
Barry
Kleinbort
Composer | Lyricist | Playwright | Director
Photo: Maryann LoPinto
BARRY KLEINBORT has worked as an actor, director, composer, lyricist and librettist, which has earned him 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, three Back Stage Bistro awards and twelve Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) awards for his directorial and songwriting efforts.
Upcoming Show
Monday
March 3, 2025
7:00 pm at Birdland
315 West 44th Street
NY, NY 10034
Joining me on this journey through the musical files of Kleinbort-mania, culled from the past four decades, is a glorious group of performers from Broadway and cabaret including (in alphabetical order:) Loni Ackerman, Lewis Cleale, Lorna Dallas, Gregg Edelman, Penny Fuller, Eric Michael Gillett, Judy Kaye, Nicolas King, Karen Mason, Gretchen Reinhagen, Caroline Roelands, and Haley Swindal. Three of Mr. Kleinbort’s esteemed musical directors will be at the piano: Christopher Denny, Paul Greenwood and David Gaines. The equally revered Tom Hubbard is on bass.
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“Barry Kleinbort is a fount of all things musical and theatrical and human…and the provocateur of all things musical and theatrical and human in me... and in those with whom he works!”
Penny Fuller • Actress and Singer