The collection of 20 previously unpublished songs highlights the work of Tony winners Maury Yeston (Nine, Titanic, Grand Hotel) and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q) as well as Tony nominees Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party, Giant, Marie Christine) and Jeff Blumenkrantz (Urban Cowboy).
Each of the songs has also been preserved as part of the BMI Workshop Songbook Podcast, performed by such Broadway talents as Christine Ebersole, Brian d'Arcy James, Victoria Clark, Emily Skinner, Lauren Kennedy, Neil Patrick Harris and Cheyenne Jackson.
A complete list of selections for the 128-page “BMI Workshop Songbook" follows:
“Back Home” (Lyrics by Frank Evans, music by Christopher Berg)
“Belle Reve” (Music and lyrics by Beth Falcone)
“Death by a Thousand Cuts” (Lyrics by Beth Blatt, music by Jenny Giering)
“Dream Come True” (Music and lyrics by Lucy Coolidge)
“Gonna Spend The Whole Day Fishin’” (Lyrics by Patrick Cook, music by Fredrick Freyer)
“Happy” (Lyrics by Jill Abramovitz, music by Joy Son)
“He’s My Tiger, She’s My Fox” (Music and lyrics by Davia Sacks)
“I Just Met a Man” (Lyrics by Nancy Stark, music by Gerald Stockstill)
“It Just Wasn’t Meant to Happen” (Music and lyrics by Barry Wyner)
“Just Some Guy” (Lyrics by Justin Warner, music by Peter Yarin)
“The Kid” (Lyrics by Jack Lechner, music by Andy Monroe)
“Man in the Moon” (Music and lyrics by Jeff Blumenkrantz)
“My Thing” (Lyrics by Susan Murray, music by Marty Fernandi)
“One Step Ahead of Goodbye” (Lyrics by Amanda Green, music by Tom Kitt)
“The Pregnancy Song” (Lyrics and music by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez)
“Rock City” (Lyrics by Adam Mathias, music by Brad Alexander)
“Song for Frances” (Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston)
“Table Three” (Lyrics by Michael Biello, music by Dan Martin)
“There’s a World Out There” (Lyrics by Alison Hubbard, music by Kim Oler)
“Tom Sawyer” (Music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa)
The "BMI Workshop Songbook" is available for $19.99 by visiting BMIPodcastSongbook. *
Founded by Lehman Engel in 1961, the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, fully funded by the BMI foundation at no cost to its participants, was created in order to nurture the craft of musical theatre by providing new writers with a testing ground for their work under the guidance of experienced professionals within the industry.
