Eden Espinosa, star of Broadway’s Wicked, Rent, and Brooklyn, will headline Eden Espinosa and Friends, a concert to benefit Legacy Theatre on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. The concert will take place at the Owenego Inn & Beach Club, located at 40 Linden Avenue in Branford.

Following the smash success of last year’s sold-out Witness Uganda: In Concert, the performance will be hosted by Jonathan Larson Award-winning composer Matt Gould and feature a cast of Broadway stars. Admission is a pay what you can contribution to the Legacy Theatre. Tickets may be reserved at www.buildinglegacytheatre.com.

Legacy Theatre partners with Tony Award-winning producers Greg Nobile and Jana Shea of Seaview Productions (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Gypsy, Side Show) to sponsor the performance. Eden Espinosa and Friends is presented as part of Legacy Theatre’s “Building Legacy, Building Community” summer-long initiative to restore the historic Stony Creek Puppet House in Branford into a state-of the-art theatrical facility, with theater education for all ages and regular professional performances.

Seaview Productions, led by Branford residents Nobile and Shea, is a Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End production company with a mission of redefining onstage storytelling through strategic innovation in creative development, audience experience, consumer engagement, and investment management. Seaview’s credits include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Tony Award), Fun Home (Tony Award), Side Show, Gypsy (West End), Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, Something Rotten, It’s Only a Play, and Of Mice and Men.

Upcoming productions include Invisible Thread (formerly Witness Uganda) Off Broadway in the fall.

Legacy Theatre is a professional theater company that strives to enhance the Connecticut shoreline’s economy, educational opportunities, and quality of life through live theater and related programs. The Legacy Theatre also strives to ensure ongoing seasons of uplifting, inspiring, and challenging professional theater and theater training for all. For more information on Legacy Theatre, visit www.legacytheatrect.org.

Information provided by Legacy Theatre