Tony Award winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy, She Loves Me) will headline a concert presentation of Melancholy Play, the chamber musical collaboration from Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl (Eurydice, Dead Man’s Cell Phone) and composer-lyricist Todd Almond (Kansas City Choir Boy, Girlfriend), July 8 at Joe’s Pub.

Benanti starred in the 2009 Broadway production of Ruhl’s In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play. The production marked Ruhl’s Broadway playwriting debut.

The 7 PM concert will also feature Obie Award winner April Matthis (Iowa, On the Levee) and Amy Warren (The Gabriels). Both Matthis and Warren appeared in the musical’s 2012 world premiere.

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Melancholy Play, which was written to be accompanied by a single cellist, was first seen in 2001. Ruhl later approached Almond with the idea of exploring a deeper musical setting for the piece, which gave life to a nearly sung-through chamber musical adaptation.

For tickets, priced $40, click here.