'BRIDGE THE GAP' Concert to Donate Portion of Proceeds to American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

NEXT Concert Series: Bridge the Gap will donate a portion of it's proceeds to the American Foundation for Suicide prevention.

More information can be found on their website, https://afsp.org/.

Mental health awareness is a cause that has always been extremely important to Alicia Krakauer (co-founder of NEXT Concert Series, and co-producer of NEXT Concert Series: Bridge the Gap), and it was a conversation with composer Finn Anderson that made her realize that the next stage for NEXT was #songstoheal.

While talking with Anderson, Krakauer remarked how much she loved singing his song 'Rose for Valentine'. It wasn't just that the song has a hauntingly beautiful melody and gorgeous lyrics, it went deeper than that. The music, the lyrics, the melody - the singing the song was cathartic and soothing to the soul.

The NEXT concert series has run both in the US and in the UK as a platform for new musical theatre writers to share their work.

Now, in the next phase of this concert series, writers from both sides of the pond will unite to share their work-featuring brilliant talent from the New York theatre community.

This first volume of Bridge the Gap will showcase the work of British musical theatre writers, Mark Allcorn, Finn Anderson, Tim Connor, Danny Davies, Gus Gowland, James Michalos, Eamonn O'Dwyer, and Kate Malaris and Alex Young.

The cast features the dazzling vocal stylings of Maddie Shea Baldwin (Bright Star), Preston Truman Boyd (She Loves Me, On the Twentieth Century, Bullets Over Broadway, Big Fish), Chad Carstarphen (In the Heights Nat'l Tour, Beth and Charly), Marisa Dargahi, David R. Gordon, Jennifer Haining, F. Michael Haynie (Wicked, Dogfight, NBC's Peter Pan LIVE!), Christopher Hlinka (Mamma Mia! Nat'l Tour), Melissa Rose Hirsch (The Bad Years), Lizzie Klemperer (Bright Star), Alicia Krakauer, Angelo McDonough, Molly Model, T.J. Newton, Daniel Plimpton (Book of Mormon, Spring Awakening Nat'l Tour), Lauren Pritchard (Spring Awakening, Songbird), Christina Sajous (Holler if You Hear Me, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Baby It's You, American Idiot), Ariana Sepúlveda, and Mathieu Whitman (A Christmas Carol Nat'l Tour, Pinkalicious the Musical), with additional performers to be announced!

The evening is co-produced by Alicia Krakauer and Megan Minutillo. Minutillo directs, with musical direction by Brad Gardner.

BRIDGE THE GAP plays Feinstein's/54 Below (254 West 54th Street) on June 6th at 9:30pm. There is a $25-$35 cover charge and $25 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.com. Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00 are only available by calling (646) 476-3551.