Neil Bartram to Bring NEW SONGS FOR A NEW YEAR to Birdland

The Broadway at Birdland concert series is proud to announce that multiple Drama Desk Award nominated composer/lyricist Neil Bartram will be bringing "New Songs For A New Year" to the historic music room on Monday, January 4 at 7pm.

Start the new year with an evening of new Neil Bartram songs from upcoming projects including Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Bedknobs & Broomsticks, as well as favorite songs from Neil's catalog (The Story of My Life, The Theory of Relativity, and more). Neil will be joined by Paul Slade Smith (Finding Neverland), Robert Ariza (Spring Awakening), Melody Betts (Invisible Thread), Jane Bruce (The Theory of Relativity), Mack Shirilla (The Theory of Relativity), Michael Browne (The Theory of Relativity), Paul-Jordan Jansen, Skyler Adams, Kevin Dort, Joseph Allen, and some surprise guests in this intimate celebration of the beginning of 2016.

Jim Caruso and Broadway at Birdland present Neil Bartram and friends in New Songs for a New Year.

Monday, January 4, 7:00 pm

Birdland, 315 W 44 Street, NYC

$30 cover, #10 food/drink minimum per person

MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in England, raised in Canada, and now a resident of New York, Neil is best known as the composer and lyricist of Broadway's The Story of My Life (four Drama Desk Award nominations) which starred Will Chase and Malcolm Gets and was directed by Richard Maltby Jr. Prior to Broadway, The Story of My Life played at CanStage in Toronto and Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre in Connecticut. Neil has also written music and lyrics for Somewhere in the World (five seasons at the Charlottetown Festival), Clara's Piano (Stratford Festival), Not Wanted On The Voyage (AMTP, 2012 Goodspeed Festival), The Adventures of Pinocchio (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Greenwich Theatre London), Spin (Signature Theatre) and Belles Soeurs (Segal Centre Montreal, upcoming National Arts Centre Ottawa). His musical The Theory of Relativity, commissioned by Toronto's Sheridan College under the auspices of the Canadian Music Theatre Project just enjoyed a hugely successful run at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre and had its off-West End premiere this summer at the Drayton Arms Theatre.

Current projects include a musical based on Ray Bradbury's classic novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, the stage adaptation of Disney's beloved film Bedknobs & Broomsticks, the one-woman show You Are Here, and the Italian fable Senza Luce. On all his projects Neil collaborates with book writer Brian Hill.

Neil's awards include the ASCAP Foundation's Lucille and Jack Yellen Award, a Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and a Dora Award. Cast albums include Somewhere in the World and The Story of My Life (PS Classics). Neil is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Music Theatre Workshop. He is published by Warner/Chappell Music.