Amanda Green & Tom Kitt Play with Themselves, October 17

Amanda Green and Tom Kitt will get musically naughty when they Play with Themselves at Birdland (315 W. 44th St.) on Monday, October 17th at 7 PM.

The winner of two MAC Awards, a Bistro Award and the recipient of a 2004 Jonathan Larson Award and grant for excellence in songwriting, Green is the daughter of a man who knew a thing or two about writing lyrics--Adolph Green. She recently penned additional lyrics for a production of Styne, Comden and Green's Hallelujah, Baby at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage; the show is slated to come to New York in 2006. She also co-starred in and wrote the lyrics for For the Love of Tiffany: a Wifetime Original Musical, which played the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival, and other credits include the LA musical Up the Week Without a Paddle and her hit revue Put A Little Love in Your Mouth: The Tongue-in-Cheek Songs of Amanda Green.

Kitt was recently represented at this year's New York Musical Theatre festival with the musical Feeling Electric, starring Amy Spanger and Anthony Rapp; the show featured a book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey. An arranger, musical director, orchestrator, musician and conductor as well as a composer, he has worked on Broadway's Laugh Whore, Urban Cowboy and An Evening with Mario Cantone, as well as off-Broadway's Debbie Does Dallas. He is the leader of the Tom Kitt Band.