Broadway and popular music stars come together for a special performance of protest songs and political satire, Songs of Protest, on Wednesday, March 29th at 9:30 PM at Feinstein’s/54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club, with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit the National Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The show features Singer-Songwriter Nellie McKay (Threepenny Opera, Old Hats, Get Away From Me), Eurovision star Tamar Kaprelian, Andrew Samonsky (South Pacific, The Bridges of Madison County), Larry Owens (Spamilton), Kate Reinders’ (Something Rotten, Wicked) and Sarah Litzsinger’s (Beauty and the Beast) award-winning band TASTiSKANK; hip-hop artist Nova (Lifetime’s The Rap Game), Amy Jo Jackson (Hostess – 54 Below Concert Lab Series), Joan Barber (Follies, Man of La Mancha), Noel Carey (Murder for Two and the award-winning webseries Brooklyn Sound), Em Grosland (The Erklings), and more!
The set encompasses nearly a century’s worth of protest songs in all styles – Motown, folk, showtunes, hip-hop, Berlin cabaret, country, disco, and beyond.
The show’s conceiver and music director, Andrew Fox, says, “Protest songs are about a lot of things – rallying people behind a cause, speaking truth to power, and spreading a message. But I think at their core, they send a message to other people that you are not crazy for feeling the way you feel about this problem. Whether it’s 1920s Germany, 1960s San Francisco, or NYC today, these songs are funny, moving, fun, and relevant.”
Andrew Fox has been music directing, orchestrating, producing, and teaching for nearly a decade. In 2012, the New York Musical Theatre Festival presented him with the Outstanding Musical Direction and Outstanding Arrangements awards for Foreverman: The Musical. He has also produced the cast albums for Starkid’s Twisted and Justin Roberts’ Hansel and Gretel (which he also orchestrated), and was recently the subject of an Al Jazeera English documentary Rebel Education for his innovative work teaching pop songwriting, vocal performance, and audio production in Armenia.
Director Pat Cerasaro’s credits include collaborating with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman on the New York City premiere of their musical Whistle Down The Wind as well as a series of unprecedented special concert events created with Steinman at Feinstein’s/54 Below including Total Eclipse, Paradise Found and Steinman Stripped.
Also featured in the cast is Logan Hart (Book of Mormon), Abigail Shapiro, Samantha Joy Pearlman, Onyie Nwachukwu, vocal trio America’s Sweethearts, and Babs Winn and Jack Grace of The Onion News Network.
There is a $30-$40 ticket price and $25 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.com. Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00 are only available by calling (646) 476-3551.