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Mark Milano: The Lyrics Left Behind
A Benefit for ACT UP
Friday, April 11, 2014 at 7:00PM

The Laurie Beechman Theatre at West Bank Cafe
407 West 42 Street
New York, NY 10036
42nd Street just west of Ninth Avenue
All trains/buses to Port Authority or Times Square. Closest trains A/C/E Port Authority.


Mark Milano will perform an encore of "The Lyrics Left Behind," a cabaret show composed entirely of "trunk songs" and "dummy lyrics". During the Golden Age of Broadway Musicals, songwriters would toss their unused songs into a trunk and reuse them when a new musical needed a number, simply by changing the lyric. For example, Judy Garland's famous torch song "The Man That Got Away" was originally written as an upbeat love song 12 years before she sang it in "A Star Is Born". "Tomorrow" from "Annie" was actually heard, with different lyrics, in a shirt commercial. And who knew that a straight-laced composer wrote X-rated lyrics to "You're The Top" that topped any double entendres Cole Porter ever wrote? "Mark Milano, a singer with a very pleasant voice, presented a wonderful show at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, backed by superior musicians. Milano did enormous research and featured rare videos in his presentation." Joe Regan Jr., Theater Pizzazz All proceeds will benefit ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, which has fought to ends the AIDS crisis since 1987. VIP Tickets include preferred seating and an after-show meet & greet.