[Fredslist] A super show that I'm working on

[elizmb at tiac.net]

Hi Gothamites,

This is the 2nd season that I've worked on the Broadway By The Year series.  Next Monday, 3/30 the year is 1931...quite apropos to the times of 2009.  But the songs and the dancing show such spirit of our country.

I hope you'll come; I'll be there. 

Below is something about the cast as well as a few timely words from our producer. If you want to contact me directly about tickets or if you have any questions, please, feel free to do so.

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Marner-Brooks
Training The Speaking Voice
917-374-8984

Broadway By The Year series continues its 9th season with the Broadway Musicals of 1931 on Monday, March 30th 2009 at 8pm. The series is created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall.

Town Hall is located in Manhattan at 123 West 43rd Street. Tickets, priced $45 and $50, are available by calling (212) 307-4100 or by visiting www.ticketmaster.com.

Broadway Musicals of 1931 will be directed by Tony Award nominee Brad Oscar (The Producers) and choreographed by Jeffry Denman (White Christmas). They will also star in the show alongside:
Tony Yazbeck (Gypsy); 
David Pittu (Is He Dead, LoveMusik, What’s That Smell); 
Chip Zien (Into the Woods, Les Miserables, Falsettos); 
F. Murray Abraham (Angels in America, The Fantasticks, Waiting for Godot); 
Kerry O’Malley (White Christmas); 
Barb Jungr, (2008 winner of the Nightlife Award for "Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist"); 
Mara Davi (A Chorus Line, The Drowsy Chaperone); 
Kendrick Jones (Stairway to Heaven); 
Melinda Sullivan (High School Musical); 
and special guest star and Tony Award nominee Karen Akers (Nine, Grand Hotel) and more to be announced. 
There will also be at least one surprise special guest star!

This edition of the series will include such famous shows as 'The Gang’s All Here,' 'The Band Wagon,' 'The Cat and the Fiddle,' 'Of Thee I Sing' and many more.

About Broadway Musicals of 1931, Scott Siegel says, “There is particular resonance between 1931 and today because, just like Broadway audiences seventy-eight years ago, we find ourselves in the grip of a Great Depression. The music, written by the likes of the Gershwins, Harold Arlen, and Rodgers & Hart, was a brilliant reflection of their time and a reminder to us today of how buoyant and resilient  we have always been as a people. Our character, as a nation, was on display in that momentous year, and that’s why you’ll find great humor, and even greater humanity, in the Broadway Musicals of 1931.”