Broadway Voices @ Mamas

Broadway Voices Announces Return Performance

“I Want It All — A Maltby and Shire Songbook”

New York, NY, April 12, 2009 – Coming off of a successful run at the Metropolitan room, Broadway Voices — a quartet of singers from the New York City Gay Men's Chorus — today announced additional performances of their recent show, I Want It All — A Maltby and Shire Songbook this April at Don’t Tell Mama. The tribute to the songs of David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr. will feature the talents of Dan Baillie, Eric Saggese, Sonelius Kendrick-Smith and Phil Zipkin. Musical Direction is by Chip Prince and Dr. Charles Beale, with staging by Jeff Lettiere.

This all-male cast brings a unique twist to the traditionally co-ed songbook featuring songs from Maltby & Shire’s hit shows Closer Than Ever, Starting Here, Starting Now, Baby, and a song from their new project Take Flight. Show times are Saturday, April 25 at 6:15 p.m. and Sunday, April 26 at 3:00 p.m.

Don’t Tell Mama is located in Manhattan at 343 W. 46th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). For reservations call (212) 757-0788, or buy tickets on their Web site: http://www.donttellmamanyc.com/index.php

All proceeds will benefit the NYCGMC.

Don’t Tell Mama

Saturday, April 25 @ 6:15pm

Sunday, April 26 @ 3:00
$20.00 Cover + 2 Beverage Minimum (Cash only)

About Richard Maltby and David Shire:
Both as a team and individually, Richard Maltby and David Shire have had prolific and distinguished careers for stage and screen. Together, their best-known musicals include Baby, Closer Than Ever, Starting Here/Starting Now and Big. Separately, Shire has scored several hundred films, won an Oscar (Norma Rae) and two Grammys (Saturday Night Fever) along the way, and co-wrote the hit pop single “With You I’m Born Again;” while Maltby was the Tony-winning director and co-conceiver of Ain’t Misbehavin’, the co-lyricist of Miss Saigon and the screenwriter of last year’s Renee Zellwegger starrer Miss Potter. Maltby and Shire’s current project is the musical Take Flight, produced in London and Japan last year, and scheduled for a domestic production next season. Maltby is also directing next season’s The Story of My Life; while Shire has written the songs for a new animated musical television series starring, and co-produced by, his wife, actress Didi Conn. Maltby and Shire met their freshman year at Yale (where they wrote their first two shows) and have recently begun their second half century of collaboration.