263:, which had its US Premiere in the summer of 2018 at The Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine to rave reviews. The LA Premiere will be in September 2019 at La Mirada Theater, featuring Hal Linden, Cathy Rigby, Ken Page & Mark Jacoby. A National Tour is being planned for 2020. Past History: GOM had its original of town tryout at the Royal Manitoba Theater Centre in Winnipeg in October 2011, starring John Rubenstein and John Conrad Schuck. The developmental readings have featured Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, TONY Award winner George Hearn, Marilu Henner, Carole Kane, Ken Page and Vicki Lewis. In May 2017 a new reading was done, featuring Lee Wilkof, John Hilner, Luba Mason, Didi Cohn, Liz Larsen, David Josephsberg, and Rita Harvey. TRW (Theater Rights Worldwide) is currently Licensing Grumpy Old Men for Professional, Stock and Amateur Productions. For more information go to www.grumpyoldmenthemusical.com.
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234:. The New York Times raved Prince and the Pauper " on wings of theatrical fun." AOL Reviews wrote " A remarkable score (is) sure to delight the young and young at heart!". "Light and Lively!" - The Daily News. The original cast CD is released internationally on Jay Records, sheet music published by Hal Leonard, and licensing by Samuel French Inc. Songs from this show are also featured with many other classic songs in the official Off-Broadway Songbook, published by Hal Leonard.
432:, where he was a two-time all SUNYAC baseball player (centerfield). His .416 batting average, from the 1986/87 season, is 5th highest single season batting average in school history. Neil still lives in Rockland County, where he was on the Board of his son’s Little League. Neil recently came out of Baseball “retirement”, and currently plays in an Over 38 Men’s baseball league, and a Sunday morning Softball league. Neil is married to actress and singer
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the inaugural NYMF festival in NYC, and garnered a glowing review in the NY Times after it opened at The Queens
Theater in the Park, starring TONY nominee Bobby Steggert. It was also presented as a special reading at the Criterion Theater in the London's West End. It has been performed regionally across the USA for the past five years.
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Rubicon Theater in CA. This show has been developed with dramaturgical guidance by Moises Kaufman of the Tectonic Theater Project. The fully orchestrated CD recording, featuring Brian d'Arcy James, Marc Kudisch and Mandy Gonzalez can be purchased at www.neilberg.com.
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Christiane Noll, Jenn Colella, George Dvorsky, Sal Viviano, and Rita Harvey. Reviews were some of the strongest in the 2012-2013 NYC theater season, and led to winning the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical Revival.
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Broadway," a Broadway concert tour, performing over 100 shows a year since 2006. Neil was also one of the lead Producers, and driving force of the Award Winning 2013 Off-Broadway revival of Maltby and Shire's Closer Than Ever, at The York
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Neil's holiday musical Tim and Scrooge, with book and lyrics by Nick Meglin (former editor of Mad Magazine), will be opening December 2015 at the Westchester Broadway Theater in NY. Tim and Scrooge explores what happens ten years after A Christmas Carol, and was voted "one of the best musicals" of
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Neil was the Producing Artistic Director of The Broadway Series at the world-famous China Club in NYC. Over the past 25 years, Neil has been the musical director/entertainment coordinator for such great organizations as Covenant House and The Leukemia Society of America. He has produced countless
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Neil's musical, The Man Who Would Be King, written with DJ Salisbury, was produced at the NYMF Festival in NYC, and at the University of Buffalo in the fall of 2014. It had a developmental reading/workshop at The Village Theater in Issaquah, WA, directed by Tony Award winner Brian Yorkey (Next To
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Neil was also one of the lead Producers, and driving force of the Award Winning 2013 Off-Broadway revival of Maltby and Shire's Closer Than Ever, at The York Theater. Neil's guidance brought the show first to Queens Theater in the Park and The Bristol Riverside Theater with original stars, Lynn
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