NewsPhoto Call: Kirsten Childs, Tom Kitt, Michael John LaChiusa, and Stephen Schwartz at the York's NEO 11 ConcertThe York Theatre Company presented a one-night only benefit concert celebrating up and coming musical theatre writers, with NEO 11 on Monday evening, June 15, 2015 at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter’s. The NEO 11 concert featured songs by this year’s NEO writers: Christie Baugher, Kathryn Hathaway and Benjamin Velez, Michael R. Jackson, and AnnMarie Milazzo.
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Krissie Fullerton
June 17, 2015
York's NEO program seeks to connect emerging writers with established artists and producers and affords participants a number of opportunities to gain insight, advice and awareness from industry leaders. NEO mentors making special appearances this year includeded Kirsten Childs, Tom Kitt, Michael John LaChiusa, and Stephen Schwartz. Past NEO concert mentors have included Maury Yeston, Stephen Flaherty, Ted Sperling, Adam Guettel, and Sheldon Harnick.
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Kirsten Childs, Tom Kitt, Michael John LaChiusa, and Stephen Schwartz at the York's NEO 11 Concert
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.