Photo Coverage: Sebastian Arcelus, Ann Harada, et al. Perform at William Finn's AMERICAN SONGBOOK Concert

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook returns to the elegant Allen Room in January for its fourteenth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. Closing out Week One of the series was composer William Finn (Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), along with guest vocalists, performing a song cycle inspired by the poetry of William Blake. BroadwayWorld was there for the concert, and we bring you full photo coverage from the event below!

All American Songbook shows are presented in the spectacular Allen Room, located in Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center on Broadway at 60th Street. The Allen Room possesses one of New York's greatest settings – a stunning vista of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline that provides an evocative backdrop for the performers.

TICKETS can be purchased online at Lincoln Center's website www.AmericanSongbook.org, via CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, at the Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, or at the Frederick P. Rose Hall Box Office.

William Finn's enormously popular Broadway musicals – Falsettos and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – along with his numerous works Off Broadway including A New Brain, Elegies, and Romance in Hard Times mine his life experiences of being gay and Jewish to usually hilarious, often tender effect. His newest project is a Broadway-bound musical of the movie Little Miss Sunshine. Finn will be joined by favorite vocalists and they'll bring to The Allen Room a song cycle inspired by the poetry of William Blake focusing on family, belonging, love, loss, and healing – the stuff of the great American Songbook.

Since it was launched in 1998, American Songbook has been dedicated to celebrating the extraordinary achievements of the popular American songwriter from the turn of the 20th century to the present day. Spanning all styles and genres from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to the eclecticism of today's songwriters working in pop, cabaret, rock, folk and country, American Songbook traces the history and charts the course of the American song from its past and current forms to its future direction.

Photo Credit: Stephen Sorokoff

William Finn

Allen Room LincolnCenter

Sebastian Arcelus

Michael Winther

Megan Lawrence

Megan Lawrence & Sally Wilfert

Sally Wilfret

Lee Zarrett

Sebastian Arcelus, Sally Wilfret, William Finn

William Finn

Sebastian Arcelus, Salley Wilfret, William Finn

William Finn & Deborah Abramson

Sebastian Arcelus, Lee Zarrett, Darius de Haas

Ann Harada

William Finn & Deborah Abramson

Lee Zarrett, Sebastian Arcelus, Michael Winther

William Finn

Deborah Abramson & William Finn

Megan Lawrence

The Cast

E Da Sorokoff & William Finn

Vadim Feichtner & Ann Harada

Jamie deRoy & Michael Winther

Megan Lawrence

Sally Wilfert

Michael Winther & Ron Abel

The Allen Room

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Stephen's life seems to have always revolved around a camera and a piano. He studied at Manhattan School of Music and performed in the "Borsht Belt" during college vacations, where in the true DIRTY DANCING tradition he met his wife Eda. Stephen was a Board Member of the First All Children's Theater and his wife, a classical pianist, is a Board Member of Barrington Stage Co. In between he made time to be CEO of a multi national machinery company and President of a domestic Textile Mfg. Co. In retirement, he now takes pictures of his 5 grandchildren and various other performers.

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