Amas Musicals Launches SONG SALON Celebrating The American Songbook 11/15

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff/Producing Artistic Director) is launching a new program series called "The Amas Musical Theatre Song Salon", with inaugural guest Gerard Alessandrini, Tony Award-winning creator of Forbidden Broadway. The first Salon event will be held on Monday, November 15, 2010. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served at 6:00pm and the program will begin at 7:00pm, at a private midtown Manhattan residence. A limited number of tickets will be available for $75 each, in support of Amas theatre and education programming.
"The Amas Musical Theatre Song Salon" is a periodic series of informal evenings exploring the American Songbook, including conversations with its foremost practitioners and performances by guest artists. The evenings will feature limited attendance in informal and elegant environments, including private homes and apartments. Guests will receive the address upon ticket confirmation. Ticket purchases are tax deductible as allowed by law. Future Salon events will be announced on an ongoing basis.

"I'm so pleased to launch this series of special soirees with the smartest and funniest American song parodist of our era", says Amas Producing Artistic Director Donna Trinkoff. "Gerard will be sharing some of the many untold secrets and incredible stories behind our long-running favorite, Forbidden Broadway, in a very relaxed yet elegant environment", she adds. "This will be a very special evening".

"The Amas Musical Theatre Song Salon", directed by Phillip George (Forbidden Broadway, SHOUT! The Mod Musical), and music directed by David Caldwell (Forbidden Broadway), will also feature additional guest artists to be announced shortly.

Director, playwright, parodist and actor, Gerard Alessandrini is the creator of the award-winning off-Broadway musical theatre revue Forbidden Broadway. He is the recipient of Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, an Obie Award, four Drama Desk Awards (including the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics and the Drama Desk Special Award), an Outer Critics Circle Award, and two Lucille Lortel Awards, as well as the Drama League Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre.

Amas Musical Theatre is New York City's award-winning pioneer in diversity and multiculturalism in the performing arts since 1968. Amas ("you love" in Latin) is devoted to the creation, development and professional production of new American musicals through the celebration of diversity and minority perspectives, the emergence of new artistic talent, and the training and encouragement of under-served young people in the New York metropolitan area. In recent years, Amas has emerged as a leading not-for-profit laboratory for new musicals, including Signs of Life, Wanda's World, SHOUT! The Mod Musical, Lone Star Love, From My Hometown, Zanna, Don't!, 4 Guys Named Jose, and Stormy Weather, Imagining Lena Horne. Amas education programs include the Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy, the Immigration Experience for middle and high schools, and Lens on Live Theatre. Visit www.amasmusical.org.

Event Listing
"THE Amas Musical Theatre SONG SALON",
featuring Special Guest Gerard Alessandrini, Creator of "Forbidden Broadway", presented one night only as the inaugural offering of the new Amas Musical Theatre Song Salon Series.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres served at 6pm, program begins at 7pm,
The event will takes place at a private midtown Manhattan residence.
Guests will receive the address upon ticket confirmation.
ALL TICKETS: $75 (tax deductible as allowed by law)
FOR RESERVATIONS CALL (212) 563-2565 or VISIT www.amasmusical.org

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