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Marilyn Maye Added to Concert Celebration of Johnny Mercer Foundation’s Songwriters Project

Marilyn Maye
Marilyn Maye
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Marilyn Maye has joined the previously reported cast of the Johnny Mercer Foundation and Kaufman Center’s Broadway Close Up Series‘ upcoming concert celebration of the Johnny Mercer Foundation’s Songwriters Project, to be held October 11 at Merkin Hall.

The concert will celebrate the first seven years of the Johnny Mercer Foundation’s Songwriters Project at Northwestern University and will feature performers such as Craig Carnelia, Andrew Lippa, Lari White, and Mike Renzi, who will be performing with Maye.

The participating songwriters, all alumni of the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, will include Kellen Blair and Joe Kinosian , Adam Gwon, Michael Kooman & Christopher Dimond , Phoebe Kreutz, Peter Lerman, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, Benjamin Scheuer, Alina Smith, and Shaina Taub.

For more information about the Broadway Close Up series, read TheaterMania’s story here.

For tickets to the concert celebration of the Johnny Mercer Foundation’s Songwriters Project, click here.