Merkin Hall's 'Broadway Close Up' Celebrates Jones and Schmidt 10/6

Merkin Hall celebrates American musical theater old and new with the Broadway Close Up series, which offers backstage insights from the theater's top professionals and inside look at the world of musical theater. The next Broadway Close Up features Jones & Schmidt on Monday, October 06, 2008 at 8:00 pm.

Tom Jones and and Harvey Schmidt launched their New York careers with their now legendary musical The Fantasticks, which became the longest-running musical both in the world and in the history of the American theater. Their subsequent musicals include 110 In The Shade, I Do! I Do! and many others. Lyricist Tom Jones will be joined by some of New York's finest performers, including Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba.

3-concert subscription: $85 Single tickets: $40

MEMBERSHIP
This season, Merkin Concert Hall introduces a new membership program. An $80 membership includes tickets to any four concerts in the Musically Speaking series. Members may attend additional concerts in the Musically Speaking series for the discounted price of $20 per ticket. For more information about Merkin Concert Hall benefits, please visit www.merkinconcerthall.org.

About Merkin Concert Hall
Renowned for its acoustics, accessibility and innovative programming, the recently renovated Merkin Concert Hall is the recipient of multiple awards for adventurous programming, most recently from ASCAP/Chamber Music America in2002–03. The Hall is a division of the Kaufman Center, which also includes the Lucy Moses School (a community arts school) and the Special Music School (a New York City public school for musically gifted children). A not-for-profit organization founded in 1952, the Kaufman Center occupies its own facility, the award-winning Goodman House, located in Manhattan’s Lincoln Square arts district. The Center is an unsurpassed cultural resource where people of all ages can experience the joy of artistic creation, expression and appreciation.
 
The Kaufman Center’s presentations in Merkin Concert Hall are made possible in part by institutional support from the Amphion Foundation, BMI Foundation,Inc., Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Edward T. Cone Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Fink Foundation, Inc., Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Herman Goldman Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Florence Gould Foundation, The Edith Meiser Foundation, Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, Starr Foundation, Phyllis Fox and George Sternlieb Foundation, and with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

The Poppy Seed Players’ “Planting New Seeds” commissioningprogram is made possible with the support of Andrea Brown, Rosalind Devon,Charles Dimston, Connie and Leonard Goodman, and Kara Unterberg and RoyNiederhoffer. Selected concerts are funded in part by American Israel CulturalFoundation, Chamber Music America and WNYC Radio.

Merkin Concert Hall receives support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.

Listings Information:
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center
129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam)
Tickets at 212 501 3330 or http://www.merkinconcerthall.org