Tonight, June 16, 2014 at 7:00pm, BroadwayWorld.com continues its 2014 concert series at legendary cabaret venue Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, hosting a uniquely contemporary evening celebrating the music of the two most important and influential composers on Broadway in the modern age, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim, all to benefit the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Following the sold-out success of BROADWAYWORLD.COM VISITS OZ, FLY: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO DAMON INTRABARTOLO and EVERYTHING'S COMING UP BROADWAYWORLD.COM: A JULE STYNE TRIBUTE, this next event in the ongoing series will once again be directed by BroadwayWorld's own Pat Cerasaro, creator of the popular InDepth InterView series and a wide range of other innovative content for the site, with music direction by Broadway veteran Mat Eisenstein.
Performing talent currently scheduled to appear includes (in alphabetical order): Jennifer Diamond, Ben Fankhauser, Rose Hemingway, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Natalie Joy Johnson, Laura Michelle Kelly, Telly Leung, Jose Llana, Constantine Maroulis, Nellie McKay, Michael James Scott, Jennifer Simard, Max von Essen, Josh Young & Reserved For Rondee (Trevor Vaughn, Billy Magnussen, Nick Fokas, Tom Degnan and Warren Hemenway), with some very special guests and additional surprises to be announced at a later date. BroadwayWorld's own TV host and sage historian Richard Ridge will once again emcee the evening. Please note that as with all benefit concerts, talent announced is subject to change, based on scheduling.Webber. Sondheim. BroadwayWorld. June 16 at Joe's Pub. Be there! Or, watch the livestream below. You can also find it at Joe's Pub's official YouTube Channel.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim have collectively created many of the most highly-awarded and most universally recognizable musicals of the 20th and 21st century, both firmly establishing themselves as major composers on the Great White Way in the early 1970s, while also having many of their most famous productions running on Broadway concurrently. Of course, Stephen Sondheim made an early mark on popular culture with his lyrics for Golden Age classics WEST SIDE STORY and GYPSY before breaking out on his own as composer/lyricist of A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM and ANYONE CAN WHISTLE in the 1960s. In 1970, COMPANY ensconced him as a Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist in his own right, with a string of momentous musicals following shortly thereafter, including FOLLIES, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and PACIFIC OVERTURES, closing out the decade with modern musical masterpiece SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET in 1979. Similarly, Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice found early success in the late 1960s with their pop operetta JOSEPH & THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, with the pair soon after achieving worldwide acclaim byway of international smash hit concept albums for JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR in 1970 and EVITA in 1976, followed by successful stage iterations. Lloyd Webber's hit composer status increased further with CATS in 1981, with the show arriving the same year as Sondheim's final major partnership with collaborator and director Hal Prince, on MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG.
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