B'way Stars To Sing Score Of 'Tales' At Beechman 5/4

Top Broadway performers to sing highlights from the latest score by Larson Award winners Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk - Sunday, May 4th, 2008 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.

TALES FROM THE BAD YEARS is a series of short, self-contained stories in the form of songs and musical scenes from those years when you're waiting for something big to happen but it never does. From the first time you try to make the Thanksgiving turkey and screw it up, to the moment when you realize your childhood is over, these stories are about youth, determination, and unexpected love. They capture the frustration of wanting to get away from the lot you chose, the titillation of flirting with someone new, and that time you got so drunk that you ended up taking your shirt off and dancing on table - just an example. These are the songs you wish someone sang to you, the anecdotes you love hearing again and again, and the moments of epiphany that every person has. The bad years make the best stories.

Directed by Daniel Goldstein and produced by Michael Cassara, performers include Michael Arden (The Times They Are-A-Changin), Skylar Astin (Spring Awakening), Nick Blaemire (Cry-Baby, Glory Days), Randy Blair (The Adding Machine), Steven Booth (Glory Days), Matt Cavenaugh (A Catered Affair), Josh Henry (In The Heights, Godspell), Marissa McGowan (Les Miserables), Brynn O'Malley (Sunday In The Park With George), Laura Osnes (Grease), Julie Reiber (Wicked), Kate Shindle (Legally Blonde), Phoebe Strole (Spring Awakening), Natalie Weiss (Ever After), and Josh Young (Les Miserables).

WHEN: Sunday, May 4th, 2008 at 9:45 PM.

WHERE: The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located within the West Bank Café at 407 West 42nd Street at 9th Avenue.

There is a $20 cover charge and a $15 food/drink minimum. Call (212) 695-6909 for reservations.

 Please note: this concert sold out within minutes of its announcement.  You may still call the West Bank Cafe to be placed on the wait-list.  If you are put on the wait-list, please arrive no later than 9:30 PM.  Anyone who we are not able to admit will be given a free Kerrigan-Lowdermilk sampler CD!

Also, we are pleased to announce that - due to extreme demand - a second New York concert performance of Tales From The Bad Years has been added, for Sunday evening, June 1st at 9:45 PM at the West Bank Cafe.  Performers and details will be confirmed and announced at a later date.

Kait Kerrigan & Brian Lowdermilk's adaptation of HENRY & MUDGE had an Off-Broadway run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and is currently touring the country with TheatreworksUSA. Their musical THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SAMANTHA BROWN is under commercial option and is being developed by La Jolla Playhouse. It has also had readings at MTC, Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, the Makor, and was featured in the NAMT Songwriters Showcase. They have collaborated on two other musicals: THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS and WRONG NUMBER, both of which were featured in the New York Musical Theatre Festival. They are recipients of a 2006 Jonathan Larson Award and a 2004-2005 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and they are members of the BMI Musical Theatre Advanced workshop, ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. Kerrigan is a graduate of Barnard College. Her plays include TRANSIT and IMAGINARY LOVE, which was a 2006 Princess Grace Award Finalist. Lowdermilk studied at Harvard University and NYU where he received the Alan Menken Award. With collaborator Marcus Stevens, Lowdermilk was the recipient of a Richard Rodgers Award for his musical RED. 

 Daniel Goldstein (director) is currently preparing the upcoming first Broadway revival of GODSPELL for Summer '08. Currently he is represented by the world premiere of Beau Willimon's LOWER NINTH at The Flea Theater and the World Premiere of Sinan Unel's THE CRY OF THE REED at the Huntington Theater in Boston. Recently he directed the off-Broadway commercial production of the hit Fringe Festival musical WALMARTOPIA. He recently directed Beau Willimon's LOWER NINTH at SPF, an acclaimed production of GODSPELL at Papermill Playhouse, Kenny Finkle's INDOOR/OUTDOOR at the DR2, FALSETTOS and LES LIAISONS DANGEROUSES at the Huntington Theater Company, BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER at the New York Musical Theater Festival and Bathsheba Doran's LIVING ROOM IN AFRICA at Gloucester Stage. =CELEBRATION, the one person show he created with Ethan Sandler and Josie Dickson, was seen Off-Broadway as well as New Haven, San Francisco and the HBO Aspen Comedy Arts Festival. He has served as the Associate Director for ALL SHOOK UP! and FULLY COMMITTED, and the Resident Director for the First National Tour of MAMMA MIA! Daniel has developed the work of playwrights Peter Morris, Aaron Posner, Rob Handel, John Shea, Bathsheba Doran, Janet Neipris, Mark Schultz and Eliza Jane Scheider at the O'Neill Playwright's Conference, PlayPenn, and elsewhere. He was the recipient of an inaugural Calderwood Commission from the Huntington Theater Company, for which he is writing an original musical called UNKNOWN SOLDIER with Michael Friedman. He is a graduate of Northwestern  University.