Jeanine Tesori's 'American Songbook' Concert to Star Breaker, Cooper & More, 3/5

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook finishes up its twelfth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song with a final week of different and dazzling concerts. On March 5th, one of the hottest composers on the theater scene - Jeanine Tesori ("Shrek The Musical" and "Caroline, or Change") will perform an evening of her music along with special guests, who will include Chuck Cooper, Daniel Breaker, and a host of others.

Four of Tesori's scores for Broadway shows have been nominated for Tony Awards: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Caroline, or Change (in a formative collaboration with Tony Kushner), Twelfth Night (at Lincoln Center Theater) and Shrek The Musical. She received the Olivier award for Caroline, or Change in London, and she has received Drama Desk and Obie awards in addition to being cited by ASCAP as being "the first woman composer to have two musicals currently running on Broadway." Tesori also writes for films, including the scores for Nights in Rodanthe, Winds of Change, and Show Business. Featured performers in Tesori's Songbook show include the great Chuck Cooper, Daniel Breaker, and Broadway Inspirational Voices. Of her music Tesori has said she writes music to illustrate the story, the words. "I need something to illuminate"- indeed.

The full cast for the concert will include Assata Alston, Mikaela Cordasco, Derick K. Grant, David Greenspan, Marva Hicks, Jodi Katz, Ramona Keller, Mark Lotito, Michael McElroy, Greta Oglesby, Siena Rafter, Darcie Roberts, Mark Stewart, Valerie Wright and the Broadway Inspirational Voices.

Tickets for the concert range in price from $40 to $85. Tickets can be purchased online at Lincoln Center's website AmericanSongbook.org, via CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, or at the Frederick P. Rose Hall Box Office. Tickets can be purchased online at Lincoln Center's website AmericanSongbook.org, via CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, or at the Frederick P. Rose Hall Box Office.

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