Kim Oler is an American television and theatrical composer. He is a member of the BMI and Dramatists Guild. The Enchanted Cottage - Music and Lyrics Retrieved on September 4th, 2004.
In 2003 Oler and Hubbard were asked by lyricist/librettist Sean Hartley, perhaps best known for his work on the musical Cupid and Psyche, to help him arrange a Spring concert with musical material from various winners of the Richard Rodgers Award. Hartley had been impressed by their songs from Little Women. Broadway producer turned-community theatre producer John Wulp listened to Oler and Hubbard's original songs, and asked for the two to put their version together with bookwriter Hartley. It was produced in Wulp's North Haven Island community/educational theatre, where it ran for sixteen performances in 2006. Kim Oler, Alison Hubbard and Sean Hartley's Little Women is published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide, and has been produced throughout the United States, in Canada and Australia.
After contacting Raymond de Felitta, the director/screenwriter of the 2000 independent film Two Family House, Oler and Hubbard worked on a musical version of the film, with de Felitta serving as the librettist. The musical, called Buddy's Tavern, was chosen for the 2004 ASCAP/Disney Workshop in New York City. It won the Richard Rodger's Development Award in 2010, was developed in the 2012 Eugene O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference in Waterford, CT, and received a production workshop at the York Theatre in New York in 2013, starring Alexander Gemignani and Laura Osnes.
Kim Oler, lyricist Alison Hubbard and librettist Allan Knee together won a Richard Rodgers award in 1998 for their musical Little Women. Oler and Hubbard won another Richard Rodgers Development Award in 2010 for Buddy's Tavern.
Kim Oler also won the 2002 BMI Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Musical Theater for his work on the musical version of The Enchanted Cottage. The following year he won the BMI Foundation's Jerry Bock Award for Sustained Creative Achievement.
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