Broadway Close Up: Cy Coleman, Ladies Man

Join Kaufman Music Center for a celebration of Cy Coleman’s early shows, including Wildcat, Little Me, Seesaw, On the Twentieth Century and the classic Sweet Charity.

This evening will be hosted by Sean Hartley and will feature Tony winner Randy Graff (City of Angels), Isabel Keating (Tony nomination for The Boy from Oz), Christine Pedi (Talk Radio), Laura Marie Duncan (South Pacific), Gabrielle Stravelli, Bethany Moore (Pippin), Josh Grisetti (Broadway Bound), Tally Sessions and Jason Robinson. Directed by Denis Jones and Music Directed by Evan Rees.

The great Broadway composer Cy Coleman wrote his first two shows with lyricist Carolyn Leigh and next two with Dorothy Fields, who were then practically the only female lyricists on Broadway. After that, he began working with another female lyricist, Betty Comden, as well as her partner Adolph Green. Maybe because of this, the songs from these shows, and the characters who sing them, seem to have a distinctly female perspective.