"A Most Unusual Day" is one man's tale of chance encounters and accidental survival! A story of how unintended (and often VERY unexpected) twists make their way into the ordinary events of life, and manage to lead you in a not-so-ordinary way to where and who you are. Singing the songs of Cole Porter, Willy Nelson, Randy Newman and others, actor Doug Sheppard makes his solo cabaret debut in a musical look at life's fits of fancy, fantasy,and much dreaming done wide-awake.
NAT & KAT'S ADVENTURES with the TIME-TRAVELING PIANO
New York, NY- (April 2,2009) "Family cabaret" is no longer an oxymoron! The Nat and Kat Duo has developed and proudly presents an exciting new cabaret series for the whole family. In this first episode of "Nat & Kat's Adventures with the Time-Traveling Piano", Nat & Kat accidentally transport themselves and their audience to 1939 in the throes of the Great Depression.
Hedda Lettuce Broadway Speaks OUT The concert will be May 25th at 9:30 The Duplex Theatre the concert will feature Ano Okera, Frankie James Grande, and drag superstar
MAC nominated composer & singer KEVIN RAY will celebrate the release of his new CD Speak Now, on Tuesday, May 5th at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. He will be joined on stage by Jeff Washburn & Brandon Ellis, with special guests, including Gabrielle Stravelli. Ray, whose work has been seen & heard from venues as diverse as theatres & federal courtrooms, to film & TV, will present an evening with a full band performance of songs from Speak Now, as well as Kevin’s upcoming electric record & his full length musical, The Last Word, about jazz musicians in Los Angeles in the 1940's.
KEVIN RAY’s unique style of piano based pop/rock derives from growing up on artists like Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell & Billy Joel, mixed with elements of theatre, jazz & soul music.
In January 2008, more than 20 up & coming singers performed a musical revue of his work, Songs from the Magic Trash Can at the Beechman. His songs have been featured in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids Fundraiser Unsung, alongside award winning Broadway composers Andrew Lippa & Laurence O’Keefe & were featured in last year’s independent film Zerophilia & MTV’s “Made.” His previous releases Karaoketown & Radio Friendly can be found on iTunes and CDBABY.
Kevin is currently musical director at Ellen's Stardust Diner, where he produced, wrote & recorded Seasoned Greetings, a CD of original holiday songs performed by Ellen’s world famous wait staff. The CD won him critical acclaim & a MAC nomination for the song “Fat Christmas.”
First 400 people receive a free copy of the CD Produced by Jen Namoff & Danny Gordon
KATE PAZAKIS will celebrate the release of her new CD, “UNZIPPED” ~ Live at the Zipper with a CD Release Party at (le) poisson rouge on Monday, June 1st at 8pm. The party will include a short performance by Kate, who will be accompanied by Musical Director Brian J. Nash, with MaryAnn McSweeney on bass Ray Marchica on drums, Dan Davin on guitar & backup singers Victoria Huston-Elem & Eric Michael Krop. Broadway composer & Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown will make a guest appearance.
KATE PAZAKIS’ Off-Broadway credits include A Broadway Diva Christmas, Newsical & The Sexless Years. She has performed at over one hundred readings & charity benefits including The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas for the Actors Fund & has appeared on NBC’s “Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting,” at Carnegie Hall in Jerry Springer, the Opera & aboard Rosie O'Donnell's family cruises. Her film credits include playing herself in The Big Gay Musical. Kate also co-hosts "Mostly Sondheim" every Friday night at the Duplex.
(le) poisson rouge
158 bleecker street
$20 advance | $25 day of show
Limited number of VIP tickets available for $65
Includes open bar, appetizers, signed CD & best seat in the house
AT NEW YORK’S THE TOWN HALL ON MAY 16, 2009 SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE STEPHEN SCHWARTZ, JULIE GOLD & JOHN BUCCHINO CONCERT ALSO CELEBRATES 90th BIRTHDAY OF HELEN MARCOVICCI, WHO WILL PERFORM WITH HER DAUGHTER NEW CD RELEASE MAY 19 “AS TIME GOES BY: THE BEST OF ANDREA MARCOVICCI”
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.
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 (MonaLisa; 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
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!!!
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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!
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