"TALE" is  Broadway.com  Fan Choice to return to Broadway.  Read the story!         The "TALE International Studio Cast CD & PBS DVD are Now Available on Amazon

"I CAN'T RECALL"

James Barbour
in the Broadway production of
"A Tale of Two Cities"
"Good  fiction,  like  magic, makes it difficult for the audience to see the mechanics of the trick. Charles Dickens was a master magician whose greatest feat was the grand illusion created in the pages of "A Tale of Two Cities".  Jill Santoriello's musical has not only recreated that sleight-of-hand, it is guilty of a far less obvious magic: to take a classic novel, long buried under scholarship and praise, and recall it to life"                                                                        
NYC.COM

"The best adaptation of Charles Dickens’s work that I have ever seen. The music is superb, the script retains the true essence of the novel and it is as moving as Charles Dickens’s original."

Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

"UNTIL TOMORROW" Montage of Scenes from                  "A Tale of Two Cities"

Kevin Earley, James Barbour       & the Broadway Cast

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Jill Santoriello with Producers Ron Sharpe & Barbra Russell

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LATEST NEWS

Jill recently collaborated with Pulitzer Prize and Oscar winning writer John Patrick Shanley.  The song, Riding A White Horse, lyrics by Shanley and music by Santoriello, will be featured on the CD, The Broadway Lullabye Project, to benefit breast cancer awareness.  The CD will be released in Spring of 2012.

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The IRISH PREMIERE PRODUCTION of  A TALE OF TWO CITIES will take place in GALWAY, IRELAND in March of 2012.  

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The KOREAN language premiere production will take place in SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA in Summer of 2012.

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The JAPANESE language premiere production will take place in TOKYO, JAPAN in July of 2013.  

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Jill is working on several new projects including  Outlander  based on the best-selling novel by Diana Gabaldon.   Other projects include Pollyanna  based on the classic novel.

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 "A Tale of Two Cities" has completed its run at the Theatre of the Republic in Conway, South Carolina.   Read the press release here.  

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JILL SANTORIELLO is the award winning author of the Broadway musical "A TALE OF TWO CITIES" which received a 2008 Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Outstanding New Broadway Musical.  "A Tale of Two Cities" also earned an Outer Critics nomination for    the acclaimed performance of James Barbour as Sydney Carton, as well as 3 Drama Desk Nominations and a Drama League nomination. Prior to Broadway,  the  world premiere production of  "A TALE OF TWO CITIES"  enjoyed a sold-out run at Florida's  historic Asolo Repertory Theatre, winning numerous awards including Best Musical of the season.

In 2009, Jill adapted the musical and served as Executive Producer for a PBS- special "A Tale of Two Cities - In Concert".  The program was narrated by veteran actor Michael York , filmed in the historic Theatre Royale in Brighton, England & featured many of the stars of the Original Broadway Cast.   
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The   PBS  concert     adaptation premiered on WGBH  -  Boston in  late  2009. A  DVD of the program  "A Tale of Two Cities In Concert  featuring additional bonus  material  and including a new  song with lyrics  by  Jill   Santoriello and music  by Frank Wildhorn   has   been    released
in conjunction with the  2010 CD  "A   Tale of Two Cities   International Studio Cast Recording" and is currently available online at the musical's website:  www.talemusical.com .  The new TALE CD and In Concert DVD are also available at Amazon.com.   
In  2009,   Alfred  Publishing   released   the 
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.  The 114-page softcover book  features   14   songs  from the Broadway musical plus a 4-page   full   color   section with  photos  from the Broadway  & television concert productions.


The professional, stock & amateur rights  to perform "A Tale of Two Cities" are available for license through Samuel French.   

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is   NOW AVAILABLE  for
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Jill Santoriello is a self taught musician who began composing music in her early teens - an outgrowth of having played piano by ear from the age of six.      She is a  Carr Van Anda graduate of the Ohio University School of Journalism with a minor in Theater.  She is also an alumna of the distinguished BMI and ASCAP Musical Theater Workshops.   Santoriello was honored with fellowship grants from  the Arts Councils of Florida & New Jersey for her work on "A Tale of Two Cities".   "Tale" was also a Best Musical finalist in the First International Musical of the Year competition.  The song "If Dreams Came True" was one of 5 Best Song Finalists and was featured on the DVD & CD release of the competition, which was televised from Denmark and narrated by Sir Peter Ustinov.    Prior to the world premiere production of "A Tale of Two Cities"  at  the Asolo Repertory Theatre,  Jill worked for more than a decade in original programming development at Showtime Networks.  She is currently developing several new musical projects.



Broadway production photos by Carol Rosegg

Orchestrations by Edward B. Kessel

© Words & Music 2009 by Jill Santoriello. ASCAP.