NYC: BROADWAY CABARET FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND AT THE TOWN HALL
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The three-day Broadway Cabaret Festival, created especially for The Town Hall by Scott Siegel, takes place this weekend at THE TOWN HALL (123 West 43rd Street, NYC - 212-997-1929 - ), Friday through Sunday, October 16th through 18th.
The Festival will kick off on Friday, October 16th at 8:00 pm with A Tribute to David Merrick featuring Tony Award nominees Robert Cuccioli, Stephen Bogardus, Lee Roy Reams and MAC Award winner Jim Caruso. The evening celebrates the fabled showman whose six-decade career gave Broadway the original productions of Gypsy, Oliver!, Hello Dolly!, 42nd Street, Mack & Mabel and I Do! I Do!, yielding a songbook of popular standards by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim, Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt, Harold Rome, John Kander and Fred Ebb.
Linda Eder will take centerstage October 17th at 8:00 pm with her newest concert act, All of Me. All of Me blends Eder's signature songs into an exciting new show allowing her multifaceted voice to shine through. Newly penned originals and great cover songs from pop music legends are mixed with new arrangements to some of her classic "hits" like Vienna and Someone Like You. The show is packed with energy and grooves that keep your toes tapping. Multi-talented piano man Billy Stein is at the helm of a 7-piece band featuring guitars, fiddle, B3 and lush backing vocal harmonies, offering up some of the classic sounds that have made Eder's arrangements famous.
The Broadway Originals concert on Sunday, October 18th at 3:00 pm will feature a tribute to William Finn's Tony-winning Falsettos. The show features Michael Rupert, Stephen Bogardus, Barbara Walsh, Chip Zien and Jonathan Kaplan - the five original Broadway stars of William Finn's Falsettos the show-stopping Stephanie J. Block (9 to 5) and Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Julia Murney (Lennon), Kerry O'Malley (Irving Berlin's White Christmas). Sharon McNight (Tony nominee for Starmites), Marc Kudisch and more.
Tickets are $55 and $50 and are available through Ticketmaster.com, 212-307-4100 or the Town Hall Box Office (123 West 43rd Street). For more information visit www.the-townhall-nyc.org.
