AMANDA GREEN & TOM KITT & FRIENDS RELEASE 'HIGH FIDELITY'
CD
Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com will present Amanda Green
& Tom Kitt on Monday, June 18th at 7:00 pm as part of BROADWAY AT
BIRDLAND. The series of Sunday and Monday night concerts featuring
top Broadway stars and theater songwriters continues at the legendary
BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street, NYC - 212-581-3080 -
http://www.birdlandjazz.com/
). Tom & Amanda Green will celebrate the release of the original cast
album of HIGH FIDELITY. They will be joined by Amy Spanger (Feeling
Electric, Wedding Singer, Kiss Me Kate) and Julia Murney (currently
starring as Elphba in Wicked), as well as many of the original cast
members of show, including JP Walker, Christian Anderson, Rachel Stern,
Jay Klaitz, Matt Caplan, Kirsten Wyatt, Paul Castree, Emily Swallow,
and Andrew Call. Assisted by several members of the Broadway Band,
they will perform songs from the show, as well as a few cut songs.
The winner of two MAC Awards, a Bistro Award and a
2004 Jonathan Larson Award, Amanda Green is the daughter of famed
lyricist, Adolph Green. She recently penned additional lyrics for
a production of Styne, Comden and Green's "Hallelujah, Baby" at
Washington DCs Arena Stage. She also co-starred in and wrote the
lyrics for For the Love of Tiffany: a Wifetime Original Musical,
which played the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival. Her
other credits include the LA musical Up the Week Without a Paddle
and her hit revue Put A Little Love in Your Mouth: The Tongue-in-Cheek
Songs of Amanda Green.
Before his collaboration with Amanda Green on High
Fidelity, Tom Kitt was represented at the New York Musical Theatre
Festival with the musical Feeling Electric, starring Amy Spanger
and Anthony Rapp. An arranger, musical director, orchestrator, musician
and conductor as well as a composer, Kitt has worked on Broadway's
Laugh Whore, Urban Cowboy and An Evening with Mario Cantone, as
well as off-Broadway's Debbie Does Dallas and Sherie Rene Scott's
solo evening at The Zipper Theater. He is the leader of the Tom
Kitt Band.
There is a $25 cover and $10 food/drink minimum.