The Dixon Place HOT! FESTIVAL Presents EVEN FOR ONE NIGHT, 7/16

Jim Bredeson has announced a concert presentation of excerpts from his new musical EVEN FOR ONE NIGHT as part of the Dixon Place Hot! Festival – The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture. The event will take place on Monday, July 16th at 7:30 PM at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street btw Rivington and Delancey). Tickets for the event are $12 in advance, $15 at the door and ticketing links and more information can be found at www.evenforonenight.com.

The July 16th presentation of EVEN FOR ONE NIGHT will feature John Berno, Jonathan D. Lovitz (Altar Boys, Logo TV's Setup Squad), Bistro and OOBR Award winner Rob Maitner, Steven Strafford (Spamalot) and MAC and Bistro Award winner Jonathan Whitton. The evening will be directed by Adam Fitzgerald (kef theatrical productions) with Music Direction by Ian Wehrle. More information on the Hot Festival can be found at www.hotfestival.org.

EVEN FOR ONE NIGHT is a theatrical event based largely on the actual words of the late singer/songwriter and AIDS activist Michael Callen.The musical engages five actors, all of whom play Michael Callen. Michael Callen believed that he could change the world, and he did-this musical event is his story. He was a hero-and a heretic. Through Michael's own words and music, five actors tell the story of the post-Stonewall generation of gay men and how their lives were redefined by the AIDS epidemic. The show has been developed with the permission of Richard Dworkin, Michael's surviving partner.

Michael Callen was a composer, singer, writer and one of the earliest AIDS activists, playing a major role in shaping America's response to the epidemic. From the time of his diagnosis in 1982, he was involved many major responses to the crisis, including the self-empowerment of people with AIDS; the invention of safer sex; the community-based research movement; development of prophylaxis for major opportunistic infections; and the establishment of buyer's clubs providing low-cost access to both experimental and approved AIDS treatments. Among his many songs, Callen co-wrote "Love Don't Need a Reason" with Peter Allen and Marsha Malamet, which he sang at numerous gay and AIDS-related events. Callen was a founding member of the a capella group The Flirtations. Michael believed that he could change the world and he did.