Signature Theatre Hosts November 15th CD Release Party For Matt Conner 11/15

Virginia's Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre is hosting a CD signing and release party for WINTER, a new holiday CD from Signature American Musical Voices Project commissioned composer Matt Conner (Nevermore, The Hollow and Partial Eclipse) on Monday, November 15th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm in Signature Theatre's Mead Lobby.

Conner's debut CD WINTER, which features him on the piano, includes holiday favorites such as "Jingle Bells" and "We Three Kings" as well as two original songs composed by Conner.

Conner will be in the Mead Lobby to perform a special concert of the songs from the CD and to autograph CDs for sale. CDs are available at the Signature Theatre Shop for $20. WINTER is the perfect holiday gift: with the purchase of four CDs, an additional copy is free.

Tickets are not required for the signing, the release party, or the performance.

Refreshments, including wine, beer and mixed drinks, will be available for sale at Signature's acclaimed Ali's Bar.

Matt Conner is the composer of Signature Theatre's world premieres Nevermore, Partial Eclipse and The Hollow (21/24 workshop), The Girl From No Man's Land (incidental music) and Crossing (workshop). He has been seen on Signature's stages in Sweeney Todd (Bird Seller/Jonas Fogg), Show Boat (Windy/Capt. Andy u/s), Les Misérables (Thenardier, Monparnasse, Pimp), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Ensemble, Aurelio), Merrily We Roll Along (Scottie), The Witches of Eastwick (Toby), Into the Woods (Steward, Baker u/s), My Fair Lady (Second Cockney), Assassins (John Hinckley, Jr.), Pacific Overtures (Tamate, Lion Dancer), and A Funny Thing...Forum (Protean, Hero u/s). He can be regularly seen playing the piano in Signature's Mead Lobby before performances.

Conner's other compositions include A Christmas Carol for GMCW and Martin: The King of Pizza for Creative Cauldron, Inc. He has also been seen on stage in the DC area in West Side Story (Olney Theatre) and Oscar Wilde's Salome (Synetic Theatre). He has a BFA from Shenandoah University.

ABOUT SIGNATURE
Recipient of the 2009 Regional Theatre Tony Award, Signature Theatre is a non-profit professional theater company in Arlington, Virginia dedicated to producing contemporary musicals and plays, reinventing classic musicals, and developing new work. Under the leadership of co-founder and Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer and Managing Director Maggie Boland, Signature has presented 29 world premiere productions and is renowned for combining Broadway-quality productions with intimate playing spaces.

In addition to hosting the finest talent from the DC metropolitan area and New York, Signature has been home to such theatre luminaries as Chita Rivera, George Hearn, Hunter Foster, Emily Skinner, Marc Kudisch, Judy Kuhn, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Cameron Mackintosh, Terrence McNally, and the company's signature composer, Stephen Sondheim. Since its founding in 1989, Signature has won 70 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence in the Washington, DC region's professional theater and has been honored with 276 nominations.

Signature is partially supported by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts and by a gift from Arlington County through the Arlington Commission for the Arts and the Cultural Affairs Division of the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Resources.

SIGNATURE'S 2010-2011 SEASON
Signature's 2010-11 season includes the legendary rock musical Chess composed by ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play Art, Side by Side by Sondheim, and the world premieres of Ken Ludwig's A Fox on the Fairway, Joe Calarco's Walter Cronkite Is Dead. and Joseph Thalken's musical Wheatley's Folly. Subscriptions for three or more productions are available by calling Signature's Box Office at (703) 820-9771.

DIRECTIONS - PROXIMITY TO WASHINGTON, DC

Located in Arlington, Virginia and complete with free parking, Signature Theatre is just 5.2 miles from the D.C.'s landmark, the Washington Monument, an estimated 10 - 15 minute drive according to googlemaps.com.

The Signature Theatre complex is located at 4200 Campbell Avenue (22206) off I-395 at the Shirlington exit. After the exit, blue Signature signs mark the way to the theater. Free parking is available in two adjacent public garages. Please note that Campbell Avenue is a new street and some GPS online mapping systems do not yet recognize Signature Theatre's address. For directions visit http://signature-theatre.org/map.htm.

Using public transportation, Signature is a $12 taxi ride from the Pentagon City Metro stop (on both the Blue & Yellow lines) with a taxi stand located in front of the Ritz Carlton Hotel.

Contact Information
Subscriptions: (703) 820-9771
Single Tickets: Ticketmaster (703) 573-SEAT (7328)
Signature Administration (571) 527-1860
Signature Theatre
4200 Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206
http://www.signature-theatre.org