ABOUT THE AUTHORS

RITA ABRAMS, Music and Lyrics
Two-time Emmy Award winning composer/lyricist Rita Abrams has just won her twenty-sixth ASCAP Popular Music Award (January, 2007).  During 2005-6, her comedy albums with Dr. Elmo, ("Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer") sold over 500,000 copies for the Sony/BMG label. Their latest album appeared for nine weeks on the Billboard comedy charts.

Rita’s stage musicals have earned her three San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards. These include NEW WRINKLES, currently running in Canada, with past productions Pennsylvania, and Oregon, and her musical revue FOR WHOM THE BRIDGE TOLLS, which ran for over ten years in various San Francisco Bay Area cities.

Her musical version of John Gray’s MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS has run for a year at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. For her work in records, video and film, she has won awards from Associated Press (Best Video), New York TV and Film Festival, Parents' Choice, and CINE. Her 1970’s record, "Mill
Valley," was an international hit, reaching #5 on the national Billboard charts.

Theatrical producers are welcome to discuss  this and other musical theater projects by Rita Abrams and Josie Brown. Email us at P2Musical@yahoo.com

JOSIE BROWN, Book
(Adapted from Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE)
Josie is the author of two novels: IMPOSSIBLY TONGUE-TIED (HarperCollins/Avon) and TRUE HOLLYWOOD LIES (HarperCollins/Avon), as well as the fictionista chick lit humor dictionary, LAST NIGHT I DREAMT OF COSMOPOLITANS (St. Martin's Press). Her celebrity profiles and relationship articles have appeared in Redbook, Complete Woman, and have been distributed via the Los Angeles Times Syndicate International.

"BRAD, Angelina, Britney and Kevin may want to check out Josie Brown's new novel, Impossibly Tongue-Tied, for its ripped-from-the-headlines plot that mixes their scandals together..." — New York Post's PAGE SIX

"Sounds like the perfect Holiday stocking stuffer." — (Phoenix) Arizona National Ledger

"... Brown's debut novel [True Hollywood Lies] confirms just what you suspect about celebrity and unfolds with all the inevitability of a romantic comedy.. A love triangle between Hannah, her boss and his best friend Mick Bradshaw gives the book the tension that drives this well-paced, entertaining story forward…" — Publishers Weekly

"...The tone is confessional, the writing laced with venomous humor..." -- Wall Street Journal

"Once again, PAGE SIX has been featured in a fine piece of literary work. In True Hollywood Lies by relationship expert Josie Brown, the main character, second-generation Hollywood royalty "Hannah," rehashes all the press she receives when her relationship with Hugh Grant-like "Louis Trollope" becomes public. Of all the publications the character lists, only this esteemed column got it right - and first, of course..." — New York Post's PAGE SIX