TUNE IN TIME Continues Next Week at York Theatre Company

The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director; Andrew Levine, Executive Director), and producers Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields, will present the April installment of the new game show for musical theater lovers called Tune in Time, hosted by Emily McNamara, with music direction by Zak Sandler, and Peter Michael Marino as the annoyingly insistent timekeeper, on Monday, April 6, 2015 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peters (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue).

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 from a new Broadway musical, the title of which is picked from a hatful of audience suggestions - in the 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 Broadway trivia. Each edition of Tune in Time features a different roster of musical theater composers and lyricists as well as a panel of celebrity judges.

Songwriters confirmed for April 6th include Rick Bassett (Burning Up), Lisa DeSpain (Jonathan Larson Fellowship Recipient), Gordon Leary (Pied!), Rosemary Loar (Water From The Moon), Matt Sonnenblick (Loch Ness), and Sarah Ziegler (The Black Monk).

The panel of illustrious celebrity judges include Matt Britten (Blank! The Musical/ Marketing Director for NYMF), Thomas Honeck (General Manager, The Duplex), and Remy Zaken (Spring Awakening).

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 54th Street, 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.).

Songwriting winners from March were David Gomez (lyricist) and Zach Redler (composer) for their original song, "Too Soon," from the fictional Jason Robert Brown musical, The Gassy Breakthrough that did the opposite of stinking up the joint.

Previous songwriting winners have included Kellen Blair (lyricist) and Dave Christensen (composer) wrote "The High Octane Chola" from the fictional 50s/60s throwback musical of the same name; David Sisco and Kate Anderson who were paired together and awarded for their stunning duet from the mock operetta, The Moist Aardvark; Dan McKenzie and Ben Wexler (Dramatist Guild Fellow) who were paired together to write the title character's self-explanatory song from the faux Disney musical, The Stick Snake; Erik Jareth Ransom (two-time champ) and Clay Zambo for their song from the faux epic musical, The Hairy Ebola; and Avi Amon and Robbie Torres for their original song written for the faux Disney musical, The Lovely Piano.

For additional information, please visit the website at www.yorktheatre.org.

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