11th Hour Theatre Company Continues Spotlight Series with The Three Philly Tenors

11th Hour Theatre Company readies a Valentine's Day treat for area musical theatre fans. The company continues The Spotlight Series, a cabaret series designed to put Philadelphia's favorite musical theatre performers front and center. This one night only event, The Three Philly Tenors, will be Monday, February 13 at 7 p.m. All shows are upstairs at World Café Live Philadelphia, 3025 Walnut Street. Tickets cost $40 and are available online at www.11thhourtheatrecompany.org or by phone 267-987-9865.

The Spotlight Series features unforgettable, one-night-only concerts in an intimate setting. It is designed to be a social evening that brings together musical theater fans and 11th Hour artists for food, drinks, and a show unlike anything else in the region.

For the next edition of the series, 11th Hour showcases three of the region's top Musical Theatre talents. The rest of the world had Domingo, Carreras and Pavarotti, but Philadelphia has Dibble, O'Brien and Coon. Audiences have heard them sing solo on stages across the City of Brotherly Love, but for one-night-only, this team of theatrical tenor powerhouses, Ben Dibble, Michael Philip O'Brien and Jeff Coon, will join forces to bring audiences an evening of some of the most beloved songs from the Musical Theatre cannon.

Directed by Matthew Decker, Arden Theatre Company's Associate Artistic Director and Theatre Horizon's Resident Director, and music directed by Barrymore Award winner Amanda Morton, The Three Philly Tenors will be an evening of modern and classic Broadway songs and stories about the trio's lives as performers in the region. Audiences can expect Coon to sing "If Ever I Would Leave You," from Camelot, Dibble to sing "Great Big Stuff" from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and O'Brien to sing "Breeze Off The River" from The Full Monty. Other highlights of the evening are also set to be soaring duets and an Enjolras medley from Les Miserables--including a retelling of the week all three of them took to the Walnut Street Theatre stage in that iconic role.

From The Spotlight Series creator, 11th Hour co-founder and Associate Artistic Director Steve Pacek, "Audiences can expect a fun and different kind of musical theatre experience with The Spotlight Series. We've taken the "theatre" out of musical theatre and brought our songs, artists and audience into the intimate upstairs lounge at World Cafe Live. I want our patrons to be able to get to know the artists they've seen on the stage better while also getting to know each other better. So, in addition to hearing some amazing music, our audience is treated to some personal stories from our artists and maybe some behind-the-scenes secrets all while sharing each other's company over food and drinks!:"

Musical Director Morton will be at the piano. The band also includes Justin Yoder on cello and Michael Reilly on drums.

The Law Offices of Berne Siergiej, Esq sponsor the The Three Philly Tenors.

Final Spotlight Series
Martha Graham Cracker Sings Musicals
April 3rd, 2017 @ 7pm

11th Hour is thrilled to welcome Martha Graham Cracker to the Spotlight Series. Philadelphia's favorite hirsute songstress brings her rocking, soulful self to musical theatre land for what is sure to be one of the most talked about events this spring. Named "The Drag Queen King of Philadelphia" by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mz. Graham Cracker has become one of the most popular entertainers in town.

Spotlight Sponsor - Sandi Foxx-Jones

About 11th Hour Theatre Company

11th Hour Theatre Company is the only company in Philadelphia dedicated to producing all musicals, all the time. Intimate by design, 11th Hour creates a lasting experience with the audience by producing character-driven musical theatre.

11th Hour produces a broad spectrum of musicals that fill a niche in the diverse Philadelphia theatre landscape: musicals that spark the creativity of artists and the imaginations of audiences. Over the past eleven seasons, they have produced seventeen full-scale musicals, nine of which were Philadelphia premieres. In addition to the World Premiere of their first commission, Field Hockey Hot, the company has contributed to the development of several new musicals beginning with Angst, a ten-minute musical that premiered in the Spark Festival of 2005. 11th Hour produced the American premiere of Austentatious that went on to success at the New York Musical Theatre Festival; and a 29-hour reading of Fantasy Football, the Musical? before its production at New York University. Both Austentatious and Fantasy Football have since been published and are now professionally licensed. In the fall of 2014, 11th Hour partnered with University of the Arts to workshop Persephone Unplugged, a new twist on the classic Greek myth. With support from the Independence Foundation, 11th Hour recently commissioned their second musical from a local writing team, a Civil War-themed project currently titled Something Like a War.

11th Hour has received a total of forty-six Barrymore Award nominations. Their work has been recognized with eight awards, including two consecutive awards for "Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical" (The Bomb-itty of Errors, The World Goes 'Round), and several individual awards for their artists. Founding member Steve Pacek was also the proud recipient of the 2012 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist. In 2013, 11th Hour became the first-ever recipient of the June and Steve Wolfson Award for an Evolving Theater.

The Spotlight Series features unforgettable, one-night-only concerts in an intimate setting. It is designed to be a social event and show unlike anything else in the region that deepens the relationship between artists and audience.