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College

Run Freedom Run, Urinetown (audio)

Chateau D'If, The Count of Monte Cristo (audio, video)

Act 1 Finale, The Count of Monte Cristo (video)

Goodbyes, The Count of Monte Cristo (video)

Lily’s Eyes, The Secret Garden (video)

Rock of Ages

2009 Tony Performance (video)

High Enough (video)

Every Rose Has Its Thorns (video)

Don’t Stop Believing, Rock of Ages Closing (video)

O’Holy Night, Rock of Ages Cast (audio)

West Side Story

Something’s Coming (broadway/hollywood bowl)

Maria (broadway/hollywood bowl)

Tonight (hollywood bowl)

One Hand, One Heart (hollywood bowl)

Heathers

Heather’s reading (video)

Freeze Your Brain (audio)

Our Love is God (audio)

Seventeen (audio)

I Can’t Do This Alone (audio)

Newsies

Newsies (broadway, papermill (message me), live hd event)

Preview footage (video)

I Never Planned On You (original lyrics audio)

The World Will Know (recording studio)

Santa Fe (broadway, bonus track version, la, orlando, michigan, Diaster!) 

Then I Saw You (papermill, second link)

Something To Believe In (broadway)

2012 Tony’s Performance (video)

Barnes & Nobles Concert (audio)

Santa Fe/Seize the Day (good morning america, the view)

Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde (broadway)

Preview footage (video)

How ‘Bout a Dance/This World Will Remember Us (florida news station)

This World Will Remember Me (broadway)

When I Drive (Joe’s pub)

This World Will Remember Us (frank & friends concert

What was Good Enough For You (frank & friends concert)

Bonnie (london, la, broadwayspotted master class)

Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland (cambridge)

Act 1: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

Act 2: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

Circus of Your Mind (cambridge)

Death Note

Where is the Justice? (audio)

Hurricane (audio)

Stalemate (audio)

Playing His Game (audio)

Smash

They Just Keep Moving the Line (54 below)

Cut, Print, Moving On (video)

High and Dry (54 below)

Under Pressure (54 below)

Hitlist

Hitlist (audio)

Hitlist Miscast Medley (54 below)

Broadway Here I Come (la, tv, 54 below, london)

Rewrite This Story (54 below, tv)

If I Had You (54 below)

I Heard Your Voice in a Dream (54 below, tv, la)

Don’t Let Me Know (54 below, tv)

Caught in a Storm (54 below)

Calling Out my Name (54 below)

Heart Shaped Wreckage (54 below, la, tv)

The Love I Meant To Say (tv)

The Goodbye Song (54 below, tv)

The Last Five Years

Shiksa Goddess (audio)

Moving Too Fast (audio, hollywood, abs news)

The Schmuel Song (audio)

The Next Ten Minutes (audio)

A Miracle Would Happen / When You Come Home To Me (audio)

If I Didn’t Believe in You (audio)

Nobody Needs to Know (audio)

Goodbye Until Tomorrow (audio)

Breaking Character Concert / Other (solo) Concerts

Anthem, Chess (hollywood)

Moving Too Fast, The Last Five Years (hollywood)

Broadway Here I Come (hollywood)

Heart Shaped Wreckage (hollywood)

I Heard Your Voice in a Dream (hollywood)

Heaven (hollywood)

Maybe I’m Amazed, Joyful Noise (hollywood)

I’m Not Good Enough, Jeremy Jordan original (hollywood) 

Revelation, Jeremy Jordan original (hollywood)

Losing My Mind, Follies (hollywood, 54 below)

Santa Fe, Newsies (hollywood)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow (hollywood, 54 below, london)

Bonnie, Bonnie and Clyde (hollywood)

Let It Go, Frozen (hollywood)

Chipotle, Avenue Q-esque (hollywood)

Under Water, Jeremy Jordan original (p1, p2)

I’m Not, Jeremy Jordan original (london)

