3 JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Gateway Playhouse of Somers Point Returning for its second season, American Songbook at NJPAC is a words-and-music series co-presented with NJTV, New Jersey's Public ...

2 HAIRSPRAY, NEWSIES and More Set for The Muny 2026 Season The evening will celebrate Mercer and his extensive American songbook, which include such classics as "Something's Gotta Give," "Dream," ...

The extremely likable lad, who puts a new show together every five or six years, has decided to focus on Johnny Mercer. That makes a good combo, since lyricist Mercer has one or two peers in the Great ...

Johnny Mercer was a class act as a lyricist. He, alone, could well populate the jazz songbook of standards. Singer Tom Culver pays special tribute to Mercer with I Remember You, a sporting collection ...

Lyricist and composer Johnny Mercer — born Nov. 18, 1909, in Savannah, Ga. — wrote or co-wrote more than 1,000 songs, including American Songbook standards like "Skylark," "That Old Black Magic" and ...

Johnny Mercer was a prolific writer of lyrics, but some of his songs were never produced or recorded. Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics to songs like "Moon River" and "Accentuate the Positive" — music ...

Johnny Mercer was a complex man but, oh, how he could write lyrics. Mercer penned over 1,500 of them with 230 composers. You can learn about the music and the man through two shows at the Skokie ...