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Birdland is alive with the sounds of Georgia Stitt & Friends, not to mention Jim Caruso's Cast Party.

(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)

The jazz club Birdland was alive with the sounds of musical theater on Monday night, December 27 as composer-lyricist-musical director-conductor-arranger-pianist Georgia Stitt presented a concert of her songs performed by some of her extremely talented friends. Here is Stitt with her husband, Jason Robert Brown, composer-lyricist of Parade, The Last Five Years, and Songs for a New World.

(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)

Among the evening's singers were Celia Keenan-Bolger (Summer of '42, My Life With Albertine, The Light in the Piazza) and Julia Murney (who played Queenie in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party).

(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)

Jenn Colella (Sissy in Broadway's Urban Cowboy) and Matthew Morrison (the original Link Larkin in Hairspray, Sir Harry in the upcoming Disney/ABC-TV movie version of Once Upon a Mattress) also performed Stitt's songs. Stitt served as production music coordinator for Mattress.

(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)

Here's Stitt again with the veteran Broadway choreographer Patricia Birch.

(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)

The Stitt concert was followed by the latest edition of Jim Caruso's Cast Party, the popular open mike event held every Monday late-night at Birdland. Among those present: Caruso (right) and Billy Stritch, the regular Cast Party pianist...

(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)

...plus Steve Blanchard and Brooke Tansley, currently starring in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast.

 

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