Real-Life Broadway Couples to Celebrate Valentine's Day in LOVE! I HEAR! at Feinstein's/54 Below

Broadway's most adorable, real-life couples will be joining forces on Valentine's Day to sing some of musical theatre's most romantic songs in Love! I Hear!

Love! I Hear! will be presented on Tuesday, February 14th, 2017 (7:00pm & 9:30 pm) at Feinstein's/54 Below. The show is directed and produced by Robert W. Schneider, who produced last year's critically acclaimed Valentine's Day show, I Do! I Do!

Love! I Hear! introduces audiences to some of Broadway's real-life couples who will share anecdotes, memories, and stories about their awkward first dates, beautiful proposals, and hysterical observations on what it takes to make a relationship work in 2017!

Couples scheduled to appear are ABC Family's Becoming Us stars Kevin David Thomas and Sutton Crawford, Zero Hour's Jim Brochu and Steve Schalchlin, Kinky Boots' Amy Jo Jackson and Jeff Ronan, Wicked's Dan Gleason and Julia Freyer, and Miss Saigon's Orville Mendoza and Brian Myers Cooper. More couples will be announced in upcoming weeks.

Get ready by listening to "Love, I Hear" from A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM!

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Kevin David Thomas last performed on Broadway in Sir Trevor Nunn's revival of A Little Night Music sharing the stage with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, and Elaine Stritch, and can be heard on the original revival cast recording. He played various roles in Les Miserables both on Broadway (Joly) and the original third national tour (Marius, Babet). He met his wife, Sutton Crawford, when he played Romeo opposite her Juliet.

Sutton Crawford first came to national attention in ABC Family's award winning Becoming Us, which has been recognized as one of the most important television programs dealing with the LGBTQ community. Onstage, Sutton has been seen in such productions as Amadeus, Our Town, and as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, where she met her husband, Kevin David Thomas, who played Romeo.

A renaissance man of theatre, Jim Brochu, is the only actor in America to have won the New York Drama Desk Award, the Washington, DC Helen Hayes Award, the Los Angeles Ovation Award, the South Florida Carbonell Award and the Palm Springs Desert Star Award, all for Best Actor in a Play. On Broadway he has appeared as Andrew McLaren in Brigadoon opposite Christine Ebersole and Len Cariou and as MR. Brownlow in Oliver! opposite Brian Stokes Mitchell's Fagin.

His partner, Steve Schalchlin, is an American songwriter, actor, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the first HIV/AIDS bloggers, beginning his in 1996 to keep family and friends updated on his failing health. A respected songwriter, Steve Schalchlin put his miraculous rebound into music that his partner, playwright Jim Brochu, turned into the critically acclaimed The Last Session. The New York Times has also raved about Schalchlin and Brochu's musicals, The Last Session and The Big Voice: God or Merman?

Amy Jo Jackson has worked on such notable projects at Kinky Boots (Broadway, First National Tour and Toronto productions), The Mysteries (The Flea - Special Drama Desk Award), Clinton (New World Stages), and many others. Amy Jo is also the producer and of Feinstein's/54 Below's incredibly successful The Broadway Villains Party.

Jeff Ronan has appeared in some of America's greatest regional theatres including Alliance Repertory Theatre, Two River Theater, The Pearl, The Flea, Gingold Theatrical Group, and Millbrook Playhouse. Jeff Ronan and Amy Jo Jackson are newlyweds, having married this December.

Dan Gleason is currently appearing in Broadway's Wicked. Prior to his Broadway debut, Dan Gleason was seen in the National Tour's of American Idiot and Wicked, where he appeared as Tunny and Fiyero, respectively.

Having been featured in Michael Feinstein Conducts the Kravis Center Pops Orchestra: Hooray for Hollywood, Juila Fryer has had an extensive career in regional theatre and on tour. She has played Judy Turner in the National Tour and Paper Mill/Sacramento Music Circus productions of A Chorus Line. Dan Gleason and Julia Fryer met in 2006 when they both attendEd Penn State University for their BFA in Musical Theatre.

Orville Mendoza worked extensively with East West Players in Los Angeles starring in the title role of Sweeney Todd earning him an Ovation Award nomination. Also at EWP, he appeared in Into the Woods, Passion (which was the Los Angeles premiere of the Stephen Sondheim musical), and EWP's 30th anniversary revival of Pacific Overtures for which the Entire company received a BackStage West Garland Award for best ensemble.

Brian Myers Cooper most recently created Sonnet Play, told entirely using Shakespeare's sonnets, which he developed with the acclaimed Bedlam Theatre Company's MadLAB! residency, and has performed in NYC and San Francisco. He has been seen in Miss Saigon (2nd Nat'l.), Galileo (Moisés Kaufman, dir.), Romance, Romance! (Alfred/Sam - Lauren Kennedy, dir), James Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie (Parnel), End of the World Party (original Off-Broadway cast), and the American premier of Billy Roche's The Cavalcaders (Florida Stage).

Love! I Hear! will be music directed by Greg Kenna with Andrew Garrett Karl serving as projections designer.

For the 7pm showing of Love! I Hear! tickets start at $140 and include a three-course prix fixe dinner, complimentary glass of wine or prosecco, tax, gratuity, and ticketing fee. For the 9:30pm showing of Love! I Hear! tickets start at $40 and there is food and beverage minimum of $25.00. Love! I Hear! tickets can be purchased at 54below.com.

Photo Credit: Stephen Sorokoff

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