We Are The Song 2: After The Storm, With Umoh, Doyle and More, to Play Joe's Pub

By Adam Hetrick
November 30, 2009

Stephanie Umoh, Matt Doyle, Gerry McIntyre and Rachel Bay Jones will perform at Joe's Pub Dec. 7 in We Are The Song 2: After The Storm.

The 7 PM concert is a follow-up to the first We Are the Song event, which also benefited the North Rampart Community Center in New Orleans. Both concerts are inspired by the "After the Storm" documentary, which traces a New Orleans production of the Ahrens and Flaherty musical Once On This Island in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Scheduled to perform are Umoh (Ragtime), Doyle (Spring Awakening, Bye Bye Birdie), McIntyre (Once On This Island) and Jones (Hair), as well as Kyle Dean Massey (Next to Normal, Xanadu, Wicked), Alyse Alan Louis (Mamma Mia), Cole Burden (Applause), Kathy Deitch (Wicked, Footloose), Jeremy Hays (Les Miserables), Fabio Monteiro, Robin Skye (Parade, Cyrano), Ali Stroker and Janine LaManna (Seussical, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sweet Charity, Ragtime).

Among the composers whose work will be performed are Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty; Chris Miller; Sam Willmott; Rob Rokicki; Jason Loffredo; Michael Cooper and Hyeyoung Kim; David Sisco and Tom Gualtieri; Michael Walker and Kyle Ewalt; Barbara Anselmi; and Ken Clifton. Songwriters Maddy Wyatt Leenya Rideout (Company, Cabaret) and Wesley Whatley will also perform.

We Are the Song 2 will have musical direction by Aaron Jodoin, with additional vocals by Matt Dengler, Caroline Dooner, Molly Hager, Justin Lopez and Mary Catherine McDonald.

For tickets to the concert, priced $20, visit JoesPub. Joe's Pub is located within the Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street.

Visit AftertheStormFoundation for more information.

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The After the Storm Foundation was established to offer assistance and support not only to North Rampart Street Community Center but to other already existing relief organizations currently serving the youth of New Orleans.