Marion Adler's work has been heard across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Her musical
ENTER THE GUARDSMAN
(with Craig Bohmler and Scott Wentworth) was produced in London's West End at
the Donmar Warehouse where it received an Olivier Award nomination for Best
New Musical. It has since been produced in Switzerland, New York, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, Indianapolis, the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival,
the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and at San Diego's Old Globe. ENTER THE GUARDSMAN
was recognized as the "most produced new musical" of the 2000-2001 season by
American Theater Magazine, and is published by Rogers and Hammerstein.
Other musical theater works include
GUNMETAL BLUES
(also with
Bohmler and Wentworth), a jazz-blues musical that premiered at Theatre New Brunswick
in 1991 and Off-Broadway in 1992 where the New Yorker described it as "one of
the best small-scale musicals we've seen in a long time." GUNMETAL BLUES is
published by Samuel French and has had over one hundred productions in the U.S.
and Canada. Also represented off-Broadway were Ms. Adler's lyrics in "Life Lines"
from the revue
A - MY NAME IS STILL ALICE
and "Dear Max" in
PETS
, both with Carolyn Sloan. She recently completed work
on
HOW TO MAKE A MUSICAL
(with Craig Bohmler) for American
Musical Theater of San Jose, a forty-five minute show for their "outreach" program,
and
LITTLE PINKS
, an adaptation of a Damon Runyon short story,
(with Alan Menken and Connie Grappo.)
Ms. Adler's work has been chosen for workshop development by the Eugene O'Neil Center, The Dramatists Guild, The Roundabout Theater, The National Theater Alliance, and ASCAP. Ms. Adler was a member of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop in New York City for three years. In the year 2000 Ms. Adler was a winner of the highly competitive Kleban Award for her body of work as a lyricist.