You Fas­ci­nate Me So takes read­ers into the world and work of Tony‑, Grammy‑, and Emmy Award-win­ning com­pos­er and per­former Cy Cole­man, begin­ning in a Bronx ten­e­ment home where Yid­dish was the pri­ma­ry lan­guage, the pre­dom­i­nant music being played was Klezmer, and it was the milk­man who rec­og­nized that four-year-old boy named Sey­mour Kauf­man had prodi­gious gifts at the piano. After his pre-teen days in the 1930s play­ing Clas­si­cal music through­out Man­hat­tan and his for­ma­tive expe­ri­ences with pop­u­lar music in New York’s Catskills resort region — where his fam­i­ly ran a pop­u­lar bun­ga­low com­mu­ni­ty — Kauf­man became Cy Cole­man, a hot jazz pianist and ear­ly tele­vi­sion celebri­ty in the 1950s, and then one of Broad­ways pre­em­i­nent com­posers from the 1960s for­ward. This first-time biog­ra­phy of Cole­man has been writ­ten with the full coop­er­a­tion of his estate and is filled with pre­vi­ous­ly unknown details about his body of work. Inter­views with col­leagues and friends — includ­ing Mar­i­lyn and Alan Bergman, Michele Lee, James Naughton, Phyl­lis New­man, Hal Prince, and Tom­my Tune — pro­vide insight into Coleman’s per­son­al­i­ty and career.