The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 9, 2009
Closed Aug 2, 2009

Playing at
Rubicon Theatre Company

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

In a career spanning seven decades, Cy Coleman created a glittering string of standards and popular music classics, as well as hundreds of hits for stage like City of Angels, Sweet Charity, Barnum, The Life, Little Me, On the Twentieth Century and Will Rogers Follies.

Tony Award-winning writer and director David Zippel pays homage to Coleman with an elegant new musical revue performed by six singers accompanied by an eight-piece swing band. The sparkling score includes as-yet unpublished Coleman works, as well as songs made famous by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Barbara Streisand.

The cast will include David Burnham, Jason Graae, Sally Mayes, Julia Murney, Billy Stritch,
and Tony Award winner Lillias White.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Rubicon Theatre Company
1006 E Main St
Ventura, CA 93001

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Iconic composer Cy Coleman never wanted a revue of his work in his lifetime. "That's for after I'm gone," he once told his City of Angels lyricist David Zippel who had wanted to do just that. "Let's write something new!" Zippel honored his wishes, and Coleman continued writing new music until his death nearly five years ago at age 75. Now Zippel, who relates this story in his director's notes, gets his wish. The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman, which he conceived and directed, is receiving its world premiere at the Rubicon Theatre in a classy, joyful production.

Zippel has assembled an impressive array of talent for this 85-minute intermissionless show, and establishes very cl[...]

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Reviewed by Terri Roberts on Jul 20, 2009