The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 25, 2011
Closed Jul 3, 2011
Opened May 25, 2011
Closed Jul 3, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Six Broadway stars (accompanied by an eight-piece band) headline this Off Broadway revue of Cy Coleman showstoppers helmed by Tony Award-winner David Zippel. Songs includes favorites from Broadway (Sweet Charity, City of Angels, Little Me, The Will Rogers Follies); pop hits made famous by the likes of Bennett, Sinatra and Streisand; and new songs written toward the end of Coleman's prolific life (which prove the best really IS yet to come!).
The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman features a "best of Broadway" cast including Tony Award-winner Lillias White, Grammy Award-winner Billy Stritch, Helen Hayes Award-winner David Burnham (Wicked), Tony Award-nominee Sally Mayes, multiple Tony Award-nominee Howard McGillin, and Drama Desk Award-winner Rachel York (City of Angels).
Billy Stritch is the musical director and conductor. The choreographer is Lorin Latarro. Orchestrations are by Don Sebesky.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
RE:Classy, fun, and simply wonderful!
If you want to listen to talented singers with lovely voices sing and interpret great songs with clever and heartfelt lyrics, you should run to this delightful and classy show. You will have the time of your life! This show is "the best".
Reviewed by al10029
on Monday, May 23rd, 2011
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You couldn't ask for a more bracing spring tonic than The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman, a tribute revue to the famed composer lovingly fashioned by David Zippel, now at 59E59 Theaters. Romance, glamour, gutsy emotion -- this felicitous compilation has it all!
Backed by Billy Stritch at the piano and a seven-man band, all arrayed before Douglas W. Schmidt's elegant supper-club set, five superb Broadway stars -- David Burnham, Sally Mayes, Howard McGillin, Lillias White, and Rachel York -- render spirited homage to Coleman's extraordinarily prolific output.
Coleman's career spanned nearly seven decades, as he explored every last musical genre, from classical through jazz and[...]