The Library of Congress is celebrating 220 years, providing access to literacy, education, and culture. Please join us to wish the Library a happy birthday.
This Pick of the Weekend celebrates the Library's many gifts to the public by featuring American musical theater. From our 2014-2015 season, we bring you a unique performance with Steven Lutvak, Jeanine Tesori, and David Yazbek. We are paring it with Warren Hoffman's thought-provoking lecture "Race and the Broadway Musical" and with the 2005 program that celebrated the publication of the book "Theaters" from author Craig Morrison. We hope you enjoy it. And again, Happy 220th birthday Library of Congress!
From our 2014-2015 season:
A thrilling evening with three of Broadway’s hottest musical creators performing their own music—Steven Lutvak, Jeanine Tesori and David Yazbek make a rare appearance in Washington for an intimate evening of music, lyrics and magic.
STEVEN LUTVAK’s rise to Broadway fame was met with the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Lutvak is a past recipient of the Kleban Award for Lyric Writing for the Theater and the Fred Ebb Award for Songwriting for the Theater.
JEANINE TESORI
From Thoroughly Modern Millie to Violet and Caroline, or Change, Tesori’s musicals have become modern classics, garnering her four Tony nominations and the Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
Photo credit: Matthew Karas
DAVID YAZBEK
David Yazbek, a three-time Tony nominee, is known for his comedic musicals The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. He is also a GRAMMY-nominated producer, Emmy-winning TV writer, and co-composer of the theme song to PBS’s Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego?
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A lecture with Warren Hoffman, Ph.D
Warren Hoffman, a program director, producer, theater critic, and playwright, discusses the role of race in American musical theater. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Kanter called Hoffman’s book “an eye-opener for anyone studying the racial implications of commercial musical theater.”
Presented in conjunction with the Library of Congress exhibition
“The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom”
Presented in association with Songs of America and the Library of Congress Daniel A.P. Murray African American Culture Association
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The Library of Congress and W.W. Norton & Company celebrated the publication of "Theaters" with a special program of music and entertainment. Featured were an illustrated overview of the book by the author, Craig Morrison; a performance by Ted van Griethuysen of the Shakespeare Theatre Company; a musical performance by Genevieve Williams featuring songs composed by Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Howard Dietz and Irving Berlin; and a performance by the noted Russian pianist Svetlana Potanina of compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Robert Schumann.
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