Jeanine Tesori Opens Landmark's 2010-11 Conversations From Main Street Series 9/15

Landmark on Main Street's 2010-11 Season "Conversations From Main Street Series" opens on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 7:30 PM with An Evening with Jeanine Tesori. Free Admission to all Conversations From Main Street programs is made possible thanks to the generosity of the Angela & Scott Jaggar Foundation. Landmark also gratefully acknowledges our 2010-11 Partners in Performing Arts: Harding Real Estate, Pall Corporation and the Town of North Hempstead for their season support.

Jeanine Tesori was the first woman composer to have two shows running on Broadway concurrently. She has written four Tony-nominated Broadway scores: Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center, Thoroughly Modern Millie (lyrics, Dick Scanlan), Caroline, or Change (lyrics, Tony Kushner), and Shrek the Musical (lyrics, David Lindsay-Abaire). The production of Caroline, or Change at the National Theater in London received the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Her first off-Broadway musical, Violet, written with Brian Crawley, received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1997. She has been the recipient of many other honors including Drama Desk and Obie awards, and was cited by ASCAP as being the first woman composer to have "two new musicals running concurrently on Broadway." She composed the music for The New York Shakespeare Festival's production of Brecht's Mother Courage, as translated by Tony Kushner, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. She has written songs for the movie Shrek The Third. Her film scores include Nights in Rodanthe, Winds of Change, Show Business, and Wrestling With Angels. She has composed songs for Disney DVD releases Mulan II, Lilo and Stitch II, and Little Mermaid III. She has produced sixty CD's for Silver-Burdett Ginn's Making Music and the original cast albums for Twelfth Night, Violet and Caroline, or Change. Ms. Tesori, a Barnard graduate, is on the council of the Dramatists Guild. Her next project is a new musical with the playwright Lisa Kron.

Jeanine Tesori will be interviewed by retired Shreiber High School Teacher, John Broza. Tickets and reservations are not necessary, but more information can be obtained by calling 516-767-6444 or at www.landmarkonmainstreet.org.