Amanda is an award-winning songwriter and performer.
She recently made her Broadway debut writing the lyrics for the Broadway
Musical HIGH FIDELITY, based on the Nick Hornby novel and film. (2006, with
composer Tom Kitt, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire (Pulitzer Prize for RABBIT
HOLE), director Walter Bobbie (CHICAGO) and produced by The Producing Group
(RENT, AVENUE Q). Although the musical was short-lived, her lyrics
garnered much critical praise, as has the Original Cast Recording. The
first regional production of HIGH FIDELITY is slated for Summer 2008 in St.
Louis.
She and Mr. Kitt have also written songs for the stage musical DEBBIE DOES
DALLAS, as well as a planned movie version for Universal Films. Also with
Mr. Kitt, she has written special material for stars KRISTIN CHENOWETH, CHRISTINE
EBERSOLE, MARIO CANTONE, et al.
Tapped by the legendary writer ARTHUR LAURENTS (WEST SIDE STORY, GYPSY)
she wrote additional lyrics for a revival of HALLELUJAH BABY (Arena Stage,
2004).
She costarred and wrote the lyrics for the NY Fringe Festival hit comedy
FOR THE LOVE OF TIFFANY: A Wifetime Original Musical(2003; music
Curtis Moore).
She won the 2004 JONATHAN LARSON Award. She also received an L.A.
DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD NOMINATION (Best Score), a GARLAND AWARD (Best
Score) and ëCritics Pick' of The Los Angeles Times, for her lyrics
for the musical comedy UP THE WEEK WITHOUT A PADDLE (music by Curtis Moore). Also
with Mr. Moore, she wrote ONCE UPON A PRIMETIME (2002).
Amanda is also a celebrated performer, who appears regularly in clubs
throughout the city, from Birdland to Joe's Pub. She has won
two MAC AWARDS (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Comedy Clubs)(Outstanding
Musical Comedy Performer and Comedy Song). She's received
Backstage Magazine's BISTRO AWARD (Outstanding Comedy Song) and The
ABE OLMAN AWARD (Excellence In Songwriting) from THE SONGWRITER'S
HALL OF FAME. She has been cited a Critics Pick by THE NEW
YORK POST, THE DAILY NEWS, and TIME OUT NEW YORK.
Her original revue "PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR MOUTH! The Songs of
Amanda Green" costarred Amanda and several Broadway stars. It
sold-out at Off Broadway's Second Stage Theater and at Joe's
Pub at The Public Theater. A live CD of the show has garnered unanimously
rave reviews, and was voted "CD Pick Of The Month" by THEATERMANIA.COM.
She and many Broadway performers have performed her songs in concert
halls and clubs including Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall with Michael
Feinstein, Town Hall,Birdland, and on Broadway in NOTHING LIKE A
DAME, etc. Her one-woman show "TAKE IT LIKE AMANDA!" was
a critical and popular success at The Laurie Beechman Theater, where it was
extended twice.
In the ë90's she fell in love with the music of Lyle Lovett. This
led her to spend several years going down to Nashville and co-writing
songs and performing at The Bluebird CafÈ and others. She was
a featured songwriter/performer at TIN PAN SOUTH 2007, sharing a Songwriter's
Circle at the famed BLUEBIRD CAF… with STEPHEN SCHWARTZ, MARCUS HUMMON
("Ready To Run" "Cowboy Take Me Away"), and MIKE
REID ("I Can't Make You Love Me If You Don't"). She
returned to Nashville in September 2007 for Tin Pan South's "Songposium" where
she wrote, taught a class on Writing For Musical Theater for NSAI(Nashville
Songwriters Association) and performed again at The Bluebird CafÈ.
She has also contributed several humorous articles to Playboy Magazine,
where she made a fan of HEF.
She graduated from Brown University and Circle In The Square's Professional
Actors Training Program. She is the daughter of the late legendary
writer, lyricist and performer Adolph Green, half ot the famous duo of Comden & Green
(SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, THE BAND WAGON) and the actress Phyllis Newman. Amanda
lives in Manhattan with her husband Jeffrey Kaplan, an orthopedic surgeon
CRITICAL PRAISE
"Green is a master of the craft. Her lyrics pack everything
you need to know about a character into a neatly wrapped, deftly rhymed package. She
specializes in murderously witty songs that crackle with Sondheim-style
wordplay, transposed into a post-modern key.
-Terry
Teachout, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
"Amanda Green's lyrics for HIGH FIDELITY are as good as or better
than most of what Broadway has had to offer in a long time. They are
clever, charming, witty, diverse, knowledgeable, beautifully fitted to character
and most resourcefully rhymed. Could anyone ask for more?
-John
Simon, BROADWAY.COM
"HIGH FIDELITY was the most underrated show of 2006. Amanda
Green's slacker-cum-sophisticate lyrics seem to come right
out of Hornby's novelÖThen there's the brilliantly
ironic codependent ballad ''Ready to Settle'' (''You're just like
me / Alone and sad / And in this light / You don't look so bad / I've
had the best, now I need a rest / Just someone who'll do, and I'm
ready to settle for you'')."
-Melissa Rose Bernardo, ENTERTAINMENT
WEEKLY
"This is one green apple that hasn't fallen far from the tree. Green's
razzle-dazzle lyrics have a style and grace that zing in the ear."
-Clive Barnes, The New York Post
"Sharp, funny and intelligent lyrics by Amanda Green."
-Frank Rizzo, VARIETY
" Green's lyrics for HIGH FIDELITY are fresh
and funny. Together, Green's words and Kitt's
melodies do something that every good musical should
try to accomplish ó define character."
-Michael Kuchawara,
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"The musical numbers in High Fidelity really are its mother
lode. Act Two bubbles over with so many show-stealers that
you begin to wonder whether it has anything left to plunder. Indeed,
it keeps bringing out the treasures..."
-The Philadelphia Enquirer
"Green's lyrics are nothing if not audacious. She
backs her brashness with genuine wit."
-THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
"It's easy being Green when you're
this good! Fresh, funny, sexy, hip, confident
and confiding ... there are lines in her songs that couldn't
be improved upon...your eyes widen in delight!"
-THE NEW YORK POST
"The score (for "UP THE WEEK WITHOUT
A PADDLE" by Amanda Green and Curtis Moore)
contains what is now a rare commodity: hummable
songs and ingenious lyrics which are adeptly woven
into the uproariously sharp-witted book."
-BACKSTAGE
MAGAZINE WEST
"Three thumbs way up for Amanda Green, a
slinky blond with high heels and lofty wit! But
there were heartfelt ballads too, making for an
evening so diversely fun that I left humming the
evening's title tune, PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR
MOUTH!"
-Michael Musto, THE VILLAGE
VOICE
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