13 Things About Ed Carpolotti

MRT: A Delicate Balance (Winner of the 2009 IRNE award “Best Supporting Actress” for her role as Claire). Broadway: Barefoot in the Park, Cabaret, Rex, Applause (Tony Award Nomination), An American Daughter, Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party (Tony Award Nomination), Dividing the Estate. Off-Broadway/New York: A New Brain, Lincoln Center Theatre; As You Like It, Richard III, Henry IV pt. 1&2, Shakespeare in the Park; Three Viewings, New England, Five By Tenn, Manhattan Theatre Club ; Beautiful Child, Vineyard Theatre; Southern Comforts, Primary Stages; The Cherry Orchard, York Theatre Company; Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Daryl Roth Productions. Regional: The Seagull, The Glass Menagerie, A Little Night Music, Do I Hear a Waltz? International: Sail Away, Lost Musicals -London. Television: Emmy award for The Elephant Man; Emmy nominations for: China Beach, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, NYPD Blue, Miss Rose White, E.R; Recurring roles on: Fortune Dane, Beverly Hills, 90210, and Mad About You. Film: The Beverly Hillbillies, All the President’s Men. Other: In 2004, Ms. Fuller began a collaboration with Barry Kleinbort who encouraged her to enter the world of Cabaret. He created for and directed Ms. Fuller in 7 acts seen in New York in: The Metropolitan Room, Birdland, and 54 Below. They co-taught at the O’Neill Cabaret Conference for seven years, and it was during the last year that Ms. Fuller had the idea to have Barry set her monologue in Manhattan Theatre Company’s Three Viewings to music. This creation became 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti which was workshopped at O’Neill and had its first production in New York at 59E59Street Theatres.

Barry Kleinbort has earned the prestigious Edward Kleban Foundation Award for Lyric Writing, two Gilman-Gonzalez Musical Theatre Awards, the Second Stage Musicals Writers Award, the Jamie deRoy ASCAP award, two Back Stage Bistro awards and ten Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) awards for his directorial and songwriting efforts. He wrote the book and lyrics for the musical, WAS, (music by Joseph Thalken) which was the inaugural production of the American Musical Theater Project in Chicago and is now being readied for other productions.  He co-wrote with David Levy PERFECT HARMONY, a musical play about the lives of the Barry Sisters. As a composer/lyricist, he wrote music and lyrics for Angelina (based on “That Summer –That Fall” by Frank D. Gilroy,) Second Avenue (book by Allan Knee, for the Manhattan Punchline off-Broadway,) and Metropolita(i)n, a bi-lingual musical revue, which has successfully played both in Paris and New York.  He provided scripts for eight PBS TV specials and most recently was an “artistic consultant for “Cathouse: The Musical” for HBO.  His newest musical “13 Things about Ed Carpolotti” starring Penny Fuller had a successful off-Broadway run at 59E59 theater and is now heading for regional theaters.
  Mr. Kleinbort has directed and/or written material for Brent Barrett, Petula Clark, Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Feinstein, Kaye Ballard, Regis Philbin, John Barrowman, Gregg Edelman, Tony Roberts, Anita Gillette, Karen Mason, Sylvia McNair, Heather MacRae, and many, many others. He has also directed topical revues and intimate theater productions, including Rita Gardner's "Try to Remember- A Look at Off-Broadway" and Kaye Ballard’s off-Broadway revue, “Kaye Ballard-Working 42nd Street at Last!”   He adapted and directed the New York premiere of Bob Merrill's musical, "The Prince of Grand Street" for the Jewish Rep and John Epperson’s SHOW TRASH at the Studio Theater in Washington, D.C. which just transferred to off-Broadway for a limited run.  A highly acclaimed revue of his theater songs, BIG CITY RHYTHM, is available on Harbinger Records.