Theater News

Discovered Treasures to Showcase New Theater Songs

Tom Andersen
Tom Andersen

A host of theater and cabaret performers will appear in Songbook: Discovered Treasures, a free concert that will be held on Tuesday, September 30 at 6pm at the Donnell Library Theater, 20 West 53rd Street. Produced, directed, and hosted by John Znidarsic, the concert will showcase new theater and cabaret songs by up-and-coming composers and lyricists.

Currently scheduled to perform are Mana Allen, Tom Andersen, David Arthur, Richard Danley, Christopher Denny, Rebecca Eichenberger, Jennifer Goode, Andrea Green, Maree Johnson, Aaron Lazar, Eddie Korbich, Cindy Marchionda, Karen Mason, Christine Pedi, Maureen Taylor, and Michael Winther.

The concert will include songs written by Tom Andersen, David Arthur, Charles Bloom, Mark Campbell and Stephen Hoffman, Douglas J. Cohen, Frank Evans and Christopher Berg, Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler, Ron Kaehler, Paul Katz and Michael Colby, Noel Katz, Brian Lasser, Jeffrey Lodin and William Squier, James Merillat and John Kenrick, Ben Moore, Rob Lindsey Nassif, Kim Oler and Allison Hubbard, and Richard Pearson Thomas.

Among the songs to be performed are “A Life of My Own” (from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir), “Castles In the Air” (Speakeasy), “For Laura” (The Enchanted Cottage), “Gertrude Irvington’s Box” (Saratoga Trunk Songs), “Grateful” (Splendora), “Hello, Tom,” “I Can Sing” (The Tales of Tinseltown), “I Prefer To Dream” (Pablo!), “In A Moment I Go” (War Brides), “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” (Rebels), “Taylor, The Latte Boy,” “Testimony,” “So Far, So Good” (No Way to Treat A Lady), “So I Chose” (Company of Women), “Were I To Touch You,” and “Yard Sale.”

Admission to the concert is free; for information, call 212-265-3495, ext. 218.