Jerry Herman

Gerald "Jerry" Herman (* July 10, 1931 in New York City ) is an American composer of the Broadway musical theater and has become one of the classics. He composed the music for the Broadway musical hits Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles.

Life

As a child, music-loving parents, Herman learned at an early age playing the piano and showed an early interest in the Broadway musicals then known. He spent the summer often at summer camp at Stissing Lake in Berkshire County in the Appalachian Mountains in the west of the State of Massachusetts, which (both teachers) was led by his parents. There he participated as a leader of the pieces Finian's Rainbow ( Finian 's Rainbow ) and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ) for the first time in a theater production.

At age 17, Herman Frank Loesser was introduced, a well-known at that time, American composer and lyricist of him after he had heard his first compositions, encouraged to further work. Jerry Herman left the design school Parsons, where he had started to become an architect and enrolled at the University of Miami ( Coral Gables ), which decreed in the United States through one of the most prestigious departments of theater. There, the University theater The Ring has been renamed after him in Jerry Herman Ring Theatre in the 70s (derived from the structural form of the building).

In 1960, Herman 's Broadway entrance to the revue From A to Z, in which there were also contributions from beginners Woody Allen and Fred Ebb. That same year, Herman was approached by a producer Gerard Oestreicher, who had seen the revue Parade, and asked if he was not interested in writing a play about the founding of the State of Israel. The result was his first mature Broadway musical Milk and Honey, with star Molly Picon in 1961., The musical was performed 543 times and reached considerable judgment. 2009 Jerry Herman received the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Non -Broadway revues

Broadway musicals

Movies

TV shows

Other performances

  • 2003: Miss Spectacular ( Recorded, but not produced )
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