'Stars in the Margin' with Plimpton, Wainwright, & Lipton To Take Place 8/11

The Zipper Factory is proud to present Stars in the Margin: An Evening of Special Guests . . . brought to you by Martha Plimpton, Lucy Wainwright Roche and Dan Lipton on Monday, August 11 at 9:30 p.m.
 
Martha Plimpton met Lucy Wainwright Roche through mutual friends on MySpace. Then they sang a song together at Joe's Pub, then they recorded the song for Lucy's latest EP, "8 More," then they decided to put on a whole entire show, music-directed by ace musician Dan Lipton.  The show will feature a bunch of their favorite people and a bunch of their favorite songs.
 
Martha Plimpton makes a modest but respectable living working in not-for-profit Broadway theater. She has earned two Tony Award nominations in the past two years for her work in Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls" at MTC and Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia at Lincoln Center Theater, the latter for which she received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Other recent New York appearances include Cymbeline at LCT, A Midsummer Night's Dream at NYSF's Delacorte Theater, Shining City at MTC, and HurlyBurly for The New Group. Much of her career makes little logical sense. She has appeared in over 35 films, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work opposite Ice T on "Law & Order: SVU." She has written for The Believer Magazine, MTV.com, and The Daily News, and even got paid for it. She once wrote a Very Special Musical Valentine's Day Episode of "7th Heaven." She played a month of sold-out anti-cabaret shows at The Actors Gang in L.A. with Julian Fleisher. This fall she will make her Broadway musical debut in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey for the Roundabout.
 
Lucy Wainwright Roche is a singer and a songwriter who used to be a teacher and a nanny.    She has spent the last year singing and playing all around the US, Australia and New Zealand and spends most of her life driving from one show to the next.  She hopes that her songs will somehow help to offset her carbon footprint.  In the past year, Lucy has shared stages with many excellent performers, including Rufus Wainwright (her brother), Neko Case and Richard Thompson. This spring she released her second EP entitled, "8 More" and she is currently appearing with Amos Lee on his North American tour.

Dan Lipton, a songwriter/composer/arranger/orchestrator/pianist and lover of backslashes, Lipton's work bridges pop music, film scoring and theater. Dan is a co-creator and resident music director of Don't Quit Your Night Job, the hit comedy variety show that ran off-Broadway in the spring of 2007 and currently resides at The Zipper.  He recently appeared onstage playing piano in Salvage, the third play of Tom Stoppard's Tony winning trilogy The Coast of Utopia at Lincoln Center (his playing can be heard on the play's Ghostlight Records soundtrack recording). On John Lithgow's latest Grammy-nominated children's album The Sunny Side of the Street, he played piano, kazoo and contributed to arrangements.  He has helped Duncan Sheik develop the music for his latest theatrical projects, The Nightingale and Nero.  Lipton has scored award-winning short films including Reif Larsen's The Waiting Room, Corey Rosen's Keep Clear (Empire State Film Festival) and Jeff Yorkes' Winner's Cup (Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Award). Lipton collaborated on musical arrangements for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Grammy-nominated recording) and has arranged music and led bands for award-winning performers across the country, including: Audra McDonald (Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and Town Hall in NYC), Steven Pasquale (Joe's Pub), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Ars Nova), Brian D'Arcy James (Michigan's Temple Theater), B.D. Wong (Hollywood Bowl), Jason Danieley and Kelli O'Hara. His albums Travelogue, Life in Pictures, Zeitgeist and Jukebox Saloon are all available at CD Baby.

Tickets for Stars in the Margin: An Evening of Special Guests . . . brought to you by Martha Plimpton, Lucy Wainwright Roche and Dan Lipton are $20.00 and are available by calling Ovation Tix at 212-352-3101, or online at www.thezipperfactory.com.

For in-person purchases, visit The Zipper Box Office one hour prior to any scheduled event.

In celebration of the musical unions on stage that evening, beginning at 8:30 p.m. on August 11, anyone bringing a valid union card to The Zipper Box Office will be able to buy a specially priced $15.00 ticket to the show.

The festivities begin even earlier that Monday  . . . starting right next door at The Zipper Factory Tavern with Happy Hour (including $3 Zipper Lager, $5 wines,  $6 well drinks and a special Stars in the Margin cocktail) beginning at 5 p.m. until show time at 9:30 p.m.

Located on the site of a restored zipper factory in the heart of the garment district, The Zipper Factory houses a theater, a performance studio, a restaurant, three bars and two lounges, making it one of the city's most unique entertainment and dining complexes.  The Zipper Factory Theater presents an eclectic lineup of theatrical events, music, opera, cabaret, dance, comedy and burlesque.  Artists that have performed at The Zipper include Margaret Cho, Bebe Neuwirth, Alan Cumming, Sarah Silverman, Henry Rollins, Megan Mullally and Supreme Music Program, Joy Behar, Barry Humphries, Lypsinka, Murray Hill, Bob Balaban, John Cameron Mitchell, Scissor Sisters, Antony and The Johnsons, Jay Brannan, Our Lady J, Nellie McKay, Dean & Britta, Old Spring Pike, The Last Town Chorus, Scott Matthew, Marshall Crenshaw, BETTY, GrooveLily, Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel, Sherie Rene Scott, Euan Morton and Michael Cerveris, among others.  The Zipper Factory Tavern is directly accessible to/from the theater space.  The tavern presents a simple, seasonal menu.  The tavern is open Monday through Saturday from 5 p.m. – close.  For reservations, call (212) 695-4600.

Photo by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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