"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!