Jeff Blumenkrantz Performs at the Duplex, May 19

The Duplex Cabaret Theatre will once again welcome Jeff Blumenkrantz on Friday, May 19th at 7pm for a one-night-only special concert event.

Blumenkrantz will perform selections from "The Jeff Blumenkrantz Songbook," and special guest performers will include Alysha Umphress (last season's XL Star).

Blumenkrantz, creator and host of The Jeff Blumenkrantz Songbook Podcast, began his career as an actor, performing in such Broadway shows as Into the Woods (1987), Threepenny Opera (1989), Damn Yankees (1994), How to Succeed in Business...(1995) and A Class Act (2001). Although he joined the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop in 1987, it wasn't until 2000 when Audra McDonald recorded his song "I Won't Mind" (lyrics by Annie Kessler and Libby Saines) that his songwriting career was launched. Since then, he received a Best Original Score Tony nomination for his songs in Urban Cowboy, and he contributed the Rita Gardner song "I Think" to last year's off-Broadway production, The Audience.

His one-act pieces, Woman with Pocketbook and Precious Little Jewel, have been performed at several regional theatres, and he has been commissioned to write songs by Carnegie Hall and the Guggenheim's Works and Process program. He is a recipient of the BMI Harrington Award and the Dramatists Guild Jonathan Larsen Memorial Musical Theatre Fellowship. He is a graduate of Northwestern University. For more information about his songbook and podcast, please visit www.jeffblumenkrantz.com.

There is a $12 cover charge, as well as a two-drink minimum. No one under 21 will be permitted, and credit cards are accepted. The Duplex Cabaret Theatre is located at 61 Christopher Street, in the heart of New York's West Village. For reservations, which are strongly recommended, please call 212 255 5438.