A Benefit Concert of Stephen Schwartz Songs is Coming to The Cutting Room

An evening of unsung and new songs as well as hits by Stephen Schwartz will be performed at a Orphaned Songs for Orphaned Starfish a special benefit evening for The Orphaned Starfish Foundation. This one night only show will be Monday, November 19th at 7:00 pm at The Cutting Room, 44 East 32nd Street, NYC. The musical evening will have performances by Stephen Schwartz and Tony Award winners and Broadway stars to be announced. Musical Director is Michael Lavine, and Paul Kreppel is the Concert Director, with Host Scott Coulter and the Creator is Carol de Giere.

Sponsorships available at various levels. Tables available from $1,000. Limited individual tickets start at $100 seated and $50 standing. Please contact Osf.org/events. It also celebrates the release of the Stephen Schwartz biography 'Defying Gravity' updated second edition by Carol de Giere (Applause, October 2018). For additional information contact Kara Osorio at karla@osf.org.

THE ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION mission - is dedicated to helping orphans, victims of abuse, survivors of trafficking, indigenous children and at-risk youth break their cycles of abuse and poverty through computer based education, job training and job placement assistance. We commit to every program for life.

Since the beginning in 2001, ORPHANED STARFISH programs address the challenges facing orphans, victims of abuse, survivors of trafficking, indigenous children and at-risk youth by providing them with technology training. OSF funds the construction and operation of vocational training facilities, including funding for furnishings, purchasing required equipment, teacher salaries, job placement services and scholarships for higher education. OSF also provides English language software & classes, a Life-Skills Program, Scholarships & helps with job placement whenever possible. They make a difference in the lives of over 13,000 children in their 60 programs in 27 countries! And They Continue To Grow.

Stephen Schwartz is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over four decades, He has written such hit musicals as Godspell, Pippin and Wicked, as well as The Magic Show, The Bakers Wife, Working, Rags and Children of Eden. He has contributed lyrics for a number of successful films, including Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince of Egypt (& music) and Enchanted. He collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, for Bernstein's Mass, which opened The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; and also composed the opera Séance On A Wet Afternoon.

Schwartz has won the Drama Desk Award, four Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards and has been nominated for six Tony Awards. He is in the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, American Theatre Hall Of Fame and has a star in Hollywood's Walk Of Fame. He received the 2015 Isabelle Stevenson Award, a special Tony Award, for his commitment to serving artists and fostering new talent.

He is one of four composers to have three shows playing over 1,000 performances on Broadway. In 2007, Schwartz joined Jerry Herman as being one of only two composer/lyricists to have three shows run longer than 1,500 performances on Broadway. Stephen Schwartz's contributions span far beyond what he created for the stage and screen, through his commitment to fostering the next generation of musical theatre writers and performers and his efforts to promote social justice in America and abroad. He was President of the Dramatists Guild (6 years) and is a member of Dramatists Guild Council. He is a long-standing board member of the ASCAP Foundation, he has served as artistic director of Musical Theatre Workshops in New York and Los Angeles for more than twenty years.