Memories of Losing You, Jeremy Jordan original (london)

Take Me or Leave Me, Rent (london, london video)

Jeremy and Ben’s Medley (video, audio)

Smiles/I’ll Be Seeing You (london)

New Shoes (london)

Parade In Concert

Parade (message me for full bootleg)

Act 1: p1, p2, p3, p4, p5

This Is Not Over Yet (rehearsal)

All the Wasted Time (audio)

Miscast

Let Me Be Your Star, Smash (2013)

Who Will Love Me As I Am?, Side Show (2013)

Let It Go, Frozen (2014)

Cell Block Tango, Chicago (2015)

Don’t Rain on My Parade, Funny Girl (2015)

Sondheim 

A Bed and a Chair (video)

Another Hundred People, Company (video)

Giants in the Sky, Into The Woods (audio)

Opening Doors, Merrily We Roll Along (video)

Miscellaneous Musical

Ten Minutes Ago/The Next Ten Minutes, Cinderella/The Last Five Years (video, video)

Come What May, Moulin Rouge (54 below)

I’ll Never Pass This Way Again, Civil War (frank & friends)

Sarah, Civil War (frank & friends)

The Ultimate Disney Princess Power Ballad Medley (disney magic)

Disney Medley (trevor project)

Why, God, Why?, Miss Saigon (audio)

Anything You Can Do, Annie Get Your Gun (audio)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Home, The Wizard of Oz/Home (seth speaks, 54 below)

One Day More, Les Mis (carnegie hall)

The Story Goes On, Baby (beverley hilton)

The Wheel, Tuck Everlasting (video)

Everything is Coming Up Roses, Gypsy (feinstein’s at the nikko)

Rocky City, See Rock City and Over Destinations (audio)

Out of the Bay, Unlock’d (audio)

Dolgaya River, Brother Russia (audio)

Lost in the Wilderness, Children of Eden (audio)

Out There, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (audio)

Miscellaneous Composers

The Answer, Joe Iconis (54 below)

Runaway With Me, Kerrigan-Lowdermilk (kerrigan-lowdermilk live

Dare To Dream, Michael Mott (with Laura Osnes, with Adrienne Warren)

Try, Michael Mott (54 below, where the sky ends concert)

Rise or Fall, Michael Mott (54 below)

Lucky, Michael Mott (where the sky ends concert)

Fleet Weak, Carner & Gregor (an evening of carner & gregor)

Wall Lovin’, Carner & Gregor (an evening of carner & gregor)

Snapshot In My Memory, Carner & Gregor (video)

Stay Awhile, Carner & Gregor (2009, 2010, 2010, 2014)

Tie Me Up, Carner & Gregor (54 below)

Traffic Island Song, Carner & Gregor (video)

So Many Windows, Carner & Gregor (audio)

No Turning Back Now, Drew Gaspirini (live, recorded)

I Am Yours, Jonathan Reid Gealt (video)

Here For You, Jonathan Reid Gealt (studio version)

If the World Looked Like You, Will Reynolds (laurie beechman theater)

This Year, Will Reynolds (bright lights concert series)

Greenwood Tree Suite, Will Reynolds (the songs of will reynolds)

Just Ahead, Will Reynods (the songs of will reynolds)

The Violet Hour, Eric Price and Will Reynolds (54 below)

Rooftops, Caleb Hoyer (laurie beechman theater)

Drift, Kooman & Dimon (video)

Get Up and Go, Joey Contreras (audio)

Prepared, Georgia Stitt (54 below)

She, Georgia Stitt (54 below)

Carry Me Up, Andrew Satomayor (laurie beechman theater)

Please Don’t Let Me Go, Scott Alan (audio)

Other

I’ve Told You Now, Sam Smith (54 below)

It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, Celine Dion (54 below)

Beauty and the Beast, Celine Dion (54 below)

Total Eclipse of the Heart, U2 (54 below)

