STARS OF DAVID: STORY TO SONG to Launch 6-City Florida Tour in Fort Lauderdale

STARS OF DAVID: STORY TO SONG, a new musical revue based on the best-selling book by Abigail Pogrebin, is announced by Tony Award winning producer Daryl Roth, to launch an extensive 6-city Florida tour, premiering December 23 through January 4, at Fort Lauderdale's Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

Directed by Gordon Greenberg, STARS OF DAVID was conceived by Aaron Harnick with book by Abigail Pogrebin and Gordon Greenberg. Starring are Patti Gardner, Avi Hoffman, Cassie Levine and Mike Westrich.

This funny and captivating new musical revue features original songs by the finest composers and lyricists of the theatre and celebrates the identity of some of the most well know Jewish personalities including Marilyn & Alan Bergman (Award-winning lyricists of "The Windmills of your Mind," "The Way We Were" and others), Andy Cohen (Bravo Executive and Host of "Watch What Happens Live"), Gloria Steinem (Author, Feminist and Activist), Kenneth Cole (Fashion Designer, Activist), Fran Drescher (Actress/Comedian, TV's "The Nanny"), Edgar Bronfman Sr. (Former CEO of Warner Music Group), Aaron Sorkin (TV/Film Writer, "The West Wing," The Social Network), Leonard Nimoy (Actor, "Star Trek"), Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Supreme Court Justice), Joan Rivers (Actress, Comedian, Host of "Fashion Police"), Tony Kushner (Playwright, "Angels in America") and Norman Lear (TV Writer/Producer, Creator of "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons"), among others.

Their stories have been adapted into touching, humorous and often moving songs by such celebrated, award-winning writers as Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line), Marilyn & Alan Bergman (Yentl), Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof), Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater (Spring Awakening), Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, Or Change), Richard Maltby & David Shire (Closer Than Ever), Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), Michael Friedman (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Amanda Green (High Fidelity), Nathan Tysen & Chris Miller (The Burnt Part Boys), Susan Birkenhead (Jelly's Last Jam), Gaby Alter & Itamar Moses (Nobody Loves You), Daniel Messé and others.

Following the December 23 Fort Lauderdale premiere, scheduled dates include January 11 at the Capitol Theater, Clearwater; January 14-17 at the Wilson Center in Jacksonville; January 28-February 1 at Miami's Mary and Dave Alper JCC; February 4-15 at the Gleason Room Backstage/Fillmore, Miami Beach, winding up the Florida leg of the tour February 17-March 15 at the Kravis Center-Persson Hall, West Palm Beach.

STARS OF DAVID: STORY TO SONG's Scenic Designer is Clint Ramos with lighting design by Tyler Micoleau and sound design by Peter Fitzgerald. Music direction is by Eric Alsford and the Production Stage Manager is Amy London.