Michele Brourman
Michele Brourman is a singer/songwriter and a winner of the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Award. Her songs have been recorded by Michael Feinstein, Olivia Newton-John, Cleo Laine, Margaret Whiting, Rita Coolidge, Donny Osmond, and Sheena Easton, as well as by some of the finest cabaret artists - Amanda McBroom, Heather Macrae, Karen Mason, Sharon McKnight, Sally Mayes, Billy Stritch and more. Her best-known song, “My Favorite Year”, has become a standard in the world of cabaret.
Brourman and frequent collaborator McBroom have co-written the songs for sixteen animated features for Universal Studios, which have collectively sold millions of videos and DVD’s., notably 10 sequels to Steven Spielberg’s “The Land Before Time” as well as “American Tail IV”, “Hercules and Xena”, and the two sequels to Spielberg’s “Balto.” Together they are currently completing the score for a new musical, “Dangerous Beauty”, (with book by the film’s original screenwriter Jeannine Dominy) which had its first full production in 2008, under the auspices of the American Musical Theatre Project at Northwestern University. In addition, Brourman is the composer of another new musical, “I Married Wyatt Earp“, with lyricist Sheilah Rae, and book by Sheilah Rae and Thomas Edward West, which had its West Coast premiere in 2007 at Cal State Fullerton University and was featured at the Los Angeles Festival of New Musicals.
Her songs have been featured in movies (Shiloh and Shiloh Season) and television (Cagney and Lacey, Designing Women, Jim Hensons’Animal Jam) and the children’s series The Land Before Time for which Brourman co-wrote and produced all the songs. She created the dance and incidental music for the Broadway production of “Working” as well as incidental music for numerous theatre productions.
As a pianist/musical director, Michele has worked with wonderful artists, including, Dixie Carter, Amanda McBroom, Heather Macrae, Bernadette Peters, George Ball, Lesley Ann Warren, Annie Potts and more, and played piano in Bob Dylan’s band. She has two grown sons, Noah and Luke.