There is never an evening...

when, somewhere in the world,

the music and lyrics of

Jerry Herman

are not being sung by a lady in a red headdress,

or a lady with a bugle,

or a middle-aged man in a wig and a boa.



Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage Aux Folles

are home to some of the most popular, most-often performed

and most successful musical hero(in)es of all time,

and have given Jerry the distinction of being the only composer-lyricist in history

to have had three musicals that ran more than 1,500 consecutive performances on Broadway.

His first Broadway show was Milk and Honey (1961),

followed by Hello, Dolly! (1964),

Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), Mack & Mabel (1974),

The Grand Tour (1979), La Cage Aux Folles (1983), Jerry’s Girls (1985)

and "Mrs. Santa Claus" (1996), a CBS TV special starring Angela Lansbury.

(Showtune, a revue of Jerry's life’s work, is performing in regional theatres around the country

and two of Jerry's classic songs are the emotional highlights of the hit Disney-Pixar film WALL-E.)

Jerry Herman's string of awards and honors includes multiple

Tonys

Grammys

Drama Desk Awards

the Kennedy Center Honors

the Johnny Mercer Award

the Richard Rodgers Award

the Oscar Hammerstein Award

the Frederick Lowe Award

the Songwriters Hall of Fame

and the Theatre Hall of Fame.