About the Fred Ebb Award:

The Fred Ebb Award recognizes excellence in musical theatre songwriting, by a songwriter or songwriting team that has not yet achieved significant commercial success. The award is meant to encourage and support aspiring songwriters to create new works for the musical theatre. The prize includes a $50,000 award.  In addition to the monetary prize, the Fred Ebb Foundation will produce a one-night-only showcase of Marcy’s and Zina’s work in the spring of 2010.  The Fred Ebb Foundation is funded by royalties from Mr. Ebb’s vast catalogue of work.  The selection panel includes Mitchell S. Bernard, Sheldon Harnick, David Loud, Marin Mazzie, Tim Pinckney and Arthur Whitelaw.

MARCY & ZINA: THE ALBUM

Celebrated Songwriting Duo Steps Into the Spotlight with Debut Album on November 3

Performance at New York’s Renowned Jazz Club Birdland with Special Guests on November 2

Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, the acclaimed songwriting duo, make an exciting studio recording debut with the release of Marcy & Zina: The Album on November 3, 2009 from Yellow Sound Label.  Best known for their romantic comedy songs, hit musicals and sold out concerts, Marcy and Zina step into the studio with this self-titled album, which offers a definitive collection of their work together.

With Marcy & Zina: The Album, these hopeless romantics invite listeners to join them on their search for love from Antarctica to Baltimore, with a big stop smack in the middle of Manhattan.  Assisted by some of the best musicians on the New York scene, this recording is a true collaboration of style, sentiment and toe-tapping melodies.  Marcy & Zina: The Album is a collection of some of the duo’s most celebrated works, an exciting offering for existing fans, and a fantastic introduction of their talent to the rest of the world.

Collaborators since 1993, lyricist Marcy Heisler and composer Zina Goldrich are responsible for some of the New York concert scene’s most lovable character songs, including “Taylor, the Latte Boy,” made famous by Kristin Chenoweth, and “Alto’s Lament.”  The pair earned a 2009 Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for their work on Dear Edwina, which will be returning to New York’s DR2 Theater this winter.  They were also recipients of ASCAP’S 2002 Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award and were nominated for the 2005 Lucille Lortel Award for their Off-Broadway musical Junie B. Jones.

To celebrate the release of Marcy & Zina: The Album, Goldrich and Heisler will perform as part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series, presented by Jim Caruso’s cast party on November 2.  Special guests to included Alan Cumming, Stephanie J. Block, Scott Coulter, Jill Abramovitz, Elena Shaddow and Stephen Bogardus.  Followed the release of the album, tour dates in Los Angeles, Chicago, Waco and other cities will be announced. For more information please visit www.birdlandjazz.com

TRACKLISTING:

• Make Your Own Party
• Fifteen Pounds
• Taylor, the Latte Boy
• Love Like Breathing
• Compromise
• Alto’s Lament
• There’s Nothing I Wouldn’t do
• Gabriel’s List
• Oh How I Loved You
• Los Pinguinos (sung by Jill Abramovitz)
• Baltimore
• Welcome the Rain (sung by Scott Coulter)
• The Last Song
• Menemsha Moon

ABOUT YELLOW SOUND LABEL:
Yellow Sound Label is a cutting-edge record label that produces both established performers and up-and-coming artists.  As a boutique label, the award-winning founders Michael Croiter and Bill Sherman take a hands-on approach in nurturing and producing their artists.  Their goal is to become the go-to independent label for passionate, focused performers and composers who seek a partner in the development and creation of quality, noteworthy recordings.  On the heels of its debut release from Alan Cumming entitled I Bought a Blue Car Today, Yellow Sound Label will follow with new albums from established stars and hot up and comers including: Tony Award® winner Karen Olivo (West Side Story), Christopher Jackson (The Lion King, In the Heights), the celebrated songwriting/performing duo Marcy and Zina (“Taylor, the Latte Boy”) and Jeremiah James, a member of the all-male vocal quartet Teatro.  For more information, please visit: http://yellowsoundlabel.com/

With “Marcy & Zina: The Album,” press notes state, “these hopeless romantics invite listeners to join them on their search for love from Antarctica to Baltimore, with a big stop smack in the middle of Manhattan.”

To celebrate the release of the new disc, Goldrich and Heisler will perform at Birdland Nov. 2 Special guests will include Alan Cumming, Stephanie J. Block, Scott Coulter, Jill Abramovitz, Elena Shaddow and Stephen Bogardus. For more information visit www.birdlandjazz.com.

Tour dates in Los Angeles, Chicago,  and other cities will be announced at a later time
The track list for “Marcy & Zina: The Album” follows:

• Make Your Own Party
• Fifteen Pounds
• Taylor, the Latte Boy
• Love Like Breathing
• Compromise
• Alto’s Lament
• There’s Nothing I Wouldn’t Do
• Gabriel’s List
• Oh How I Loved You
• Los Pinguinos (sung by Jill Abramovitz)
• Baltimore
• Welcome the Rain (sung by Scott Coulter)
• The Last Song
• Menemsha Moon

Broadway songwriters Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich will sing their greatest Broadway hits for one night only on Friday, November 6 in Baylor’s Jones Theatre.
Marcy and Zina, who have been collaborating since 1993, are past recipients of ASCAP’s Richard Rodgers New Horizons Theatre Award. Kristin Chenoweth popularized their song, “Taylor, the Latte boy,” performing it on The Today Show and The Rosie O’Donnell Show and in concert at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House, and the White House. Goldrich and Heisler have also recently been nominated for Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics. As performers, Marcy and Zina have toured domestically and internationally, presenting their music at some of the finest venues, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, but you can see them right here at the Baylor Theatre.
For more information call 254-710-1865.