THE OFFICE Star Kate Flannery Joins 'A Conversation With and Tribute To Stephen Schwartz' Cast
By: Kelsey Denette Apr. 12, 2012
Kate Flannery from NBC's THE OFFICE and Off Broadway's LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE has joined the cast for "When You Believe: A Conversation With and Tribute To Stephen Schwartz" at the Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Springs on May 19.
Schwartz, the three-time Academy Award-winning Broadway legend and composer, will be interviewed live onstage about his career, interspersed by performances of his stage and movie musical hits. The evening will be directed and moderated by Broadway veteran and award-winning Desert actor Scott Logsdon. Songs from Schwart'z catalogue of hits will be performer by Flannery, Broadway legend Andrea McArdle, Pamla Vale Abramson, Melissa Batalles, Garrett Hoy, Ben Reece and Laura L.Thomas. Joel Baker will be the musical director/accompanist. Kate Flannery is best known as Meredith on NBC's THE OFFICE. She's been seen on the NY stage in Nora Ephron's LOVE , LOSS AND WHAT I WORE, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS as Neely O'Hara at the Circle in The Square and THE REAL LIVE BRADY BUNCH as Alice at the Village Gate. She's a former member of Chicago's Second City National Tour Co. and the Annoyance Theater. Her original comedy act, the Lampshades has played Joe's Pub and plays Hollywood regularly. www.thelampshades.comStephen Schwartz, the three-time Acadmey Award winning composert behind such worldwide Broadway hits as WICKED, GODSPELL and PIPPIN and films including PRINCE OF EGYPT and POCAHONTAS, will be the first recipient of Desert Ensemble Theatre Company's Melpomai Award, to be given annually to honor excellence in the development of theater nationally."Having someone with Kate's comic sensibility and musical background will really bring the humor of Stephen's songs to life. We're excited to welcome her on-board to this exciting event," said DETC co-founding artistic director Eric Olson.Stephen Schwartz's body of work includes the scores for the shows GODSPELL, PIPPIN, THE MAGIC SHOW, THE BAKER'S WIFE, WORKING, CHILDREN OF EDEN, CAPTAIN LOUIS, WICKED, the film PRINCE OF EGYPT (for which he won an Oscar) and the opera SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. As a lyricist, he worked on Bernstein's MASS, RAGS and the films THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, POCAHONTAS (for which he won two Academy Awards) and ENCHANTED.
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