Closing the Gap - A Benefit Concert - A special One Night Only Concert featuring the songs of Dramatist Guild Fellows Dana Levinson and Stacey Weingarten. Inspired by an Ira Glass quote, musical theater writing team Levinson and Weingarten air their dirty laundry and reveal the sometimes painful but often hilarious process of closing the gap between artistic taste and ability. All profits from this concert will go to the Levels Teen Center at the Great Neck Library, a vital community teen center and arts program, to aid in seeing them through the Great Neck Library renovation (www.greatnecklibrary.org/levels/levelsis.html).
The concert will take place on Monday, February 16 at 7PM (doors open at 6PM) at The Public Theatre's Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street). Tickets are $20.00 - $75.00 and can be purchased by visiting publictheater.org or call 212.967.7555. Closing the Gap will feature the best and brightest of Broadway and Off Broadway today including Michael Armstrong Barr (Jump Man, Film: Growing Up and Other Lies), Mick Bleyer (National Tour: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Award winning vocal group Marquee Five), Britton Smith (Broadway's After Midnight, Fortress of Solitude), Brian Charles Rooney (BEDBUGS!!!, Broadway's Three Penny Opera), Farah Siraj (Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center), Kate Steinberg (Rescue Rue, Broken Bride:A Rock Opera). The evening is directed by Drama League Fellow Samantha Saltzman, Music Direction by Andrew Wheeler and Executive Produced by Suellen Vance. LEVELS is a cultural arts center featuring workshops in theatre, dance, art, music, video, puppetry, and writing, among other offerings. A place created BY and FOR teenagers, the teens themselves are given the opportunity to plan Levels' programming and activities, continually shaping the center into a vital and relevant arts space serving the needs and interests of kids today. Free to all, the supervised teen center is open to seventh grade through college age students and is located in the Main Building of the Great Neck Library.Videos