Jenn Colella, Lindsay Mendez, Tony Yazbeck & More Set for Lilly Awards' Broadway Cabaret at Birdland, 11/10

The Lilly Awards Foundation with the Broadway at Birdland Series presents The Lilly Awards Broadway Cabaret: An evening of showstoppers written by women and performed by Broadway's Best to benefit The Lilly Awards Foundation whose mission is to promote gender parity at all levels of theatrical production, and develop and celebrate the work of women in the theater.

The Lilly Awards Broadway Cabaret is Monday, November 10th beginning at 7pm at Birdland, located at 315 W. 44th Street in NYC. VIP Reception begins at 5:30. Doors open at 6:30. Tickets range from $50 to $250 and can be purchased at http://www.thelillyawards.org/ or https://www.artful.ly/store/events/4245.

From legendary Broadway women songwriters to the brightest new stars, the concert includes: Clyde Alves, Jay Armstrong Johnson and Tony Yazbeck, the leads in the current revival, singing from On The Town (lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green, music by Leonard Bernstein); The Broadway Boys singing from Once On This Island (Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty); Carol Hall singing from her show The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with special guests Jenn Colella, Lindsay Mendez, and Keala Settle; Debra Monk and Cass Morgan singing from their show Pump Boys and Dinettes; Steve Pasquale and Douglas Sills singing from The Secret Garden (Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon); Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford singing from their show I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road; Amanda Green and friends singing from her show Hands on a Hardbody (co-composer Trey Anastasio); Kate Wetherhead and Maria Thayer singing from Bernice Bobs Her Hair (lyrics by Julia Jordan, music by Adam Gwon); Heidi Blickenstaff, Jessica Vosk and Caitlin Kinnunen singing from The Danger Year by Georgia Stitt; Katrina Rose Dideriksen singing from Feral by Rebekah Melocik and Jacob Yandura. Special appearances by Jason Robert Brown, Zina Goldrich, Marcy Heisler and Valerie Vigoda.

Additional singers and songwriters to be announced. The evening will be directed by Daisy Prince, musical direction by Georgia Stitt and co-produced by Amanda Green and Georgia Stitt.

The Lilly Awards Foundation Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit organization whose mission is to promote gender parity at all levels of theatrical production, as well as develop, celebrate and advocate for the work of women in the theater. To those ends, the Lilly Awards Foundation produces a yearly awards ceremony called The Lilly Awards which recognizes outstanding contributions to the theater made by women writers, composers, directors and designers; designs and initiates programs to raise awareness of gender bias within the hiring and producing practices of theaters; endeavors to change the artistic choices of theaters and residency programs nationally; and conducts a Count (expected to be released this fall) which will determine how many women writers and artists are being hired and produced by American theaters of all sizes.