The Best Is Yet To Come
Witchcraft
If My Friends Could See Me Now
Big Spender
Hey Look Me Over
Why Try To Change Me Now
The Colors Of My Life
It Amazes Me
I Love My Wife
When in Rome
Firefly
Real Live Girl
You Fascinate Me So
Nobody Does It Like Me
On The Other Side Of The Tracks
I've Got Your Number
The Rules Of The Road
I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life
Where Am I Going?
Pass Me By
The Playboy Theme
It's Not Where You Start
It's Where You Finish
The Doodlin Song
Never Met A Man I Didn't Like
I Walk A Little Faster
I'm A Brass Band
Then Was Then & Now Is Now
The Riviera
The Broadway Shows
Wildcat
Little Me
Sweet Charity
Seesaw
I Love My Wife
On The Twentieth Century
Barnum
Welcome To The Club
City of Angels
The Will Rogers Follies
The Life
Grace
Exactly Like You
The Great Ostrovsky
Home Again Home Again
The Artists
Frank Sinatra
Tony Bennett
Peggy Lee
Nat King Cole
Ella Fitzgerald
Rosemary Clooney
Bing Crosby
Mabel Mercer
Sarah Vaughan
Bobby Short
Shirley Horn
Lillias White
Liza Minnelli
Barbra Streisand
Carmen McRae
Sammy Davis Jr
Michael Buble
Judy Garland
Bill Evans
Blossom Dearie
Louis Armstrong
Nancy Wilson
The Collaborators
Carolyn Leigh
Dorothy Fields
Marilyn & Alan Bergman
Betty Comden & Adolph Green
Joseph McCarthy
David Zippel
Michael Stewart
Ira Gasman
AE Hotchner
Barbara Fried
Bob Fosse
Sammy Cahn
Shirley MacLaine
Sammy Davis Jr
Gwen Verdon
Cary Grant
Judy Garland
Wendy Wassterstein
Larry Gelbart
Neil Simon
Debbie Allen
Martin Short
Christina Applegate
Kevin Kline
Lucille Ball
Glen Close
Imogene Coca
George Burns
Carol Burnett
Avery Corman
Sid Ceasar
Cy Coleman (June 14, 1929 - November 18, 2004) was born Seymour Kaufman in New York City to Eastern European Jewish parents, and was raised in the Bronx. A child prodigy, Coleman gave piano recitals at Steinway Hall, Town Hall, and Carnegie Hall between the ages of six and nine. His educational background included classical training in piano composition and orchestration at New York City's High School for the Performing Arts and NY College of Music. Despite early success in the classical and jazz genres, Coleman decided to build a career in popular music. He changed his name at age 16 in time to use it on his first compositions with lyricist Joe A. McCarthy. The two collaborated on the classics "Why Try To Change Me Now", "The Riviera", and "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life". He also penned, "Playboy's Theme", which became the signature music of the regular TV shows and specials presented by Playboy, and remains synonymous with the magazine and its creator, Hugh Hefner. Coleman's most successful early partnership was with Carolyn Leigh. The Pair wrote many pop hits, including "Witchcraft", made famous by Frank Sinatra and "The Best Is Yet To Come", which has become one of Tony Bennett's signature songs. Coleman's winning streak as a Broadway composer began when the team of Coleman/Leigh collaborated on the musical Wildcat (1960), which marked the Broadway debut of comedienne Lucille Ball. The score included the hit tune "Hey Look Me Over". Up next for the two was Little Me, with a book by Neil Simon based on the novel by Patrick Dennis (Auntie Mame). The show introduced "Real Live Girl" and "I've Got Your Number", which became popular standards. In 1964, Coleman began collaborating with Dorothy Fields. Their first project was the Broadway smash Sweet Charity, again with a book by Neil Simon, and starring Gwen Verdon. The show was a major success and spawned the showstoppers "Big Spender" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now". The Peggy Lee pop recording of the song "Big Spender" also created additional buzz for the Broadway play after it became a mammoth hit and spent several weeks at the top of the charts in tandem with the play's Broadway run. Sweet Charity also went on to grace the silver screen in a film starring Shirley MacLaine that was Directed and Choreographed by Bob Fosse. After Sweet Charity the team of Coleman/Fields worked on the Broadway show Seesaw, which reached Broadway in 1973. Their partnership was cut short by Fields' death in 1974. Coleman remained prolific throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He composed the score for I Love My Wife (1977) with lyrics by Michael Stewart, and then On The Twentieth Century (1978) with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 1980, Coleman served as producer and composer for the circus-themed Barnum, which introduced theatergoers to Jim Dale and Glenn Close. Later in the decade, he collaborated on Welcome to the Club (1988) with A.E. Hotchner and City of Angels (1989) with David Zippel and book by Larry