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 PridePrejudiceMusical@gmail.com
JOSIE BROWN, Book/Libretto
Josie's nonfiction books include a humor dictionary, Last Night I Dreamt of Cosmopolitans (St. Martin's Press) as well as The Complete Idiot's Guide to Finding Mr. Right (Penguin/Alpha Books) and Marriage Confidential: 102 Honest Answers to the Questions Every Husband Wants to Ask, and Every Wife Needs to Know (Signal Press)
Her celebrity profiles and relationship articles have appeared in Redbook, Complete Woman, and have been distributed via the Los Angeles Times Syndicate International.
Josie's nonfiction books include a humor dictionary, Last Night I Dreamt of Cosmopolitans (St. Martin's Press) as well as The Complete Idiot's Guide to Finding Mr. Right (Penguin/Alpha Books) and Marriage Confidential: 102 Honest Answers to the Questions Every Husband Wants to Ask, and Every Wife Needs to Know (Signal Press)
Her celebrity profiles and relationship articles have appeared in Redbook, Complete Woman, and have been distributed via the Los Angeles Times Syndicate International.
PRAISE FOR JOSIE BROWN
"Josie Brown writes with all the secrets, sex, money and scandal of an OK! Magazine cover story. Truly entertaining reading." —Jackie Collins, bestselling author of Hollywood Wives and Poor Little Bitch Girl
"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
"... 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
"A fine piece of literary work." — New York Post's PAGE SIX
"Sounds like the perfect Holiday stocking stuffer." — (Phoenix) Arizona National Ledger
"I loved it! Josie Brown captures the highs and lows of love, lust and marriage with heartwrenching pathos. I'm recommending it to all my friends as the perfect beach read!" —Lisa Rinna, actress, and author of the novel, Starlit
