New Line Theatre Returns to Sheldon Concert Hall for 25 TO LIFE! This Week

New Line Theatre, "the bad boy of musical theatre," celebrates its 25th anniversary season of adult, alternative musical theatre, with 25 TO LIFE! an evening of songs from New Line's first twenty-five years, for two nights only, tonight and tomorrow, January 5-6, 2016, at the Sheldon Concert Hall, behind the Fox Theatre in Grand Center.

As a very special event for New Line's 25th anniversary, the New Liners return to the acoustically perfect Sheldon Concert Hall in Grand Center for the first time since 2009. For two nights only, New Line presents 25 TO LIFE!, featuring sixteen of the New Line All-Stars, Reynaldo Arceno, Mike Dowdy, Colin DeVaughan, Zachary Allen Farmer, Ryan Foizey, Nikki Glenn, Joel Hackbarth, Lindsey Jones, Taylor Pietz, Sarah Porter, Anna Skidis, Deborah Sharn, Kimi Short, Keith Thompson, Larissa White, and Jeffrey M. Wright. Artistic director Scott Miller will direct and serve as pianist for the concert.

The evening will include songs from past New Line shows, including Next to Normal, Bat Boy, Reefer Madness, Bonnie & Clyde, The Rocky Horror Show, Cry-Baby, Spelling Bee, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Jacques Brel, Company, The Wild Party, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Floyd Collins, A New Brain, March of the Falsettos, The Robber Bridegroom, Into the Woods, The Fantasticks, and many more. The concert will include adult content and adult language.

New Line has presented concerts of theatre songs at the Sheldon in 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009. TICKETS 25 TO LIFE! runs two nights only, Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 5-6, at 8:00 p.m both nights, at the Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington, right behind the Fox Theatre in Grand Center. All seats are $10, no discounts. Tickets are available now through MetroTix, 314-534-1111 or MetroTix.com. For other information, visit New Line Theatre's full-service website at www.newlinetheatre.com. All programs are subject to change.

The rest of New Line's 2015-2016 season will include American Idiot, Atomic, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tell Me on a Sunday.

New Line Theatre is a professional company dedicated to involving the people of the St. Louis region in the exploration and creation of daring, provocative, socially and politically relevant works of musical theatre. New Line was created back in 1991 at the vanguard of a new wave of nonprofit musical theatre just starting to take hold across the country. New Line has given birth to several world premiere musicals over the years and has brought back to life several shows that were not well served by their original New York productions. Altogether, New Line has produced 75 musicals since 1991, and the company has been given its own entry in the Cambridge Guide to American Theatre and the annual Theater World. New Line receives funding from the Regional Arts Commission and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.

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