Tony Award winner Sutton Foster and actor/musician/radio host Seth Rudetsky star in They're Playing Our Song. The one-night-only performance takes place at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College. All proceeds from the performance benefit The Actors Fund.
Featuring music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager and a book by Neil Simon, They're Playing Our Song tells the story of an established composer, Vernon Gersh (Rudetsky), who teams up with an eccentric lyricist, Sonja Walsk (Foster). The two (loosely based on Hamlisch and Sager) initially find professonal success but personal drama before forming a strong bond. The show originally opened on Broadway on Februrary 11, 1979, starring Lucie Arnaz and Robert Klein and ran for 1,082 performances. The musical received four Tony Award nomiantions including Best Musical.