THE THEATRE'S NEVER DARK contains songs from 6 musicals with music & lyrics by Michael Bitterman (additional lyrics by Dennis Drogseth & James Kaufman)-Five After Eight; Rasputin; Whose Fantasy Is This?; Demigod of E. 78th St; The Cellar; and Discovering Magenta. Performers include Amy Fradon, Leslie Ritter, Mark Rust, Vickie Russell, Stephen Scarpulla (from Broadway's Les Mis), the original cast of Five After Eight, and others. Michael Bitterman wrote the music & lyrics for the off Broadway musical, FIVE AFTER EIGHT, which played at the Cubiculo Theatre in New York in 1979 breaking all existing house records for that theater. The cast album was released by Original Cast Records in 1980 and released and mastered on CD in 1993. Michael wrote many musicals and revues, which have been performed in regional theaters. His songs have been performed in many New York clubs including Ted Hooks ON STAGE, The Bottom Line, RENO SWEENEY & on a Gabe Kaplan ABC TV special. He has written radio jingles, music for films & videos, worked as a rehearsal pianist for Alan Klein (Beatles' manager), was a staff songwriter for Albert Grossman (manager for Bob Dylan, THE BAND, Janis Joplin, etc) and has been published by Chappel. He had his own show on WBAI called Mike Bitterman's Musical Murders. His musical styles range from pop, electronic and dramatic musical theater.