LINCOLN CENTER’S AMERICAN SONGBOOK
2009 SEASON
January 14 – March 6, 2009
Highlights:
Rare solo concert by Paulo Szot, Tony Award-winner from South Pacific
Country legend Patty Loveless
Composer Spotlights: Rob Fisher Celebrates Cole Porter,
John Pizzarelli Salutes Richard Rodgers, and An Evening with Alan Menken
Broadway and film star Alan Cumming
Composer and enfant terrible Nico Muhly
The incomparable Stew, Tony Award-winner for Passing Strange
Lincoln Center’s acclaimed series American Songbook returns in January for its eleventh season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. For 17 nights of pop, folk, cabaret, R&B, country, rock, show tunes, bluegrass and multimedia, the series will explore the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today’s most dynamic contemporary songwriting. The 2009 season – January 14 through March 6 – will bring to the stage some of today’s most gifted interpreters of song, including top vocalist Kurt Elling and country’s winning Patty Loveless. It will feature the rare opportunity to hear the electrifying Paulo Szot, star of Broadway’s South Pacific, and film and stage star Alan Cumming, in intimate concert settings. Two of the immortals in the canon of American composers – Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers – will be celebrated, respectively, by Rob Fisher and John Pizzarelli. Current Broadway and film composer Alan Menken will perform songs he has written for films and stage productions, and contemporary composer/arranger/wunderkind Nico Muhly will bring his pop collaborations to the Songbook stage. Tony-winner Stew (Passing Strange) will close the season with a concert at the new Alice Tully Hall.
Sponsored by Pfizer.
TICKETS for the general public go on sale October 29, 2008, and can be purchased online at Lincoln Center’s website LincolnCenter.org, via CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, or at the Frederick P. Rose Hall Box Office. Tickets for the Friends of American Songbook go on sale October 27th.
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