New Voices - Love Me, Love Me Not
Written by Joey Contreras
Vocals by Kate Shindle
Piano - Grant Wenaus
The season will open June 21-July 7 with Ken Ludwig’s operatic farce Lend Me a Tenor, directed by Hangar artistic director Peter Flynn. The cast will include Skinner (Side Show, Billy Elliott), as well as Michael McCormick (Elf, Curtains, Kiss of the Spider Woman), Janet Dacal (Wonderland, In the Heights), Daniel Berlingeri, Lindsay Clemmons, Eddie Vona and Judy Levitt.
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Janet Dacal- Poppy the Little Brown Bear (5/7/12 Stephen Sondheim Theatre)
by Jeff Bowen
Over the Moon- the Broadway Lullaby Project
York Theatre Company, headed by producing artistic director James Morgan, will conclude its Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival with the New York premiere of The Game of Love, which runs May 11-13 at the Off-Broadway venue.
The Game of Love, which is is based on The Anatol Plays by Arthur Schnitzler, features book and lyrics by Jones, music by classical composer Jacques Offenbach, and arrangements and additional music by Nancy Ford.
Directed by West Hyler with music direction by Ford, the cast will boast Tom Aulino (On the Town), Erin Davie (Curtains, A Little Night Music), Janet Dacal (In the Heights, Wonderland), Santino Fontana (Sons of the Prophet, Billy Elliot), Jillian Louis (York’s I’m Getting My Act Together…), Elizabeth Loyacano (The Woman in White), Ramona Mallory (A Little Night Music) and Steve Routman (La Bete).
Janet Dacal performs Love Will Stay from the musical Nicholas and Alexandra at Songbook Broadway’s Future: The Music of Steven Jamail on April 16, 2012 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium. The lyrics were co-written by Ryann Ferguson and Mayzie Drake.
Emmy winner Edie Falco will host a free concert May 7 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, which is currently the home of the Tony-winning revival of Anything Goes.
The 8 PM performance will celebrate the release of “Over The Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project,” a multi-media charity project that includes a two-CD set of original lullabies composed and sung by top Broadway artists, an illustrated hardcover book of 17 songs from the album, a corresponding e-book encompassing the entire collection, and a documentary film.
The concert will feature the talents of Anastasia Barzee, Walter Charles, Jed Cohen, Janet Dacal, Marva Hicks, Nikki M. James, Marc Kudish, Donna Murphy and Caesar Samayoa.
These artists will perform lullabies composed by Rupert Holmes, Tom Kitt, Michael John LaChiusa, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz and Maury Yeston. The event will also include excerpts from the documentary film and web series featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the project’s creation.
Grammy nominee Matt Pierson, who produced the recording, will serve as the musical director for the evening. Musicians slated to perform at the concert include pianist Kevin Hays, percussionist Bashiri Johnson, guitarist Julian Lage and bassist Harish Raghavan.
The Stephen Sondheim Theater is located at 124 West 43rd Street, between Broadway and Avenue of the Americas.
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“Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project” is co-produced by Kate Dawson and Jodi Glucksman.
For more information visit overthemoonbroadway.com.
The New Voices Collective will present NEW VOICES at NYU: A Celebration of Songs by NYU Musical Theatre Writers, Past and Present April 16 at 8 PM at New York University’s Frederick Loewe Theatre at 35 West 4th Street.
The concert will explore work by current composers in the NYU Musical Theatre writing program, as well as work by some of NYU’s alumni.
Interpreting these songs will be Tony nominees Rebecca Luker and Rory O’Malley, Elizabeth A. Davis, Drew Gehling, Kate Shindle, Sally Wilfert and Michael Winther.
Attendees can expect to hear songs penned by Gaby Alter, Will Aronson, Ben Bonnema, Ben Cohn & Sean McDaniel, Joey Contreras, Julianne Wick Davis, Jeremy Desmon, Vadim Feichtner, Caleb Hoyer, Jenny Giering, Dylan Glatthorn, Kait Kerrigan, Brian Lowdermilk, Brendan Milburn & Valerie Vigoda, Chris Miller, Peter Mills, Matt Sklar, Christopher Staskel, Georgia Stitt, Nathan Tysen and Sam Willmott.
The evening will be hosted by Danny Burstein (soon to reprise his role as Buddy Plummer at the Ahmanson Theatre in Follies); Annette Jolles directs.
The singers will be accompanied by the Director of Collaborative Piano at NYU, Grant Wenaus, with Stephen Benson on guitar, Yuiko Kamakari on violin, Ed Matthew on clarinet and Clay Ruede on cello.
The concert will also feature new arrangements by orchestrators Martin Lowe, Oran Eldor and Neil Reilly.
Tickets, priced at $20 ($5 with a Student I.D.), are available in advance online (www.nyu.edu/ticketcentral/calendar), by phone at (212) 352-3101, or in person at NYU Ticket Central (566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South). Tickets will also be available at the door one hour prior to the performance.
Frank Wildhorn’s WONDERLAND, which opened on Broadway last Spring, will make its international premiere at Tokyo’s Aoyama Theatre in Fall 2012. Set to star in the production are Kei Aran and Megumi Hamada. Hiromi Suzuki will direct.
The production will run November 18-December 4. Click here for tickets.
The free Broadway’s Future concert series — presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul (in association with N and N Productions ) — will continue April 16 at 6 PM in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
Directed, hosted and produced by John Znidarsic, the evening will spotlight the songs of up-and-coming composer/lyricist Steven Jamail (No Ordinary Monday, The Lovely Bones, My Life: Today, Vote!).
Scheduled to interpret Jamail’s songs are Katie Rose Clarke, Janet Dacal, Chelsea Morgan Stock, Autumn Hurlbert, Rachelle Rak, Haviland Stillwell, Kyle Dean Massey, Marie-France Arcilla, Anthea Neri, Katie Thompson, Jason Michael Snow, Tim Dolan, Sam Tedaldi and Nikki Kimbrough with Jaygee Macapugy, Britt Bonney, Andy Geary, Anne Karner, Lauren Blackman, Ashley Klinger, Bobby Hubner, Beverley Simpson, Daniel Robinson, Christine Schisano, Eric Deibolt and Adam Shorsten.
