Caissie Levy, Heidi Blickenstaff & More Set for Vineyard Theatre's Dory Previn Concert Tonight

A group of gifted artists will appear at VINEYARD CELEBRATES THE SONGS OF Dory Previn, a special, one-night-only benefit concert featuring the brilliant and iconic work of the legendary singer and songwriter tonight, June 17, 2013 at 7:00 PM at The Vineyard (108 E. 15 St., between Irving Place and Union Square East).

Tony nominee Gabriel Ebert (MATILDA), Tony nominee Malcolm Gets (AMOUR, Vineyard's "JUNO"), Tony nominee Veanne Cox (COMPANY, Vineyard's FLORA, THE RED MENACE), Tony nominee Amanda Green (HANDS ON A HARDBODY), Heidi Blickenstaff (Vineyard's [TITLE OF SHOW], NOW. HEAR. THIS), Michael Esper (AMERICAN IDIOT, Vineyard's THE LYONS), Sarah Stiles (ON A CLEAR DAY, AVENUE Q), Caissie Levy (MURDER BALLAD, GHOST THE MUSICAL, HAIR), and Phillipa Soo (NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812) will join the previously announced Stew (PASSING STRANGE), Judy Kuhn (PASSION, Vineyard's ELI'S COMIN'), Julia Greenberg (PEOPLE ARE WRONG!), and Nellie McKay (OLD HATS). Jon Spurney is the evening's musical director.

Vineyard Theatre will present the concert, a celebration of Ms. Previn's brilliant and fiercely idiosyncratic songbook, in collaboration with Loraine Alterman Boyle and Julia Greenberg. Proceeds from the concert will support The Vineyard's artistic programming.

Tickets for VINEYARD CELEBRATES THE SONGS OF Dory Previn are priced at $75 (which includes a pre-show toast in The Vineyard lobby) and are available by calling The Vineyard box office at 212-353-0303, or online at www.vineyardtheatre.org.

Dory Previn was an influential American lyricist, singer-songwriter, playwright and poet. During her lifetime, Previn released six original pop/folk albums of original songs, including ON MY WAY TO WHERE, MARY C. Brown AND THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN, MYTHICAL KINGS AND IGUANAS and REFLECTIONS IN A MUD PUDDLE. She was the lyricist of several Oscar nominated songs, including "You're Gonna Hear From Me" and "Come Saturday Morning". After a successful period in Hollywood in the 1960s, collaborating with her then-husband Andre Previn on numerous popular songs for film - including "Faraway Part of Town" and "Theme from Valley of the Dolls," Ms. Previn rose to prominence in the 1970s, writing and performing a remarkable collection of powerful, witty and haunting songs chronicling her own often harrowing autobiographical experiences, with extraordinary honesty, passion, humor and insight. Ms. Previn also wrote several works for the stage, including a musical version of her acclaimed album MARY C. Brown AND THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN and several autobiographical works of nonfiction including BOG TROTTER and MIDNIGHT BABY. Ms. Previn passed away last year, at the age of 86.

Vineyard Theatre, now celebrating its 30th anniversary, has a history of exploring the works of contemporary composers and lyricists, most notably with its multiple OBIE Award-winning musical of the songs of Laura Nyro, ELI'S COMIN'.

The Vineyard Theatre is one of the nation's leading non-profit theatre companies dedicated to developing and producing bold new plays and musicals. They have consistently premiered provocative, groundbreaking works, including Kander, Ebb and Thompson's THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS; Marx, Lopez and Whitty's AVENUE Q, Bell and Bowen's [title of show]; Paula Vogel's HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE (1998 Pulitzer Prize), Edward Albee's THREE TALL WOMEN (1994 Pulitzer Prize); Tarrell Alvin McCrainey's WIG OUT!; Will Eno's MIDDLETOWN; and new works by Julia Cho, Adam Rapp, Christopher Shinn, Gina Gionfriddo, Douglas McGrath, Rajiv Joseph, Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy, and many more. The Vineyard's productions have been honored with two Pulitzer Prizes, three Tony Awards, and numerous Drama Desk, OBIES, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards.

The Vineyard's leadership includes Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director; Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell, Executive Producer; Sarah Stern, Co-Artistic Director, and Michael Page, General Manager.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride