BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND ANNOUNCES JUNE LINEUP
Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com will present two of Broadway's
most acclaimed performers in June along with several top singer/songwriters
as part of BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND. The series of Sunday and Monday night
concerts at 7:00 pm, featuring top Broadway stars and theater songwriters
continues at the legendary BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street, NYC - 212-581-3080
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http://www.birdlandjazz.com/
). Performers appearing in June include Malcolm Gets, Todd Londagin,
Tom Kitt & Amanda Green and Capathia Jenkins.
On Monday, June 4th and 11th, Broadway's Malcolm Gets
salutes his long-time friend and musical hero, composer/conductor/pianist
Wally Harper. Malcolm Gets recently starred opposite Kristin Chenoweth
in the Encores! production of The Apple Tree, and starred in the
Broadway musical Amour. Off-Broadway credits include Polish Joke,
Boys and Girls, A New Brain, Hello Again, Merrily We Roll Along,
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Finian's Rainbow and the Encores! The Boys
From Syracuse. He is perhaps best known for his work on the television
series "Caroline in the City."
On Sunday, June 10th Todd Londagin and his 17-piece
Big Band returns to Birdland. Todd, a trombone playing, tap dancing
singer, has traveled the world with his family jazz band, since
he was seven. A pop vocalist with a jazz sensibility and an affinity
for popular American songwriting from the 1930's through the 1950's,
Todd's sound has broadened thanks to his 14 years as co-founder
of the highly acclaimed Billboard Top-20 Flying Neutrinos and 8
years as bandleader for some of New York's most prestigious events.
On Monday, June 18th composer Tom Kitt & lyricist
Amanda Green will return to Birdland performing songs from their
shows and up-coming projects. Scheduled special guests include Kelli
O'Hara, Celia Keenan-Bolger, the Tom Kitt Band, and cast members
from the recent Broadway musical, High Fidelity. They will perform
songs from High Fidelity, Feeling Electric, and Debbie Does Dallas.
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 D.C.'s
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.
On Sunday, June 24th, Broadway's Capathia Jenkins
(Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Caroline Or Change, The Civil War)
and award-winning composer Louis Rosen will offer a "sneak preview"
of the new songs Rosen has composed to the words of the renowned
poet Nikki Giovanni, which will be recorded by PS Classics. They
will also perform songs from their highly acclaimed debut CD "South
Side Stories." Pianist Kimberly Grigsby and bassist Dave Phillips
will be joining the duo.
Cover charges vary for each event and there is a $10
food/drink minimum. Call the club for more information.
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