Jeanine Tesori just won a Tony Award for her Broadway musical, “Kimberly Akimbo,” making her the first female composer to win multiple Tony Awards for Best Original Score. In the latest entry to Playbill’s video series, "My Life in the Theatre," Tesori sits down with a Playbill binder containing every Playbill from every show she’s ever done on Broadway. Tesori walks us through her career, from her start in the Broadway pit orchestra to doctoring other people’s tunes to finally composing her own Broadway show—plus learn what Broadway show she did where one of the producers was in jail, and how “Thoroughly Modern Millie” was originally going to be a jukebox musical.
00:00 Introduction
00:23 The Secret Garden
01:31 The Who’s Tommy
02:57 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
03:43 Dream
04:30 The Sound of Music
06:23 Twelfth Night
08:12 Swing!
08:28 Thoroughly Modern Millie
10:24 Caroline, or Change
12:33 Shrek The Musical
14:29 A Free Man of Color
15:46 Violet
17:32 Fun Home
21:08 Caroline, or Change
22:48 Kimberly Akimbo
Learn more about "Kimberly Akimbo" here: https://playbill.com/production/kimberly-akimbo-broadway-2022
Direction and Editing: Ethan Treiman
Production: Margaret Hall, Dean Greer, Jeffrey Vizcaino, and Heather Gershonowitz
