Elder, Jibson, Taylor, et al. Set for CAP21s Songs on Six Benefit, 4/5

CAP21 has announced the performers for its upcoming "Songs on Six" benefit which will be on Monday, April 5 at 7:30 PM at The Shop@CAP 21.

The benefit concert will support the Theatre Company @ Cap21 and will feature new songs from new musicals. Musical direction will be by Anthony DiDonna and the concert will be directed by Timoth Michael Drucker.

Performers at the event will include Lauren Blackman, Matt Dengler. Claybourne Elder, Steven Eng, Kate Ferber, Molly Hager, Carly Jibson, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Lindsay Mendez, Ryah Nixon, Q Smith, Dana Steingold, Shaina Taub, Jason Tam, Wesley Taylor, and Jason "Sweettooth" Williams, as well as writers Lance Horne, Joe Kinosian, Brian Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan and Randy Blair and Timothy Michael Drucker.

Participating writers for the event who have contributed material include Sean Mahoney and Creighton Irons, Timothy Huang, Anna Jacobs and Bill Nelson, Kirsten Guenther and Laurence O'Keefe, Daniel Maté, Mike Pettry and Heidi Heilig, Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman, Will Aronson, Rachel Jett, Julianne Wick Davis, Barbara Anselmi and Brian Hargrove, Joe Iconis, Kellen Blair, Michael R. Jackson, Alexander Gemignani and Brad Bauner, Tina Lear, Michelle Elliott and Danny Larsen, Rob Baumgartner, and Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond.

Tickets for the event will cost $25. For more information or to order tickets, call 212-352-3101 or visit online at www.cap21.org.

CAP21 was founded in 1993 by Executive Artistic Director Frank Ventura with the purpose of creating new works, developing new talent and building new audiences. Over the past 14 years, CAP21 has developed and presented 195 new plays and musicals by more than 250 writers including Off and Off-Off Broadway productions such as The Immigrant (2000), Beach Radio (2002), Killing Louise (2003), Waiting For My Man (2004), Six of One (2005), The 60's Project (2005), Goddess Wheel (2005), The Classics Professor (2006), A Womb With a View (2007), Pages (2007), Evidence of Things Unseen (2008) and Safe Home (2008). The Theatre Company @ CAP21 is supported in part with public funds from NEA and NYSCA.

 

 

 

 

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