Some Boys, Death Cab for Cutie (54 below)

This Will Be Our Year/The Way I Feel Inside, The Zombies (54 below)

I’ll Be Home for Christmas (54 below)

Creeptastic, the Skivvies (54 below)

More Than Anyone, Gavin DeGraw (audio)

Was I A Trooper Mom?  (today)

Love is a Many Splendid Thing/Mona Lisa/Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe/ All the Way/Moon River (pasadena symphony)

Breathe Again (feinstein’s at the nikko)

Gonna Be Alright, Laura Molina (music video)

The National Anthem (2011, 2014)

Put a Little Love in Your Heart, Jackie DeShannon (the flash)

Hark, Hark, the Lark, The Greenwood Tree (audio)

Who is Slyvia? The Greenwood Tree (audio)

Tangled

 I Will Make You Have Faith in Me (d23) 

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THE TOM KITT BAND

FEBRUARY 9 & 11 at Feinstein’s/54 Below

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“The Tom Kitt Band seems to have everything you don’t find in one place anymore – great chops, well-made and catchy songs, and on-stage charisma.  It’s one of the only local bands I’ve seen that you can look at and imagine going all the way, and staying up there for a long, long time.”  – Bill Flanagan, VH-1 and author of U2 at the End of the World, A&R, and Evening’s Empire

A NOTE FROM TOM KITT:

In 1996, upon graduating from college, I did two things.  I applied to the BMI Lehman-Engel Musical Theater Workshop (with Brian Yorkey) and I formed a rock band.  I was hoping that the BMI road would take me to Broadway, and that the band road would take me to Madison Square Garden.  Of course, I realized that the likelihood of either pursuit happening was quite low.  But that’s why they are called “dreams.”

In June of 1998, Brian came up with an idea for our final project, which was to write a 10 minute musical.  And that is how, Feeling Electric (later to become Next to Normal) was performed for the first time.  Also in June, The Tom Kitt Band performed at a club called The Elbow Room (now a Duane Reade) to a few loyal, die-hard fans.  But over the course of the next year, both projects began to pick up speed.  Feeling Electric was gaining supportive voices in the workshop, while The Tom Kitt Band was expanding its fan base and solidifying better time slots at more reputable clubs such as Arlene Grocery and The Mercury Lounge.  And interestingly, some of the TKB songs were finding there way into Feeling Electric (with rewritten lyrics by Brian).

In 2001, the band reached its apex when the record label Gold Circle signed us to a demo deal.  Unfortunately, that demo would prove to be our biggest achievement.  Upon returning to NYC, we learned that the label was folding. Madison Square Garden would have to remain a dream.

But at the same time, Feeling Electric was gathering more momentum, culminating in a concert at the Cutting Room in 2002.  At that concert, 17 songs from Feeling Electric were performed with the Tom Kitt Band accompanying the performers.  And as Feeling Electric continued to develop, The Tom Kitt Band, which includes Damien Bassman on drums, Dan Grennes on bass, and Michael Aarons on guitar, continued to play together in the theater world.  The entire band backed Mario Cantone’s hilarious one man show, Laughwhore (we were even featured on the poster), Damien and Mike created percussion and guitar arrangements for Next to Normal, and Dan and Mike both played American Idiot on Broadway, with Dan going on to do the entire national tour.  Most importantly, we remain close friends.

Occasionally I’m asked when the band might be performing again (by one of those loyal, die-hard fans who probably saw us at the Elbow Room).  I too began to hope we might find our way back to the stage together.  And so when my wife, along with Jennifer Tepper, suggested we do these concerts, I jumped at the chance.  There are a number of new songs I have written with Brian (who I now refer to as the 5th TKB-er), both for the band, and for future theatrical projects .  But most importantly, it will be fun to simply play together.

So it is with great excitement that we will be reuniting at Feinstein’s/54 Below for two nights in February, where we will be playing old and new songs in a celebration of friendship, and the unwavering belief in always pursuing your dreams.

