Melissa Manchester to Guest in Town Hall's BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1948, 3/22

Grammy Award-winner and platinum-selling recording artist Melissa Manchester will join the cast of The Town Hall's Broadway Musicals of 1948 on Monday, March 22.

Continuing the 10th Anniversary celebration of The Town Hall's Broadway by the Year ® concert series, Manchester joins the cast of musical theater performers celebrating shows that graced Broadway stages in 1948, including Cole Porter's classic Kiss Me Kate and Frank Loesser's Where's Charley?. The show is hosted, created and written for The Town Hall by Scott Siegel. Tickets are $50 & $45 and are on sale through TicketMaster, 800/982-2787, www.ticketmaster.com, or The Town Hall Box Office between noon and 6 PM (except Sundays) at 123 West 43rd Street, 212-840-2824.

The evening will feature songs including "So In Love," "Where Is The Life That Late I Led, "Were Thine That Special Face," and "Too Darn Hot," from Kiss Me Kate; "Once In Love With Amy," from Where's Charley?; "Mr. Right," from Love Life; "Schraffts," from Make Mine Manhattan; "Haunted Heart" from Inside USA; and "Neurotic You and Psychopathic Me" from Lend Me and Ear, among others.

The cast of singers and dancers include: Jeff McCarthy (Urinetown), Bobby Steggert (Ragtime, Yank!), Jeffry Denman (White Christmas), William Michals (South Pacific), Noah Racey (Curtains), Erin Denman (42nd Street), Josh Grisetti (Enter Laughing) and the Grammy Award winning opera singer John Easterlin. Broadway Musicals of 1948 will be directed by Stuart Ross (Forever Plaid), and musical directed by Ross Patterson.

Broadway by the Year ® creator/writer/host Scott Siegel said, "We are all honored and flattered that Melissa Manchester will be joining us on The Town Hall stage to perform the great Broadway songs of 1948. A star of the first magnitude, she will bring yet a greater spotlight to the wonderful music of Broadway's golden age. Her presence in this concert will also further underscore our efforts to make The Town Hall's 10th Anniversary season of Broadway by the Year as special and memorable as possible!"

SAVE THE DATE FOR:
Broadway Musicals of 1966 (May 10) and a special Broadway by the Year concert celebrating its 10th Anniversary: Broadway Musicals of 1990-2010 (June 14).

Built in 1921 by a group of suffragettes, The Town Hall began as a lecture hall and public forum for debates. Over the decades, the stage has been graced by Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Billie Holiday, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Dylan and Miles Davis. Today the hall flourishes as a popular, affordable venue, boasting the hottest acts in rock, pop, folk, cabaret, world music, opera, comedy and dance, including Robin Williams, Don Rickles, Renee Fleming, Billy Joel, Elvis Costello, Natalie Merchant, Graham Nash, Liza Minnelli, Norah Jones, Andre Watts, Henry Rollins, Joe Jackson, Pink Martini, Regina Spector, Brian Adams, and the Dhali Lama. For over a decade, The Town Hall has hosted live broadcasts of Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion. Over the past two-and-a-half decades, The Town Hall has produced a number of new and critically acclaimed musical series, which include The Century of Change, Not Just Jazz, Broadway By The Year® and The Broadway Cabaret Festival.

For information, visit www.the-townhall-nyc.org