The Millennium Stage Announces A Week of Musical Theater Cabaret, 2/8-2/13

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents a week of musical theater cabaret on the Millennium Stage from February 8-13, 2010 at 6 p.m. "Broadway Today and Tomorrow," curated by Michael Kerker and ASCAP, highlights up-and-coming composers at the piano with rising stars singing their works that are becoming the "new standards" of Broadway. Featured artists include: Peter Mills with Kate Baldwin and Matt Cavanaugh (Feb. 8); Ryan Scott Oliver with Jay Armstrong Johnson, Alex Brightman, and Lindsay Mendez (Feb. 9); Steven Lutvak (Feb. 10); Alan Schmuckler and Michael Mahler with Abby Mueller (Feb. 11); Jordan Beck and Jonathan May with Mazie Wilson and Baraka May Williams (Feb. 12); and Valerie Vigoda and Brendan Milburn (Feb. 13). The Grand Foyer will be transformed into a cabaret as tables and chairs are arranged in front of the stage and drinks from the Foyer bars are available.

Michael A. Kerker has been Director of Musical Theater for ASCAP (American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers) since 1990. He works with Walt Disney Feature Animation to produce the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in Los Angeles, and co-produces with the Kennedy Center a development program for new musicals entitled "In the Works." Michael Kerker produces the Sunday night ASCAP Songwriters' Series at the Firebird Café in New York. Together with Michael Feinstein, he produces a regular series of concerts featuring contemporary songwriters at Carnegie Hall. He also produces a continuing series of songwriter/singer concerts and showcases at UCLA.

ASCAP is a membership association of more than 330,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music. Through agreements with affiliated international societies, ASCAP also represents hundreds of thousands of music creators worldwide. ASCAP is the only U.S. performing rights organization created and controlled by composers, songwriters and music publishers, with a board of directors elected by and from the membership.

All artists are subject to change.

The Millennium Stage, underwritten by James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs, is brought to the public by Target, with additional funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education, Ameriprise Financial, Inc., The Meredith Foundation, Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A.J. Stolwijk, Temple-Inland, Inc., DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Millennium Stage Endowment Fund, and the Kennedy Center Washington Committee on the Arts.

James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs, James V. Kimsey, Gilbert and JayLee Mead, Mortgage Bankers Association of America, and Anonymous and other gifts to secure the future of the Millennium Stage.

The Center's Performing Arts for Everyone (PAFE) program is designed to make the performing arts accessible, affordable, and available to everyone. The Millennium Stage is a vital part of PAFE. Not only does it host a performance every single day, it is a showcase of diversity, is broadcast daily over the Internet, and every performance is free to the public.

The Show Shuttle, Kennedy Center's link to Metro's Foggy Bottom/GWU Metro station and the Columbia Plaza parking garage, provides free daily transportation every 15 minutes to and from the Center. The Show Shuttle operates this service from the Metro from 9:45 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 11 a.m. until 11:45 p.m. on Sundays. Free parking is not available when attending free events.

Internet broadcasts of Millennium Stage events allow anyone with Internet access to view both live performances, and past performances in the archives of the Web site, by visiting www.kennedy-center.org.

For more information about the Kennedy Center visit www.kennedy-center.org.

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