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How to Spend the Holidays in New York City

A chronological sampling of seasonal celebrations throughout New York City, including concerts, plays and events.

Dickens onstage

Turn on a TV during December, and you’re bound to find countless adaptations of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” It’s beginning to feel the same way in New York’s theaters. On Broadway, a version by Jack Thorne (“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”) is now open — and is a New York Times Critic’s Pick (achristmascarolbroadway.com). Downtown, in the intimate parlor of the Merchant’s House Museum through Jan. 5, John Kevin Jones portrays Dickens recounting his holiday classic on a trip to New York in 1867 (merchantshouse.org). “A Christmas Carol in Harlem,” at Aaron Davis Hall through Dec. 21, transports the story to present-day Manhattan (cthnyc.org). And the Staten Island Shakespeare Company tells it from the perspective of Ebenezer Scrooge’s damned and departed business partner in “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol,” Dec. 12-22 (sishakespeare.org).

Spectaculars

As synonymous with New York Christmas as “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” the Radio City Rockettes’ “Christmas Spectacular” is now running — sometimes five times per day — through Jan. 5 (rockettes.com). At the more humble Kaye Playhouse, the Harlem School of the Arts will present “A Harlemettes Holiday,” a celebration of the neighborhood’s rich cultural and political history, on Dec. 19 (hsanyc.org). If you’re seeking to be dazzled beyond the confines of a theater, though, simply visit the Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, whose houses are famous for their blindingly elaborate Christmas decorations. (Guided tours are available through A Slice of Brooklyn Bus Tours.)

Holiday Train Show

It gets bigger every year: Now on view through Jan. 26, the New York Botanical Garden’s annual spectacle in miniature features replicas of nearly 200 local landmarks — all created from natural materials like lotus pods and cinnamon sticks. The latest highlight is a re-creation of Central Park assembled with mosses and holly, and featuring treasures like Belvedere Castle. Select evenings, called Bar Car Nights, cater to the 21-and-older crowd with spiked warm drinks, musical performances and diverse cuisine from the Bronx Night Market Holiday Pop-up (nybg.org).

Carnegie Hall

This storied space is practically booked through the month for holiday concerts. Many of them are annual engagements, such as one by the Vienna Boys Choir on Dec. 8. That same day, in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, Cristina Fontanelli presents the 16th edition of her “Christmas in Italy.” The National Children’s Chorus arrives on Dec. 15 for a solstice-themed program. (The actual solstice isn’t until later, but that’s not stopping even Paul Winter from hosting his beloved Winter Solstice celebration Dec. 19-21 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.) Also at Carnegie are the duo Keith and Kristyn Getty, who are offering an Irish singalong on Dec. 18, and the New York Pops, reveling in Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald classics on Dec. 20 and 21 (carnegiehall.org).

Cabaret

The final installment of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival will be brief, running Dec. 12-14, with the big-voiced and bawdy chanteuse Meow Meow (bam.org). She has previously performed at Joe’s Pub, which has its own slate of seasonal cabaret: Mr. Showbiz himself, Murray Hill, presents “A Murray Little Christmas” Dec. 18-21, with guests including the fearless downtown fixture Bridget Everett; Carolyn Bergier, the host of the podcast “Dyking Out,” adds some queer to Christmas cheer in “Dyke the Halls: A Holigay Spectacular” on Dec. 16; and the great Sandra Bernhard closes out the year with “Sandy’s Holiday Extravaganza — A Decade of Madness and Mayhem,” Dec. 26-31 (publictheater.org). At Feinstein’s/54 Below, Joe Iconis (“Be More Chill”) hosts his annual Christmas show that bills itself as “putting the ‘extra’ in ‘extravaganza,’” Dec. 13-15. And Michael Feinstein’s “Home for the Holidays,” Dec. 23-30, offers a comparatively warmhearted evening by way of the Great American Songbook (54below.com).

