Photo Coverage: 'Don't Quit Your Night Job' Welcomes White
By: Peter James Zielinski Apr. 29, 2008
Don't Quit Your Night Job, the critically acclaimed comedy variety show featuring a revolving cast of Broadway's brightest performing without a net, welcomed Spring at their monthly home The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues) on Thursday, April 24th, 2008. Proceeds went to Wendy Wasserstein's TDF/Open Doors program.
Don't Quit Your Night Job is where Broadway goes to let its hair down. The late night happening of improv, music, sketches and stories was created by its stars: industry mainstays Steve Rosen (The Farnsworth Invention, Monty Python's Spamalot), David Rossmer (Fiddler on the Roof, Titanic), Sarah Saltzberg (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and music director Dan Lipton (The Coast of Utopia).
Guests on the April 24th included Julie White, last year's Tony winner for Best Actress in a Play, as well as Tony-nominated Spring Awakening star Jonathan Groff. The show also welcomed Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of In The Heights, along with his Freestyle Love Supreme cohorts King Sherman and human beatboxer Shockwave.
Open Doors is the Theatre Development Fund's theatre arts mentoring program for high school students, and was started in 1998 by TDF with playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Its goal is to explore the relevance of theatre in the lives of today's youth.
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Pinta, from Legally Blonde
Sarah Saltzberg presents Pinta (held by Javier Picayo) with the Quitty Award for 'Best On-Stage Performance as an Animal'
Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights) free-styles from randomly-drawn audience contributions
Shockwave, with his beat-boxing skills, acts out an elaborate story involving grave-diggers and caskets
Shockwave
Shockwave
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Shockwave
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Shockwave
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Shockwave
Sarah Saltzberg speeds through a 60-second restaging of My Fair Lady
Co-Host Steve Rosen
Gibson Frazier (God's Ear)
John Ellison Conlee as the previous eggplant gardener
Julie White tells an entertaining back-stage story involving Wendy Wasserstein, Meryl Streep and potty-time
Pinta
Jason Kravits plays 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' on his saw
John Ellison Conlee, Gibson Frazier,David Rossmer, Vasthy Mompoint, Sandy Rustin, and Steve Rosen recite a prayer for Puff, The Magic Dragon
Noah Galvin, The Musical Guest Star-of-Tomorrow
Noah Galvin belts 'Rose's Turn' from Gypsy
David Rossmer and Steve Rosen as Co-Hosts for NY2
David Rossmer and Steve Rosen love musicals! YAY!
Vasthy Mompoint, Jason Kravits, and Gibson Frazier reenact a scene from the musical I Broke My Pogo-Stick
Asmeret Ghebremichael in Act 2 of I Broke My Pogo-Stick
Asmeret Ghebremichael and Jason Kravits find true love
Sandy Rustin stars in The Dali Llama Doesn't Live Here
Sandy Rustin meets Gibson Frazier and John Ellison Conlee, two eclectic residents of Sri Lanka
Sarah Saltzberg, by looking through a magic spy-glass, learns that she is the next Dali Llama
Maurice Murphy as Tricycle Joe
Jason Kravits and Sarah Saltzberg
Maurice Murphy laments that his three-wheel creations are rejected
Sandy Rustin as a Chicken...
Music Director Dan Lipton and Damien Bassman
David Rossmer collects words for Musical Madlibs
Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening) sings 'Totally F*cked' with audience-contributed lyrics
Dan Lipton conducts the Celebrity Symphony
The Cast of 'Don't Quit Your Night Job'
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