'Sonnet Sings: The Bard' with Menken, Blickenstaff, Cavenaugh & More 11/17

SRT's Annual Benefit is to feature Tony, Academy and Grammy Award-winning artists in "Sonnet Sings: The Bard, An Evening of Original Songs Inspired by the Work of William Shakespeare." 

Contributors to the one-night-only benefit event include: Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award-winning, and Grammy Award-nominated Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Seussical, Once on This Island), Obie Award-winner Jeff Bowen ([title of show]), Eight-time Academy Award, seven-time Golden Globe Award, and six-time Grammy Award-winning composer and pianist Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, Disney's The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, and many others), Academy and Tony Award-nominated, and Grammy Award-winning composer Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls, The Tap Dance Kid, Sideshow), and Tony Award-winning composers, lyricists, and collaborators Bobby Lopez & Jeff Marx (Avenue Q).

Scheduled performers include: Heidi Blickenstaff ([title of show]), Matt Cavenaugh (A Catered Affair, Grey Gardens, Urban Cowboy and the upcoming revival of West Side Story), Rebecca Naomi Jones (Passing Strange, Wig Out!), Tony Award-nominated actress Celia Keenan-Bolger (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Light in the Piazza, and the revival of Les Miserables), Henry Krieger, performing his own work, Rick Lyon (puppeteer, designer, creator, and originator of several roles in the Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning musical Avenue Q) with a surprise special guest, Paul David Story (Equus, The Cain Mutiny Court-Martial), and cast members from the recent Shakespeare in the Park revival of HAIR.

The evening will be hosted by Susan Blackwell, known for her starring role in [title of show], and SRT's "Little Fairies" will reprise a scene from this summer's production of Shakespeare's MIDSUMMER.

WHEN Monday, November 17
5:30 - 8:30 pm

WHERE Birdland Jazz
315 West 44th Street, Between 8th and 9th Avenues

TICKETS Reserve online through Birdland at www.birdlandjazz.com, under
"Schedule" or call 212.581.3080

Tickets are priced at three tiers: $80 (includes orchestra seat, two tickets to SRT's Spring Mainstage production, and one ticket for the evening's exclusive raffle), $60 (general seating), and $40 (bar seating).

Seating within your tier is first-come-first-served.

Please arrive promptly at 5:30pm and enjoy a cocktail on SRT for the first hour!

Can't make the event but want to contribute to SRT? You can donate online at www.sonnetrepertorytheatre.org

Photo: Matt Cavenaugh by Peter James Zielinski