'BORN TO SWING' Benefit Sings The Hits At Swing 46th June 29th

'BORN TO SWING: AN EVENING OF HITS FROM THE BIG BAND ERA AND BEYOND' A fundraising event for A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage (c) 1959 which will have its world premiere at the 2009 New York Fringe Festival (Written by Robert Bastron, Directed by Adam Fitzgerald, Produced by Sean Bradford and Adam Kantor), will take place tonight, Monday, June 29th, 2009 8-10PM at Swing 46 / 349 West 46th Street, NYC, NY.

Talent scheduled to appear are Allison Case (Hair), Steel Burkhardt (Hair), Adam Kantor (Rent), Curt Hansen (Hairspray), Hayley Podschun (Hairspray), Natalie Weiss (Wicked Nat'l Tour), Sean Bradford (The Lion King), Tracy McDowell (Rent), Zakiya Young Mizen (The Little Mermaid), and Emma Hunton (Spring Awakening). Music Direction by Darren Ledbetter.

'A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage © 1959' follows two young couples as they are guided through their marriages in the style of a middle-of-the-century social guidance film. Abby and Mason were high school sweethearts, Danny and Ruth meet in a chemistry study lab - Danny, a young undergrad; Ruth, an eternal graduate student. Our narrator leads them through the steps of marriage - from dating, to the wedding and the honeymoon, and advice for how to keep a happy marriage. Both marriages experience early road bumps, and listen to the helping advice of the narrator. Eventually their problems continue to get worse, and the narrator's advice feels unnatural and is only making things worse. At the hospital where they both work - Danny, a medical resident, and Abby, a nurse, happen to meet on a bench and find an unlikely connection with each other. Some time later, their marriages both end in divorce, but Abby and Danny begin to form a new, more genuine connection with each other.

Tickets are $15.00 (cash only) with a two drink minimum (cash or charge) and available at the door. 

Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski