Wonderfully wacky (“Taylor, the Latte Boy,” "Alto’s Lament") and heartbreakingly sincere ("Out of Love," "Welcome the Rain"), Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich are "the 21st century’s answer to the Dorothys Parker and Fields" (Village Voice). Set to take Broadway by storm with the musical version of the Drew Barrymore/Cinderella film "Ever After" in 2007, Marcy and Zina -- with special guest Scott Coulter --will have the whole family laughing through their tears.
Bookwriter/Lyricist Marcy Heisler and Composer Zina Goldrich are slated to make their Broadway debut as authors of the book, lyrics and music for the Broadway musical stage adaptation of Ever After, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes and choreographed by Tony Award winner Rob Ashford. Heisler and Goldrich have been collaborating since 1993 and are the recipients of ASCAP’s prestigious Richard Rodgers New Horizons Theatre Award. Their songs have been performed from Carnegie Hall to the White House. Heisler and Goldrich worked on songs for Winnie the Pooh and Tinkerbell at Disney's Toon Studios. Last summer, their musical Junie B. Jones had a sold-out run Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and is presently touring across America. Recently, Heisler worked as an adaptor for Disney Theatricals, penning new versions of 101 Dalmatians, Cinderella, The Jungle Book and Sleeping Beauty for young audiences. In addition to being a staff songwriter at Walt Disney Feature Animation, Goldrich has played keyboards on Broadway for Avenue Q, Bombay Dreams, Oklahoma, and Titanic, where she also conducted.
As performer/writers, Goldrich and Heisler have appeared at Carnegie Recital Hall, The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, and The Ford Center of the Performing Arts.
Heisler and Goldrich co-authored the family musicals Dear Edwina and Dear Edwina Junior, which have been internationally licensed by Music Theatre International, and will be part of MTI’s new touring Young Audience Revue. In April 2000, they teamed with bookwriters Charlie Shanian and Shari Simpson to premiere their full-length musical Adventures in Love at St. Paul's Ordway Music Theatre. In 1998, they joined Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre as Joseph Papp Artists-in-Residence, where they workshopped Allison Under The Stars with bookwriter Susan Kim. They are frequent contributors to New York’s 24-hour A Train Musicals project.
For his work in cabaret, Scott Coulter was awarded both the 2001 Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) Award as well as the 2001 Bistro Award for Outstanding Male Vocalist. He received a 1997 Bistro Award for the revue "Get Your Tickets Now!" and his debut solo show won the 1998 MAC Award for Male Debut. TimeOut NY picked Coulter's "Unexpected Songs" as one of the 'Best of 1999'. Coulter's self-titled debut CD won the 2003 MAC Award for Outstanding Recording and was chosen as the best recording of the year by Scott and Barbara Siegel of TheatreMania and Jeff Rosen of Cabaret Scenes magazine.
Scott has appeared at Town Hall in the 1949 ,1953, 1962 and 1968 editions of the popular "Broadway by the Year" series and can currently be heard on the Bayview recordings of the 1949 and 1953 performances. Other Town Hall appearances include "Sentimental Journey: The Songs of World War II", "From Brooklyn to Hollywood", "All That Jazz: A Tribute to Kander & Ebb" and "Broadway Unpluggged."
Since 1997, Scott has performed around the country with award-winning songwriting duo Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich in their many revues. Currently, he is touring with composer Stephen Schwartz, Liz Callaway and Debbie Gravitte in the revue "Stephen Schwartz & Friends." Schwartz has said: "one of the best things that can happen to a songwriter is to have his or her material interpreted by Scott Coulter."
Scott toured the country as Jinx in "Forever Plaid" and was in the world premiere of "Floyd Collins," directed by Tina Landau at the American Music Theatre Festival. His regional theatre credits include "Into the Woods," "In Trousers," "Cotton Patch Gospel," "Pump Boys and Dinettes" and "As Bees in Honey Drown."
He is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He can be heard in the upcoming Disney film, "Enchanted."
"Bright as two buttons, they sing the songs they write with the kind of wit and intelligence of the Dorothys Parker and Fields. As usual on ebullient nights such as these, they have Scott Coulter adding his pure notes and winning grin to the mix."
-David Finkle, Village Voice
"Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler are the most gifted new writing team of their musical theatre generation. They create music and lyrics that are as fresh, bright, witty and accessible as have ever been written."
-Maury Yeston (Tony Award® winning composer/lyricist "Titanic", "Nine")
"Best Knocking-on Broadway’s Door Songwriting Team’ — Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich. Now that musical spectacles are dropping like 50-ton flies, showbiz talk is about the direction(s) in which the genre will move. What may score with audiences is tunesmiths who update traditional Broadway conventions with contemporary flair. Heisler and Golhdrich, lyricist and composer respectively, have been turning out smart lyrics and sophisticated melodies for some time. Keep in mind they’re the ones whose nifty love song rhymed ‘quesadilla’ with ‘IKEA’. The team’s strength lies in making the intelligent hummable--something predecessors like Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and the Gershwin Brothers were always able to do."
-David Finkle, Village Voice
"I should warn you, their song, ‘Hola Lola’ is so infectious that you may not be able to get it out of your head. Much to my friend’s delight/dismay, I couldn’t stop singing it for hours."
-Roy Sander, Backstage Magazine
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