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Dear Evan Hansen, Shuffle Along, Lost In The Stars, Of Thee I Sing!

Those four musicals, plus many others, all made their Broadway debut on West 45th Street at the historic Music Box Theatre.

Now, in its 97th year of bringing memorable stories and life changing performances to audiences, Feinstein’s/54 Below will be celebrating the Music Box’s rich, legendary history with an all-star musical celebration.

Join us on February 19th, for an evening of songs and stories, performed by the legends themselves who were lucky enough to grace the Music Box stage!

Feinstein’s/54 Below Creative and Programming Director Jennifer Ashley Tepper (The Untold Stories of Broadway) and Behind the Curtain’s Robert W Schneider will be on hand to share trivia and anecdotes about the theatre that has been home to such legends as Ben Platt, Audra McDonald, Irving Berlin, Wendy Wasserstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Kaufman and Hart!

Expect some of the Music Box’s favorite artists to make an appearance and take a musical stroll down memory lane.

The show will feature performances and stories from:

7:00pm

Ariana DeBose (Hamilton, Pippin, Motown)
Seth Eliser (Once, Pump Boys and Dinettes)

Brian Flores (Pippin, The New Yorkers)
Sara Jean Ford (The Phantom of the Opera, Cats)
Jessica Hendy (Cats, Amour)

Kristolyn Lloyd (Dear Evan Hansen, Invisible Thread)
Bonnie Milligan (Head Over Heels, Kinky Boots)
Paris Alexander Nesbitt (The Book of Mormon)

Christiane Noll (Jekyll and Hyde, Ragtime)

Bryonha Marie Parham (Prince of Broadway, Ragtime)

Alex Prakken (Newsies, Les Miserables)

Tony Roberts (Annie Hall, Sugar, Xanadu)
Arbender Robinson (Shuffle Along, In Transit)

Charlie Rosen (Charlie Rosen’s Big Band, American Psycho, One Man, Two Guv’nors)

Steve Rosen (Spamalot, The Farnsworth Invention)

Representing the Irving Berlin Estate Elizabeth Matson and Emily Fletcher.

9:30pm

Courtney Balan (In My Life, Cry Baby, Falsettos)
Kristy Cates (Finding Neverland, Wicked)
Ariana DeBose (Hamilton, Pippin, Motown)

Tovah Feldshuh (Pippin, Golda’s Balcony)
Sara Jean Ford (The Phantom of the Opera, Cats)
Jessica Hendy (Cats, Amour)

Elmore James (Big River, Beauty and the Beast)

Laura Jordan (In My Life, Cry Baby)

Kristolyn Lloyd (Dear Evan Hansen, Invisible Thread)

Kilty Reidy (In My Life, The Drowsy Chaperone)

Arbender Robinson (Shuffle Along, In Transit)

Will Roland (Dear Evan Hansen, The Black Suits)
Dan Rosales (Spamilton, Peter and the Starcatcher)

Michael Rupert (Tony Award winner for Sweet Charity, Legally Blonde, On the Town)

Rebecca Spigelman (Hairspray, 16 Going on 70)
Jim Walton (Marrily We Roll Along, Sunset Boulevard)

Alan Wiggins (Beautiful, Pretty Woman)

Representing the Irving Berlin Estate Elizabeth Matson and Emily Fletcher.

The 7pm performance will feature songs from and stories about The Music Box Revue of 1921, As Thousands Cheer, I’d Rather Be Right, Lost in the Stars, Absurd Person Singular, Blood Brothers, State Fair, Swinging on a Star, Amour, The Heidi Chronicles, Shuffle Along…,and Dear Evan Hansen.

The 9:30pm performance will feature songs from and stories about Of Thee I Sing, As Thousands Cheer, Lost In The Stars, Side by Side by Sondheim, Mail, Welcome to the Club, Amour, Pippin, In My Life, The Heidi Chronicles, Shuffle Along…, and Dear Evan Hansen.

The evening will also feature an original song about the Music Box Theatre written by Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair (Murder for Two).

Directed and produced by Robert W. Schneider.