4th October -Tonight - Tony Winners Ruthie Ann Miles, Adriane Lenox and More Sing BABY MAKIN' HITS
By: Liz Cearns Oct. 04, 2016
Mary Bridget Davies, Jerry Dixon, Trent Armand Kendall, Kingsley Leggs, Adriane Lenox, Ruthie Ann Miles, Brian Charles Rooney, Christina Sajous and others will perform in Brett Macias' Neruda and Shakespeare: Baby Makin' Hits in New York at The Cutting Room tonight at 7:30pm.
Composer Brett Macias presents his twelve song cycle of based on Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets. With other songs' text are taken from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to the rhythms of funk, soul, rock and blues. The band is led by, led by Brandon Ethridge (School of Rock, Rock of Ages, We Will Rock You).
Scheduled to perform are:
Mary Bridget Davies (Tony Nominee - A Night With Janis Joplin), Jerry Dixon (If/Then, Five Guys Named Moe), Michelle Dowdy (Hairspray), Nkrumah Gatling (Hair), Tamar Greene (The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess), Trent Armand Kendall (Scotsboro Boys, Five Guys Named Moe), Kingsley Leggs (Sister Act, The Color Purple), Adriane Lenox (After Midnight, Tony Winner - Doubt), Sarita Rachelle Lilly (The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess), Tiffany Mann (Dreamgirls), Kelly McIntyre (A Night With Janis Joplin - National Tour), Ruthie Ann Miles (Tony Winner - The King & I), Brian Charles Rooney (Bedbugs), Soara-Joye Ross (Les Miserables, The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess), Christina Sajous (Hollar if Ya Hear Me, American Idiot), Heath Saunders (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812), Jason Veasey (The Lion King).
The band consists of Brandon Ethridge, Karl Lyden, Neil Johnson, Matthew Owens, Anthony Rubbo, Joshua Mark Samuels, and Mark Verdino.
The Cutting Room is located at 44 E. 32nd St., New York, NY. Doors open at 6:30pm. Show is at 7:30pm. Tickets can be purchased here or at the door.
Brett Macias has composed music for Webster University, Encores! (NYC), the St. Louis Gateway Men's Chorus, Stephens College, the Cockeyed Optimists, Prospect Theater Company, St. Louis Repertory Theater of Saint Louis and Masterworks' Off Broadway Production of The Glass Menagerie. Brett wrote the music for the musicals: Fishing the Moon, The Lavatory, Beneath the Surface, and Tuesday. TUESDAY was a finalist in the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival and was presented at the 2014 New Horizons music festival at Truman State University, and in 2016 was workshopped at the Musical Theater Factory and Coastal Carolina University. He, with Caroline Murphy, was featured in American Theater Magazine as a writing team to watch. A concert of his music was performed at Lincoln Center in 2012 and at Vitello's in Los Angeles in 2014. In Development: MARI, HECTOR, AND THE M.T.A. (words by Christina Quintana). GUMBO (words by Christina Quintana) was selected by the Grand Jury for the 2014 New York Musical Festival Next Link Project and was developed at the Musical Theater Factory and The Pitch at Fingerlakes Theater Festival. brettmacias.com
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