradio that we listen to today in our cars and homes. In the beginning,radios played nightly programs that consisted of live concerts and radio“theatre” shows.

The next big step came in 1927 with the creation of the first electricallyamplified multi-selection phonograph or as it is more commonly knownthe “Jukebox”. The term “Jukebox” comes from the word “Jook” whichis an old African American slang term meaning to dance, it also comesfrom Southern “Jute Joints” or dance halls of the 1920’s where Jukeboxeswould appear. This invention revolutionized dance halls as it could play amultitude of songs at the fraction of the cost of a live band. In its heyday,the Jukebox showcased artists enabling them to sell hundreds of recordsat once for artists like Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis.

In 1964 Phillips introduced the compact cassette tape player which wasoriginally used for voice dictation due to its poor sound quality. The eighttrack tape followed as an answer to a compact music system with bettersound. In the 1980’s the portable cassette player gained popularity withthe Sony Walkman and cassette tape sales skyrocketed. With the onset ofdigital recording onto CD’s in early 90’s, Sony’s CD Walkman had overtak-en the cassette player as the portable music player of choice.

This brings us to the invention of the ipod by Apple. While CD players arestill popular, the ipod, and mp3 player brought the art of listening tomusic into a whole other age. With its capacity to store over 2,000 songsand play movies among other things, the ipod has revolutionized not onlyhow we listen to music, but how we purchase it. In recent years therecording industry has seen a decline in traditional album sales as peoplepurchase their music from online sources.

With technology improving everyday, and ipods, mp3 players and evenphones changing, who knows how we will listen to music in the future.

Notable NotablesThe fifties and sixties were a time of change, not only in music, but in theworld. Below are some of the people who made great contributions to oursociety.

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) is most famous forher refusal to give up her seat for a white manon a bus, which sparked the Montgomery,Alabama bus boycott. Ms. Parks continuedto be a force in the fight for Civil Rightsthroughout her life, eventually establishingthe Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute forSelf Development. Miss Parks was votedby Time Magazine as one of the 100 MostInfluential People of the 20th Centuryand received both the Congressional Gold

Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005, she was 92 years old.

Martin Luther King (1929- 1968) is one of the most beloved and influentialfigures in American history. A noted civil rights activist who participated inthe Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, he also fought against segregationin schools and was know for his “non-violent” approach to protest marches.At the age of 35, he was the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.MLK was known for his persuasive and elegant speeches, his most famous ishis “I Have a Dream” speech which was delivered on the steps of the

Lincoln Memorial. Dr. King was assassinated on the balcony of his hotelroom on April 4, 1968.

John F Kennedy (1917- 1963) - the 35th President of the United States ofAmerica, JFK was the youngest man ever elected to the office of President.He was an advocate of the Arts and often attended Broadway productionswith Camelot, being his favorite show. President Kennedy also believed inthe youth of America and was an avid supporter of groups like the PeaceCorp and the Alliance for Progress. He is remembered for his inauguralspeech and for the phrase “Ask not what your country can do for you, askwhat you can do for your country”. President Kennedy was assassinated onNovember 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas.

Baby That’s Rock and Roll

Cover MeSince album art was first introducedin 1939, it has evolved in both it’sformat and subject matter. Initially,album covers were drawn illustrationsinfluenced by European poster art.Alex Steinweiss is credited withcreating the art form and was

known for signing his creations. He arguedthat the art on the cover of the album would make the

customer stop and look at the record and in all likelihood, buy it.In the early 1950’s technological advancements in photography allowedfor illustrated covers to be replaced with “head shots” of the recordingartist or photographs of a landscape or landmark.

Today, cover art is a mixture of both illustration and photography andoften reflects the theme of the album or the artist’s personal taste.

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The MusicMakersWhile Leiber and Stoller wrotethe music, there were manydifferent individuals and groupswho recorded their songs.

Big Momma Thornton

(1926-1984) was bornWillie Mae Thornton inMontgomery, Alabama.She was known for her“booming” voice and wasa fixture on the rhythmand blues circuit. In 1953,Leiber and Stoller wrotethe song “Hound Dog” forher which reached number1 on the R&B charts.

The Clovers wereconsidered to be the firstrhythm and blues groupsto cross over into rockand roll. They combinedgospel and blues for aunique sound. The groupwas signed by AtlanticRecords in 1951 and soonafter recorded their hit“Love Potion #9”.

The Drifters recorded theLeiber and Stoller song“There Goes My Baby” in1959. The song was co-writtenby then lead singer Ben E.King, who went onto recordLeiber and Stoller’s “StandBy Me” and “SpanishHarlem” as a solo artist. TheDrifters were inducted intothe Rock and Roll Hall ofFame in 1988.

The Coasters (1956 to 1961) TheCoasters released a string of hitswritten by Leiber and Stoller, including“Searchin’” “Young Blood”, “CharlieBrown”, “Yakety Yak” and theirmost famous recording, “Poison Ivy”.Originally named the “Robins” thegroup changed their name when theysigned with Leiber and Stoller’s label,“Spark Records”. The Coasters wereinducted into the Rock and Roll Hallof Fame in 1987.

Dion Whose real name was DionDiMucci, grew up in Bronx NY andformed the singing group “Dion andthe Belmonts” which was so namedfor Belmont Avenue. Dion was ateen idol from 1958 to 1963 recordingsuch hits as “I Wonder Why”,“Teenager in Love”, “Runaround Sue”and the Leiber and Stoller hit “RubyBaby”. Dion and the Belmonts wereinducted into the Rock and Roll Hallof Fame in 1989.

Rock and Roll Hall of FameThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated to the preservationof the history of some of the best known and most influential artists andmusic producers who have made major contributions to the music industry.

The museum was founded in 1986 and is located in Cleveland, Ohio. Themuseum inducts a handful of artists into the Hall of Fame each year. To beeligible for induction, a group or individual must have released their firstrecord at least 25 years ago. There are four categories: Performers, Non-Performers, Early Influences, and Sidemen. Each year, about five to sevenpeople (or groups) are inducted into the hall of fame, this is done through anomination process and then voted on by 1000 experts in the music industry.

Past inductees have included Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard,James Brown, Bob Marley, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, U2, The Platters,The Drifters, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Elton John, Michael Jackson,Madonna, Ray Charles, The Four Seasons and Buddy Holly.