Jimmy Roberts

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Jimmy Roberts (born 1952 in New York City ) is an American composer who works primarily in the fields of incidental music, musicals and television.

Life

Jimmy Roberts grew up in Great Neck, Long Island . His grandfather was a cantor and rabbi , his grandmother played the organ and piano. He graduated from the Manhattan School of Music , where he studied piano with Constance Keene . Appeared on New York Off-Broadway by Jimmy Roberts A ... My Name Is Still Alice and Pets! as well as music for Joe DiPietro's Over the River and Through the Woods and the children's musical The Velvet Rabbit . For television he wrote the topic for the show Theater Talk on WNET-TV. He was musical director and co-arranger of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Yip Harburgs America . Together with the playwright Joe DiPietro , he wrote the play The Thing About Men based on the film Men by Doris Dörrie .

In 1996, both her big hit that landed off-Broadway - Musical I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change . The play has been running in New York since then and has also been staged in numerous other locations, in the German-speaking area initially in the Wuppertal TiC and Vienna , then also on smaller stages, such as B. in Radebeul or Krefeld.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jerry Tallmer in The villager , accessed February 15, 2016
  2. ↑ Hischak, Thomas S. (2008). The Oxford companion to the American musical: theater, film, and television . Oxford University Press US. P. 362. ISBN 978-0-19-533533-0 , accessed February 15, 2016
  3. ↑ Landesbühnen Sachsen, Radebeul 2010 , accessed on February 15, 2016
  4. ↑ Westdeutsche Zeitung : Theater Krefeld, 2013/14 season, accessed on February 15, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Roberts, Jimmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century