TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has announced that Tony Award-nominated composer Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party; The Addams Family; Big Fish; A Little Princess; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown – revival) will celebrate his 60th birthday in style with Lippa @ 60: A Birthday Benefit for TheatreWorks. This special benefit performance will commemorate the illustrious career of the multi-hyphenated Broadway titan and raise funds to support TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, where Lippa has developed and premiered several new musicals.
Joined onstage by special friends and with musical direction by TheatreWorks Resident Musical Director William Liberatore, Lippa will perform Monday, December 16, 2024, at Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. The festivities will kick off at 6 pm with an elegant pre-show party including bountiful hors d’oeuvres and a hosted bar, with an appearance by Lippa. The concert will start at 7:30 pm, followed by a post-show reception with a toast to the birthday boy and dessert. Ticket packages ($125–$175) including concert and special events are now on sale, along with concert-only tickets ($75).
Andrew Lippa
A Tony-nominated composer, lyricist, book writer, performer, and producer, Lippa first became known to TheatreWorks audiences 20 years ago, when the company gave the World Premiere of his musical adaptation of A Little Princess. He has developed several works in TheatreWorks’ New Works Festivals, including The Man in the Ceiling, Jerry Christmas, and Asphalt Beach, and personally appeared on TheatreWorks main stage in his musical revue, The Life of the Party.
The Wild Party received the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. The Addams Family received a Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score. Big Fish was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music.
Lippa wrote and starred in the theatrical oratorio I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk that received its New York premiere at Lincoln Center starring Kristin Chenoweth. His concert work Unbreakable had its World Premiere with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC). He also wrote the music for Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway play The Farnsworth Invention and the song “Evil Like Me” for Disney’s Descendants.
Other musicals include John & Jen (music/book) and the revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (additional music/lyrics and arrangements). During his career, Lippa has been honored with Tony and Grammy Award nominations, a shared Emmy for Nickelodeon’s The Wonder Pets, the SFGMC Vanguard Award; the Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation Award, ASCAP’s Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, the Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award. He serves as the President of the Board of The Dramatists Guild Foundation.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, led by Artistic Director Giovanna Sardelli and Interim Executive Director Criss Henderson, presents a wide variety of contemporary plays and musicals and revitalizes great works of the past. Founded in 1970 by Robert Kelley, TheatreWorks has grown from a truly original Silicon Valley startup to become one of the nation’s leading professional nonprofit theatre companies.
TheatreWorks was honored as the recipient of the 2019 Regional Theatre Tony Award. TheatreWorks also champions new work, offering artists support and a creative home as they develop new stories for the American theatre. Offstage, TheatreWorks’ arts education programs in local schools and arts engagement programs in Silicon Valley neighborhoods uplift its audiences and strengthen community bonds. Onstage and off, TheatreWorks welcomes the mosaic of people who embody the Bay Area and beyond, celebrating the transformative power of theatre to ignite imagination, inspire conversation, and enliven souls.
Lippa @ 60: A Birthday Benefit for TheatreWorks
Monday, December 16, 2024
Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Ticket Packages now on sale:
$125 – Concert plus post-show reception
$175 – Concert plus pre-show party & post-show reception
$75 – Concert only
For information and to order tickets: call 877-662-8978 or visit https://theatreworks.org/
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Published on December 5, 2024
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