Carl Sigman composing at the piano.                 






​Mike and Jerry Sigman each brought a wide variety of talents and experience to the table when they decided to form The Sigman Brothers Theatrical Production Company.

Mike has 5 degrees in music and has made a long career as a rock performer and song writer.  He has established a strong reputation and a large following. 

Jerry was an opera singer, actor, writer and sleight of hand artist known throughout the Chicago area.

They wrote several screenplays together, sent them to  agents, and competed in  contests.  Their work generated strong interest ,  but they did not want to pick up stakes and move their families out of state.

Then, Mike had the brilliant idea of putting their talents to the task of transforming one of their screenplays into a musical for the stage. That is how their first show, Etude was born, and that was the beginning of The Sigman Brothers.  Since then they have written/produced The Devil in Whitechapel, JOAN, Rumpelstiltskin and DOGS. Next up is Rip Van Winkle.
Each of these musicals is unique and startlingly original. The Sigman Brothers create musicals in the great tradition of the American Musical Theater that focus on beautiful, memorable song melodies and fresh and clever stories filled with twists and turns and wonderful characters. 

The Sigman Brothers might just have their lineage to thank for their musical theater talents. They are related to the 20th century songwriter Carl Sigman, who had a six-decade-long career with works recorded by such greats as Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Nat Kink Cole, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Sammy Davis Jr., Jerry Lee Lewis, Merle Haggard and Sonny and Cher.
Born in 1909 and raised in Brooklyn, Carl Sigman's career had humble beginnings. While giving piano lessons, he started writing his own melodies. He found Johnny Mercer, best known for working with Duke Ellington, and Mercer became his friend and musical mentor.
"After playing softball together in the Brooklyn schoolyards, we'd spend long nights writing what seemed to be Isham Jones songs," Mercer wrote in his memoirs. "But we had only one song published, "Just Remember," and it was not a hit. But I loved Carl's tunes. As it turned out, he was also a great lyric writer, which he later proved."
In an interview, Carl's son Michael said his father soon focused on lyrics and tried to write songs that sounded like snippets of conversation. The titles attest to his success: "All Too Soon," "What Now My Love?" "Losing You." Of course, hearing artists such as Nat King Cole implore a disappointed lover to "Come Out Of The Rain" added a timeless touch.
Sigman remembers his father sitting at the piano at their Long Island home, playing the key phrases of a melody over and over. "He always said if you come up with a title, you're halfway there," Michael Sigman said. "And what he would try to do was get a title of those venacularese words -- if I can say that -- with a melody."
Right up to his death at the age of 91 in 2000, Carl continued to write new songs while reaping the benefits of continued success for this many standards. During his period his songs were even recorded and performed by many rock and reggae acts, Deep Purple.
Carl Sigman’s catalog numbers some 800 songs and has become, to quote the recent MIDEM Daily News, “one of the most important US catalogs."