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Legendary Playwright and Novelist, Tomson Highway, Performs

His Songs Sunday, May 3

            A cabaret performance by Tomson Highway (Cree), internationally acclaimed playwright, will take place on Sunday, May 3 at 2 p.m. at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center.  The performance, part of the museum’s “Native Sounds Downtown” series, will feature songs from Highway’s musical plays “The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito” and “Rose” with vocals by Patricia Cano in English, Cree and French and piano by Highway himself.  The presentation, and museum admission, is free.

            Highway is a celebrated artist whose works include the novel “The Kiss of the Fur Queen,” and the plays “The Rez Sisters” and “Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing” which have both been produced in theaters, festivals and universities throughout the world. He was inducted into the Order of Canada and in 2001 received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award from the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation in Canada.

            The performance will include six songs from “The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito,” which describes the trials of a 4-year-old girl mosquito who was born without wings.  The afternoon will also include eight songs from “Rose,” Highway’s third installment of his “Res” plays which includes the women from “The Rez Sisters” and the men from “Dry Lips…”

            “Native Sounds Downtown” will continue with performances by the Standing Rock Community High School Band on June 5, The Bannaba Project on July 23, and in conjunction with Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, La Casita on August 10.  The summer concerts will conclude with a special performance by Tanya Tagag (Inuit) on August 20, presented with Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and The Americas Society. 

            The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center is located at One Bowling Green in New York City, across from Battery Park. The museum is free and open every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursdays until 8 p.m. Call (212) 514-3700 for general information and (212) 514-3888 for a recording about the museum’s public programs. By subway, the museum may be reached by the 1 to South Ferry, the 4 or 5 to Bowling Green or the R or W to Whitehall Street. The museum’s Web site is www.americanindian.si.edu.  For our monthly email updates, sign up at go.si.edu/nmai/join or check out the National Museum of the American Indian in New York on Facebook.

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From Hollywood to Haymarket celebrates the music of three composers who had long and prolific careers, yet, strangely enough, did not receive any major retrospectives in the New York area.

The most well known is Ray Evans, who collaborated with Jay Livingston to pen hit after hit in Hollywood’s golden era (Mona Lisa; Que Sera, Sera; Buttons and Bows; Silver Bells) earning them three Academy Awards. Lew Spence, who died just last year, was less well known, yet contributed some wonderful American Song Book classics such as Nice and Easy and That Face. Then there’s the David Heneker who was the first Brit to have two major Broadway shows running at once: Half a Sixpence and Irma la Douce.

This lively show will offer some insight into the lives of these composers/lyricists while presenting some of their best-loved numbers along with those “unsung gems” from the files of Paul Chamlin, which have become a staple at Paul and Rochelle’s shows.

This is the third collaboration for Paul and Rochelle, who met almost 4 years ago in the Catskill Mountains while singing a professional choral gig at Kutscher’s Country Club (you can’t make this stuff up) and went on to chronicle their courtship and marriage in Mutual Admiration Society and The Honeymoon is Over.

Jan Wallman of Cabaret Scenes called Mutual Admiration Society “Last season’s most adorable show” and Roy Sanders  (formerly of Backstage and Citysearch) said of The Honeymoon is Over, "Tuneful, witty, charming, and very entertaining—with a delightful dose of rarely performed material."


Paul Chamlin & Rochelle Breyer

From Hollywood to Haymarket:
Celebrating the music of Ray Evans, Lew Spence and David Heneker.

Tuesday, May 12th at 9:15PM
Saturday, May 16th at 6:00PM

Don’t Tell Mama

343 W. 46th Street
New York, NY  10036
212-757-0788
www.donttellmamanyc.com

$10 Cover/2 Drink Minimum
$5 discount for MAC and Cabaret Hotline members
Cash Only

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2009 MAC AWARD SONG/SPECIAL MATERIAL NOMINEE SHOWCASE!
Saturday, April 18 @ 3:30PM
(Doors open at 3:00pm for seating)
at Don't Tell Mama, 343 West 46 Street, NYC
FREE FOR MAC MEMBERS ($10, guests and non-members)
NO MINIMUMS! Cash bar available!

RESERVATIONS APPRECIATED - SEATING IS LIMITED!!!
(212) 465-2662 ext. 1
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Come hear this year's nominees for Outstanding Song and Special Musical Material - LIVE!

SONG
"Running" (Adam Gwon)
"Change In Me" (Carol Hall)
"Come Home" (Mark Janas & Peter Napolitano)
"Right Here, Right Now" (Paul Rolnick & Jim Papoulis)
"Living Without Love" (Jason Wynn)

SPECIAL MUSICAL MATERIAL
"This is MY Birthday" (Carol Hall)
"Leaky Ceiling" (Sharon Kenny)
"The Olives of Regret" (Nicholas Levin)
"The Mess" (Ryan Scott Oliver)
"You May Have a Problem" (Dan Page, John Domurad, Michele Page)

PS - MAC will also be posting all these songs online for you to listen to as well. But this is all about LIVE ENTERTAINMENT! Come here these songs live and in person!