Breithaupt Brothers to Make Birdland Debut in BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND Series, 3/2

The award winning Breithaupt Brothers songwriting team (Don, music; Jeff, lyrics) bring their Breithaupt Brothers Songbook Revue, which normally makes its home at Joe's Pub, to Birdland for the first time as part of Jim Caruso's "Broadway at Birdland" series.

The show, which will happen on Monday, March 2 at 7 pm, will feature over a dozen guest singers and highlight not only the recently released Just Passing Through: The Breithaupt Brothers Songbook Vol. II (Alma Records) but also four songs from the brothers' York-developed, NYMF-produced "boxing musical comedy," Seeing Stars.

The ensemble for the Seeing Stars mini-set includes musical theater performers Matthew Saldivar, Nancy Anderson, Chris Sullivan, Michael Halling, Drew Humphrey, and Todd Gearhart.

The selections from Just Passing Through will tap the jazz and cabaret worlds and feature: Catherine Russell, Peter Eldridge, Marissa Mulder, Carolyn Leonhart, Heather Bambrick, J'Sun, Shelley McPherson, Jamie Leonhart, and Laila Biali.

The Seeing Stars presentation is especially interesting as these songs have not been presented since NYMF a few years ago and have been in some cases substantially re-written since then.

The brother's "gift for tuneful theatrical affair" (The New Yorker) has attracted some of the world's finest jazz, pop, and theatrical singers to their songbook, and frequent interpreter Kate McGarry has said of the two-time Fred Ebb Award finalists and two-time USA Songwriting Competition winners: "While the rest of the world goes to hell in a hand basked, the brothers Breithaupt are working feverishly to make sure we arrive there with a few suitcases of worthy additions to the Great American Songbook. This is important work, and no one is doing it with more flair, wit, and love of the craft than these two. Bravo, gentlemen!"

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