Grumpy Old Men World Premiere Recording

Center Stage Records Announces Release of GRUMPY OLD MEN World Premiere Recording

Reported on Friday, July 26, 2024

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New York, NY – Center Stage Records announces the release of the world premiere recording of GRUMPY OLD MEN, the new musical by Dan Remmes, Neil Berg and Nick Meglin. The recording features performances by Ed Dixon, Mark Jacoby, Leslie Stevens, Sally Struthers and Hal Linden. The album is now available at www.CenterStageRecords.com and at all digital outlets.

GRUMPY OLD MEN is the story of two aging men, Max (Ed Dixon) and John (Mark Jacoby), neighbors who have been feuding for most of their lives. Invigorated by their shared affection for their new neighbor across the street, the beautiful, eccentric, and charming Ariel (Leslie Stevens), they face-off as romantic rivals until their hilarious shenanigans finally bring about a resolution to their long-standing differences. Based on the 1993 film, which starred Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Ann-Margret, this stage adaptation captures the lovably crotchety characters through twinkling humor, great songs, and the affectionate depiction of a small town that feels like home to everyone.

GRUMPY OLD MEN is written by Dan Remmes (book), Neil Berg (music) and Nick Meglin (lyrics), adapted from the Warner Bros. motion picture written by Mark Steven Johnson.

The world premiere recording of GRUMPY OLD MEN stars Ed Dixon, Mark Jacoby with Leslie Stevens, and features Sally Struthers and Hal Linden. Also appearing on the recording are Brenda Braxton, Doug Eskew, Kevin Massey, Laura Woyasz, John Battagliese, Blake Hammond, Eric Jon Mahlum, Kelly Methven, James Taylor Odom, Heather Jane Rolff, Brooke Singer and Christina Tompkins.

Dan Remmes (Book) Dan’s plays have been produced across the USA and UK and include Night Out, What Doesn’t Kill Us, Bedlan, Three Tables, Things We Leave Behind, Leaving London, Delays, Friends Lovers and Fiances, and Close To Home. His writing has won multiple awards including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Playwriting and Screenwriting and the 26th Annual Samuel French OOB Festival. He’s written and directed two short films (“George” and “Indiana Dad And The Quest For The Lost Tap Shoe”) and has three feature screenplays under development in collaboration with “Finding Neverland” producer Nellie Bellflower. He co-developed, co-wrote and performed in a web series parodying self-help gurus entitled “Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood” which ran for a season on Koldcast TV and is currently under option as a staged rock musical. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Anglo-American Mind The Gap Theatre headquartered in New York City. Coolest random career moment: Riding shotgun in a stunt car behind Harrison Ford in an Indiana Jones movie. www.DanRemmes.com @DanRemmes

Neil Berg (Music) is a multi award-winning composer and producer. Composing credits include The Twelve (Denver Center), The Prince and the Pauper (Off Broadway, Lambs Theater), Tim & Scrooge (Westchester Broadway Theater, The Queens Theater in the Park, NYMF, and a special reading at the Criterion Theater in the London’s West End), collaborating with DJ Salisbury on The Man Who Would Be King (NYMF, University of Buffalo, The Village Theater in Issaquah, WA, Rubicon Theater, CD featuring Brian d’Arcy James, Marc Kudisch and Mandy Gonzalez), Hexed In The City (Off Broadway, Zipper Theater), Never Grimm and Heidi. Films: “Once upon a Time in Brooklyn,” “Searching For Bobby D”. He is the product of The BMI Musical Writer’s Workshop, mentored by Maury Yeston and Skip Kennon. www.neilberg.com

GRUMPY OLD MEN is written by Nick Meglin (Lyrics) was best known as the former editor of MAD Magazine, a position that he held for most of his professional career. He was a proud member of the Dramatist Guild, ASCAP, Writers Guild of America, and the National Cartoonist Society. His musical Tim & Scrooge (book and lyrics), written with composer Neil Berg, had had critically acclaimed productions at Queens Theater in the Park as well as Westchester Broadway Theatre where it won the Best New Musical Award. Nick is currently working on the musical, The Mice Will Play, also with composer Neil Berg. He is the author of 15 books including: MAD About the 50’s, MAD About the 60’s, Rotten Rhymes and Other Crimes as well as articles in over 300 national publications including Tennis Magazine, Opera News, Pro Quarterback, The NY Sunday Times, American Artist Magazine, Ideas, etc. In addition, Nick wrote for syndicated comic strips and TV animation, his favorite being episodes for The Pink Panther written with his son Chris, an English teacher at Riverside HS in Durham, NC who serves as “translator of my Brooklynese into proper English.”Dan Remmes (book), Neil Berg (music) and Nick Meglin (lyrics), adapted from the Warner Bros. motion picture written by Mark Steven Johnson.

Center Stage Records is the new label from Broadway Records founder, Grammy Award and Tony Award winner, Van Dean. The label is dedicated to the preservation of Broadway, London, Off-Broadway, new musicals in development and theater-related solo albums. Center Stage has over two dozen albums planned for 2024, which premiered with the original Broadway cast recording of How to Dance in Ohio, Steven Pasquale’s “Some Other Time”, the London cast recording of Mandela, and the original Broadway cast recording of Gutenberg! The Musical! Select highlights of the Center Stage Records back catalog include the Grammy-nominated albums of Burt Bacharach & Steven Sater’s Some Lovers and Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots, as well as the Classic Stage Company hit revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, Lewberger’s The Wizard of Friendship, and the West End cast albums of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and Ride. Additionally, solo albums from Patti LuPone, Norbert Leo Butz, Bobby Conte, Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, Sierra Boggess, Laura Benanti, Orfeh and Andy Karl, Micky Dolenz, Michael Longoria and many more. To peruse the entire catalog, please visit www.CenterStageRecords.com. Follow Center Stage Records on all social platforms @centerstagercds.