Music at the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rich and varied December programming includes the musician Moya Brennan’s concert “An Irish Holiday” (Dec. 13); the cabaret star Ute Lemper’s grittier “Weimar Holiday” (Dec. 14); the Handel+Haydn Society’s concert featuring one of the museum’s Stradivarius violins, played by Aisslinn Nosky (Dec. 20); and the Crossing, an indispensable choral ensemble, performing David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio, “The Little Match Girl Passion,” and a new work by Edie Hill (Dec. 21). Mr. Lang’s piece, inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen tale, has become a holiday tradition at the Met; its quietly haunting message about homelessness and compassion is always worth hearing again (metmuseum.org).

Audience participation

In Queens, the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center’s Kwanzaa Celebration on Dec. 14 is geared toward families, with a variety of offerings for those who want to be at the center of the programming — such as workshops — or just want to remain in the audience at dance and musical performances (queenslibrary.org). Participation is all but required on Dec. 15 in Phil Kline’s “Unsilent Night,” his annual boombox procession from Washington Square Park to Tompkins Square Park. He always has personal vintage boomboxes to loan (and cassettes for those with their own); but you can also get by with a track available to download, play through a smartphone app or stream on SoundCloud (unsilentnight.com). Another December stalwart, Make Music Winter, returns on the 21st with programming all over the city; among the highlights are a sound walk on the High Line, a fiddle-and-dance parade down Flatbush Avenue and an unseasonal but remarkable marathon performance of Satie’s “Vexations” at the World Trade Center (makemusicny.org). One event is a ukulele caroling party at Washington Square Park’s arch; if that instrument doesn’t suit you, on Dec. 22, the West Village Chorale will host a caroling walk that begins and ends on the park’s south side, at Judson Memorial Church (westvillagechorale.org).

Hanukkah

This holiday begins Dec. 22, but the Jewish Museum will celebrate early, on Dec. 15, with family-focused events including a performance by Joanie Leeds & the Nightlights and a workshop to build your own Hanukkah lamp with found objects. Visitors will also be able to take a guided tour of the museum’s virtually permanent exhibition “Accumulations,” which features more than 80 Hanukkah lamps from around the world (thejewishmuseum.org).

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Screencaps from Derek's performance for Might Be Smart Productions' "Finding Your Voice" at Feinstein's 54 Below which was held tonight (May 19, 2025). Derek performed a tribute to the late Gavin Creel with "Do You Remember?" by Benjamin Pasek and Justin Paul.

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mightbsmart: LIVESTREAM TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE! 💚

Might Be Smart Productions presents Finding Your Voice: A fundraiser concert at 54 Below! This event celebrates the power of music to inspire creativity and awaken the artist within. Proceeds support our mission to empower artists, create opportunities, and build an inclusive community through performances, masterclasses, and more. With an incredible cast, you can join us from anywhere with livestream tickets! Can't make it in person? No problem--support us virtually! Get your tickets now! Link in bio!

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mightbsmart: Last night's concert was a beautiful success. Grateful to our incredible cast and band for sharing their heart and talent on stage. Thank you to every audience member, donor, and livestream viewer--your support helps us continue our mission to inspire and empower artists. Big thanks to @54below for having us! We're just getting started! #mightbesmart #mightbesmartproductions

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mightbsmart: Do you have your tickets yet? Livestream or In-Person! See you there! #54below #mightbesmartproductions #mightbesmart

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54below: Streaming LIVE and in-person! Presented by Might Be Smart Productions and directed/produced by Antonio Cipriano & Justine Verheul, this powerful night of music celebrates the journey of self-discovery, confidence, and creativity through the arts. Feat. Derek Klena, Andrew Barth Feldman, & more!

Finding Your Voice feat. Antonio Cipriano, Andrew Barth Feldman, & more l May 19 at 7pm

Tickets & info at link in bio