Unused lyrics and tucked away trunk songs take center stage in new cabaret show to benefit ACT UP.
Friday, April 11 at Laurie Beechman Theatre

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"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

Mark Milano will perform an encore of  THE LYRICS LEFT BEHIND, a cabaret show composed of "trunk songs", "dummy lyrics", and other unused lyrics. It will be presented one night only, Friday, April 11 at 7 PM at The Laurie Beechman Theatre inside the West Bank Cafe at 407 West 42 Street. Tickets are $20, available online at www.SpinCycleNYC.com and by phone at 212-352-3101. A $50 VIP ticket that includes priority seating and a backstage meet-and-greet are also available. Doors open one hour before showtime, and there is a $15 per person food/drink minimum, with a full dinner menu and full bar available. All proceeds will benefit ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, which has fought to ends the AIDS crisis since 1987.

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? These are THE LYRICS LEFT BEHIND.

Mark Milano is a longtime AIDS activist and showtune queen. He has been active in ACT UP/NY, Health GAP, and the AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition for over 25 years. He sang with Cantori New York for ten years, performing at Carnegie Hall with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and at Avery Fisher Hall with the Metropolitan Opera orchestra.