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ELLEN MANDEL will create music for HEARTBREAK HOUSE and ANNE OF GREEN GABLES at the Peterborough Players this summer!
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ELLEN MANDEL will perform her new Ogden Nash settings at Cornelia Street Cafe August 20!
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LOVE'S LABOURS LOST, with songs by ELLEN MANDEL,was a hit at the JUILLIARD SCHOOL in May!
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LITTLE RED, by Kathy Menino, MUSIC and LYRICS by ELLEN MANDEL was produced at the Public Theatre of Maine in May.
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PUSS IN BOOTS! A musical comedy version of the fable with MUSIC and LYRICS by ELLEN MANDEL, and a witty book by Kathy Menino had a sold-out run FEB 28 to MARCH 14!
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Vocalist and actress extraordinaire PAMELA BOB is recording the MANDEL and LYDON SONGBOOK, which was a hit at the Cornelia Street Cafe!
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ELLEN MANDEL and extraordinary tenor TODD ALMOND have a new CD: THE FIRST OF ALL MY DREAMS. Almond sings Mandel’s settings of poems by E.E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats and others, plus jazz songs with both music and lyrics by Mandel.
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THE FIRST OF ALL MY DREAMS is now available at cdbaby.com, and at St Mark's Bookstore (NYC), Politics and Prose (Wash DC) and Toadstool Bookshop (Peterborough NH), or directly from Ellen Mandel through this website! *********************************************************************************************************************
CINDY REILLY, a musical version of Cinderella, music by Ellen Mandel, book and lyrics by Kaikkonen and Swartz, was a smash hit at the Peterborough Players (NH): "Cindy Reilly has all the quality of a Broadway musical...a brilliant update of the old classic...THE MUSICAL NUMBERS ARE ASTOUNDING, WITH THE MUSIC WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ELLEN MANDEL. Elizabeth Hallacy, as Mrs Scrubb, sings a hilarious and literally show-stopping symphony of a spell "Alacazabra" ...CINDY REILLY IS A HIT.
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Ellen Mandel has written music for over fifty plays, and has released two other CDs, A WIND HAS BLOWN THE RAIN AWAY, fifteen of her E.E. Cummings songs sung by Todd Almond, and EVERY PLAY'S AN OPERA, collected theatre music.
See the links page for stores carrying the CDs or order them direct from Ellen Mandel!