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Encompass New Opera Theatre
138 S. Oxford Street, Suite 1A
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718.398.4675 tel.
718.398.4684 fax
encompassopera@yahoo.com

Nancy Rhodes
Artistic Director

Mara Waldman
Music Director



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about our past galas.

The Diary of Anne Frank

Touring available for a Gertrude Stein musical trilogy. Click here for more information

Praise for Encompass New Opera Theatre

"The most distinctive music heard all season."
USA Today (for Only Heaven)

"An inventive and most pleasing triple bill."
—The New York Times (for Miss Havisham's Wedding Night, Ocean Dream, and I Will Wait)

"[Nancy] Rhodes is one of the most inventive directors of the theatre."
—The (Bergen) Record (for Elizabeth and Essex)

2009 Jazz Gala:

Sunday, October 4th, 6:00 pm
National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South


Encompass Honors Composer Maury Yeston

Tony Award winning Composer for Best Musical and Best Score for NINE and TITANIC!
Tony Award Nominated for GRAND HOTEL.


Encompass New Opera Theatre Presents
The Lifetime Achievement Award
to Bookwriter Joseph Stein

Musical Books written by Joseph Stein include:
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Author of a Musical

Plain and Fancy (1955), Mr. Wonderful (1956), The Body Beautiful (1958), Take Me Along (1959), Juno (1959), Zorbá (1968), The Baker's Wife (1976), King of Hearts (1978), Carmelina (1979), and Rags (1986).
He also successfully dramatized Carl Reiner's comic novel Enter Laughing (1963),
which he later adapted into the musical So Long, 174th Street (1976).

 


 

2009 Jazz Gala:

Chip Seelig and Bettye Martin Musham hosted
Encompass New Opera Theatre’s Jazz Gala

In celebration of the summer solstice, the renowned jazz & cabaret artist Ann Hampton Callaway sang in a unique Tribeca loft with panoramic views of the Hudson. Additionally, Trio Jazz Brasil, Flutist Mark Weinstein’s trio played World-based Jazz and Post-Bebop rooted in Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, African, Jewish and Indian traditions.

 


2008 Gala:

May 18th Encompass Honored Composer Jerry Bock




Tony Award winning Composer for Fiddler on the Roof, The Apple Tree, She Loves Me, The Rothschilds
and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner for Fiorello!



2007 Gala:

Encompass Honored Composer Jerry Herman


Jerry Herman and Angela Lansbury autograph original poster of MAME at the Gala honoring Mr. Herman


2006 Gala:




Season 2005 Highlights:


Season 2004 Highlights:

Sheldon Harnick



Encompass New Opera Theatre is dedicated to creating a new home for American opera and new music theatre.

 

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