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54 Below

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In celebration of Women’s History Month, acclaimed women musical theatre writers who are Council members of the Dramatists Guild of America will gather to share stories and introduce some of the songs they’ve written from Broadway and beyond. The night will feature performances by some of the theatre’s brightest voices.

The Dramatists Guild has been advocating for the rights of theater writers for over 100 years and its elected leadership includes award-winning and legendary songwriting women such as Lynn Ahrens, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Kirsten Childs, Gretchen Cryer, Amanda Green, Christine Toy Johnson, Julia Jordan, Lisa Kron, Marsha Norman, Helen Park, Rona Siddiqui, Georgia Stitt, and Shaina Taub who have brought us such musicals such as Ragtime, Once on This Island, Disney’s Frozen, Fun Home, Murder Ballad, Hands On A Hardbody, The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Broken Ground, I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road, Suffs, KPOP, and more!

Co-hosted by President of the Guild, Amanda Green and Treasurer of the Guild, Christine Toy Johnson.

Produced by Jen Sandler.

Music direction by Anna Ebbesen.

Performances by:

Sherz Aletaha (Merrily We Roll Along)
Jasmine Forsberg (Six, Here Lies Love) – 9:30pm only
Andrea Frierson (Disney’s The Lion King, Once On This Island)
Blair Goldberg (Kinky Boots)
Taylor Iman Jones (Six, Hamilton, Head Over Heels)
Jo Lampert (Joan of Arc: Into The Fire)
Curtis Moore (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Patti Murin (Disney’s Frozen, Wicked, Lysistrata Jones)
Ben Thompson (Waitress, American Idiot)
Tony Award® nominee Elizabeth Stanley (Jagged Little Pill, On The Town, The Bridges Of Madison County)
Kuhoo Verma (Octet)
Jessica Vosk (Wicked)

Live from 54 Below is a new series featuring streams of LIVE performances direct from Broadway’s Living Room! Designed to make more shows accessible to fans from across the globe and to recreate the live experience, all shows will be presented exclusively at the time of performance with an in-house audience and will not be available on demand afterwards.