HERE & THERE - PART I
It should prove to be another gorgeous day here in NYC, as we prepare in the USA to celebrate our nation's birthday on Sunday, July 4th. Please note the caveats in the listings below regarding reduced venue hours or closings starting already on Saturday, in some cases, and running through Monday.
North of the border, Canada celebrates Canada Day today, so a big Happy Canada Day to all our friends up there. CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE has subscribers in just about every English speaking country, plus Brazil, France, Russia, South Africa, India and even the Middle East. But please don't ask me to keep up with all the holidays and celebrations in every country we cover.
And we accept and publish press releases about cabaret events all over the world as well. If you send it (and it is complete) we will run it. And send it directly to stuhamstra@svhamstra.com - I've given up on trying to rewrite blurbs that appear on the group mailings I subscribe to. Most often, since the groups are localized, the name of the city and the address of the venue is omitted. And at times, even the last name of the sender of the posting is skipped. Oh, and please remember, a flier is not a press release!
By the way, cabaret news items that appear in the newsletter also appear on theCABARET HOTLINE ONLINE website - and then we choose our "picks" to appear on the day of the event, on the blog - and on our 4 Twitter timelines. So, by sending your item in (if we can use it) your news will be read by our 2700 subscribers, posted on a website that now gets 10,000 visits a day, and published on a blog that gets over 400 visits a day, and sent out (day of your event) to a cumulative total of neatly 1000 twitter followers.
We received an important note from Phil Bond, booking manager of the LAURIE BEECHMAN THEATER that the Sondheim Unplugged series that begins on Monday, July 5th has been forced to change venues this week only to DON'T TELL MAMA because the WEST BANK CAFE will be closed for the holiday this Monday. Details are in the listings below. Fortunately DON'T TELL MAMA is just 4 blocks away from THE BEECHMAN. The rest of the series (every Monday in July) will be back at THE BEECHMAN as scheduled.
If you're on Twitter, and follow Jason Robert Brown's feed (http://twitter.com/MrJasonRBrown ) you know about his nearly one-man crusade on behalf of songwriters. Apparently there are still folks who don't believe in supporting songwriters and trade sheet music by e-mail over the internet. There apparently are even websites devoted to putting traders in contact with each other. Please remember that without songwriters, the whole of cabaret (and other media as well) would collapse from lack of material, and songwriters have to eat, pay rent/mortgages, send kids to college, etc. just like anyone else. Jason estimates that nearly half his annual income comes from sales of his sheet music.
Amazingly, there are folks sharing his works that have begun deriding him for his efforts - similar to the scorn expressed by those who download computer software and movies without compensating the creators. It's stealing - pure and simple - to use copyrighted material you have not paid for, and this includes sheet music. I grit my teeth whenever I read postings on the various cabaret groups seeking free copies of sheet music. Out-of-print items I can understand, but to deprive a songwriter of a single deserved dollar is inexcusable.
If you're in the NYC area, don't get so involved with the weekend festivities to overlook THE CONCERTS AT TUDOR CITY GREENS (enter at Tudor City Place between East 42nd and East 43rd Streets) on Tuesday, July 6th at 6:00 pm. Details, including the names of the cast members for this month, are in the listings below. Its free!
There's an important item in the listings below for a show that's happening tonight - Richard Malavet's new show "The Billy Eckstine Project, Songs in the Key of 'B'" at THE METROPOLITAN ROOM at 7:30 pm (it repeats next week Thursday at 9:45 pm). We missed putting the news of this show in Monday's issue because the original press release called for a different set of dates and a different musical director, and we were told to hold the story and a revised release would be forthcoming. Instead, we received a jpg of a flier, which we didn't save, expecting a real press release to arrive shortly - but it never arrived and by that time it was too late. We ran into Richard at Susan Winter's show at DON'T TELL MAMA on Monday night and he sent us the revised information on Tuesday to include in today's issue. Check it all out in the listings below.
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