Wicked, Godspell and Pippin music composer Stephen Schwartz will be honoured with the Johnny Mercer Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) Induction and Awards Gala on June 12, reported Variety.

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slated for June 12 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The Johnny Mercer Award is the most prestigious honor bestowed by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, is exclusively reserved for a ...

Their first show was on Christmas Eve that year at a homeless shelter at the Endicott Hotel, and they soon became mainstays at New York’s Mercer Arts Center. Their 1973 self-titled debut ...

One afternoon in June 2022, he was happy to talk about them, their place in the downtown New York music scene, and the Mercer Arts Center ... old Broadway Central Hotel, which had its entrance ...

The New York rock scene had never seen anything quite like them, and they quickly became regulars at the Mercer Arts Center ... We were going to stay a really nice hotel by the Ferris wheel ...

The Songwriters Hall of Fame will recognize Stephen Schwartz — the arranger and composer behind the music from “Wicked,” “Godspell” and “Pippin” — as the recipient of the 2025 Johnny Mercer Award at ...

(Incidentally, the Mercer had to be torn down soon after, when a neighboring hotel collapsed “like a ... of both the punk scene and of downtown New York in the summer of 1973).

David Johansen, the charismatic frontman of influential proto-punk band the New York Dolls ... of their main haunts, the Mercer Arts Center, housed in a dilapidated hotel that would partially ...

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