The Bard of Savannah celebrated with jazz concert featuring four unpublished tunes. Johnny Mercer, perhaps the best lyricist Georgia ever produced, never stopped scribbling ideas, and he wrote on ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Directed by Josh Sazon and with Music Direction by Wes Habley, MOON RIVER: The ...

Even the greatest songwriters tended to think of him in a whole other league. His name became shorthand for a standard of excellence in songwriting, as in, “Yeah, I’m a good songwriter. I’m no Johnny ...

At Dizzy’s Club, the host and curator, Deborah Grace Winer, observed that Johnny Mercer had a “truly American voice” as a songwriter, being at once “a folk poet” and also “a real urbane, snazzy ...

Lyricist and composer Johnny Mercer — born Nov. 18, 1909, in Savannah, Ga. — wrote or co-wrote more than 1,000 songs, including American Songbook standards like "Skylark," "That Old Black Magic" and ...

The last time Stephanie Blythe performed with San Diego Opera in 2014, she presented a concert of songs made famous by contralto Kate Smith that she spent 15 years researching and planning. When the ...

The San Diego Opera brings a powerful voice to town for what promises to be an intimate, nostalgic performance of the great American lyricist Johnny Mercer A powerhouse in the opera world, mezzo ...

As the Venice Theatre reopens it's doors after six months, it presents Moon River - The Songs of Johnny Mercer as one of the first offerings of its new season. Along with theatres across the country ...

What do "Hooray for Hollywood," "Dream," and "Moon River" have in common? They all were written by Johnny Mercer, a man with a genius for writing fabulous song lyrics. He also composed music and was a ...

Sixteen emerging musicians across the world will gather virtually in June for an intensive week-long program in songwriting. The Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project, in its 16th year, is a ...