Joe's Pub Presents Heathers, The Musical, Charlie Musselwhite & More

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists.

SEPT 13-16

HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL

Monday, September 13 at 7:00 & 9:30 PM; $20

Heathers: The Musical is making its New York City debut with a concert at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater on Monday, September 13th at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM. The concert will feature songs from the upcoming musical with a full band. Some of Broadway's greats will lend their voices for this special evening. Specific casting details will be announced shortly.

"Heathers: The Musical" is based on the original teenage dark comedy motion picture screenplay by Dan Waters, which launched the careers of Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. The classic high school thriller features love, murder, power politics and even a little hope in the depths of an inferno even Dante couldn't imagine: eleventh grade.

"Heathers: The Musical" is being presented by some of Hollywood and the Great White Way's most talented names: Producer - Andy Cohen (Untraceable), Music Director - Mary Mitchell Campbell (The Addams Family, Company, Road Show), Director/Producer - Andy Fickman (Reefer Madness (stage/film), Jewtopia, She's The Man, The Game Plan, Race To Witch Mountain, and the upcoming You Again), Producer - J. Todd Harris (Bottle Shock, The Kids Are All Right, Piranha 3D), Book/Music/Lyrics/Producer - Kevin Murphy (Reefer Madness (stage/film), Desperate Housewives, Caprica, Hellcats), Book/Music/Lyrics/Producer - Laurence O'Keefe (Bat Boy, Legally Blonde, Sarah Plain & Tall, The Daily Show) and Producer - Amy Powers (Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, Mattel's Barbie Musicals, Dr. Zhivago The Musical) in association with Sh-K-Boom Records, La Jolla Playhouse, Lakeshore Entertainment and Denise Di Novi.

SANDA WEIGL

Tuesday, September 14 at 9:30 PM; $15

Weigl's life is larger than the gypsy lore reflected in her songs. As outspoken politically as she is uncompromising musically, Romanian singer-songwriter Sanda first achieved fame as a teen-age member of Team 4, East Germany's most popular rock band of the 1960s. After publicly denouncing communism and Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia, she was banned from performing and sentenced to two years in an East Berlin prison; then, expelled to the West where she was free to continue crafting her art.

Since relocating to New York in the early nineties, Sanda has performed her singular interpretations to critical acclaim throughout the United States, Mexico, Poland, Germany, Israel, and an especially triumphant series of concerts in her native Romania.

CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE
Tuesday, September 14 at 7:30 PM; $22
A 2010 Blues Hall of Fame Inductee and 23-time Blues Music Award Winner, Charlie Musselwhite will release his new album The Well (Alligator Records) on August 24, 2010. This is the first full-band recording in Charlie's nearly 50-year career for which he wrote or co-wrote every track on the album. Musselwhite is a vibrant link between the 1960's flowering of blues music, and the modern direction it has taken since, with a sound was firmly rooted in Memphis and Chicago Blues, injected with the high energy of Rock&Roll. The "harmonica master," as the New York Times calls him, has played with everyone from John Lee Hooker to Bonnie Raitt to Mick Jagger to INXS, and is one of America's most beloved and talented blues musicians, revered among the world's harmonica players.

HAPPY ENDING MUSIC & READING SERIES featuring DARIN STRAUSS, MATTHEW SHARPE, KRISTIN HERSH & musical guest ANNI ROSSI

Wednesday, September 15 at 7:00 PM; $15
The consistently sold out, Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, chosen by New York Magazine and NY Press as the best reading series in NYC, and singled out by the New York Times Magazine for helping to "Keep downtown alive," features the most interesting storytellers, writers, musicians, raconteurs and personalities, and requires the readers to take one public risk, while the musicians, who perform two short sets with their original, lyric-driven music, are required to play one cover song and try to get the audience to sing along. Called the "most vital authors' series in the city," by Time Out NY, and known for its consistently good taste, Happy Ending has launched careers and proudly, ended none.

Matt White

Wednesday, September 15 at 9:30 PM; $15

Matt White, a superb songwriter, vocalist, pianist and guitarist, possesses a powerful vocal range that he uses fearlessly and a naturally charismatic personality that permeates his live and recorded performances. From a musical family, White composed all the material on his second album due out on Ryko this Fall, which will feature production from David Baron (Lenny Kravitz) and Henry Hirsh (Lenny Kravitz), as well as mixing from Jack Joseph Puig (Weezer, Goo Goo Dolls, Sparklehorse, Shelby Lynne) and Joe Blaney (The Clash, The Ramones, Prince).

White made his mark in 2007 with his debut album Best Days (Geffen), which reached 4 on Billboard's New Artist chart and earned him high praises from press. Rolling Stone Magazine enlisted him in their "10 Artists to Watch." Details Magazine also added Best Days in their "best new music bubbling from the underground," saying White has "a falsetto smooth enough to melt the icy heart of a Brooklyn hipster."

White has toured extensively and has performed with Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, B.B. King, One Republic, Third Eye Blind and Counting Crows. White's songs have garnered national attention, he played an integral role in The Gap's "Vote For" Initiative campaign, which encouraged Americans to express their ideals and become proactive during the 2008 election. His custom track "Songs of Freedom," became the theme song for the campaign and aired on a special electoral episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." His music has also made a splash nationally in movies, TV shows, and commercials such as, "What Happens In Vegas," "Shrek The Third," "McDonald's," "The Hills," "Brothers and Sisters," and "One Tree Hill." More recently, Matt White's demos from the upcoming Ryko release were picked as Facebook's first artist feature for the introduction of their music player application publishing into fans' homepages.

CLARE BURSON: CD RELEASE

Thursday, September 16 at 7:30 PM; $15

Of her musical objectives, indie songstress Clare Burson explains, "I've always leaned towards poetic simplicity and subtlety in my music-wanting to express as much as I can with the fewest possible words and musical flourishes."

Burson builds upon this aesthetic with SILVER & ASH, her most ambitious project yet. Set for September 14th, 2010 release, SILVER & ASH is an album, performance piece, and songbook that imagines her grandmother's life in Germany, from her birth in 1919 to her escape in 1938. For this project, Burson visited her own childhood home in Memphis, where she conducted interviews with her grandmothers, and ventured to the childhood homes of her ancestors in Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Ukraine.

The result of Burson's travel, research, and ancestral archeology is a stunning album of 10 original songs that inhabit and give life to her grandmother's story as well as Clare's own struggles with rupture, silence, guilt, empathy, and continuity. The album was produced by Grammy nominee Tucker Martine (R.E.M., The Decemberists), and created with the help of her band, Mark Spencer on guitar (Son Volt), Tony Leone on drums (Levon Helm), and Andy Cotton on bass. Burson's lush string arrangements and rich vocals - at times wistful, at times full of desperation, but at all times direct - come together to fill the 10 songs on SILVER & ASH with nostalgia and longing.

A classically trained violinist, and later, conversant in fiddle tunes, Burson began playing guitar while studying history at Brown University. After college and a year in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, Burson returned to Tennessee where she recorded with T-Bone Burnett and played around town. Currently, Clare lives in Brooklyn, NY.

TICKETS

Online at joespub.com

Phone 212-967-7555,

In Person At The Public Theater Box Office (1 PM to 6 PM), or at the Joe's Pub Box Office from (6 PM to 10 PM) both located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC

For table reservations please call 212-539-8778. Purchase of tickets does NOT guarantee a table reservation; you must call to reserve seats. Seating, as well as standing-room, is available only on a first-come, first-served basis for all shows without a dinner reservation. Two drink or $12 food minimum per person is standard.