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