NYT: Celebrations: Andrew Lippa and David Bloch
Andrew Lippa and David Bloch
July 20, 2008
Andrew Lippa and David Bloch
Andrew Lippa, a composer, and David Bloch, a film marketing executive, were married on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Diane Wayne, a retired judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, officiated at the home of Paula Holt, a friend of Judge Wayne’s.
On Sunday, Rabbi Daniel Sklar will lead a religious ceremony with his wife, Cantor Shirah Sklar, at the Mr. Lippa’s and Mr. Bloch’s country house in Milford, Pa.
Mr. Lippa (above, left) is 43. He is also a lyricist and conductor. He has composed music for “The Farnsworth Invention,” a play by Aaron Sorkin, which was staged on Broadway. In 2000, he won the Drama Desk Award for music and the Outer Critics Circle Award for an Off Broadway musical for the Manhattan Theater Club production of “The Wild Party,” for which he also wrote the book and lyrics. He graduated from the University of Michigan.
Mr. Lippa is the son of Naomi Lippa of Boca Raton, Fla. and the late Ronald Lippa. The bridegroom’s parents retired as the owners of Naomi Lippa’s Advance Fashions, a women’s clothing boutique in Southfield, Mich.
Mr. Bloch, also 43, is the senior vice president for marketing at Focus Features, which produces, finances and distributes films. He works in New York. He has worked on publicity campaigns for “Atonement,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Lost in Translation” and other films. He graduated from Middlebury.
He is a son of Ellen Bloch and Donald M. Bloch of Framingham, Mass. His mother retired from the Jewish Family Service of Metrowest in Framingham. She was the director of the service’s New American program, which resettles Jewish refugees in the Boston suburbs. His father is of counsel at the Boston law firm Posternak, Blankstein & Lund.
Mr. Lippa and Mr. Bloch met in May 1998 in the lobby of the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center just before a performance of “A New Brain,” a musical by William Finn and James Lapine.
Mr. Bloch, who was living in Los Angeles then, was with a friend who knew Mr. Lippa, and Mr. Lippa was also with a friend. The four introduced themselves and decided to get together after the show.
Mr. Lippa said he was “instantly smitten” by Mr. Bloch.
“I felt that magic thing you feel with someone who fits,” he said.
Mr. Bloch thought his new acquaintance was “smart, funny and self confident.”
Mr. Lippa had just gotten a job writing music for a new theme-park show at Universal Studios that required him to visit Los Angeles one week every month. He and Mr. Block began dating on those visits.
Earlier this year, they were trying to decide how to celebrate their decade together and agreed to hold a religious ceremony with family and friends at their house in Pennsylvania.
Then in May the California Supreme Court handed down a decision that allowed same sex-couples to marry.
“We thought it was, for us, perfect timing,” Mr. Lippa said. “The synchronicity of events was overwhelming.”
July 20, 2008
Andrew Lippa and David Bloch
Andrew Lippa, a composer, and David Bloch, a film marketing executive, were married on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Diane Wayne, a retired judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, officiated at the home of Paula Holt, a friend of Judge Wayne’s.
On Sunday, Rabbi Daniel Sklar will lead a religious ceremony with his wife, Cantor Shirah Sklar, at the Mr. Lippa’s and Mr. Bloch’s country house in Milford, Pa.
Mr. Lippa (above, left) is 43. He is also a lyricist and conductor. He has composed music for “The Farnsworth Invention,” a play by Aaron Sorkin, which was staged on Broadway. In 2000, he won the Drama Desk Award for music and the Outer Critics Circle Award for an Off Broadway musical for the Manhattan Theater Club production of “The Wild Party,” for which he also wrote the book and lyrics. He graduated from the University of Michigan.
Mr. Lippa is the son of Naomi Lippa of Boca Raton, Fla. and the late Ronald Lippa. The bridegroom’s parents retired as the owners of Naomi Lippa’s Advance Fashions, a women’s clothing boutique in Southfield, Mich.
Mr. Bloch, also 43, is the senior vice president for marketing at Focus Features, which produces, finances and distributes films. He works in New York. He has worked on publicity campaigns for “Atonement,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Lost in Translation” and other films. He graduated from Middlebury.
He is a son of Ellen Bloch and Donald M. Bloch of Framingham, Mass. His mother retired from the Jewish Family Service of Metrowest in Framingham. She was the director of the service’s New American program, which resettles Jewish refugees in the Boston suburbs. His father is of counsel at the Boston law firm Posternak, Blankstein & Lund.
Mr. Lippa and Mr. Bloch met in May 1998 in the lobby of the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center just before a performance of “A New Brain,” a musical by William Finn and James Lapine.
Mr. Bloch, who was living in Los Angeles then, was with a friend who knew Mr. Lippa, and Mr. Lippa was also with a friend. The four introduced themselves and decided to get together after the show.
Mr. Lippa said he was “instantly smitten” by Mr. Bloch.
“I felt that magic thing you feel with someone who fits,” he said.
Mr. Bloch thought his new acquaintance was “smart, funny and self confident.”
Mr. Lippa had just gotten a job writing music for a new theme-park show at Universal Studios that required him to visit Los Angeles one week every month. He and Mr. Block began dating on those visits.
Earlier this year, they were trying to decide how to celebrate their decade together and agreed to hold a religious ceremony with family and friends at their house in Pennsylvania.
Then in May the California Supreme Court handed down a decision that allowed same sex-couples to marry.
“We thought it was, for us, perfect timing,” Mr. Lippa said. “The synchronicity of events was overwhelming.”