Georgia Stitt and Friends Comes To Bway At Birdland

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com are proud to announce Georgia Stitt & FRIENDS Monday, May 26, 2008 at 7:00p.m., as part of the long-running, Nightlife-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

After the successful release of her CD This Ordinary Thursday, Georgia Stitt & FRIENDS will be returning to Birdland with feature performances by Kate Baldwin (Wonderful Town, Thoroughly Modern Millie), Lauren Kennedy (Spamalot), Keith Byron Kirk (The Civil War), Jennifer Simard (Spelling Bee, Shrek), as well as Tony Holds and Elizabeth Salem.  Performances include talented musicians Victoria Paterson on violin and Randy Landau on bass. Georgia will be singing and playing songs from her album as well as tunes from her upcoming shows The Water, Big Red Sun and Sing Me A Happy Song.

Georgia Stitt is a composer and a lyricist.  Her musicals Big Red Sun (winner of the Harold Arlen Award in 2005 and written with playwright John Jiler) and The Water (premiered at the University of Michigan in 2004 and written with collaborators Jeff Hylton and Tim Werenko) are both in development. At present she is developing a musical revue with composer/lyricist David Kirshenbaum, currently titled Sing Me A Happy Song.  In spring of 2007 she released her first album, This Ordinary Thursday: The Songs of Georgia Stitt, on the PS Classics label.  The recording features stellar performances by such contemporary theater luminaries as Sara Ramirez, Kelli O'Hara, Faith Prince, Carolee Carmello, Susan Egan, Tituss Burgess, Keith Byron Kirk, Andrea Burns, Matthew Morrison, Will Chase, Jenn Colella, Lauren Kennedy and Cheyenne Jackson, and the CD's songbook of printed music is now available through Hal Leonard.  Aside from contributing two songs to the 2008 MTV movie The American Mall, Georgia has also written songs that are included on Susan Egan's solo albums Coffee House and Winter Tracks (LML Records) and Lauren Kennedy's album Here and Now (PS Classics).

GEORGIA was the assistant music director for the NBC TV special Clash of the Choirs, the on-camera vocal coach for the NBC reality TV show Grease: You're The One That I Want, and the Production Music Coordinator for the Disney/ABC TV musical Once Upon A Mattress starring Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett.  On Broadway she was the assistant conductor of the 2003 Little Shop of Horrors revival and the associate conductor of the Encores! production of Can-Can starring Patti LuPone.  Also on Broadway: Avenue Q, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, Titanic, Annie, and the national tour of Parade.  She has also served as musical director and arranger/orchestrator for The Broadway Divas in concerts in New York, California and Australia and was a music consultant for the feature film The Stepford Wives, directed by Frank Oz.  In 2005 she served as an arranger for the Boston Pops Orchestra (Keith Lockhart, conductor) in their 75th Anniversary Tribute to Stephen Sondheim at Tanglewood and Boston's Symphony Hall.  www.georgiastitt.com

PERFORMANCE DETAILS
WHEN:  Monday, May 26, at 7:00p.m.
WHERE: Birdland, 315 West 44th Street (between 8th & 9th Aves), New York City       
TICKET INFO
Tickets: $25.00 + $10.00 Food/Drink Minimum (Per Person)
Tickets can be purchased Online: www.BIRDLANDJAZZ.com; or by Telephone: 212.581.3080.

 Created by acclaimed performer, writer, producer & presenter Jim Caruso, BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND is a weekly concert series on Sunday and Monday evenings, showcasing legendary Broadway performers and composers, as well as up-and-coming musical theater talents. Started as a companion piece to the hugely popular and hilarious weekly impromptu variety show Jim Caruso's Cast Party (which follows Mondays at 9:30pm). BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND has recently hosted such diverse performers as Jason Robert Brown, Lucie Arnaz, Christine Ebersole with Billy Stritch, and Melissa Errico – as well as the benefit concert Chita Rivera LOVES BROADWAY CARES, which sold out two shows in record time.

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