Stephen Flaherty is the composer of the Broadway musicals Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Awards, two Grammy nominations), Seussical (Grammy, Drama Desk nominations), Once on This Island (Tony nomination, Olivier Award, Best Musical) and Rocky.
Among his many awards are a Citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, four Drama Desk Awards, three Hull-Warriner Best Play Awards from the Dramatists Guild, two Obies, two Lortel Awards and two Guggenheim Fellowships. He wrote the screenplays for Frankie and Johnny, Love! Valour ! Compassion! and The Ritz. He won an Emmy Award for Best Drama with his teleplay Andre’s Mother.
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He has written the librettos for the musicals The Full Monty, A Man of No Importance, The Rink and The Visit and the opera Dead Man Walking. His other plays include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, A Perfect Ganesh, Corpus Christi, The Ritz, It’s Only A Play, The Lisbon Traviata, Some Men, The Stendhal Syndrome, Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?, Bad Habits, Deuce, Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, Unusual Acts of Devotion, Next, Sweet Eros, Witness and his first play, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, which was produced on Broadway in 1964. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presented Terrence McNally’s Nights at the Opera, a three-play festival of his work. He is the winner of Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour ! Compassion! and Master Class and his books for the musicals Ragtime and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Terrence was awarded the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. Their schedule of 200+ shows per year features an exciting array of musicians.
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Their lively and light-hearted performances are rooted in the Gyspy jazz of Django Reinhardt but draw inspiration from many sources- Brazilian samba, Eastern European folk melodies, bluegrass, and even free improvisation have all left their mark on the band’s style. A lover and performer of the music of Scott Joplin and his contemporaries (which highlight the African American Diaspora of the late 19th and early 20th centuries), He also has an delightful opus of his own syncopated compositions, which continue and advance those monumental traditions of classic ragtime into the 21st century.īorn in a rooftop garden downtown, The Vignes Rooftop Revival has evolved into a diverse and fun-loving collective of Los Angeles-based musicians. Reed-Torres is a rarity indeed who has become a nationally recognized pianist and composer of ragtime music. Ragtime pianist John Reed-Torres is an Afro-Chicano-American, formerly self-taught, against-the-grain pianist and composer from South Central Los Angeles. Michael O’Neal (keyboards), Tony Pulizzi (guitar), Gary Douglas Metz (saxophone) and Lance Beckford (drums) join Michael using their diverse talents to deliver an expressive take on Michael’s original compositions. The Michael Haggins Band blends smooth jazz with funk, R&B and classic soul to deliver music that will relax, inspire, and often take you on a journey to far away places.
Enjoy the FREE concerts on Friday evenings during the month of February throughout the Playhouse District. In partnership between Pasadena Playhouse and the Playhouse District Association, The Soul of Ragtime presents FREE concerts of ragtime music and music rooted from the ragtime style.
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