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Sonnet Repertory Theatre, Inc., is dedicated to classic theatre for the modern planet. SRT promotes classic plays and adaptations, providing forums for collaboration between emerging artists and established professionals. With Classics in the Classroom, SRT aims not only to entertain, but also to educate young people by engaging them with timeless literature through expressive theatre.

A Special Announcement

SONNET SINGS: The Bard

A ONE-NIGHT-ONLY BENEFIT FOR SRT

An Evening of Original Songs Inspired by the Work of William Shakespeare

Participating Artists Include: Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, Jeff Bowen, Matt Cavenaugh, Stephen Flaherty, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Henry Krieger, Alan Menken, Rick Lyon, Bobby Lopez & Jeff Marx, and Paul David Story

Monday, November 17, 2008 | 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Birdland Jazz, 315 West 44th Street, Between 8th and 9th Avenues

Contributing composers to our one-night-only benefit event include: Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award-winning, and Grammy Award-nominated Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Seussical, Once on This Island), Obie Award-winner Jeff Bowen ([title of show]), Eight-time Academy Award, seven-time Golden Globe Award, and six-time Grammy Award-winning composer and pianist Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, Disney's The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, and many others), Academy and Tony Award-nominated, and Grammy Award-winning composer Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls, The Tap Dance Kid, Sideshow), and Tony Award-winning composers, lyricists, and collaborators Bobby Lopez & Jeff Marx (Avenue Q).

Scheduled performers include: Heidi Blickenstaff ([title of show]), Matt Cavenaugh (A Catered Affair, Grey Gardens, Urban Cowboy and the upcoming revival of West Side Story), Rebecca Naomi Jones (Passing Strange, Wig Out!), Tony Award-nominated actress Celia Keenan-Bolger (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Light in the Piazza, and the revival of Les Miserables), Henry Krieger, performing his own work, Rick Lyon (puppeteer, designer, creator, and originator of several roles in the Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning musical Avenue Q) with a surprise special guest, Paul David Story (Equus, The Cain Mutiny Court-Martial), and the cast members from the recent Shakespeare in the Park revival of Hair.

The evening will be hosted by Susan Blackwell, known for her starring role in [title of show], and our "Little Fairies" will reprise a scene from this summer's production of Shakespeare's Midsummer.

SONNET SINGS: The Bard
Monday, November 17 from 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Birdland Jazz, 315 West 44th Street, Between 8th and 9th Avenues
Tickets are priced at three tiers: $80 (includes orchestra seat, two tickets to SRT's Spring Mainstage production, and one raffle ticket for the evening), $60 (general seating), and $40 (bar seating).
Seating within tiers is first-come-first-served. Please arrive promptly at 5:30pm and enjoy a drink on SRT for the first hour!
Reserve online through Birdland at www.birdlandjazz.com or call 212-581-3080.

View Photos from SONNET SINGS: THE BARD 2007

History

Who we were... what happened... And where we're headed...

With a genuine desire to work, a solid background in and love for the classics, and a decade of friendship, Robyne Parrish and Katrina Thomas Kent, fellow graduates of the North Carolina School for the Arts (www.ncarts.edu) founded SRT in the fall of 2002. Along with fellow alumni Ben Cherry and Monica Francisco, the company launched, and a core acting company was formed, as well as a full Board of Directors and an administrative team.

Since then, SRT has produced five consecutive seasons of classic works and several specialty series including The Bard's Backyard, ShakesBARE, The Collaborative Series, and Plays in Progress, a forum for new work based in the classics. SRT has evolved considerably from a small repertory of core actors to a state-supported, not-for-profit theatre company, incorporating and sustaining artists and creators from very diverse backgrounds and styles.

On June 1, 2007, SRT welcomed Todd Loyd and Tiffany Little Canfield as the new Co-Artistic Directors with Founding Artistic Director, Robyne Parrish, moving into the role of Executive Director. As this company evolves, at its core, SRT remains supremely dedicated to classic theatre and continues the pursuit of excellence on the stage.