Kim Oler
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Kim Oler is an American
television
and theatrical
composer
. He is a member of the BMI and Dramatists Guild.
won a Richard Rodgers award in 1998, the track did not make it to Broadway
. They left the show in April 2000, and worked on musical tracks at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, including songs for a musical version of Arthur Wing Pinero
's The Enchanted Cottage, while their music for Little Women was redone by Allan Knee
, Mindi Dickstein and Jason Howland
.
After contacting Raymond de Felitta
, the director
/screenwriter
of the 2000 independent film Two Family House
, Oler and Hubbard worked on a musical version of the film, with de Felitta serving as the librettist. The musical was called Buddy's Tavern, and was chosen for the 2004 ASCAP/Disney Workshop in New York City
.
A few years later, Oler and Hubbard were asked by lyricist/librettist Sean Hartley, perhaps best known for his work on the musical Cupid and Psyche
, to help him arrange a Spring 2003 concert, with musical material from winners of the Richard Rodger award. The partners had agreed with each other, before, that they would not embark on their own musical version of Little Women until someone had asked them. He had been impressed by their songs for the original musical, although they ended up altering each of the original songs, and writing several new ones. In 2003, Broadway producer turned-community theatre producer John Wulp
listened to Oler and Hubbard's original songs, and asked for the two, and Hartley, to put their version together. It became an amateur run in Wulp's North Haven Island community/educational
theatre, and ran for sixteen performances.
. He was nominated from 2003 to 2008, and won twice in 2003 and 2005. His first DE win was shared with Terry Walker, A.J. Gundell
, Jerry Pilato
, Dominic Messinger
, Gary Kuo
, Mike Renzi
, John Wineglass
, Brian Comotto, Loris Holland
, Robbie Kondor
, Ron Goodman, Brian Tarquin
, Peter Fish, and Jim Klein. Oler's work on AMC also won the BMI Television Music Awards of those same years.
Oler, lyricist
Alison Hubbard and librettist Allan Knee
together won a Richard Rodgers
award in 1998, for their songwriting in the musical Little Women
.
Kim Oler also won the 2002 BMI Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Musical Theater, for his work on the musical version of The Enchanted Cottage. The following year he won the Jerry Bock award for his work in the musical.
United States
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television
Television
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and theatrical
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
. He is a member of the BMI and Dramatists Guild.
Positions held
- Composer on Little WomenLittle Women (musical)Little Women is a musical with a book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland.Based on Louisa May Alcott's classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel, it focuses on the four March sisters - brassy, tomboy-like, aspiring writer Jo, romantic Meg, pretentious Amy, and...
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and Babes in ToylandBabes in Toyland (operetta)Babes in Toyland is an operetta composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough , which wove together various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes into a Christmas-themed musical extravaganza. The creators wanted to cash in on the extraordinary success of The Wizard of Oz,...
, All My ChildrenAll My ChildrenAll My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
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, and The Guiding Light. - Orchestrator on The Hanoi Hilton (1987)
Work with Alison Hubbard
Although Oler and Alison Hubbard's songwriting work on the musical adaptation of Little WomenLittle Women (musical)
Little Women is a musical with a book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland.Based on Louisa May Alcott's classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel, it focuses on the four March sisters - brassy, tomboy-like, aspiring writer Jo, romantic Meg, pretentious Amy, and...
won a Richard Rodgers award in 1998, the track did not make it to Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
. They left the show in April 2000, and worked on musical tracks at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, including songs for a musical version of Arthur Wing Pinero
Arthur Wing Pinero
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director.-Biography:...
's The Enchanted Cottage, while their music for Little Women was redone by Allan Knee
Allan Knee
-Stage:*Little Women *The Man Who was Peter Pan -Stage:*Little Women (Broadway musical) (2005)*The Man Who was Peter Pan -Stage:*Little Women (Broadway musical) (2005)*The Man Who was Peter Pan (42nd Street Workshop 'Off-Broadway. (March 1998)*Late Nite Comic (Broadway) (1987)-Film/TV:*Esther's...
, Mindi Dickstein and Jason Howland
Jason Howland
Jason Howland is a musical theatre composer, playwright, conductor, music director, and producer. His most notable work has been writing the music for the Broadway musical Little Women.-Biography:...
.
After contacting Raymond de Felitta
Raymond De Felitta
Raymond De Felitta is an American independent filmmaker, writer and musician from New York City.-Film career:De Felitta graduated from the American Film Institute's directing program, class of 1990. That same year he was nominated for an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film at the 63rd Academy...
, the director
Film director
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/screenwriter
Screenwriter
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of the 2000 independent film Two Family House
Two Family House
Two Family House is a 2000 film based on the story of the uncle of the film's writer and director Raymond De Felitta . The film won the Audience Award at Sundance 2000...
, Oler and Hubbard worked on a musical version of the film, with de Felitta serving as the librettist. The musical was called Buddy's Tavern, and was chosen for the 2004 ASCAP/Disney Workshop in New York City
New York City
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.
