On Tuesday, May 3, the NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG salutes Harold Prince with a benefit concert titled A PRINCE OF A FELLA beginning at 7 p.m. at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall. The performance will be followed by a seated dinner beginning at 8:30 p.m. at Shelly's New York, 104 West 57th St.
The concert will include song favorites from the bounty of classic Broadway shows Mr. Prince has produced and directed over the course of his long and illustrious career in American theater. The evening will feature four of today's leading song interpreters, Mary Cleere Haran, Marin Mazzie, Jason Daniely and Brent Barrett and accompanied by NYFOS Artistic Director Steven Blier at the piano.
The co-chairmen of the evening are Jamie Bernstein, Barbara Fleischman, Mary Rodgers and Henry Guettel and John Kander. Tickets are priced at $500 and $750 for single tickets and $ 4,000 to $6,000 for tables and are available by calling 646-230-8380.
Now in its seventeenth season, the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) was founded in 1988 by Michael Barrett and Steven Blier, and is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty, humor and originality, combining music, poetry, monologue, and story, to entertain, educate and create community among audiences and performers.
Harold Prince, American theatrical producer and director was born in New York City. After working as an assistant stage manager, Mr. Prince became at 26 the co-producer of Pajama Game, a major Broadway musical of 1954. He followed this with many more successful productions, including Damn Yankees (1955), West Side Story (1957), Fiorello! (1961), and Fiddler on the Roof (1964). Among the shows that he has both produced and directed in collaboration with Stephen Sondheim are Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), and Sweeney Todd (1979). He also directed Phantom of the Opera (1986) and Parade (1998).
A Salute to Harold Prince to benefit the New York Festival of Song
Tuesday, May 3
7 pm: Performance Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
8:30 pm: Post-concert dinner Shelly's New York, 104 West 57th Street
Tickets are priced at $500 and $750 for single tickets and $ 4,000 to $6,000 for tables and are available by calling 646-230-8380.
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