Gelbart. In the latter, inspired by the hard-boiled detective film noir of the 1930s and '40s, he returned to his jazz roots, and the show was a huge critical and commercial success. the 1990s brought two more new hit Cy Coleman musicals to Broadway: The Will Rogers Follies (1991), again with Comden and Green, and The Life (1997) with lyricist Ira Gasman. A hit revival followed in 1999 with Little Me, starring Martin Short. Shortly before his death in 2004, Cy returned to his jazz roots re-forming the poplular Cy Coleman Trio performing to sold-out audiences throughout New York City. In 2005 came yet another Tony-nominated revival of Sweet Charity on Broadway starring Christina Applegate followed by a critically acclaimed national tour in 2006/2007 starring Molly Ringwald. Coleman's film scores include Father Goose, The Art of Love, Garbo Talks and Family Business. In Addition, he composed scores for memorable television specials for Shirley MacLaine, Bob Hope, and Peggy Lee. Coleman has received numerous awards including: Grammy's (3 wins, 13 nominations), Tony's (4 wins, 11 nominations), Emmy's (3 wins, 5 nominations) Oscar (1 nomination for Sweet Charity), Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, Johnny Mercer Award (Songwriter's Hall of Fame), and the Richard Rogers Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Musical Theater (ASCAP). Cy served on the board of ASCAP for 3 decades.
News
-I LOVE MY WIFE :A Swinging Musical Comedy
December 2-14, 2008 @ The Brentwood Theatre
STARRING: JASON ALEXANDER; PATRICK CASSIDY; VICKI LEWIS; LEA THOMPSON
The musical comedy about the sexual revolution in the 1970s
- NEW: Sweet Charity Deluxe Souvenir Edition sheet music folio now available. Also, back in print: Vocal/Piano sheet music of Cy Coleman & Michael Stewart's Tony Award-winning musical, I Love My Wife! Also available through Hal Leonard Corp. are updated versions of Cy Coleman musicals: Barnum, City of Angels, The Will Rogers Follies, & Wildcat. www.halleonard.com
- Also available: Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends (Two-disc Special Edition DVD). Clint Eastwood presents a documentary release on DVD of the extraordinary career of one of the greatest living singers in American popular music, Tony Bennett. Featured in the film is a rare performance of Tony and Bill Evans performing Cy Coleman's "When In Rome (I Do As The Romans Do)" from a 1970's Tonight Show appearance as well as Mr. Bennett's amazing band performing Coleman's "The Best is Yet To Come" from a recent concert in Monterey, CA.
- From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to "Big Spender", from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. Critically acclaimed writer Wilfrid Sheed knew the legends, mingled with the greats, and gossiped with the insiders. Now he's crafted a dazzling, authoritative history of the era that "tripled the world's total supply of singable tunes." This amazing book is available now via Random House.
- Michael Buble continues his sold-out worldwide tour in support of "Call Me Irresponsible" The Vancouver native, whose collective worldwide record sales are over 12 million units, recorded standards from a variety of eras including such greats as Cy Coleman ("The Best Is Yet To Come"), Leonard Cohen, Eric Clapton, Gamble and Huff, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer and others. As for the album, Buble says, "It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. That's what this record is about".
- Playboy After Dark DVD Box Set Collection IN STORES NOW: Watch Cy Coleman rubbing shoulders with Lenny Bruce, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr. and a host of party-goers on Hugh Hefner's 1959 TV show, Playboy's Penthouse & Playboy After Dark. 3-DVD Box Collection includes 51 musical performances and 6 full shows. Cy Coleman also wrote the theme song. USA Today 3 1/2 stars (out of 4)
- BBC Legends Series: Cy Coleman Documentary Spring 2006. This documentary of Cy Coleman features interviews with Shirley MacLaine, Jim Dale, Michele lee, Michael Crawford, Lillias White, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Neil Simon, Tommy Tune, Lucie Arnaz, Chita Rivera, Tony Bennett, Larry Gelbart, Shelby Coleman and many more sharing their memories of the life and astounding career of Cy Coleman. Aired in the UK Spring 2006 and will soon make its U.S. debut.
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July 8, 2009 - The new sheet music folio - Cy Coleman Anthology is now available via Hal Leonard Corp. Features a new photo gallery, additional songs, and a forward by Larry Gelbart.
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