Kate Shindle to Perform Concert at Birdland 6/2

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com, the leading source for exclusive theater information and live-events tickets nationwide, are proud to announce Kate Shindle Monday, June 2, 2008 at 7:00p.m., as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

 
Kate Shindle will make her solo Birdland debut on June 2nd.  Along with friend, composer and musical director Brian Lowdermilk, she will present a widely varied set featuring works written and/or performed by artists such as Bill Withers, John Mayer, Ray Charles, Michael John LaChiusa and others.  Expect selections from the vast world outside musical theater, a couple of favorite standards, a few fabulous showtunes, and of course, some Brian Lowdermilk. 

Kate Shindle is currently costarring as Vivienne in Broadway's Legally Blonde.  Previous Broadway outings include Cabaret (Sally Bowles) and Jekyll and Hyde (Lucy).  She has given critically acclaimed performances in shows like After the Fall (Maggie) at the Alley, Himself and Nora (Nora Barnacle) at The Old Globe, Gypsy (Louise), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena), The Woman Upstairs, The Mousetrap, The Last Five Years, First Lady Suite, and Sympathy Jones, for which she won the New York Musical Theatre Festival's Outstanding Individual Performance award.  Shindle co-founded the World AIDS Day concerts with her friend Jamie McGonnigal, participating in the productions of Children of Eden, Pippin (with Ben Vereen and Rosie O'Donnell), and The Secret Garden.  Film and TV work includes Capote and The Stepford Wives, and she can be heard on recordings of Jekyll and Hyde: Resurrection, Jeremy Schonfeld's recently released 37 Notebooks, her old, old solo album Till Today, and the not-yet-released Dracula studio album.

Brian Lowdermilk won the Richard Rodgers Award for his musical Red (with collaborator Marcus Stevens), as well as the Alan Menken Award.  Along with his writing partner Kait Kerrigan, he was the recipient of a 2006 Jonathan Larson Award and a 2004-2005 Jonathan Larson Fellowship at the Dramatists Guild.  They are members of the BMI Musical Theatre advanced workshop, ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild.  Their shows include Henry and Mudge, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, The Woman Upstairs, and Wrong Number.  Their latest show, Tales from the Bad Years, premiered in concert form at the Laurie Beechman Theater in May 2008.

Tickets: $25.00 + $10.00 Food/Drink Minimum (Per Person). Tickets can be purchased Online: www.BIRDLANDJAZZ.com; or by Telephone: 212.581.3080.

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