Benanti, Chase, Pasquale Set For 'Come To My Garden' At Joes Pub 6/14

The concert will take place at Joe's Pub on Sunday, June 14th at 9:30pm

The concert, directed by McGonnigal with music direction from Billy Elliot's David Chase, will feature performances from some of Broadway's finest, including Tony Award Winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy), Rescue Me's Steven Pasquale and Story of My Life's Will Chase (all of whom starred in the 2005 World AIDS Day Concert of The Secret Garden). Joining them will be several other Broadway luminaries, including three-time Tony Nominee, Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley (Curtains, Full Monty), and a rare East Coast performance from one of Broadway's youngest Tony Award Winners (for The Secret Garden), Daisy Eagan.

All seats for Come To My Garden: The Music of Lucy Simon are $25. For Tickets, call 212-967-7555 or visit www.joespub.com; or in person at The Public Theater Box Office from 1pm to 6pm and at Joe's Pub from 6pm to 10pm (both located at 425 Lafayette St.). For table reservations call 212-539-8778. Purchase of tickets does NOT guarantee a table reservation; you must call to reserve seats. Seating, as well as standing-room, is available only on a first-come, first-served basis for all shows without a dinner reservation. Two drink or $12 food minimum per person is standard.

Lucy Simon began her professional career at the age of sixteen as a duo with sister Carly. Lucy made her Broadway debut as the composer of The Secret Garden, for which she was nominated for a 1991 Tony Award for Best Original Score and a 1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music. She also wrote songs for the off-Broadway show A...My Name is Alice. Simon's setting of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod has been recorded by many diverse artists, including The Doobie Brothers, Mitzie Collins, and The Big Three (Cass Elliot, Tim Rose, and James Hendricks). In 2006, she composed the music for a musical theatre setting of the Russian novel Dr. Zhivago, and has also penned the music for a musical re-telling of Wuthering Heights along with Secret Garden collaborator, Marsha Norman. She has won a Grammy award in 1981 together with her husband, David Levine, in the Best Recording for Children category for "In Harmony/A Sesame Street Record", and again in 1983 in the same category for "In Harmony 2".

Jamie McGonnigal (Producer/Director) has worked as an actor, director, producer, and activist in the New York area for ten years. Having founded and produced the World AIDS Day Concerts, Jamie brought some of the most exciting concert revivals in recent years to the stage - including Children of Eden at the Riverside Cathedral, Pippin starring Rosie O'Donnell and Ben Vereen, The Secret Garden (named in the top five theatrical events of 2005 by Playbill.com) and Rags at Times Square's Nokia Theatre. He created concert series including NEO for the York Theatre, Flopz n' Cutz, Broadway Loves the 80s, Miracle Holiday Concerts and has been proud to showcase new writers Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, Nick Blaemire and dozens more. Jamie is also known for his humanitarian work, having been camp director for Camp TLC, a summer camp for inner-city teens living with HIV/AIDS, and in the summer of 2007, he traveled for two months to Namibia and South Africa working with the UN's HERO Campaign. When Jamie isn't producing concerts, he can be heard on TV as animated characters in Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Viva Pinata, One Piece and dozens of other animated features and video games.

David Chase is the current Music Supervisor for 2009 Tony Nominee for Best Musical, Billy Elliot. He has also been Music Supervisor for Broadway's Pajama Game, Flower Drum Song, Music Man, Side Show, Little Me, Damn Yankees. Broadway (Dance Arranger): Cry-Baby; Little Mermaid; Curtains; The Wedding Singer; Pajama Game; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Flower Drum Song; Kiss Me, Kate; Seussical; Side Show; and ...Forum. London (Dance Arranger): Evita, Guys and Dolls. Also: Boston Pops, Radio City. Musical training: Harvard biology degree.