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meet the artists<br />
America. She also edits Prelude, Fugue<br />
& Riffs, a newsletter about issues and<br />
events pertaining to her father’s legacy.<br />
Ted Chapin was chosen by the<br />
Rodgers and Hammerstein families<br />
to run their office. He expanded<br />
it into the Rodgers & Hammerstein<br />
Organization, responsible for<br />
management of the copyrights<br />
created by Richard Rodgers and/<br />
or Oscar Hammerstein II and<br />
many others. On his watch,<br />
there were new major productions<br />
of their musicals on Broadway<br />
(eight Tony Awards for Best Musical<br />
Revival). In addition to revivals,<br />
he has encouraged new Broadway<br />
productions, among them<br />
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,<br />
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,<br />
State Fair, A Grand Night for Singing<br />
and Holiday Inn, and major,<br />
highly rated television productions<br />
like The Sound of Music Live!<br />
on NBC and the multi-racial<br />
Cinderella with Brandy Norwood<br />
and Whitney Houston on ABC.<br />
Ted was the co-founder of the<br />
Encores! series at City Center and<br />
has been a host and interviewer on<br />
many television shows, including<br />
three seasons of NJTV’s American<br />
Songbook at <strong>NJPAC</strong>, and Working in<br />
the Theater and Careers in the Theater<br />
for the American Theatre Wing.<br />
He was the producer for two wellreceived<br />
seasons at the 92nd Street<br />
Y’s Lyrics and Lyricists, which included<br />
salutes to Bobby Darin, Stephen<br />
Sondheim, Sammy Davis, Jr., Lynn<br />
Ahrens, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart<br />
and Leonard Bernstein.<br />
His book Everything Was Possible:<br />
The Birth of the Musical “Follies,”<br />
based on his experience as the<br />
production assistant on the original<br />
Broadway production of the<br />
Sondheim/Prince musical Follies,<br />
was published by Alfred A. Knopf.<br />
A new addition of the paperback<br />
was recently published by<br />
Applause <strong>Book</strong>s.<br />
He serves on the boards of New<br />
York City Center and The Kurt Weill<br />
Foundation, where he currently serves<br />
as chairman; and The American<br />
Theater Wing, where he was chairman<br />
for four years and recently served as<br />
co-chairman. He has been a guest<br />
lecturer at many universities including<br />
Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Duke, Pace,<br />
Belmont, Lawrence and NYU. He has<br />
been honored with the UJA Excellence<br />
in Theater Award, the Leonard Harris<br />
Award from City Center, the Floria<br />
Lasky Award and others.<br />
He comes by an association with<br />
Leonard Bernstein honestly: his father<br />
Schuyler Chapin and Bernstein met<br />
at Columbia Records and worked<br />
together in several capacities over<br />
the years. He was also assistant<br />
director of the Los Angeles and<br />
San Francisco Civic Light Opera<br />
production of Candide. His career<br />
began as production assistant for<br />
the Broadway productions of Follies,<br />
The Rothschilds and The Unknown<br />
Soldier and His Wife, and as<br />
associate to director Alan Arkin on<br />
the original Broadway production of<br />
Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys and<br />
the CBS-TV production of Twigs with<br />
Carol Burnett. He was the producer<br />
of the Musical Theater Lab, the first<br />
not-for-profit organization devoted<br />
to the development of new musicals.<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> presents<br />
The Masked Singer<br />
National Tour 2022<br />
starring<br />
Natasha Bedingfield<br />
As a courtesy to the performers and fellow audience members, please be sure to silence all mobile devices.<br />
The use of recording equipment and the taking of photographs are strictly prohibited.<br />
Made possible by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts,<br />
a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts<br />
prudential hall<br />
betty wold johnson stage<br />
Saturday, June 18, 2022<br />
@ 8PM<br />
FOR A FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS, VISIT <strong>NJPAC</strong>.ORG OR CALL 1.888.GO.<strong>NJPAC</strong><br />
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