A few years later, Oler and Hubbard were asked by lyricist/librettist Sean Hartley, perhaps best known for his work on the musical Cupid and Psyche
Cupid and Psyche
Cupid and Psyche , is a legend that first appeared as a digressionary story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the 2nd century CE. Apuleius likely used an earlier tale as the basis for his story, modifying it to suit the thematic needs of his novel.It has...
, to help him arrange a Spring 2003 concert, with musical material from winners of the Richard Rodger award. The partners had agreed with each other, before, that they would not embark on their own musical version of Little Women until someone had asked them. He had been impressed by their songs for the original musical, although they ended up altering each of the original songs, and writing several new ones. In 2003, Broadway producer turned-community theatre producer John Wulp
John Wulp
John Wulp is an American scenic designer, producer, and director. Wulp won a Tony Award for Best Revival for his production of Dracula in 1978. He also received a Tony Award nomination and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for his designs in the 1979 production of The Crucifer of...
listened to Oler and Hubbard's original songs, and asked for the two, and Hartley, to put their version together. It became an amateur run in Wulp's North Haven Island community/educational
theatre, and ran for sixteen performances.
Awards and nominations
Oler has been nominated for four Daytime Emmy awards in the category Outstanding achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series, for his work on All My ChildrenAll My Children
All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
. He was nominated from 2003 to 2008, and won twice in 2003 and 2005. His first DE win was shared with Terry Walker, A.J. Gundell
A.J. Gundell
A.J. Gundell is an American musician and music director. He has won 13 Emmy awards; his favorites being three in the "Outstanding Original Song" category.-Discography:...
, Jerry Pilato
Jerry Pilato
Jerry Pilato is an American director of television shows and theatrical plays. He has worked on the ABC Daytime drama series All My Children, for which he has received four Daytime Emmy wins and fifteen nominations...
, Dominic Messinger
Dominic Messinger
Dominic Messinger is an American soap opera composer. He began his work in soapmusic on "General Hospital", and has since co-written and composed over one hundred original songs for various soaps...
, Gary Kuo
Gary Kuo
Gary Kuo is an American composer and violinist. He has worked as a composer on Another Night , As the World Turns and All My Children. He played the violin for the film The Glass Shield in 1994, and instructed on the violin for Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance that same year...
, Mike Renzi
Mike Renzi
Mike Renzi is an American pianist, arranger, and musical director. He is best known for his collaborations with some of the legends of pop-jazz singing, notably Peggy Lee, Lena Horne, Mel Tormé, Cleo Laine, Blossom Dearie, and Jack Jones...
, John Wineglass
John Wineglass
John Christopher Wineglass is an American television composer.-Biography:Wineglass was born in Washington, D.C., in 1972. He played in the DC Youth orchestra in 1984, and ten years later he received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition at the American University...
, Brian Comotto, Loris Holland
Loris Holland
Loris Holland is an American composer, record producer, synthesizer and songwriter.-Biography:Holland grew up in the British Guyana, to a family which forbade any music other than hymns and classical music, due to the deaths of his maternal grandfather and uncle on separate occasions, whilst...
, Robbie Kondor
Robbie Kondor
Robbie Kondor is an American composer, session musician, and arranger. He has worked as a composer on The Significant Other, Ball In The House, Sally Jessy Ralphael, Happiness , The Suburbans , Forever Fabulous ,Drawing Angel , Series 7: The Contenders , Home Delivery and Equality U...
, Ron Goodman, Brian Tarquin
Brian Tarquin
Brian Tarquin is a guitarist/composer is established as a top-rated recording artist & TV composer. In 2003 and 2005, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series and also received Emmy nominations in 2001, 2002 and 2004.He wrote the theme...
, Peter Fish, and Jim Klein. Oler's work on AMC also won the BMI Television Music Awards of those same years.
Oler, lyricist
Lyricist
A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...
Alison Hubbard and librettist Allan Knee
Allan Knee
-Stage:*Little Women *The Man Who was Peter Pan -Stage:*Little Women (Broadway musical) (2005)*The Man Who was Peter Pan -Stage:*Little Women (Broadway musical) (2005)*The Man Who was Peter Pan (42nd Street Workshop 'Off-Broadway. (March 1998)*Late Nite Comic (Broadway) (1987)-Film/TV:*Esther's...
together won a Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
award in 1998, for their songwriting in the musical Little Women
Little Women (musical)
Little Women is a musical with a book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland.Based on Louisa May Alcott's classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel, it focuses on the four March sisters - brassy, tomboy-like, aspiring writer Jo, romantic Meg, pretentious Amy, and...
.
Kim Oler also won the 2002 BMI Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Musical Theater, for his work on the musical version of The Enchanted Cottage. The following year he won the Jerry Bock award for his work in the musical.
Further reading
- Between the Lines: Sources for Singing the Living Tradition; page 162. By Jacqui James. Publisher Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, 1998. ISBN 1558963316 / ISBN 9781558963313
External links
- Kim Oler at the Internet Broadway DatabaseInternet Broadway DatabaseThe Internet Broadway Database is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel. It is operated by the Research Department of The Broadway League, a trade association for the North American commercial theatre community....
- Kim Oler at Stage Pass.com
- www.villagetheatre.com