'Party Worth Crashing' to Play as Part of NYMF on 9/23

PARTY WORTH CRASHING: The Cast of Broadway's Godspell Sings Kerrigan-Lowdermilk

Top Broadway performers to sing the music of Larson Award winners Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk in NYMF concert - Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 at 10 PM at the Zipper Factory, 336 W. 37th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues).

Following their instantly-sold-out concerts at the Laurie Beechman Theatre earlier this year, the NYMF concert will feature songs from a variety of Kerrigan-Lowdermilk shows, including The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, most recently developed by the La Jolla Playhouse, Tales From The Bad Years, which recently received a full workshop production at the Paramount Theatre in Vermont, and The Woman Upstairs, which was produced as part of the inaugural New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2004.

Director Daniel Goldstein looks forward to bringing together two of his current collaborations for the evening, saying, "Kait and Brian are two of the most talented writers I know, and this is the most talented cast I've ever worked with, so putting the two together seemed like a no-brainer. Though the world will see this company in the future, it's great to have a chance to show them off a bit now." Goldstein is the director of Kerrigan and Lowdermilk's The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown and the Broadway-bound revival of Godspell.

Directed by Daniel Goldstein and produced by Michael Cassara, performers from the Godspell cast include Uzo Aduba (Coram Boy), Sara Chase (Perez Hilton Saves The Universe...), Celisse Henderson (Wicked), Joshua Henry (In The Heights), Morgan James (Pirates!), Telly Leung (Rent), Dana Steingold (Spelling Bee), and Maria Thayer (Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Other special guests include Phoebe Strole (Spring Awakening, Hamlet 2) and Heléne Yorke (Grease, High School Musical).

Composer Lowdermilk will be featured at the piano, with Greg Joseph on drums and Randy Landau on bass.

Tickets are $20, and may be purchased by calling (212) 352-3101 or via http://www.nymf.org/Show-960.html

EXTREMELY limited seating available - purchase tickets today!

Kait Kerrigan & Brian Lowdermilk's adaptation of HENRY & MUDGE had an Off-Broadway run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and is currently touring the country with TheatreworksUSA. Their musical THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SAMANTHA BROWN is under commercial option. It has been developed by the La Jolla Playhouse, MTC, Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, the ASCAP/Disney Workshop, and was featured in the NAMT Songwriters Showcase. They have collaborated on two other musicals: THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS and WRONG NUMBER, both of which were featured in the New York Musical Theatre Festival. They are recipients of a 2006 Jonathan Larson Award and a 2004-2005 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and they are members of the BMI Musical Theatre Advanced workshop, ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. Kerrigan is a graduate of Barnard College. Her plays include TRANSIT and IMAGINARY LOVE, which was a 2006 Princess Grace Award Finalist. Lowdermilk studied at Harvard University and NYU where he received the Alan Menken Award. With collaborator Marcus Stevens, Lowdermilk was the recipient of a Richard Rodgers Award for his musical RED. http://www.kerrigan-lowdermilk.com