Ellen Mandel: Home
COMING JUNE 11: Thomas Hardy Celebration at Cornelia St Cafe, with Paul Hecht, Dee Nelson, and Daniel Neer sings new songs by Ellen Mandel to Hardy's poems!!
COMING JUNE 9 and 10: Rumpelstiltskin at the Hudson Theatre Ensemble.
COMING in AUGUST: Little Men at the Peterborough Players
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PAMELA BOB of the hit show SILENCE sings songs by Ellen Mandel----listen on my music page!
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RECENT SHOWS with music by Ellen Mandel: RUTHERFORD AND SON at the Mint Theatre, RUMPLESTILTSKIN and THE TOYMAKER'S APPRENTICE, books by Kathy Menino, music and lyrics by Ellen Mandel at the Wild Project, AGAMEMNON HOME, by Glyn Maxwell, and ART, produced by Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and SONGS IN THE KEY OF GIGGLES, a program of Ellen's songs for Puss in Boots, Three Pigs, Toymaker's Apprentice
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THE TOYMAKER'S APPRENTICE and RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Original cast album of the show makes a great gift!!! see "Buy" window, or email mandelandlydon@earthlink.net
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Kathy Menino and Ellen Mandel conducted songwriting workshops with the audiences after performances of Toymaker's Apprentice, Songs in the Key of Giggles, and Rumpelstiltskin. Go to the music page to hear the songs we wrote!!
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THE FIRST OF ALL MY DREAMS and A WIND HAS BLOWN THE RAIN AWAY, my two song CD's with extraordinary singer TODD ALMOND available at St Mark's Bookshop (NYC), Politics and Prose (Wash DC) and Toadstool Bookshop (Peterborough NH), and at CDBABY.com, or directly through this website!
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THE FIRST OF ALL MY DREAMS:
"WONDERFUL" Sarah Cahill of KALW (San Francisco public radio)
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A WIND HAS BLOWN THE RAIN AWAY:
All Things Considered, NPR: "A striking collaboration: the playful poetry of e.e. cummings set to music by New York composer Ellen Mandel and sung beautifully by Cincinnati tenor and actor Todd Almond. I wish I could give it to every poetry lover I know." *********************************************************************************************************
NY TIMES, Margo Jefferson: "Mandel's settings of poems by E. E. Cummings are ardent and spiky, refreshingly organic."
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