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Author: Lee Summers
Actor/Director/Librettist/Lyricist/Composer and Educator, presently Adjunct Faculty at The Steinhardt School’s Department of Music & Performing Arts Professions at New York University
Summers wins 2nd AUDELCO Award for “Best Director of a Musical” “Ella, for Lady of Song”
ELLA: FIRST LADY OF SONG 2022 AUDELCO winners Dionne Hendricks, Lee Summers, Harriett D. Foy. Photo by Benjamin Smith “Ella, First Lady of Song,” conceived by Maurice Hines, written & directed by Lee Summers, receives five 2022 AUDELCO Awards: “Best Lead Actress in a Musical” – Freda Payne “Best Director of a Musical” – Lee…
Bayard the Musical -The Unauthorized story of the most important Civil Rights leader you’ve never heard of.
The Unauthorized story of the most important civil rights leader you’ve never heard of. Music, Book & Lyrics by Lee Summers
The System – The Stop and Frisk Musical
Will three Broadway performers of color, profiled and arrested for marijuana possession in Giuliani’s New York in 1998, survive The System? – Book, Music and Lyrics by Lee Summers
Yo’ Alice – A Hip Hop Alice in Wonderland
An Original Musical – Conceived by Maurice Hines, Book by Lee Summers, Music and Lyrics by Timothy Graphenreed & Lee Summers
On Kentucky Avenue – Lee Summers, Winner 2018 AUDELCO AWARD: “Best Director of a Musical.”
An Original Musical – Created by Jeree Wade, Written by Ty Stephens and Adam Wade with Additional Material by Lee Summers. Directed by Lee Summers
I Remember Harlem (A Tap Dance Tale)
Book by Kevin Ramsey and Lee Summers Music and Lyrics by Lee Summers and Kevin Ramsey I Remember Harlem (A Tap Dance Tale) I Remember Harlem opens on the funeral of a recently deceased African American song and dance man of yesterday whose deferred dreams of stardom had culminated as a Harlem bootblack (shoe shine man)…
Off-Broadway’s ‘From My Hometown’ – the three-man Rhythm and Blues Musical – Nominated for 8 AUDELCO Awards
Off-Broadway’s Rags to Riches Celebration of the American Dream in Classic R&B!
Ella, First Lady of Song – Winner of 5 AUDELCO Awards (2022)
‘Ella, First Lady of Song’ stars the legendary Freda Payne – Conceived by Maurice Hines, Written & Directed by Lee Summers
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