Monday Nights, New Voices Plays The Duplex 2/28

Join Composer and producer, Scott Alan, for another night of 'Monday Nights, New Voices' February 28th, 2011 at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre.

In addition to celebrating some of today's brightest unheard talent and today's most exciting composers and lyricists, the series will see some of it's successful alumni host this final year.

Hosting the January 31st concert will be Legally Blonde's Kate Wetherhead. Wetherhead is an alumni of the series - appearing in the September 25th, 2005 concert series.

The upcoming concert will celebrate the work of songwriters Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner. The duo will be on hand to join performers on selections from their songbook and offer stories about their songs. Paul Staroba is the evening's musical director.

Performers include J. David Anderson, Kyle Kleiboeker, Analisa Leaming, Allison Linker, Stephen Mark Lukas. Show time is 7 PM.

BIOS:

Kate Wetherhead has appeared on Broadway in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" and "Legally Blonde: the Musical." Off-Broadway credits include "Ordinary Days" (the original cast album now available on itunes), "Sarah, Plain and Tall," "Tatjana in Color" and "Cam Jansen". Regionally, Kate has performed at Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Dallas Theater Center and the Skylight Opera Theatre. This spring, Kate will return to the Dallas Theater Center to play Sally Bowles in "Cabaret." She is the co-creator, writer and star of "Submissions Only," a new web comedy about casting theater in New York City - www.submissionsonly.com. Kate was a featured performer at Monday Night's New Voices in 2004.

ALAN ZACHARY & MICHAEL WEINER (Songwriters/Screenwriters)
Alan Zachary & Michael Weiner met in high school, and upon discovering their mutual passion for musical theatre, they began to collaborate on theatre, film and animated musical projects. Fast forward to present day, the duo was recently honored to perform a night of their songs alongside Stephen Schwartz and Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty at Washington, D.C.'s prestigious Kennedy Center as part of their "Broadway Today & Tomorrow" series, celebrating the present and next generation of Broadway songwriters. Currently, they are writing the score for a Broadway musical adaptation of the New Line Cinema film Secondhand Lions with book by famed playwright, novelist and songwriter Rupert Holmes. Simultaneously, they are hard at work on a new romantic musical comedy entitled First Date - a show exploring the contemporary world of dating - which will have its world premiere production in the 5th Avenue Theatre's upcoming 2011-2012 season in Seattle.

As avid songwriters for the Walt Disney Company, Zachary and Weiner were enlisted by Disney Animation Studios to write songs for Disney's top selling DVD release, Cinderella III: A Twist in Time. They also wrote book, music and lyrics for the new Disney stage musical, Twice Charmed: An Original Twist on the Cinderella Story, which premiered on the Disney Cruise Line in May 2005 (cast recording available on Walt Disney Records) and is still going strong. The team has created live stage shows for theme parks spanning the globe, including Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, and their songs have been translated into over 20 languages!
In the world of TV and online media, the team recently sold an animated musical TV series to Fox Television Studios, and they wrote a sitcom pilot for the Disney Channel. They are also creators of The Misadventures of Bob Paparazzo, a comedy animated series for VH1 Online & Mobile. And you may have heard their irreverent theme song for Folgers Coffee entitled "Happy Morning" which was featured in a popular viral marketing campaign that swept the Internet.

Separately, Alan Zachary contributed music and lyrics to DreamWorks Pictures' The Time Machine, and Michael Weiner composed the score for Fine Line Features' Man of the Century as well as the upcoming stage musical, Liberty Smith, which has been seen at NAMT, NYMF and has its world premiere in March 2011 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.For more info, please visit: www.zacharyandweiner.com
The Duplex Cabaret Theatre is located in Manhattan at 61 Christopher Street. There is a $12 music charge and a two-drink minimum; for reservations call (212) 255-5438 or visittheduplex.com.

For those inquiring about submitting themselves for Monday Nights, New Voices send a headshot, resume and mp3 file of yourself to MNNVinfo@yahoo.com. All submissions will be listened to by Scott Alan.