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LaChanze

Bonnie Milligan

Andrea Burns

Liz Callaway

Barbara Walsh

Sasha Allen

Natascia Diaz

Hannah Elless

Katie Thompson

Kuhoo Verma

Melissa Rose Hirsch

Katie Thompson, Natascia Diaz, Liz Callaway, Barbara Walsh

Carmel Dean

Photos by Jenny Anderson

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What would Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Frida Kahlo, and Malala Yousafzai sound like if you heard them sing? Find out in “Well- Behaved Women,” a new collection of songs by Carmel Dean (Broadway musical director/arranger, and composer of the award-winning Off-Broadway musical Renascence). These women - and more - will be brought to life by some of Broadway’s leading ladies, and through these powerful and often hilarious songs will celebrate the ways in which their bad-ass behavior helped them make history.

THE WOMEN

MEDIA

Melissa Rose Hirsch - "In The Beginning (Eve)" (by Carmel Dean)

Katie Thompson - "The Warrior Queen (Boudicca)" (by Carmel Dean)

LaChanze - "On the Railroad (Harriet Tubman)" (by Carmel Dean)

Sasha Allen - "I'm Gonna Stay and Fight (Cleopatra)" (by Carmel Dean & Miriam Laube)

Bonnie Milligan - "If Shakespeare Had A Sister (Virginia Woolf)" (by Carmel Dean)

Hannah Elless - "The Only Girl at the Table (Mary Magdalene)" (by Carmel Dean)

Natascia Diaz - "Yo Simplemente Soy (Frida Kahlo)" (by Carmel Dean)

Hannah Elless - "Hey, Bobby Riggs (Billie Jean King)" (by Carmel Dean)

Liz Callaway - "One Step Closer (Janet Armstrong)" (by Carmel Dean)

Kuhoo Verma - "Papa, Are You There (Malala Yousafzai)" (by Carmel Dean)

Andrea Burns & Company - "Lady Liberty Statue of Liberty" (by Carmel Dean)

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Feb 10, 2020

Billboard interview with Carmel Dean

Feb 10, 2020

It may be only January, but already, Carmel Dean has had a busy 2020 many of us would dream of. The in-demand composer and music director rang in the New Year with Phish at Madison Square Garden (she conducted and did the vocal arrangements for the band’s show) and she’s currently working on a Broadway musical adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook with singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson.

Next up for Dean: Well-Behaved Women, a collection of story-songs (up for two shows at New York City's Joe's Pub on Saturday) sung from the imagined perspectives of some of history’s most impactful female trailblazers -- think Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Malala Yousafzai and more. To tell these stories, Dean enlisted some of Broadway’s most powerful voices, including LaChanze, Sasha Allen, Andréa Burns, Liz Callaway and Bonnie Milligan. "I want to see more diverse stories [onstage]," says Dean. "And that was part of my inspiration for this show: finding characters who hadn’t been theatricalized before."

Feb 10, 2020

Jan 9, 2020

Well-Behaved Women Adds Andréa Burns, Sasha Allen, and Hannah Elless to Lineup

Jan 9, 2020

Broadway stars Sasha Allen, Andréa Burns and Hannah Elless have joined the world premiere cast of Award-winning composer Carmel Dean's Well-Behaved Women, it was announced today. Premiering at Joe's Pub on Saturday, January 25th, the 7 PM performance sold out in less than 48 hours, and an additional show has been added for 4:30 PM.

Jan 9, 2020

Dec 10, 2019

Composer Carmel Dean Presents WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN At Joe's Pub

Dec 10, 2019

What would Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Frida Kahlo, Billie Jean King, and Malala Yousafzai sound like if you heard them sing? Find out in Well-Behaved Women, a new collection of songs by award-winning composer Carmel Dean, presented for one-night-only on January 25, 2020 at Joe's Pub.

Dec 10, 2019