ANDREW LIPPA RETURNS WITH ASPHALT BEACH AND ASSORTED DIVAS
Following the sold-out evening last December, Andrew Lippa returns
to THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440
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http://www.metropolitanroom.com/
) with "Andrew Lippa, Asphalt Beach and Assorted Divas" on Monday,
February 26th at 9:30 pm. The evening will feature Andrew Lippa at
the piano along with some very special women for an evening of his
songs old and new. As with the December concert, the evening will
culminate with songs from Lippa's newest musical Asphalt Beach, including
the unveiling of some previously unheard selections. Joining him will
once again be grand divas Ana Gasteyer (Wicked, Saturday Night Live),
Carly Jibson (Hairspray) and Megan McGinnis (Little Women, Les Miserables),
to be joined by Kate Reinders (Wicked, Gypsy). Asphalt Beach tells
the story of what happens to the girls at Our Lady of Suppressed Desire
Academy for Rambunctious Young Girls, a Catholic reformatory school
in Asphalt Beach, New Jersey.
Andrew Lippa wrote the book, music and lyrics for
The Wild Party (Manhattan Theater Club) which won the 2000 Outer
Critics Circle Award for best Off-Broadway musical of the season
and the 2000 Drama Desk Award for best music. 2004 saw the premiere
of Lippa's A Little Princess (book and lyrics by Brian Crawley)
at Theatreworks in Palo Alto, CA. In 1999 Lippa contributed three
new songs to the Broadway version of You're a Good Man, Charlie
Brown (including "My New Philosophy" for Tony-Award Winner Kristin
Chenoweth) and created all new arrangements. He wrote the music
and co-wrote the book (with Tom Greenwald) for john & jen, which
played in New York City in 1995 at The Lamb's Theater.
His awards include a Grammy nomination, the Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla
Theater Foundation Award and ASCAP's Richard Rodgers/New Horizons
Award. In addition to Asphalt Beach, Lippa is currently writing
the scores (music and lyrics) for Disney Theatrical Productions'
The Man in the Ceiling (book by original book author Jules Feiffer)
and Jerry Christmas (book by Daniel Goldfarb). Lippa is a graduate
of the University of Michigan.
There is a $25 cover plus a two-beverage minimum.
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