Jason Gotay, Phoebe Strole & More to Join Drew Gasparini at 54 Below, 12/13

By: Nov. 19, 2013
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54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, will present Drew Gasparini and friends in "From Here & There: The Music & Lyrics of Drew Gasparini" on Friday, December 13th at 11pm. This California native turned New York composer will present songs from all over his catalog... some songs from here... some songs from there. The night will consist of new material from several of Drew's latest projects, fan favorites from his award-winning musicals Crazy, Just Like Me, Make Me Bad, and #UntitledPopMusical, as well as numbers from the TV show SMASH and Drew's recently released album, "I Could Use A Drink." Drew's music has been described as, "Remarkable, smart, and strongly tuneful," by The Huffington Post... "Invigorating and original," by the Houston Press... "Loud and approximate," by Michael Cassara, CSA... "The best thing to ever happen to the world," by Drew's mother... and, "That racket," by Drew's father.

The evening will feature performances by Marc Summers (Double Dare, The Food Network), Phoebe Strole (Spring Awakening, Glee), Alex Brightman (Big Fish), Lauren Pritchard (Spring Awakening), Nicholas Christopher (Motown), Jason Gotay (Bring It On, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark), Brandon J. Ellis (Once), Andrew Kober (Hair), F. Michael Haynie (Wicked), Julia Mattison (Godspell), Ben Crawford (Big Fish), Charlie Rosen (One Man, Two Guvnors; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Preston Sadleir (Next To Normal), Louis Sacco, Hannah A. Brady, Emily Kay Shrader, Monet Julia Sabel, Lauren T. Mack, Hannah Kloepfer, Farra Kober, Chloe Gasparini and Kasie Gasparini. The concert is produced by Erica Rotstein.

Drew Gasparini in "From Here & There: The Music & Lyrics of Drew Gasparini" plays 54 Below (254 West 54th Street) on December 13, 2013 at 11pm. There is a $35 cover charge and $25 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.com. Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00 are only available by calling (646) 476-3551.

Gasparini is an award-winning musical theatre composer/lyricist and a performing singer/songwriter. Winner of the 2006 John Lennon Songwriter's award, he has shared the stage with such acts as Jason Mraz, Third Eye Blind, and The Plain White T's. He has written the music and lyrics for Crazy, Just Like Me (winner of "Best Of Fest" and runner up for "Best Book" in the 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival), Make Me Bad (PACE new musicals; book by Alex Brightman), Turn Of The Screw (commissioned by Fordham University, 2012 workshop at Lincoln Center; book by Michael Kimmel), and #UntitledPopMusical (book by Michael Kimmel), to name a few.

Drew was a contributing composer to the television series SMASH (Season 2) on NBC. He was also seen and heard on Oxygen's The Next Big Thing, for which he wrote original music. Drew was named one of Playbill's "Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriter's You Should Know" and has contributed songs to the popular one-woman, Off-Broadway show, Hot Mess In Manhattan. His work has been heard at Contemporary Classics New Voices in Seattle, Cutting-Edge Composers III (NYMF 2012), and many sold out Joe's Pubs concerts.

The Music & Lyrics of Drew Gasparini was presented at the Kennedy Center in June 2012. And Drew's musical theatre album "I Could Use A Drink: The Songs Of Drew Gasparini", featuring the vocals of some of Broadway's biggest names, was released with Broadway Records in 2013 and spent five weeks on the top 100 iTunes charts. Drew is an alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. His sheet music is available at www.NewMusicalTheatre.com. Currently, Drew is working on several new musicals as well as the development of a new TV show he wrote and created with "The (M)orontourage" (which consists of Broadway's Andrew Kober, Alex Brightman, and F. Michael Haynie).



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