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Rhythm, Blues and Clues I V J X F Y R D L Y W D U N H Searchin Michael Presser, Executive Director A Q X R O C K F V K K P D O P Help the musical note find it’s home B L U E S B Y X X F S F G I A Presents… Y C L C N T K F L V V E A D R Y A K O A Z T V E I O D O A G E S W R R T H K J P U P T R O U S I D H S O N W G I I U G N Z E G V A Y V F F F U E N G O P T V N L O T S C G X U Q E H L T G H B E R H O J H D N L P N E C S U W Q B M D W S G Y M Z O B P M R O Y F D G S R W K O F D A X E J X L B M O W Z K B P I D R V X T C B Y W P K P F Y K R Q R E Q F V L T L S G ALBUM BLUES BROADWAY Study Buddy CASSETTE DION ELVIS GUITAR IPOD PHONOGRAPH RADIO RECORD RHYTHM ROCK ROLL Where the 630 Ninth Avenue, Suite 802 Our Mission: Music Inside Broadway is a professional New York City based children’s theatre New York, NY 10036 12 company committed to producing Broadway’s classic musicals in a Music Lives Telephone: 212-245-0710 contemporary light for young audiences. Fax: 212-245-3018 & More Our Supporters: 34 5 OF ROL ROC ND ME FA Michael Presser, Executive Director www.insidebroadway.org The New York City Department of Education; New York State Office of Children and Family Services; New York City Department of Cultural 6 Board of Directors Advisory Board Teaching Artists Affairs; New York City Department of Youth and Community ALL K A L H Development; New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic 7 Irwin Fingerit, Chairman Carol Channing – Clark Ausloos Preservation and New York State Department of Education. Michael Presser, President Honorary Chair Jen Faith Brown Roger Bart New York City Council; Christine Quinn, Speaker, Domenic Recchia, 8 Howard Zipser, Vice President Nathan Christensen Mary Ellin Barrett Michael Flanagan Chair Cultural Affairs Committee and Council Members Joseph Elliot Altman. Tr e a s ur e r Addabbo, Jr., Tony Avella, Anthony Como, Erik Martin Dilan, Lew Fidler, Across: Laura Benanti BJ Gandolfo William Tung, Secretary Dan Garodnick, Eric Gioia, Vincent Gentile, Sara Gonzalez, Melinda Katz, Dan Gordon 1. collection of 12 or more Richard Basini Stephen W. Bogardus Michael McMahon, Annabel Palma, Joel Rivera, Larry Seabrook, Helen Samantha Hancock recorded songs 9 David I. Cohen Danny Burstein Sears, James Vacca and Thomas White, Jr. Adam Hose Joseph V. Cozza Theodore S. Chapin 4. Ruby Baby singer Angela Jamieson New York State Assembly Members Peter Abbate, Michael Benedetto, John Diaz Kristin Chenoweth 6. used for tape recorders Abigail Jones Jonathan Bing, Barbara M Clark, Vivian E Cook, Adriano Espaillat, Anthony W. Guido Barbara Cook Mark Lingenfelter Michael Gianaris, Richard Gottfried, Rhoda Jacobs, Brian Kavanagh, 8. original Hound Dog singer 10 Down: Unscramble Alan Eisenberg Eric Gural Braddon Mehrten Micah Kellner, Felix Ortiz, Mike Spano, Michele Titus, Mark Weprin and Tovah Feldshuh 9. 35th President of the United States 2. lyricist the tiles Mark Irgang Evan Paquette Ellen Young Sutton Foster 3. made first appearance Mary Landolfi Kerry Prep 10. first multiple record player Joel Grey New York State Senators Andrew Lanza, John Flanagan, George Onorato 11 on Ed Sullivan in 1964 to reveal a Alan Momeyer Shay Saint-Victor and Tom Duane 11. composer George Stonbely Jasmine Guy Ethan Wagner 5. invented the phonograph 12. Jailhouse Rock singer message. Nathan Lane Britton Williams These programs are supported in part, by public funds 7. country and rock hybrid Honorary Members Paul Libin Lindsay Wood from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Pia Lindstrom 12 Barbara J. Fife Inside Broadway also receives support from The Shubert Foundation; Rebecca Luker Administrative Staff American Friends of Theatre; Theatrical Stage Employees, Local One Mrs. Bernard B. Jacobs Peter L. Malkin IATSE; Associated Musicians of Greater New York; Local 802, AFM; Fund James L. Nederlander Michael Presser, Karen Mason Executive Director for the City of New York; Bank of America; Loews Corporation; Clear Vicki Singer Donna Murphy Nicholas M. Sala, Channel Spectacolor; Newmark & Company Real Estate; Con Edison; Bebe Neuwirth Company Manager The Rockefeller Group Development Corporation; The Malkin Fund; New York Community Trust; RHI Entertainment; Max and Victoria Dreyfus Fred Papert Katie McAllister, Program Director Foundation, Inc., Spectacular Ventures, Cushman & Wakefield, Cipriani Where Leiber and Stoller