Gerry Goffin News

The SHN 2013-2014 season was announced today by Founder and President Carole Shorenstein Hays, featuring five productions at the SHN Curran, SHN Golden Gate, and SHN Orpheum Theatres in San Francisco. Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON which played a record-breaking 5-week run in the winter of 2012 will return for a limited engagement November 27, 2013 - January 19, 2014.

Producers Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing announced today that Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, about the life and career of legendary singer/songwriter Carole King, will begin performances on Broadway in Spring, 2014. The new musical, featuring a stunning array of beloved songs written by Gerry Goffin/Carole King and Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil, and a book by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Douglas McGrath, will play a Fall 2013 pre-Broadway engagement, to be announced shortly.

The Recording Academy (www.grammy.com) announced its Special Merit Awards recipients today, and this year's honorees are: Glenn Gould, Charlie Haden, Lightnin' Hopkins, Carole King, Patti Page, Ravi Shankar andthe Temptations as Lifetime Achievement Award recipients

Stephen Hawking and his fellow physicists may not have yet figured out the formula for traveling through the time-space continuum, but apparently the Metropolitan Room discovered the secret. Last Friday night (October 26), I walked through the curtain into the main performance space and entered a time tunnel that took me from the 21st century into the 1960s and '70s. Two lovely, rising young stars of cabaret, Lauren Fox and Jennifer Sheehan (photo left), had obviously hurtled though that same time warp because in two separate shows on the same evening, they performed songs that had been written and recorded 15 to 25 years before they were born. In the process they transported this particular Baby Boomer joyously back to his youth and to the days of cultural upheaval, generation gaps, peace, love, war, and some of the best pop/rock music ever written.

"Stand By Me," the song written by Leiber & Stoller and Ben E. King will receive the Towering Song Award at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) Gala Event to be held at the Marriott Marquee Hotel in New York City tonight, June 14, 2012, Songwriters Hall of Fame Chairman, Jimmy Webb, announced. Mike Stoller will accept the award along with Ben E. King, who will also be honored with the Towering Performance Award for his performance on the Leiber & Stoller produced recording of "Stand By Me."

"Stand By Me," the song written by Leiber & Stoller and Ben E. King will receive the Towering Song Award at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) Gala Event to be held at the Marriott Marquee Hotel in New York City on Thursday, June 14, 2012, Songwriters Hall of Fame Chairman, Jimmy Webb, announced today. Mike Stoller will accept the award along with Ben E. King, who will also be honored with the Towering Performance Award for his performance on the Leiber & Stoller produced recording of "Stand By Me."

Michael Riedel reports today in the New York Post that things are 'moving along' for a new musical, NATURAL WOMAN featuring the music of the song writer Carole King. A new reading of the show, based on her own life took place last week, put together by King's daughter Sherry Goffin Kondor and she was reportedly pleased with the work, which will hopefully move the project forward.

Columbia/Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, is commemorating forty years of Billy Joel's career as a solo recording artist with a pair of historic releases - a limited edition Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection boxed set and a two-disc Legacy Edition of 1973's Piano Man album (exclusively featuring a long-lost fabled radio concert from 1972) - each appealing to aficionados of the iconic American singer-songwriter-performer.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. Darren Criss live in concert, Adam Pascal/Anthony Rapp, 'Sweeney Tod' with Gregg Edelman, 'The Student Prince,' new works at House and the Old Town School, more....

Michael Riedel reports in the New York Post this morning that Carole King is at work on a new musical showcasing tunes from her legendary songbook entitled Natural Woman. The show, which has its sights on Broadway, according to the report, had an industry-only reading on Monday and features hits such as 'Chains,' Crying in the Rain,' 'Tapestry,' and 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow.' Interestingly enough, 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow' was the song that put the Shirelles on the map, yet that song is noticebly absent from Broadway's current Baby It's You, as King refused to license the rights for inclusion in her own show. Music giant EMI is the show's backer.

If you can remember that there ever was a Jack Paar or Milton Berle, you'll plotz for 'Dollface,' a raunchy, witty musical comedy for the holiday season, conceived and written by B.J. Sebring, with lyrics by David Forman, music by David Forman & Rob Hyman with additional material by Bette Midler, Rick Chertoff, Eric Bazilian and Lou Bellofatto. The naughty Christmas tuner was introduced as a workshop in Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival this past summer. TNC is now presenting its premiere run December 23 to January 16 in its Johnson Theater.

DOLLFACE will now run December 23 thru January 9. This show will now close a week early due to a scheduling problem. A performance has been added Saturday, February 8 at 3:00 PM.

'Uptown, Downtown' is a polished autobiographical stroll down a musical memory lane with a genuine Broadway star

Music icons Lesley Gore, Shirley Alston Reeves and 'Little' Peggy March, Legendary Ladies of Rock & Roll, will perform their chart-topping songs on The Orleans Showroom stage July 24 and 25, each evening at 8 p.m.

Music icons Lesley Gore, Shirley Alston Reeves and 'Little' Peggy March, Legendary Ladies of Rock & Roll, will perform their chart-topping songs on The Orleans Showroom stage July 24 and 25, each evening at 8 p.m.

Music icons Lesley Gore, Shirley Alston Reeves and 'Little' Peggy March, Legendary Ladies of Rock & Roll, will perform their chart-topping songs on The Orleans Showroom stage July 24 and 25, each evening at 8 p.m.

To celebrate her long and varied career, THE ESSENTIAL CAROLE KING, a new double-disc set, will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting April 27th through Ode/Epic/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.

To celebrate her long and varied career, THE ESSENTIAL CAROLE KING, a new double-disc set, will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting April 27th through Ode/Epic/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.

Running Rabbit Family Theatre (RRFT), a leading theatre company for family audiences presents 'mr. RAY in CONCERT.' The performance is a rock concert geared for 2 to 8 year-olds and their families on Sunday, November 15 at 3:00 pm at the beautiful newly constructed Montclair Citadel of the Salvation Army, 13 Trinity Place, Montclair.

Randy Graff and Tom Wopat will star in a workshop of a new musical based around the songs of Carole King and Gerry Goffin