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Broadway veteran Jerry Zaks to direct Harps and Angels
Four-time Tony winner Jerry Zaks is coming to Los Angeles where he will collaborate with Oscar-winning composer Randy Newman on a new musical production. More at LATimes.com
The music and lyrics of one of America’s most beloved songwriters, will be featured in the world premiere of Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels, which has music and lyrics by Randy Newman, and is conceived by Jack Viertel. Randy Newman’s witty, complex, bittersweet and often satirical songbook is at the heart of this new work, in which the personal and the socio-political entwine creating a compelling, honest and humorous commentary on what it is like to be born, grow up, fall in love, and live and die in America.
Some of the Newman songs that will be featured include “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today,” “Sail Away,” “Marie,” “Rednecks,” “My Country,” “Louisiana 1927,” “Feels Like Home,” “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and of course, “I Love L.A.,” among many others.
CREDITS
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Music and Lyrics by
Randy Newman
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Conceived by
Jack Viertel
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Musical Staging by
Warren Carlyle
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Directed by
Jerry Zaks
