Todd Almond News

Raise the Roof, a benefit concert held on October 30th at St. Clement's Theatre (423 W. 46th St. between 9th & 10th), featured performances by Frenchie Davis (Rent), Jessica Boevers (In My Life), Justin Patterson (All Shook Up), Susan Derry (Wonderful Town), Jayne Paterson (Les Miserables, Jane Eyre), Josh Walden (La Cage Aux Folles, 42nd Street) and many more.

people like Us, a new musical by Todd Almond and Gus Kaikkonen, will be featured this month during the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Matt Bogart, recently seen on Broadway as Radames in AIDA and in Smokey Joe's Café, will star in the production opposite fellow University of Cincinnati - College Conservatory of Music graduate Pamela Bob.

Matt Bogart will star with Pamela Bob in the new musical People Like Us, which will run from September 22nd to October 2nd as part of the New York Music Theatre Festival

The 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), currently entering its sophomore year, has announced a series of invited productions and events to round out this year's slate along with the previously announced titles for the 'Next Link Project.'

Michael Cerveris will sing Morrissey's 'How Soon is Now' at The Cure vs. the Smiths Face-off at the Knitting Factory on June 3rd and 4th