Blast From the Past Benefit Concert: Romance in Hard Times by William Finn Starring Lillias White

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New York: Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director), will celebrate the Centennial Year of its late founder Rosetta LeNoire at a Gala evening on Monday, April 4th, featuring a special "Blast from the Past" concert of William Finn's songs from the celebrated Romance in Hard Times, starring Tony-Winner Lillias White and a veteran cast of Broadway professionals.

The Amas Benefit Event honors the award-winning director, writer and producer George C. Wolfe with the "Rosie Award", named for Amas's founder. The Rosie Award "is bestowed on those individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary accomplishment and dedication in bringing our world more closely together through the performing arts." Previous honorees include Ossie Davis and Rubie Dee, Geoffrey Holder and Carmen deLavallade, Leslie Uggams, Maurice Hines, Phylicia Rashad, Woodie King, Jr., and Dionne Warwick.

Romance in Hard Times received its first and only production at the Public Theatre in 1989-90. It was never recorded or published. The storied show's original cast includes several who will appear in the Amas concert, including Lillias White (Fela, The Life, etc.), Victor Trent Cook (Smokey Joe's Café Three Mo' Tenors), Alix Korey (All Shook Up, Chicago, etc.), Tim Jerome (Grand Hotel, Man of La Mancha, etc.), and Michael Mandell (Elf - The Musical). Other cast members include Bernard J. Calloway (Memphis), Carmen Ruby Floyd (Lion King, Little Ham at Amas), Beth Glover (Nat'l. tours All Shook Up, Dirty Blond, etc.), Robert Fowler (The Producers, Beauty and the Beast, etc.), and Destan Owens (Rent, Chicago, etc.).

William Finn is well known for his trilogy of short musical shows In Trousers, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. Falsettos, the combination of March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, won Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Book, the latter shared with James Lapine. Finn and Lapine's other collaborations include Little Miss Sunshine, the Tony Award-winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and A New Brain, which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical.