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Sutton Foster & Kelli O'Hara at Carnegie Hall

11/17/2023

 
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I was honored to have the opportunity to orchestrate several songs for Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara's concert with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, November 17, 2023.

LA's A Little New Music - Spotlight Series

8/17/2021

 
Jessica Fleitman and I had the honor of being featured in a live webcast by A Little New Music in Los Angeles. They showed ALNM concert performances of several of our songs from previous years, plus fun discussion and a performance of one of our new songs. Check out the proceedings by clicking here.
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Musical Theatre Radio - In Between the Lines

2/13/2021

 
Songs by Fleitman and Bassett will be featured Saturday mornings, February 13th and 27th at 10 am on the show “In Between the Lines” hosted by David Sisco and Laura Josepher on MusicalTheatreRadio.com - the show on the 27th will include an interview with Jessica and Rick. Please check it out here!
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Song featured on ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com first virtual concert.

4/30/2020

 
​Aaron Phillips performed a Fleitman & Bassett song on the first virtual concert by ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com on April 30 to benefit ​Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP). Article on BWW here. Follow the links above to donate to this organization and to purchase sheet music for this and many other songs by F & B and others!

Fleitman & Bassett on the "Featured Five" at ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com

1/15/2020

 
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​Fleitman & Bassett are now writers at ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com and are on the "Featured Five" blog  to start 2020. Read about it here!

Please check out and buy sheet music to our songs here.
Check out Aaron Phillips rocking the featured song here:

Fleitman & Bassett songs featured at McGuire & Simon Holiday Salon, NYC.

12/21/2019

 
Two Fleitman & Bassett songs were performed at the 5th Annual McGuire & Simon Holiday Salon,
December 21, 2019, at  The Green Room 42, NYC. Music direction by Arri Lawton Simon.

Yes Means Yes: A new song with an updated take on a classic winter song situation.

Performed by Christiana Cole and Aaron Phillips.


A Hanukkah Song: a song lamenting the lack of Hanukkah songs.

​Performed by Jessica and Rick.

Musical "Hope" to be performed in Kampala, Uganda, June 21-30.

5/28/2019

 

​A musical comedy with music, book, and lyrics by Rick Bassett, is having a new production June 21-30, 2019, at the National Theatre in Kampala, Uganda, presented by KADS, the Kampala Amateur Dramatic Society. If you happen to be in Kampala around then, please pick up a ticket at the Uganda National Theatre Box Office and check it out!

​Below is a video from the original 2007 performances:
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Two songs at BMI Musical Theatre Workshop Showcase, April 1

3/14/2019

 
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop Showcase will present two new songs written by Jessica Fleitman and Rick Bassett, from their musical-in-progress THE AVERAGE-SIZED MERMAID. The songs will be performed by Christiana Cole and Aaron Phillips. There are two performances, April 1st at 3 pm and 6 pm. Tickets are free, but require a reservation. Click HERE for more info, and to RSVP. At the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, 10 W 64th St [between Lincoln Center Plaza and Central Park West at the West Side YMCA], New York, NY. 
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A Little New Music, L.A. to present Fleitman and Bassett holiday song Dec. 20.

12/17/2018

 
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A Fleitman and Bassett original holiday song will be part of the celebrations at this concert by A Little Night Music in Los Angeles, Dec. 20th. We're thrilled that ALNM has chosen to perform another of our songs! Details HERE and HERE !

A song by Bill Nelson and Rick Bassett at Lincoln Center, 6pm Dec 17

12/17/2018

 
A holiday song by Bill Nelson and Rick Bassett will be presented at Broadway’s Future Songbook Series. Broadway Actors Will Perform All-New Holiday Songs in a Free Concert presented by Arts and Artists of Tomorrow, in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street). Details in the Playbill announcement HERE !

New song to be performed at the BMI Smoker, December 13

11/29/2018

 
A new song written by Jessica Fleitman and Rick Bassett will be presented at the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop Smoker, a bi-annual showcase of featured songs. Thursday, December 13 at 5PM, at the BMI Media Center, 7 World Trade Center, NYC. The performance is free to the public, reservations required. More info here, and RSVP by emailing at the link here. 
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Fleitman & Bassett present at NY City Center's "The New Musicals of Tomorrow."

10/15/2018

 
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​Jessica Fleitman and Rick Bassett will present a song from their musical "The Average-Sized Mermaid" at New York City Center’s “Front & Center The Original Musicals of Tomorrow with Tom Kitt” Monday October 15, at 6:30 pm. Christiana Cole will perform. New York City Center, Barbara and David Zalaznick Studio, 130 West 56th Street, 5th Floor. All tickets $30. Tickets and more info available here! 

BMI 2018 Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Musical Theatre

6/12/2018

 
Last night, Jessica Fleitman and I won the 2018 Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Musical Theatre from The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop!  We are incredibly grateful to this workshop for providing a supportive community for collaborators to meet, learn, and develop new musical theatre. Looking forward to the next steps Jessica and I take in our collaboration! You can check out some of our songs: here.

Orchestrations performed by Sutton Foster and the Boston Pops

6/6/2018

 
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​June 6th and 7th, 2018: Went to Boston to hear Sutton Foster perform several of my orchestrations with the amazing Boston Pops! Such a thrill to hear this top orchestra perform notes I had put on paper.

Orchestrations on new Sutton Foster CD "Take Me To The World"

6/1/2018

 
Sutton Foster's new CD "Take Me To The World" released June 1, featuring four songs I orchestrated, performed with the Ball State Symphony Orchestra. Please check out this beautiful recording! Available here, and in all the usual online locations.
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