Jeanine Tessori

The Girl in 14G

New York’s Jeanine Tessori (b.1961) is a versatile composer, arranger, record producer and conductor who is known for her musicals, Shrek: the Musical (2008), Violet (1997), which won an Obie Award, and Caroline, or Change, which won the 2004 Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Music), and for new music she composed for the 2002 Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. The Girl in 14G (2000), with lyrics by Dick Scanlan (b.1960), was written especially for Kristen Chenowith, star of television (The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, GCB, Glee, etc.) and Broadway (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Wicked), to show off her versatility as it moves from musical comedy through operatic and jazz idioms.

--November 18, 2007 (Bella Voce Cabaret)

--November 7, 2012 (JU Voice Students)