2023 Richard Rodgers -Award Recipients revealed

Awards2023 Richard Rodgers -Award Recipients revealed

The award supports increased lectures of the works at non-profit theaters in New York.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded the 2023 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater to two works: Lewis loves Clark by Dylan Marcaurele and Mike Rossand Marie in Tomorrow country per Maggie-Kate Coleman and Erato A. Kremmyda.

The musicals will receive funds to present staged lectures in New York in non-profit theaters. The recipients of this year were selected by David long, Lynn Ahrens, Kristoffer Diaz, Mindi Dickstein, Amanda GreenMichael R. Jackson, Richard MaltbyJr., and John Weidman.

Lewis loves Clark Investigating the uncomfortable alliance that was forged by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Sacagawea and York in a historical tragic comedy. Lewis is depressed, closed and an alcoholic while Clark is unaware. Sacagawea is about everything, and York wishes he was bird watching. But the four must struggle with the struggle of exploration, colonization and more.

Coleman and Kremmyda work with the director choreographer Pinkleton self For the ensemble music stake Marie in Tomorrow country. In a Chernobyl-inspired theme park to a global core event, the theme park character Marie leads a group of human survivors and radioactive pigs to navigate the ruins, their history and their futures.

In 1978, the American Academy of Arts and Letters member Richard Rodgers awarded the eponymous awards to nurture composers and playwrights. Former recipients include Jonathan Larson (Rent), Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Lucky stiff), Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley (Violin), Dave Malloy (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1898), Anaic Mitchell (Hadestown), and more.

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