You Fascinate Me So: The Life and Times of Cy Coleman (54 page)
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Authors: Andy Propst
Tags: #biography, #music
36
Lillias White, interview by the author, October 24, 2013.
37
Michael Blakemore, interview by the author, August 27, 2013.
38
Sam Harris, interview by the author, July 19, 2013.
39
Michael Kuchwara, “Buoyant Producers Hope for a Bounce from Tony Nominations,” Associated Press, May 2, 1997.
40
Vincent Canby, “Why Whisper About It? ‘The Life’ Is a Joy,”
New York Times
, October 5, 1997, AR5.
Chapter Thirty-one
1
Pat Birch, interview by the author, May 29, 2013.
2
Frank Rizzo, “The Endeavor To Make a Musical New Again,”
Hartford Courant
(CT), May 16, 1998, F8.
3
Shelby Coleman, interview by the author, October 1, 2013.
4
Pat Birch, interview by the author, October 16, 2013.
5
Kenneth Jones, “Cy Coleman Discusses His Unique Dutch Musical,
Grace
,”
Playbill.com
, January 10, 2002, accessed April 11, 2013,
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/67083-Cy-Coleman-Discusses-His-Unique-Dutch-Musical-Grace
.
6
Pat Birch, interview by the author, October 16, 2013.
7
Mary-Mitchell Campbell, interview by the author, November 12, 2013.
8
Ibid.
9
Ibid.
10
Ibid.
11
Ibid.
12
Ibid.
13
Ibid.
14
Ibid.
15
Ibid.
16
David Zippel, interview by the author, September 3, 2013.
17
David Zippel, email to the author, July 20, 2014.
18
David Zippel, interview by the author, September 3, 2013.
19
Mary-Mitchell Campbell, interview by the author, November 12, 2013.
20
Alan and Marilyn Bergman, interview by the author, May 7, 2013.
21
Kenneth Jones, “Will Cy Coleman and the Bergmans’
Like Jazz
, ‘a New Kind of Musical,’ Find a Broadway Home?,”
Playbill.com
, March 15, 2004, accessed April 11, 2013.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/84967-Will-Cy-Coleman-and-the-Bergmans-Like-Jazz-a-New-Kind-of-Musical-Find-a-Broadway-Home
.
22
Alan and Marilyn Bergman, interview by the author, May 7, 2013.
23
Ibid.
24
Ibid.
25
Pat Birch, interview by the author, May 29, 2013.
26
Ibid.
27
Alan and Marilyn Bergman, interview by the author, May 7, 2013.
28
Avery Corman, interview by the author, October 8, 2013.
29
Ibid.
30
Ibid.
31
Nick Corley, interview by the author, August 2, 2013.
32
Avery Corman, interview by the author, October 8, 2013.
33
Nick Corley, interview by the author, August 2, 2013.
34
Daniel Marcus, interview by the author, August 2, 2013.
35
Nick Corley, interview by the author, August 2, 2013.
36
Ibid.
37
Daniel Marcus, interview by the author, August 2, 2013.
Chapter Thirty-two
1
Shelby Coleman, interview by the author, October 1, 2013.
2
Charlie MacPherson, interview by the author, October 14, 2013.
3
Houston Huddleston, interview by the author, January 11, 2014.
4
Mary-Mitchell Campbell, interview by the author, November 12, 2013.
5
Shelby Coleman, interview by the author, October 1, 2013.
6
Ibid.
7
Nick Corley, interview by the author, August 2, 2013.
8
Cy Coleman, interview by David Kenney,
Everything Old Is New Again
, WBAI-FM, New York, NY, October 10, 2004.
9
Ibid.
10
Shelby Coleman, interview by the author, October 1, 2013.
Coda
1
David Zippel, interview by the author, September 3, 2013.
2
Erik Haagensen, “The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman,”
BackStage.com
, posted May 25, 2011, accessed January 25, 2014,
http://www.backstage.com/review/ny-theater/off-broadway/the-best-is-yet-to-come-the-music-of-cy-coleman_2/
.
3
David Zippel, interview by the author, September 3, 2013.
A baby photo of Cy.
Cy—in a school photo, perhaps—in 1937.
Cy with his sister Yetta circa 1940.
Cy (
sitting, bottom left
) with his family, circa1930. His mother, Ida, is standing at left; his father, Max, is at center.
Cy (
right
), with three friends, unwinds in the Catskills.
Cy with his bandmates in the Catskills in the late 1940s.
Cy takes part in one of the amateur shows at Kaufman’s in the Catskills, circa 1953. Photo by Irv Roth.
Cy (
standing to left of sign
) with the
Date in Manhattan
crew at Tavern on the Green.
Cy as he appeared on television screens on the morning program
Date in Manhattan
.