Cabaret & Concert NewsLillias White, Alice Ripley, Erin Davie, Charity Angél Dawson Will Join Bill Russell at Birdland
Mark Hartman will be the musical director for Divas I Love Singing Lyrics I Wrote.
By
Andrew Gans
September 10, 2024
Lillias White
Curtis Brown
Side Show's Tony-nominated lyricist and librettist Bill Russell will return to Birdland September 30 with his newest show, Divas I Love Singing Lyrics I Wrote.
Special guests for the 7 PM concert will include Tony winners Lillias White (The Life, Hadestown) and Alice Ripley (Next to Normal, Side Show), Erin Davie (Side Show,GreyGardens), and Charity Angél Dawson (Side Show, & Juliet).
The Broadway guest stars will perform songs from Side Show; Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens; Pageant; and other musicals with Russell talking about how those songs came to be.
Music director Mark Hartman will be featured on piano with Jeff Potter on drums and John Loehrke on bass.
Birdland is located at 315 West 44th Street in New York. Visit BirdlandJazz.com.
Filmed in 2023, the one-night-only event featured Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Peter Friedman, and more from the Ahrens and Flaherty musical's original cast.
Surrounded by period-accurate, 19th-century holiday decorations lit via candlelight, the 70-minute production is based on Dickens' own script of the classic.
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