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Farah Alvin, Donna Lynne Champlin, Ilene Graff, et al. Set for If It Only Even Runs A Minute NYMF Concerts

Ilene Graff
Ilene Graff

Updated casting has been announced for the next two installments of the concert series If It Only Even Runs A Minute, to be held at The American Theatre of Actors, on Thursday, October 14.

These concerts of rare and inspiring songs, anecdotes, and photos from underappreciated Broadway musicals are created by Jennifer Ashley Tepper, Kevin Michael Murphy, and Caleb Hoyer, and are being presented in conjunction with the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

The 7pm edition will include Andrew Kober, Anna Stone, Bill Coyne, Carrie Manolakos, Cortney Wolfson, Donna Lynne Champlin, Farah Alvin, Jesse Brickel, Kevin Michael Murphy, Liz Lark Brown, Marla Mindelle, Neva Rae Powers, Peter Link, Rachel Sussman, Ryan Driscoll, Tim Jerome, and Tim Shea.

The 9:30pm edition will feature a reunion of the original cast of the 1975 Broadway flop Truckload, including star Ilene Graff. Additional performers will include Badia Farha, Ben Lanzarone, Blair Goldberg, Caleb Hoyer, Daniel Mate, James Dybas, Jason Michael Snow, Jesse Brickel, John Jeffrey Martin, Katie Schorr, Kenita Miller, Kristen da Costa, Louis St. Louis, Marty Thomas, Nancy Ringham, Natalie Hinds, Patti Murin Holbrook, and Sarah Shahinian.

Among the other shows represented through songs and stories will be 3hree, Birds of Paradise, Cops, December Songs, Dessa Rose, I Love My Wife, King of Hearts, Lestat, The Magic Show, Me And Juliet, The Moony Shapiro Songbook, Nick and Nora, Purlie, Roza, Salvation, Summer of ’42, Thou Shalt Not, The Will Rogers Follies, and Witches of Eastwick.

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