Extra Performance Added to American Songbook Zippel Concert, Feb. '06

By: Sep. 30, 2005
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Lincoln Center has announced an additional performance for the American Songbook concert Go The Distance: The Lyrics of David Zippel.  By popular demand, the second performance has been added at 10:30 PM on Friday, February 24, 2006. This is in addition to the previously-announced 8:30 PM performance; both will be held at The Allen Room (Frederick P. Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, Broadway at 60th St.).

The concert, featuring performances by Barbara Cook (Candide, The Music Man, She Loves Me), Brian d'Arcy James (The Wild Party, Sweet Smell of Success), Brent Barrett (Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun, Grand Hotel) and others, will pay tribute to Zippel, the prolific lyricist who has achieved success on Broadway, in Hollywood and on the pop charts, earning a Tony Award, two Academy Award Nominations, two Grammy nominations and three Golden Globe nominations.

His work for the stage includes the London hit The Woman In White (with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber) and Princesses (with music by Matthew Wilder); both will open on Broadway in November.  Other credits include the noir musical comedy City of Angels, for which he won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Original Score (shared with composer Cy Coleman) and The Goodbye Girl (with music by Marvin Hamlisch). Zippel has also written lyrics for Oscar-nominated songs from the Disney hits Mulan and Hercules, some of which have also scored on the pop charts.

"Since it was launched in 1999, American Songbook has been dedicated to celebrating the extraordinary achievements of the popular American songwriter from the turn of the 20th century to the present day.  Spanning all styles and genres from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to the eclecticism of today's singer-songwriters working in pop, cabaret, rock, folk and country, American Songbook traces the history and charts the course of the American song from its past and current forms to its future direction," state press notes.

Tickets for both performances, at $30, $40, and $55, are on sale now at the Alice Tully Hall box office (Broadway & 65th St.), through CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, and on Lincoln Center's website: www.lincolncenter.org.



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