Ended Up… Faith Prince Abigail Jones, USA, High Rise Systems, Inc., Stadtmauer Bailkin LLP, The Shubert Gerald Schoenfeld Comptroller Organization, Inc., The Times Square Alliance, The Town Hall Foundation, Susan L. Schulman A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Laura Jean Hawkins, The Vesper Foundation and The Joelson Foundation. Susan Stroman Government Relations Inside Broadway is a member of The Broadway League, Producers League Karen Ziemba The Dryfoos Group 10 19 25 2 22 4 9 3 44 26 17 18 7 23 21 29 30 20 24 8 6 11 1 28 14 31 of Theatre for Young Audiences, Inc. (PLOTYA); Alliance of Residence David Jaffe, Theatres/New York (A.R.T./ New York); New York City Arts in Education Marketing & Events Roundtable (AIE), NYC Arts Coalition, The Mayor’s Midtown Citizens Jaffe Management, Inc Committee and The Broadway Association. Melissa Fisher, K‘AAA Development Consultant Bank of America is a proud sponsor of Inside Reva Cooper, Broadway’s 2008-2009 school tour of Smokey Joe’s Café 24 7 21 17 22 14 26 21 22 24 25 10 4 22 21 23 19 20 21 10 2 1 10 14 Publicity Jeremy Howowitz, © Inside Broadway 2009. All Rights Reserved. Web Design Study Buddy written by Katie McAllister Design by Cybill Conklin Leiber and Stoller Listen to the Music On Cover Me Today when we want to listen to our favorite songs we pull out our ipod and go. It wasn’t always so easy to listen to music, in fact just over a hun- Biography Since album art was first introduced dred years ago you would have had to go to a concert to hear it. in 1939, it has evolved in both it’s Broadway People have been listening to music for hundreds, even thousands of format and subject matter. Initially, album covers were drawn illustrations years. The only thing that has changed is how we listen to it. influenced by European poster art. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller met in Los Angeles, The first widely used mechanism for playing music was the phonograph, Alex Steinweiss is credited with California in 1950 and began writing music together How did a composer from Long Island, and a lyricist from invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. Unlike modern record players, the creating the art form and was right away. Leiber served as lyricist while Stoller, a classically Baltimore end up on Broadway? Well, in 1995 Smokey phonograph was a wind-up turn table that emitted sound from a large known for signing his creations. He argued horn attached to the player. Next came the radio which started as a trained but jazz and R&B loving composer wrote the music. In 1952 Joe’s Café, a musical revue of the songs of Leiber and that the art on the cover of the album would make the means of communicating between ships and in the 1920’s became the the pair was invited by Johnny Otis to write songs for Big Mama Thornton, Stoller began its run at the Virginia Theatre on Broadway. customer stop and look at the record and in all likelihood, buy it. radio that we listen to today in our cars and homes. In the beginning, an R&B singer from Montgomery Alabama. Their first song for her? “Hound The show was directed by Jerry Zaks with choreography In the early 1950’s technological advancements in photography allowed radios played nightly programs that consisted of live concerts and radio Dog” which was an immediate hit and #1on the Billboard R&B charts for seven by Joey McKneely and featured 40 of Leiber and Stoller’s for illustrated covers to be replaced with “head shots” of the recording “theatre” shows. consecutive weeks. Three years later this song would be re-recorded by Elvis greatest hits. The production played for 2,036 perform- artist or photographs of a landscape or landmark. Presley and become an instant classic. Leiber and Stoller went on to write ances and was nominated for 5 Tony Awards, including The next big step came in 1927 with the creation of the first electrically best musical. Professional productions are still playing in additional songs for Elvis including “Jailhouse Rock” and “Treat Me Right”. amplified multi-selection phonograph or as it is more commonly known theatres around the world, most recently in China. Today, cover art is a mixture of both illustration and photography and the “Jukebox”. The term “Jukebox” comes from the word “Jook” which Together Leiber and Stoller wrote some of the most popular songs of all time, often reflects the theme of the album or the artist’s personal taste.