Manoel Feliciano Added To Broadway By The Year!!!

MARY BOND DAVIS, JOSH PRINCE AND MANOEL FELCIANO

ADDED TO BROADWAY BY THE YEAR: THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1959

ON MONDAY, APRIL 30 AT THE TOWN HALL


DIRECTED BY MARC KUDISCH, FEATURING EMILY SKINNER AND BRUCE VILANCH

Created and Hosted by Scott Siegel



An all-star cast of nine Broadway stars will perform the music born on The Great White Way in 1959, in Broadway By the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1959, presented by The Town Hall.on Monday April 30 at 8 PM. Hairspray star Mary Bond Davis, Josh Prince, choreographer of Broadway's upcoming Shrek, and the Tony Nominated Manoel Felciano will join the previously announced cast that includes Marc Kudisch (who will be directing his third Broadway by the Year concert), Emily Skinner, Bruce Vilanch, Mark Jacoby, Sarah Jane McMahon, and Nancy Lemenager.

Tickets for the event are $40 and $45 from TicketMaster, (212) 307-4100, or www.ticketmaster.com, or in person at the Town Hall box office, 123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY., (212) 840-2824, or www.the-townhall-nyc.org .


This talented cast will be singing some of the greatest music ever produced on Broadway. 1959 featured Gypsy, The Sound of Music, Fiorello!, Take Me Me Along, The Nervous Set, Once Upon a Mattress, and more! Assembling this cast was a joy, said Scott Siegel, who created Broadway by the Year for Town Hall and who writes and hosts each concert in this critically acclaimed, popular series. Getting Marc Kudisch to both direct and perform in this show will double the pleasure for our audience, said Siegel, not to mention treating everyone to a slew of great stars making their Broadway by the Year debuts, among them Sarah Jane McMahon, Mark Jacoby, Manoel Felciano, Josh Prince and Bruce Vilanch.

The music from 1959 is unusually eclectic, Siegel continued, so I needed to assemble a cast with equally wide-ranging talents. Getting Bruce Vilanch in a year that featured a Jackie Gleason musical is perfect. Pairing the great Nancy Lemenager from Never Gonna Dance and Movin Out with Josh Prince continues the exciting dance tradition that Nancy, herself, helped to create at Town Hall. The iconic music from Gypsy and The Sound of Music will be especially featured with Emily Skinner and Mary Bond Davis getting their respective cracks at Mama Rose, while Sarah Jane McMahon (late of The Pirates of Penzance at the New York City Opera) will provide a classic take on the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein show.