tams witmark musical library inc. type private genre licensing organization founded new york city united states 1925 headquarters new york ny . website http www.tams witmark.com tams witmark is an american company that provides to professional and amateur theaters license to broadway musical scripts and scores . among the many notable properties handled by the company are kiss me kate ; my fair lady ; gypsy ; bye bye birdie ; hello dolly ; oliver ; cabaret ; man of la mancha and a chorus line . 1 the company has also acquired numerous properties often inspired by or based upon motion pictures or comic strips such as 42nd street the wizard of oz meet me in st. louis you re a good man charlie brown and li l abner . the company has also prepared for licensing simpler shorter derivative works for performance by elementary and middle school students such as an abbreviated version of bye bye birdie . 2 history edit in january 1925 the company was formed as a merger of the arthur w. tams music library 1870 and the m. witmark & sons music library . at that time the company managed the works of such notable composers as john philip sousa franz leh r and victor herbert . shortly after consolidation it also began to manage music by george and ira gershwin cole porter jerome kern guy bolton and p.g. wodehouse . it added to its collection during those early years two of its most popular works anything goes and girl crazy on which was based the musical crazy for you . the company has continued to expand its collection with many notable and award winning musicals including more recently the will rogers follies titanic and city of angels . it was announced that tams witmark now holds the licensing to lysistrata jones . references edit jones kenneth . 2005 10 11 louis h. aborn guiding force at tams witmark dead at 93 playbill . retrieved 2008 09 13 . variety . 2001 09 10 . cultivating future theater denizens hosted by accessmylibrary.com . retrieved 2008 09 13 . external links edit mills music library special collections tams witmark wisconsin collection official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tams witmark music library inc. & oldid 737446093 categories american theatre managers and producerstheatre in the united statesmusic organizations based in the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 september 2016 at 20 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view