Celebrate Pride Month with York Theatre Company's June Installment of TUNE IN TIME

The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director; Evans Haile, Interim Executive Director; David McCoy, Chairman of the Board), celebrates Pride Month with the June installment of the game show for musical theater lovers, TUNE IN TIME, presented by Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields, hosted by Emily McNamara, with Musical Director Nate Buccieri and annoyingly insistent timekeeper Sheila Head, and featuring celebrity guest judges drag performers Marti Gould Cummings, Judy Darling and Brita Filter, on Monday evening, June 20, 2016 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue).

The June line-up of songwriters includes returning Tune in Time champion James Harvey (The Crack in the Ceiling), who will be joined by Rebekah M. Allen (We Are the Tigers), Jamie Cowperthwait (I'm Fine With This (If You Are)), Russell Kaplan (In Transit), and the team of Jonathon Lynch and Danielle Trzcinski (SLAM! A Graffiti Musical), who will be split up for the evening.

In this "Musical Theater Olympics," three teams of composers and lyricists who have never worked together are forced to collaborate - and to beat the clock. Their task? They must write a song for a new Broadway musical, the title of which is picked from a hatful of audience suggestions - and in a style determined by a spin of the dreaded Genre Wheel - all within 20 minutes! Tune in Time is an evening of edge-of-your-seat suspense, brain-frying bravery, and musical theatre magnificence. Each edition of Tune in Time features a different roster of musical theater composers and lyricists as well as a panel of celebrity judges.

General Admission tickets for Tune in Time are priced at $20 and can be purchased online at www.yorktheatre.com, or by visiting the York Theatre Company Box Office (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54thStreet, just east of Lexington Avenue), or by calling the Box Office at (212) 935-5820 during regular business hours (Monday through Friday, 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.).

Previous winners have included Teresa Lotz and Adam Overett with their syncopated jazz ode to The Fornicating Lemur; Benjamin Halstead and Garth Kravits with the disturbing, experimental Alpaca Farm-RUN!; Meghan Kelleher and Adam Spiegel for the jazz-inflected title song from Ethiopia Rocks!; Christiana Cole and Joe Kinosian for their experimental assault on the inside of the piano, the outside of the proscenium, and the concept of luncheon meat from The Sweating Smörgåsbord; and Landon Braverman and Jordan Mann for their love anthem, "Retweeter" from the disco-era musical, The Capricious Hashtag (anachronism be damned). Earlier champions include Bill Nelson and Brad Simmons, Lisa DeSpain and Sarah Ziegler, David Gomez and Zach Redler, Kellen Blair and Dave Christensen, Kate Anderson and David Sisco, Dan McKenzie and Ben Wexler, Erik Jareth Ransom and Clay Zambo, and Avi Amon and Robbie Torres.

For additional information, please visit www.yorktheatre.org

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