Tony-Nominee Christopher Fitzgerald Plays Birdland, 9/13

Jim Caruso is delighted to present two-time Tony-nominee Christopher Fitzgerald in concert as part of the Broadway at Birdland series. The event will take place on Monday, September 13 at 7pm. The musical director for the evening will be David Turner.

Christopher Fitzgerald recently starred in the Broadway revival of Finian's Rainbow as Og, the lovesick leprechaun, for which he won the Drama Desk award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. He was also nominated for a Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award for that role. Other Broadway credits include Young Frankenstein (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Wicked, and Amour (Drama Desk Award nomination). Christopher's thirty year performing career began in Portland Maine when his mother, out of a combination of intuitive insight and sheer desperation, enrolled him in a clown class at age five. What has followed has been a diverse professional odyssey encompassing theater, film, television and balancing large objects on his face. He received a bachelor's degree in theater at Rollins College and an MFA from The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Most influential were the eleven seasons spent with the Williamstown Theater Festival where he began as an apprentice in 1993 and continues to work today. Favorite productions there include The Trojan Women 2.0, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Where's Charley and Dead End. Christopher most recently starred in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Directed by his wife, Jessica Stone, it marked the first all-male production of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical. Christopher currently resides in New York city in a much too small apartment with his wife Jessica Stone and their two sons Charlie and Emmett.

Christopher Fitzgerald In Concert

Monday, September 13 at 7pm

Birdland, 315 West 44 Street, NYC

212-581-3080 or www.BirdlandJazz.com

$25 cover, $10 food/drink minimum