FRANCESCA BLUMENTHAL won the Backstage Bistro Award, MAC Award and special ASCAP Prize in 2001. Her earlier award-winning review, Life is not like the Movies sold out and received critical raves as did her recent revues, Places, Please! and Places, Please! Act Two. She was honored at the 2001 Chicago Humanities Festival.

Her ballad, Lies of Handsome Men is recorded by Cleo Laine, Margaret Whiting, Blossom Dearie, Donna McKechnie and many others. It formed the romantic climax of the film The Awakening.

Francesca contributed to My Name is Still Alice and Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know. 

Recorded Songs of FRANCESCA BLUMENTHAL
ACAPULCO: Music by Addy Fieger. On musical revue CD
Every Smart Traveler Should Know. 

ALL THE WRONG PLACES: Music by Lanny Meyers
DEBORAH BOILY on The Song Remembers When

CAPUCCINO:
JONATHAN FRANK on Sleeping In The Arms Of Love

FIREFLIES:
BILL DAUGHERTY on Look To The Rainbow

GERSHWIN TUNE:
KAREN ZIEMBA & JAMES BRENNAN on Broadway Bound

HAVE A LITTLE PARIS ON ME:
DEBORAH DE COUDREAU on Have A Little Paris On Me .

HOW WAS IT FOR YOU?
LISA RICHARD on Virgin Tracks .

LES COULEURS DU TEMPS:
KAREN AKERS on Feels Like Home (English lyrics only)

LIES OF HANDSOME MEN:
DIANE ALCORN on upcoming CD I Wish You Love
LISA BOWMAN on Bittersweets
JOYCE BREACH on Confessions
BLOSSOM DEARIE on Blossom s Planet
ANGELA DeNIRO on Just For The Fun Of It .
CLEO LAINE on The Very Best Of Cleo Laine and Blue And Sentimental
BETH LANE on Lies Of Handsome Men
DONNA McKECHNIE on Inside The Music
JAYMIE MEYER on What You d Call A Dream
DIANA TEMPLETON on Be Careful, It s My Heart
MARLENE VER PLANCK on A Quiet Storm

THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE:
MALCOLM McNEILL, DAVE FRISHBERG West 79th Street