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U-M the following year, he
changed his major to theater
and music composition and
studied with playwright
Milan (The Runner
Stumbles) Stitt, now the
dean of the playwrighting
department at Yale, and
music composer William
Bolcom, who won a 1988
Pulitzer Prize for his piano
composition, "12 New
Etudes."
During his senior year,
Sipher staged his musical
comedy and action adven-
ture, Dancing for My Life,
which was produced by U-M.
"It was a James Bond-type
musical," he said.
When the show was
entered in a university
musical show writers com-
petition sponsored by Broad-
cast Music Incorporated
(BMI) and judged by Cats,
Les Miserables and Phantom
of the Opera producer
Cameron Macintosh and the
Fiddler on the Roof com-
poser/lyricist team of Jerry
Boch and Sheldon Harnick,
to name a few, Sipher won
first place and received
$8,500.
The last student to win the
BMI contest from U-M was
jazz composer Bob (theme
from "Taxi") James who
won it 25 years earlier.
Last year, Sipher received
his master's degree from
New York University. He is
now reviewing shows for the
theater trade paper Show
Business and working on his
third full-length musical,
The King of Comedy,
adapted from the Martin
Scorsese.
Sipher said he would like
to have The King of Comedy
on producers' desks within a
year.
"I want to write The King
of Comedy better than I have
ever written anything in my
life," he said. "And I would
love to see it on Broadway by
the time I'm 30."
Although Sipher would not
mind expanding his inter-
ests and writing for televi-
sion, his first love is musical
theater.
"I don't think there's
anything that beats the
power of a live theatrical
performance, and the power
of musical theater is beyond
the spoken word," he said.
"Just thinking that I could
really pierce through the
audience is the most in-
credible feat, and to be part
of that world and part of the
people who I've admired all
of my life, composers Son-
dheim and Bernstein and
playwrights Kopit and Ar-
thur (West Side Story)
Laurence — their world — is
just a dream come true." ❑
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