BIG NEWS: Tony-winner Karen Ziemba will be singing Plane Crazy's "Turbulence" at the NYMF Best of Fest Bash on Monday, February 27th!
HOW COOL IS THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Karen Ziemba, one of Broadway's most versatile performers, won the 2000 Tony Award for her performance in Susan Stroman and John Weidman's hit musical, CONTACT, at Lincoln Center Theater.
Karen has long been associated with the work of director-choreographer Susan Stroman, with whom she has formed an ongoing collaboration.
For CONTACT, Karen also took home the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Off-Broadway, she won the Drama Desk Award for her performance in the Kander and Ebb revue AND THE WORLD GOES 'ROUND, as well as a Drama Desk nomination for the revival of Jones and Schmidt's I DO! I DO!.
Her Broadway career began with A CHORUS LINE, including Michael Bennett's legendary celebration of its record-breaking performance. She appeared as Alice Roosevelt in TEDDY & ALICE, starred as Peggy Sawyer in 42nd STREET, opposite Jerry Orbach, as Polly Baker in CRAZY FOR YOU, as Roxie Hart in CHICAGO, and as Rita Racine in STEEL PIER, for which she received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), whose annual three-week celebration has premiered more than 70 new musicals in the past two years, will present a one-night only benefit concert, "The Best of Fest Bash!," on Monday, February 27 at Dodger Stages (340 W. 50th St.). Showtime is 7 pm.
Directed by Joe Calarco, "The Best of Fest Bash!" will feature highlights from the diverse array of works the company has introduced, including the Off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz and the upcoming [title of show]. Toasting NYMF's contributions to the field, the benefit concert will include performances by Euan Morton, Kerry Butler, Sherrie Austin, Deven May, Jeffry Denman, Curtis Holbrook and more, with special appearances by Jim Dale, Roger Rees and John Lloyd Young. Additional Broadway favorites will be announced shortly.
For tickets and more information on the NYMF Best of Fest Bash! click on this link.
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