Clark & Lazar Host 'New Voices' with Schonfeld March 10

The fourth season of the acclaimed Monday Nights, New Voices series continues March 10 at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre.  This evening, the night belongs to the ladies.  Hosted by The Light in the Piazza's Victoria Clark and Aaron Lazar, the 'New Voices' concert will celebrate the new talents of Kimberly Chesser, Marisa Dargahi, Leslie Henstock, Addi McDaniel and Sara Weiss. Show time is 7 PM.

Composer and lyricst Jeremy Schonfeld will be the evening's guest composer.  Schonfeld will accompany the performers on material from his Theatre and Pop songbook. Barbara Anselmi is the evening's musical director.

Composer Scott Alan launched the Monday Nights, New Voices series to "showcase some of today's brightest new talent in New York."

Victoria Clark received a 2005 Tony Award for her performance in The Light in the Piazza. Her other Broadway credits include Cabaret, Urinetown, Titanic, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Guys and Dolls and A Grand Night for Singing. PS Classics released Clark's debut solo recording, "Fifteen Seconds of Grace," in November 2007. The actress, who co-starred in the City Center Encores! production of Follies, will also be seen this season's Encores! presentation of Juno. She also appears in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening," which is due in movie theatres in June.

Aaron Lazar recently garnered critical acclaim for his performance as 'Enjolras', the leader of the student revolutionaries, in the 2006 Broadway revival of Les Miserables, earning a 2007 Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. Lazar starred on Broadway as 'Fabrizio Nacarelli' in Lincoln Center's Tony Award winning production of The Light in the Piazza, a role he also played to national television audiences on PBS' Live from Lincoln Center broadcast.  Other Broadway/West End appearances include: The Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma!, The Scarlet Pimpernel, the Broadway workshops of Barry Manilow's Harmony, Dirty Dancing, and 'Gabey' in the historic 2005 production of On The Town at the English National Opera. Aaron will make his Carnegie Hall debut this April 4, 2008.   www.aaronlazar.com

Jeremy Schonfeld's singular blend of tuneful pop, hard-edged rock, gospel, soul and blues has drawn him comparisons to Billy Joel and Jonathan Larson in the New York Times, and has made him one of today's most sought after singer/songwriter talents and musical theater composers.  As musical theater composer/lyricist, Jeremy's musical Drift (with collaborator Craig Pospisil) premiered at the 2005 New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF), and was more fully produced to enthusiastic audience and critical response as part of the 2006 Festival.  The Dead Wives Club (with collaborator Amy Fox) is slated to begin development Winter 2008, and he was recently commissioned by the Musical Development Fund to create a new musical to be named.  Other recent theatrical projects include:  Ministry of Progress at Jane Street Theater (composer/lyricist); Home at the Minetta Lane (book/music/lyrics); and Letters to Katrina and Letters to Baghdad (contributing songwriter/performer), both at the Winter Harbor Theatre Company (Portland ME).  Jeremy is also a founding composer/lyricist for the A-Train Musicals.

The Duplex Cabaret Theatre is located at 61 Christopher Street and 7th Avenue.  There is a $12 music charge and a two-drink minimum. For reservations call (212) 255-5438

Aaron Lazar

To post a comment, you must register and login.