I HATE MUSIC Benefit Plays Urban Stages, 12/5

Benjamin Wenzelberg, Noah Kitchen and Nicolas King will be starring in a benefit for Urban Stages Out Reach Program singing the Music of Glen Roven.

Wenzelberg, 11 and currently studying composing, conducting and violin at Juilliard has sung in virtually all the operas at the Metropolitan Opera for the last three years including Tosca, La Boheme and The Magic Flute. He also sang the boy soprano in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the New York Philharmonic. Next week he will sing Amahl again at Avery Fischer Hall. He will sing the world premier of Roven’s new translation of Figaro at Urban Stages.

Noah Marlowe is currently rehearsing for his Broadway debut in Mary Poppins. He will be singing SMALL from Roven’s version of THE 5,0000 FINGERS of DOCTOR T.

Nicolas King, has been appearing on Broadway since he was 8 and starred in Beauty and the Beast. Subsequent shows include A Thousand Clowns and Hollywood Arms. He recently released his first album and is already a Cabaret legend in New York City. He will also be singing a song from DOCTOR T, You Deserve A Prince, a song he’s been performing at all his Cabaret concerts and bringing down the house.

Roven said about these performers, “God spoke to the kids. They are amazing. Scarry. Brilliantly talented. I’m being nice to them so they will hire me when they are twenty!”

Tickets are available at www.urbanstage.com.