Broadway Sings Kerrigan and Lowdermilk June 1st

Top Broadway performers to sing highlights from the latest scores by Larson Award winners Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk - Sunday, June 1st, 2008 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Following the instantly-sold-out Tales From The Bad Years concert that took place earlier this spring, the June 1st concert will feature songs from that score as well as The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, currently being developed by the La Jolla Playhouse.

Directed by Daniel Goldstein and produced by Michael Cassara, performers include Jenni Barber (...Spelling Bee, From Up Here), Christina Bianco (Forbidden Broadway), Nick Blaemire (Cry-Baby, Glory Days), Steven Booth (Glory Days), Josh Henry (In The Heights, Godspell), Kyle Dean Massey (Xanadu), Telly Leung (Rent, Pacific Overtures), Laura Osnes (Grease), Julie Reiber (Wicked), Kate Shindle (Legally Blonde), Phoebe Strole (Spring Awakening) and Cayt'lan Wayt.

Composer Lowdermilk will be featured at the piano, with Greg Joseph on drums.  

There is a $20 cover charge and a $15 food/drink minimum. Call (212) 695-6909 for reservations.  EXTREMELY limited seating available, reservations are mandatory.

Kait Kerrigan & Brian Lowdermilk's adaptation of HENRY & MUDGE had an Off-Broadway run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and is currently touring the country with TheatreworksUSA. Their musical THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SAMANTHA BROWN is under commercial option and is being developed by La Jolla Playhouse. It has also had readings at MTC, Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, the Makor, and was featured in the NAMT Songwriters Showcase. They have collaborated on two other musicals: THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS and WRONG NUMBER, both of which were featured in the New York Musical Theatre Festival. They are recipients of a 2006 Jonathan Larson Award and a 2004-2005 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and they are members of the BMI Musical Theatre Advanced workshop, ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. Kerrigan is a graduate of Barnard College. Her plays include TRANSIT and IMAGINARY LOVE, which was a 2006 Princess Grace Award Finalist. Lowdermilk studied at Harvard University and NYU where he received the Alan Menken Award. With collaborator Marcus Stevens, Lowdermilk was the recipient of a Richard Rodgers Award for his musical RED.

Daniel Goldstein (director) is currently preparing the upcoming first Broadway revival of GODSPELL for Summer '08. Currently he is represented by the world premiere of Beau Willimon's LOWER NINTH at The Flea Theater and the World Premiere of Sinan Unel's THE CRY OF THE REED at the Huntington Theater in Boston. Recently he directed the off-Broadway commercial production of the hit Fringe Festival musical WALMARTOPIA. He recently directed Beau Willimon's LOWER NINTH at SPF, an acclaimed production of GODSPELL at Papermill Playhouse, Kenny Finkle's INDOOR/OUTDOOR at the DR2, FALSETTOS and LES LIAISONS DANGEROUSES at the Huntington Theater Company, BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER at the New York Musical Theater Festival and Bathsheba Doran's LIVING ROOM IN AFRICA at Gloucester Stage. =CELEBRATION, the one person show he created with Ethan Sandler and Josie Dickson, was seen Off-Broadway as well as New Haven, San Francisco and the HBO Aspen Comedy Arts Festival. He has served as the Associate Director for ALL SHOOK UP! and FULLY COMMITTED, and the Resident Director for the First National Tour of MAMMA MIA! Daniel has developed the work of playwrights Peter Morris, Aaron Posner, Rob Handel, John Shea, Bathsheba Doran, Janet Neipris, Mark Schultz and Eliza Jane Scheider at the O'Neill Playwright's Conference, PlayPenn, and elsewhere. He was the recipient of an inaugural Calderwood Commission from the Huntington Theater Company, for which he is writing an original musical called UNKNOWN SOLDIER with Michael Friedman. He is a graduate of Northwestern  University.

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