Midtown Direct Rep to Host LET IT SING! Benefit Concert, 12/21

Midtown Direct Rep (MDR) will present LET IT SING! Broadway Comes Home for the Holidays, a one-night-only benefit concert on Monday, December 21, 2015 at 7:30pm at the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC, One SOPAC Way, South Orange, NJ 07079). Tickets are $30-$50 and can be purchased at www.sopacnow.org or by calling 973-313-ARTS (2787). For direct link to purchase tickets, please Click Here.

The concert will feature MDR company members and Broadway performers who call Maplewood and South Orange home, including: Kristin Carbone, Miguel Cervantes, Kate Dawson, Bradley Dean, Jack Dossett, John Dossett, Robert DuSold, Michelle Federer, Danielle Ferland, Janeece Freeman-Clark, Mitch Greenberg, Rosena Hill, Kevin Kraft, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Elizabeth Ward Land, Jamie LaVerdiere, Christiane Noll, Gregory Omar Osborne, Michele Pawk, Erin Reininga, Nikki Rene, Josephine Rose Roberts, Julia Haubner Smith, Michael St. John, Matt Yeager, JoAnna Young, and others to be announced. Musical Direction is by Meg Zervoulis. The concert is Conceived and Directed by Steven Tabakin, with Musical Staging by Bethany Pettigrew. Terrence Witter will be the stage manager.

About Let it Sing! Broadway Comes Home for the Holidays

Let it Sing! is a holiday revue for everyone, celebrating the festive season with songs of hope and miracles, as told through the American musical songbook. Performances will include songs from favorite Broadway musicals such as Mame; She Loves Me; Caroline, or Change; West Side Story; Elf; Rent; Annie; Godspell; Fiddler on the Roof; Passing Strange; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Violet; and many more, accompanied by a live on-stage band. The evening will also include a Broadway-themed silent auction with special packages of tickets, backstage tours, and show merchandise for some of the most popular shows currently running on Broadway.

"Let It Sing! is a celebration of the extraordinarily talented performers who live in our community," MDR's Artistic Producer Steven Tabakin said in a statement. "But, it is also a celebration of what's universal about the holiday season - and our lives. Some of our greatest composers and lyricists wrote these songs about our personal struggles, our hopes for our children, identity, longing for miracles, loss, transformation, re-birth and, ultimately, love. In a unique community such as ours, it's exciting to share joy, wisdom and humor in these songs that are spiritual in an inclusive way that is very specific to what theater can accomplish."