Lee Roy Reams to Emcee TACT's CATCH A RISING STAR Benefit at the Met Room Next Month

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre will hold its Winter Benefit on Monday, December 1st at The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street). The festive evening entitled "Catch A Rising Star" will be emceed by legendary Broadway song and dance man Lee Roy Reams and will feature musical performances by eight young up-and-coming Broadway talents. The evening will kick off at 6:30 p.m. with a cocktail reception, followed by the show at 7:00 p.m.

TACT prides itself on being in the know -- certainly where great talent is concerned! To that end, they are proud to showcase some of their favorite young performers who will pull out all the stops as they perform some of the songs they sing to land themselves the job.

The young performers scheduled to appear are: Richard Barth, Katie Bruestle, Alison Cusano, Anthony Fett, Kevin Geiss, Nikka Graff Lanzaroni and Cailtin Maloney, with Robert Felstein at the piano. Who knows? One of them may just be the next Bernadette, Nathan, Patti, Hugh or Mandy!

Tickets for the benefit evening are $125 (all but $50 is tax-deductible) and include the show and beverages. All proceeds will go directly to support TACT's mission and programming. To purchase tickets, please contact TACT at (212) 645-8228 or visit www.tactnyc.org/2014-winter-benefit.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans & Jenn Thompson, Co-Artistic Directors) is a company of theatre artists that reveals, reclaims, and reimagines great plays of literary merit, creating an intimate theatre experience for its audience by focusing on the text and the actor's ability to bring it to life. TACT's celebrated company of actors was drawn together in 1992 by a love of the literature of the theatre. Since that time, they have grown to become a true ensemble: a group that has developed a common vocabulary and a technique based on their specific artistic vision and collective body of work. TACT Company Members, whose cumulative experience includes scores of significant roles on and off Broadway, in the country's finest regional theatres, and in many films and television shows, have received Emmy, Obie, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards, in addition to several Tony nominations. Heralded by the Wall Street Journal as "The 2012 Company of the Year," TACT has enjoyed a run of successful productions since it first made its move from its "in-concert" style performances to fully-staged productions in the 2006/07 season. Since that time TACT has become a celebrated presence Off-Broadway with their presentations of such diverse and critically-acclaimed works as Tennessee Williams' The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, (included in The New York Times "Top 10 Theatre Picks for 2008"), David Storey's Home, The Sea by Edward Bond, Sir Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy, Sidney Howard's The Late Christopher Bean, John Cecil Holm and George Abbott's Three Men on a Horse, T.S Eliot's The Cocktail Party (included in the Wall Street Journal's "Best of 2010" list), the 2012 Drama Desk-nominated production of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, Anita Loos' Happy Birthday, Brian Friel's Lovers, William Inge's Natural Affection and Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy. The company opened this season with the first NY revival in 30 years of the groundbreaking drama The Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus. The spring production will be the first New York revival of Beth Henley's 1990 play Abundance, directed by Jenn Thompson.

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Photo Credit: Stephen Sorokoff