The Jeff Blumenkrantz Songbook Volume 1
JEFF BLUMENKRANTZ began his career as an actor, performing on Broadway inInto the Woods,Threepenny Opera,Damn Yankees,How to Succeed in Business..., andA Class Act, and on TV/film inJoseph ... Dreamcoat, Will and Grace, all threeLaw and Orderseries, and the Great Performances (PBS) telecast ofCandide in Concert.It was Audra McDonald's recording of his song "I Won't Mind" (lyrics by Annie Kessler and Libby Saines) that jumpstarted his songwriting career. Since then, Jeff received a Best Original Score Tony nomination for his songs in Urban Cowboy, and he contributed the song "I Think" to the acclaimed Off-Broadway production,The Audience. His one-act pieces,Woman with PocketbookandPrecious Little Jewel, have been performed at several regional theatres, and he has received song commissions from both Carnegie Hall and the Guggenheim's Works and Process program. Most recently, his songs have been recorded by Sutton Foster, Rebecca Luker, Megan Mullally, Victoria Clark, and Lauren Kennedy.Jeff is a recipient of the Fred Ebb Award, the BMI Harrington Award and the Dramatists Guild Jonathan Larson Memorial Musical Theatre Fellowship. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and a longtime member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. In 2005, he published a songbook of his music and producedThe Jeff Blumenkrantz SongbookPodcast, which featured live performances of those songs. The podcast episodes can still be accessed on iTunes. Jeff also produced and hostedThe BMI Workshop SongbookPodcast, featuring never-before-available music by members and alumni of the acclaimed musical theatre writers workshop. It, too, can be found on iTunes.