Lucy Simon
Lucy Simon (born 1943) is an American composer for the theatre and popular songs. She is known for the musical, The Secret Garden.
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[edit] Biography
She is the older sister of musician Carly Simon and her parents were Richard L. Simon, co-founder of the publishing house Simon & Schuster and Andrea Heinemann Simon. In addition to her younger sister Carly, she has an older sister, opera singer Joanna, and a younger brother photographer Peter. Simon grew up in Fieldston, a section of Riverdale in the Bronx.[1] She attended the Fieldston School, graduating in 1958 and Bennington College.
[edit] Career
Simon began her professional career at the age of sixteen singing folk tunes with sister Carly and later folk-rock.[2][3]
Lucy Simon made her Broadway debut as the composer of The Secret Garden, for which she was nominated for a 1991 Tony Award for Best Original Score and a 1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music. She also wrote songs for the off-Broadway show A...My Name is Alice.
Simon's setting of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod [3][has been recorded by many diverse artists, including The Doobie Brothers, Mitzie Collins, and The Big Three (Cass Elliot, Tim Rose, and James Hendricks). In the seventies, Simon made two singer/songwriter-styled albums for RCA Records, the self-titled Lucy Simon, followed by Stolen Time.[4]
She composed the music for a musical version of the Russian novel Dr. Zhivago,, with lyricists Michael Korie and Amy Powers and book writer Michael Weller. The musical had its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego, California, in May 2006.[5] In 2011 Sydney Australia will host the new musical version starring Anthony Warlow and produced by John Frost with Des McAnuff as Director. Anthony Warlow starred in the Australian production of Lucy's The Secret Garden and at that time Lucy said of him, "There is my Zhivago". The new production of Lucy's story of Doctor Zhivago will introduce the world to a bold new musical in the grand tradition.
She has won a Grammy award in 1981 together with her husband, David Levine, in the Best Recording for Children category for "In Harmony/A Sesame Street Record", and again in 1983 in the same category for "In Harmony 2".
[edit] Personal
Married to psychoanalyst David Levine, she has two children.
[edit] References
- ^ Jackson, Nancy Beth. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Fieldston; A Leafy Enclave in the Hills of the Bronx", The New York Times, February 17, 2002. Accessed May 3, 2008. "After World War II, Richard Simon, founder of Simon & Schuster, bought a Georgian red-brick Baum house where he brought up his three musical daughters: Joanna, Lucy and Carly."
- ^ Chute, James."A new rose blooms in Lucy Simon's secret garden"Union Tribune (San Diego), May 21, 2006
- ^ a b Biography and listing allmusic.com, accessed February 2, 2010
- ^ Lucy Simon recordings outofprintalbums.blogspot.com, accessed February 2, 2010
- ^ Hernandez, Ernio."Zhivago Musical — with Hernandez, Burrows, Strober and Hewitt — Opens in CA, May 24" playbill.com, May 24, 2006
[edit] External links
- Internet Broadway Database listing
- Pop Music and the New Musical - Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, September 2005
- Biography at filmreference.com
