The E. Y. Harburg Academy's Summer Revue is a 3-week musical revue and training camp dedicated to providing high school performers with intensive skill building in the fundamental areas of acting, voice, and dance towards the pursuit of their craft.
The Harburg Academy's Revue was established to provide a regional training opportunity for young performers, grades 9-12, to further develop and hone existing skills in the core musical theatre disciplines of voice, acting, and dance. Students will work under the guidance of professional coaches.
This summer, The Revue presents Almost Like Being In Love: The Lerner & Loewe Songbook, a tribute to the legendary songwriting team's 5 musicals, Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), the film musical Gigi (1958), and Camelot (1960).
Almost Like Being In Love: The Lerner & Loewe Songbook will be in the Jaqua Concert Hall for two performances; 3:00 and 5:30pm on Saturday, July 25th.
Enhancing the core training, workshops in dialect study, elocution, audition preparation, and technical production skills will be sprinkled throughout the schedule, creating a rich & multi-faceted sampling of the kind of professional training required to succeed in a college program and beyond.
Merit-based Ed Ragozzino Scholarships are available upon application. Financial aid is available upon application.
The Revue: Almost Like Being In Love
The Lerner & Loewe Songbook
The Summer 2026 E. Y. Harburg Academy culminates with its classic Revue, a ticketed concert featuring ensemble, duet, and solo repertoire associated with this term's theme, entitled "Almost Like Being In Love", a celebration of the legendary musical theatre team Alan Jay Lerner (lyrcist, 1918-86) and Frederick Loewe (composer, 1901-88). The pair's first Broadway and Hollywood hits included Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), the film musical Gigi (1958), and Camelot (1960). These 5 shows are simply loaded with Songbook classics including "Almost Like Being In Love", "The Heather On The Hill", "They Call The Wind Maria", "Wand'rin' Star", "Wouldn't It Be Loverly", "The Rain In Spain", "I Could Have Danced All Night", "On The Street Where You Live", "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face", "Thank Heaven For Little Girls", "Gigi", "The Simple Joys of Maidenhood", "How To Handle A Woman", "The Lusty Month Of May", "If Ever I Would Leave You", "I Loved You Once In Silence", and a host of show tunes that never fail to please! Two Shows: Saturday, July 25th 3:00p and 5:30pm – Adults $10.00, Youth $5.00.
Lyricist and poet E. Y. “Yip” Harburg gave us some of the most memorable lyrics of the 20th century. With songs including "It’s Only a Paper Moon", "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime",
"Lydia the Tattooed Lady", "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?", and, of course, "Over the Rainbow", the lyrics of Yip Harburg continue to be loved by performers and audiences alike.
Harburg’s career spanned over 5 decades, and included the lyrics for over 600 songs. He won several awards, including an Oscar for The Wizard of Oz and several Oscar nominations for Cabin in the Sky and Can’t Help Singing. In 1972, Harburg was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and two of his songs were included in The American Film Institute’s 100 years…100 songs: “Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead” at #82 and “Over the Rainbow” at #1.
The E.Y. Harburg Academy for Musical Theatre is supported by an ongoing gift from Tom Harburg in honor of E. Y. “Yip” Harburg.
A limited number of merit-based Ed Ragozzino Scholarships are available to applicants through the generosity of Shedd Institute donors in honor of Eugene musical theatre legend Ed Ragozzino (1931-2010).
To apply for a Ragozzino Scholarship, request an application form and submit along with your Academy registration form.