Block, Cavenaugh, Lazar, Powers, & Spector Set For RFTC Cabaret, 6/14

The Red Fern Theatre Company presents its 2nd Annual Cabaret and Silent Auction Fundraiser, “Up Close and Personal with Broadway’s Best,” on Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 8pm at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater located at 5 West 64th Street.

The evening will feature songs from Broadway stars, Stephanie J. Block (9 to 5, Pirate Queen, Boy from Oz, Wicked), Matt Cavenaugh (West Side Story, Grey Gardens and A Catered Affair), Aaron Lazar (Les Miserables, Light in the Piazza, Tale of Two Cities, Impressionism), Jenny Powers (Grease, Little Women, Happiness), and Jarrod Spector (Jersey Boys). Block will sing from her newly released album This Place I Know. Michael Lavine will accompany on piano.

The evening will also include a Silent Auction and Reception sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery and Yellowtail Wines. The fundraiser benefits the Red Fern Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre company dedicated to positive change in our community by producing socially conscious plays. They partner each play with a philanthropy whose mission relates to the issues addressed in the play. The 2009-2010 Season of New Plays will open with the New York Premiere of Shirley Lauro’s All Through the Night (2006 Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Citation Nominee:“Best New Play of the Year”).

Tickets are $50/general admission; $100/VIP seats which include reserved seating, an autographed gift bag, and a ticket to a preview of our fall show. For tickets, call 212-352-3101 or visit https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/661185. The Silent Auction Preview and reception begins at 7pm with the Cabaret beginning at 8pm. The Cabaret will be immediately followed by a meet-and-greet with the talent as well as the conclusion of the Silent Auction. For more information, visit www.redferntheatre.org.

The Red Fern Theatre Company (www.redferntheatre.org) is a 501(c)3 non-profit founded in March 2006 and formally incorporated December 29, 2006. The RFTC is a theatre company in New York City that, through its productions and outreach, provokes social awareness and social change. Each play produced by the RFTC addresses social issues that range in scope from local to global. We pair each of our productions with a philanthropy whose work relates to the social themes of the play. A portion of the ticket sales from each play is donated to the designated philanthropy, and we educate our audiences on their mission and activities. By associating each production with a philanthropic organization, we are able to respond directly to the people affected by the issues addressed in the play. Since our beginning, we have produced 10 main stage plays and fostered the development of a new work which premiered at NYFringe last year.

Our 2009-2010 Season of New Plays will open at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater with the New York Premiere of All Through the Night by Shirley Lauro. This play speaks directly with a warning for today. Inspired by interviews with German Gentile women, and set during and after the Third Reich, the play is both stylistic and surrealistic, sweeping through the women's teen years and young adulthood during the Holocaust and then beyond. The Nazi Regime impacts the women's lives as they struggle over education, work, religion, marriage and motherhood. Making overwhelmingly hard choices, they survive or succumb to Hitler's Reign and are changed forever.