A first-time ever NYC concert event celebrating the songs from the musical Taking My Turn was presented at FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, on March 9th. The concert featured George Dvorsky (Scarlet Pimpernel, Passion), Nina Hennessey (Cats, Dreamgirls), James Jackson, Jr. (A Strange Loop), Sally Mayes (She Loves Me, Baby), Martin Vidnovic (Oklahoma!, Baby), Alan Wager (Beauty and the Beast), Rema Webb (Escape To Margaritaville, Book Of Mormon), and Karen Ziemba (Bullets Over Broadway, Chicago).
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David Alpert Directed, with Music Direction by Jason Wetzel. The evening was conceived by the show's composer Gary William Friedman, and Stevie Holland.
Taking My Turn is the award-winning, critically acclaimed musical with lyrics by Will Holt, music by Gary William Friedman, and adaptation/original direction by Robert H. Livingston, the same team that collaborated on the hit show The Me Nobody Knows.
Taking My Turn was one of the first musicals to deal head-on in an unfiltered manner with the accumulation of life's milestones - in other words, aging. The spoken words were collected from interviews with people "in their prime"," which became the basis for the non-linear book.
Taking My Turn opened Off-Broadway in 1983 and won the 1984 Outer Critic's Circle Award for Best Lyrics/Music and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Musical. It was subsequently presented on the PBS Great Performance Series.
Photo Credit: Fletcher Kim
Jason Wetzel, Gary William Friedman, Stevie Holland, David Alpert
Greg Monteith, Jason Wetzel, Gary William Friedman, Danny Weller
Gary William Friedman, Dan Goggin, Stevie Holland, Lyle Saunders
George Dvorsky, Rema Webb, Alan Wager, Karen Ziemba,
Martin Vidnovic, Sally Mayes, James Jackson, Jr. and Nina Hennessey
Stevie Holland, Gary William Friedman and Company
Sally Mayes and George Dvorsky
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Charles Nelson and Gary William Friedman
David Alpert and Gary William Friedman
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