BMI Workshop Alums Yeston, Lopez, Marx, et al. Slated for One-Night-Only Concert

BMI, the Prospect Theatre Company, and Musical Mondays Theatre Lab will present songwriters who emerged from the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in concert on Wednesday, September 14 at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street), beginning at 8pm.

The BMI Songwriters Showcase is part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival and will feature a number of Tony Award winners, including Maury Yeston (Nine and Titanic), Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Avenue Q), and Judd Woldin (Raisin). The latter will join lyricist Richard Engquist (Kuni-Leml) in songs from their recent Off-Broadway musical Little Ham. Gerard Alessandrini, creator of Forbidden Broadway, will host the event.

Nancy Ford, co-author with composer Gretchen Cryer of the current American Girls Revue, will perform the standard “Old Friend” from the Cryer/Ford musical I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road. David Spencer will sing “And I Knew” from Weird Romance, his collaboration with Alan Menken. Jeff Blumenkrantz (Urban Cowboy) and Beth Falcone (a Jonathan Larson fellow) will showcase original work, while composer Barbara Anselmi and lyricist Will Randall will reprise their hit from the last BMI showcase: “It Shoulda Been You,” from The Wedding Project.

There will also be an early preview of songs from Frank Evans’ War Brides, a show to be presented as part of the NYMF Festival on September 27. In addition, workshop artistic coordinator Patrick Cook and his composing partner Rick Freyer, who co-wrote the musical Captains Courageous, will sing songs from their latest project.

General admission tickets are priced at $20; they can be purchased by calling 212-479-4200 or by clicking here. Visit www.nymf.org for more information.