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BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY’S MUSICAL THEATRE LAB presents
SONGS BY RIDICULOUSLY TALENTED COMPOSERS AND LYRICISTS YOU PROBABLY DON’T KNOW BUT SHOULD…
Featuring NEW songs by composers and lyricists
Starring ON THE TOWN’s Elizabeth Stanley and Alysha Umphress,
Michael Linden, Mykal Kilgore, Aidan Gemme with special guest Nikko Benson and performances by Noel Carey, Josh Freilich and Sam Salmond
Friday, August 30 and Saturday, August 31 at 8pm
Narrated by William Finn
Music Direction by Jeremy Robin Lyons
Directed by Shakina Nayfack
PITTSFIELD, MA – Barrington Stage Company’s Musical Theatre Lab (under the direction of Artistic Producer of the MTL William Finn, Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson) presents the eighth edition of Songs by Ridiculously Talented Composers and Lyricists You Probably Don’t Know But Should… will play Friday, August 30 and Saturday, August 31 at 8pm at Barrington Stage’s Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street.
Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist William Finn (Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) narrates this popular introduction to new voices in musical theatre. Direction is by Associate Producer Shakina Nayfack, music direction by Jeremy Robin Lyons, lighting design by Robert Brown, sound design by Kaitlyn Kelly. Lisa Klages is stage manager.
A Labor Day weekend celebration of extraordinary new songs, Finn shares with the audience what makes a good lyric, why some work and others don’t – you’ll feel as if you’re in a master class in songwriting taught by the master himself.
Songs by Ridiculously Talented Composers and Lyricists You Probably Don’t Know But Should… features the talents of Elizabeth Stanley (BSC’s On the Town; Broadway: Company, Cry-Baby); Alysha Umphress (BSC’s On the Town, Funked Up Fairy Tales/Carmel’s Candy Store; Broadway: American Idiot, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert). Songs will also feature special appearances by songwriters Nikko Benson, Noel Carey, Josh Freilich, and Sam Salmond.
Songs… is a presentation of the Musical Theatre Lab which is sponsored in part by Elayne Bernstein and Sol Schwartz, and The Elayne P. Bernstein Foundation.
The composers and lyricists represented are Danny Abosch, James Ballard, Nikko Benson, Christina Capatides, Noel Carey, Sam Chanse, Seth Christenfeld, Maggie-Kate Coleman, Josh Freilich, Benny Gammerman, Emily Goldman, Benjamin Halstead, Oliver Houser, Joe Iconis, Michael R. Jackson, Anna K. Jacobs, Micah Joel, Jonathan Keebler, Bob Kelly, Chris Miller, Sara Nicholson, Jonathan Pearson, Brian Pugach, Bret Ryback, Sam Salmond, Bryan Scary, Christopher Staskel, Elizabeth Suggs, Joseph Trefler, Nathan Tysen, Joel Waggoner, and William Finn.
Songs by Ridiculously Talented Composers and Lyricists You Probably Don’t Know But Should… plays Friday, August 30 and Saturday, August 31 at 8pm at Barrington Stage’s Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street, downtown Pittsfield. Tickets are $25 and $35 and may be purchased at the Box Office at 30 Union Street, by calling 413-236-8888 or online at www.barringtonstageco.org.
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