Saul Chaplin Saul Chaplin Saul Chaplin (February 19, 1912 – November 15, 1997) was an American composer and musical director. He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York. He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley. In film, he won three Oscars for collaborating on the scores and orchestrations of "An American in Paris" (1951), "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954) and "West Side Story" (1961). Following education at New York University's School of Commerce, where he studied accounting, Chaplin joined the ASCAP and started out penning tunes for the theatre, vaudeville and for
New York Musical Improv Festival New York Musical Improv Festival The New York Musical Improv Festival (NYMIF) is a four-day festival held every October at the Magnet Theater in New York City. The TENTH annual NYMIF runs October 18–21, 2018. The NYMIF’s mission is to elevate and celebrate the community of improvisers, actors, singers, and musicians who gather in NYC once a year to meet, perform and show off the art form of musical improv. The first NYMIF was created ten years ago to promote the art musical improv to wider audiences as well as bring together performers all over the world! Since then, musical