Creative Team

CONCEPT & LYRICS

Laurence & Felicia won the prestigious Kleban Award for Most Promising Musical Theatre Librettists, as well as ASCAP’s Sammy Cahn Award for Outstanding Lyricists. They collaborated on the book & lyrics of musicals for many years, up to the time of Felicia's untimely death from breast cancer in July 2023. The duo first met in Modern Drama class at Columbia College and wrote together in the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Laurence and Felicia's other works include Wallenberg (music by Benjamin Rosenbluth; White Plains Performing Arts Center, NYMF and Equity Lab directed by Martin Charnin), The Jerusalem Syndrome (music by Kyle Rosen; Off-Broadway premiere at the York Theatre Company; Original Cast Recording on JAY Records; winner of the Theatre for the American Musical Prize for Most Promising Book Musical), Suddenly Hope (music by Morris Bernstein & Kyle Rosen; Stamford Center for the Arts, Garfield Theatre in La Jolla and Denver Civic Theatre) and I Married a Witch (music by Larry Applewhite; ASCAP Workshop), as well as the children’s musicals The Hudson River, We All Are America, and All the Same, with composer George Swietlicki.   Projects in development include the original musicals, One Night (music by David Shenton), Making Ends Meet (music by Ian Brandon) and The Window (music by Benjamin Rosenbluth), as well as Suddenly a Song, a collection of their cabaret material. Laurence and Felicia are both members of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. In addition to his work with Felicia, Laurence is the co-author (with Marc Goldsmith) of the original play and screenplay, The Queen is in the Parlour, and the original screenplay, Fella.  As a principal of Bard Theatricals, Laurence's producing credits include The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jagged Little Pill, Stranger Sings!, Fiddler on the Roof, China Doll, The Scottsboro Boys, Looped, The Anarchist, and the Latin American premiere of El Chico de Oz, as well as the Museum of Broadway. Laurence is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. Felicia toured in 42nd Street as a member of Actor’s Equity, and was a featured performer with the A & G Dance Company. For several years, she was on the faculty of Broadway Dance Center, where she taught tap dance.  Her popular blog, UnwrittenRecipes.com, offered easy, delicious, family-friendly recipes. Felicia's many talents will be sorely missed.

COMPOSER

Sanford was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia.  His work was presented in the 1994 ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop.  Sanford has written songs for Andrea Marcovicci, which she performed in the Oak Room at the Algonquin.  A concert staged reading of his new musical, Mall Story, (with book and lyrics by Stan Baker and additional lyrics by Sanford), was presented on December 10, 2000, as part of the MFA requirement in production/direction at Columbia University.  A workshop of the show will follow.

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Nicholas is a composer and often lyricist, who writes in and for a variety of styles and uses, including cabaret, musical theatre, pop and country music, television, and instructional/dance video. A recent highlight was hearing his music and lyrics for a new adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, performed while he was a South Carolina Arts Commission Artist-in-Residence. Another was composing an orignal score for Bertolt Brecht's The Exception and the Rule, which premiered at Canada's Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival. He invites you to stop by www.NicholasLevin.com. Com one, com all!

COMPOSER

Donald composed the score for the musical The Case of the Dead Flamingo Dancer, (book & lyrics by Dan Butler), produced in the US and England.  He wrote the book “How to Audition for the Musical Theatre”, and he played piano for Angela Lansbury’s Gypsy.  As co-owner of Chelsea Music Service, he has worked on over 80 shows, including Steel Pier, Chicago, A Christmas Carol, Jekyll & Hyde and The Lion King.  For more info, call his mother. 

COMPOSER

Kyle wrote the music for Laurence and Felicia’s original musical comedy The Jerusalem Syndrome (Off-Broadway premiere at the York Theatre Company; Original Cast Recording on JAY Records) and co-wrote the score for Suddenly Hope, their original musical comedy (Garfield Theatre, La Jolla; Stamford Center for the Arts; and Denver Civic Theatre). Over the last 30 years, he has performed and composed music for dozens of theater, television and film projects. Kyle began studying piano at the age of 4 with such luminaries as Ayke Agus, Sharon Lipman, and Joanna Hodges. He studied songwriting with Oscar winners Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn and orchestration with Dr. Albert Harris. While attending Princeton, he was president of the Princeton Triangle Club and selected as the first recipient of the Milton Lyon Award for Songwriting. Kyle is an alumnus of the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. In addition to writing music, Kyle is an investment manager who specializes in the US options market. He lives in New York City with his wife, Layne, and their three children.  

COMPOSER

Brad wrote the theme and background   music for the PAX-TV show “Treasures in your Home”.  His musical The Times won a Richard Rodgers Development Grant, and was produced at the Long Wharf Theatre.  The original cast album of Brad’s musical Little by Little was released on the Varèse Sarabande label.  The show was produced off-Broadway at the York Theatre, and regionally, at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, and was published by Samuel French.  Other recordings include Little by Little/The Times: The Music of Brad Ross, Karen Akers: Unchained Melodies, and Broadway Bound, as well as KIDZ Radio Sing-Along Poems.  Brad’s A Family for Baby Grand and his musical setting of Ogden Nash’s The Tale of Custard the Dragon have been performed around the country by several major orchestras, and The Learning Channel has aired videos from his recording Brad’s Zoo: A Songbook of Animals.  Brad is a graduate of Cornell and NYU, and a member of ASCAP.

COMPOSER

Mark is the Director of Vocal Music at the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, where he conducts the College Singers, Chamber Singers and Southern Nevada Jazz, a vocal jazz ensemble.  He has been the musical director of the CCSN productions of Will Rogers Follies, 1940’s Radio Hour and Carousel.  As a performer, Mark appeared in the off-Broadway production Take It from the Top and has sung leading roles with the National Opera Company in The Barber of Seville, Martha, and The Marriage of Figaro.  Mark received a Masters of Music degree in choral conducting from the University of Miami, and a doctorate in choral conducting and jazz studies from the University of Northern Colorado.  He is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the western United States.

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Wendy co-composed music for the off-Broadway production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus at the Theatre Row Theatre, wrote music and lyrics for the children’s musical The Moons performed in Lenox, Massachusetts, and wrote lyrics for the musical adaptation of the film Green Card, selections of which were presented at the Lamb’s Theatre in NYC.  She was invited to present selections of her musical adaptation of William Inge’s Splendor in the Grass at the 1996 Inge Festival in Independence, Kansas.