The Life and Songs of Johnny Mercer Jeepers Creepers The Scholar & the Singer onstage together bring Johnny Mercer’s life and songs alive in a wonderful show of stories and music. To Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer was “the most perfect American lyricist alive.” Jeepers Creepers tells the sto- ries of Mercer’s tormented but glorious life and career, exploring the connections between Mercer’s turbulent life and his numerous hit songs. Jeepers Creepers is a show based on Philip Furia’s book, Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer, and on Banu Gibson’s CD, Banu Gibson Sings Johnny Mercer. Songs from the show include: Skylark, Come Rain Or Come Shine, One For My Baby, Dearly Beloved, Lazybones, I Remember You, On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe and Jeepers Creepers. Philip Furia is the author of Skylark, the Life and Banu Gibson brought in the Millennium with Keith Times of Johnny Mercer; Irving Berlin: A Life in Song; Lockhart and the Boston Pops. She and her band per- Ira Gershwin: the Art of the Lyricist; and Poets of Tin formed at the Hollywood Bowl with John Mauceri con- Pan Alley: A History of America’s Great Lyricists. He is ducting the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and appeared a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at on Garrison Keillor’s award-winning NPR series, A the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Prairie Home Companion. She is also highlighted in Previously, he was the Chair of the Department of Charles Kuralt’s book, Charles Kuralt’s America. Banu English at the University of Minnesota where he taught and her band, New Orleans Hot Jazz, regularly tour for 25 years. throughout Europe and the U.S. For booking and more information, please contact: John Karle Publicity Manager St. Martin's Press, LLC 175 5th Ave. New York, NY 10010 (212) 674-5151, ext.698 [email protected] .