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SAMMY BUCK (bookwriter & lyricist) and DANIEL
S. ACQUISTO (composer) are the 2007 winners of a Talking Broadway Summer Theatre Festival citation for Outstanding New Musical for their show The Seven-Year B*tch and the 2004 winners of The National
Music Theater Network and The Theater for the American Musicals’
inaugural New Voices Prize for Like You Like It.
Like You Like It was most recently produced at Theatre Under The Stars in Houston, TX, in collaboration with Sam Houston State University. The show was also an official selection of the 2006
Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre and an audience
favorite at the 2004 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Sammy
and Daniel have developed Like You Like It at the BMI-Lehman
Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop
and the Dramatists Guild’s Jonathan Larson Musical Theatre
Fellowship Program, working under the invaluable tutelage of Lynn
Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and mentors David Shire and Richard
Maltby, Jr. Like You Like It has been workshopped at
NYU and the McCadden Theatre in LA, and has had readings at the
York Theatre, the Village Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals
in Issaquah, WA, and Musical Mondays at the Century Center in
New York. “Bucquisto” songs have been performed at
the N.E.O. Benefit at the York Theatre, Broadway Bound at Merkin
Hall, NAMT/ASCAP’s “In The Wings” at the NAMT
Festival, and Any Minute Now’s “A Beat Ahead”
series. Their song “Be With Me” is featured on the
N.E.O. at the York Theatre CD, performed by Matt Cavenaugh.
The Seven-Year B*tch has played sold-out engagements at the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival and the Beechman Theater in November, 2007, and is slated for a spring production.
Individually, Sammy (Class of '87) is the screenwriter of the upcoming feature Red Hook and an alumnus of the USC Filmic writing program, the Warner Bros. Comedy Writing Workshop and The Groundlings School. An Emmy Award-winning member of the 2005 TV Land Awards website writing team, he has also written the trivia games for Star Trek and M*A*S*H on tvland.com. He was commissioned to write the book for Common Grounds, a unique dance-musical collaboration among five top choreographers, which earned runner-up for Most Promising New Musical at NYMF '06. Other theatre works include the play Barry the Hatchet (All Out Arts Festival, Jerome Foundation Grant) and the short musical 51 in Raw Impressions (Paul Scott Goodman, composer/lyricist). He is a member of BMI and The Dramatists Guild, Inc. Check out sammybuck.com.
Daniel (Class of '88)
received his MM in Composition (acoustic and electronic) from
the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He has been commissioned
to write pieces for theatre
(Dancing in the Dark, Antigone: The Rock Musical - Studio Arena Theatre, Tada!, seven children’s musicals for Merkin Hall, Indiana State Fair), incidental theatre music Subjective Theatre Company, All Out Arts Festival), as well as non-theatrical commissions
(United States Air Force Clarinet Quartet, U. of Cincinnati Men’s Chorus
[Shawnee Press, publisher], U. of Cincinnati News Media Department).
He also participated writing ten-minute musicals for the ATrainMusicals,
Raw Impressions, and FUSE concert theatre group. He has scored
three film shorts (including Swept) and participated in the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring
Workshop. Daniel is also a music director, percussionist, arranger, and orchestrator.
In addition to that, he works as a music copyist and music educator.
Daniel thanks his friends and family for their support and God
for everything else. Member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild,
Inc.
To
hear other stuff they've written, click here (TBA).
(In case we don't have
enough time when we get the Tony)
All of the actors, directors, choreographers, and designers who have worked on the various incarnations of the show as well as:
- Lynn
Ahrens
- Allied Advertising
- Carlos Armesto
ASCAP
- Susan & David Askanase
- David
Atlas
- Becca
Ayers
- Jean
Banks
- Lauren
Bass
- Anne
Blade
- BMI
- Liane Bonin
- The Larry Buck Family
- Kerry
Butler
- Robin Carus
- Matt
Cavenaugh
- Chelsea
Music Service
- Brian
Cimmet
- Michael Cusack
- Cheryl
Davis
- Scott
Denny
- Emi Dowhan
- The
Dramatists Guild, Inc.
- Frank
Evans
- Sharon
Fallon
- Steve
Fickinger
- Peter
Filichia
- Stephen
Flaherty
- Will
Gartshore
- Lucia
Giannetta
- Andrew
Gitzy
- Igor
Goldin
- Judith Goldman
- Bick
Goss
- Babe Green
- Jeff
Gurner
- Roy
Hamlin
- Penny Hasekoester
- Raquel
Hecker
- Liza
and Izzy Herzberg
- Jonathan
Hughes
- Isaac
Hurwitz
- Tim
Jerome
- Penelope
Jewkes
- Michael
Kerker
- Margaret Locher
- Bobby
Lopez
- Kristen
Anderson Lopez
- Elizabeth
Lucas
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- Richard
Maltby Jr.
- Jeff
Marx
- Barry
Mandel
- Jamie
McGonnigal
- Miramax Films
- Judy Moyes
- Stephen
Nachamie
- NAMT
- NMTN
- NYMF
- NYU
Steinhardt School
- Adam
Overett
- Martin
Perlman
- Sally
Rapier
- Shoshanna
Richman
- Royal
Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
- Amy
Rutberg
- Clark,
Sharon, Blaine, & Kailey Sayre
- Scott
Schwartz
- Melanie & Harvey Seigle
- Tally
Sessions
- Todd,
Stacey, Jarrett, Ethan, Adam, & Ryan Sharp
- Bill
Sheldon
- David
Shire
- John
Simpkins
- Rebecca
Soler
- Donna
Soto-Morettini
- Frank Spata
Tracy & Gary Stein
- Kris
Stewart
- Tari
Stratton
- Sandor
and Faye Straus
- Chris
Till
- Daniella
Topol
- Village
Theatre
- Brian
Vinero
- Ben
Whiteley
- Sheri
Wilner
- Matt
Wolf
- Sara
Wordsworth
- Maury
Yeston
- Joanna
Young
- York
Theatre
- And
our families
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