Stomping Ground Theatre Stages Benefit Concert for New Holiday Musical CHRISTMAS LETTERS

Christmas Letters - a new musical comedy about the ups and downs of surviving the holiday season - presents a benefit concert supporting Stomping Ground Theatre Company tonight, December 16.

Bringing the new work to life will be:

Alan H. Green - Broadway (School of Rock, Sister Act, Groundhog Day)

Jessica Phillips - Broadway (Leap of Faith, Jesus Christ Superstar) and TV (Law & Order SVU).

Marty Thomas - Broadway (Wicked, Xanadu)

Laura Darrell - Off Broadway (Kid Victory), Disneyland (Frozen Live, original Anna)

Find tickets here.

Christmas Letters premiered this fall in a full production by Forum Theatre Co., in Wichita, Kan., with the initial run just extended through Dec. 18. The show features book, lyrics and additional music by Paul Cozby and music by Laura Bergquist (musical director of Broadway's Allegiance). Nick Demos (Tony-winning producer of Memphis) directs.

Here's how producers describe Christmas Letters:

Have you ever written or received a Christmas letter tucked into a card, attached to an email or posted on Facebook? Did you ever feel secretly superior or infinitely inferior as you read the laundry list of annual accomplishments of your closest friends and distant relatives?

Does the holiday season ever leave you feeling besieged, befuddled and bewildered? Tied up in ribbons and wrapped up in bows? Overwrought, overspent and over it? Indecisively insane and insanely inadequate?

Then this hilarious new musical is for you!

Christmas Letters covers it all from the first card to arrive in the mail through Black Friday blues, funky family portraits, unassembled toys, silly sibling rivalries and harried, gift-hunting husbands. But don't worry, it all ends well . . . after all it's Christmas!

The concert is tonight, Dec. 16, 8 p.m., at Metro Baptist Church, 410 W. 40th St., and benefits Stomping Ground Theatre Co.-a non-profit theatre creating a home away from home for the socially conscious.

• The company provides stomping ground for:
• The creative artist who wants to make the world a better place
• The writer whose work needs to be heard
• The individual who faces discrimination because of skin color, gender, sexual identity, economic status or religion
• The ordinary person doing extraordinary things you may never see in the news
• And YOU-our audience, who understands there can be more than just sitting back and being entertained.

SGTC is a Sanctuary Art Partner of Metro Baptist Church and Rauschenbusch Metro Ministries.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Connect with Stomping Ground on Facebook. Buy tickets at www.eventbrite.com/e/christmas-letters-benefit-concert-tickets-29768418140?aff=efbneb.

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