CABARET EVENTS FOR NEW YORK CITY FOR TONIGHT FROM CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
Here are today's cabaret events as listed on the home page of CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE! Every day in every way we're promoting Cabaret! Your event missing? Send press releases to stuhamstra@svhamstra.com to be included - listings are FREE!
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NYC: ROAD TRIP! A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH CHELSEA & ROBERT
Robert Fleitz and Chelsea Feltman present 'Road Trip! A musical journey with Chelsea & Robert' at THE DUPLEX CABARET THEATRE(61 Christopher Street, NYC - 212-255-5438) on Monday, May 25th at 7:00 pm. Pianist Robert Fleitz's repertoire combines bold works by living composers with rare corners of the standard repertory. Robert has premiered dozens of works and performed with ensembles around the country. Passionate about drawing new audiences and empowering young musicians, he has helped organize arts outreach trips to New Orleans, Louisiana and Arusha, Tanzania. With bassoonist David A. Nagy, he is also the co-founder of the Resonant Grounds Initiative, an educational and performance based project dedicated to fostering collaboration and creativity in young musicians through the proliferation and practice of contemporary music. He is also a composer, and his children's musical Campfire Songs is set to premiere in Spring 2016. He was born in Lakeland, Florida, where his father taught him piano from age 4. He now studies with Julian Martin at the Juilliard School. Chelsea Feltman, soprano, recently sang of the role" of Monica in Menotti's The Medium. She has studied and performed at Tanglewood, Academie International d'Ete in Nice, La Lingua Della Lirica in Novafeltria, Italy, as Gretel in San Jose, Costa Rica, and as Gilda in a scenes concert at the Hirnisand Opera Academy in Sweden. Chelsea is an alumna of The Juilliard School, where she completed her undergraduate studies, and Mannes College of Music, where she received her master's degree and was a member of the Mannes Opera Program for two years. Her performances credits include the roles of Tytania in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Second Woman in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (both with the Juilliard Opera Workshop), Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia under the baton of Joseph Colaneri (both with Mannes College). An avid performer of new music, she has sung the works of Del Tredici with Mo. Lowell Liebermann and the Mannes American Composers Ensemble, and performed the New York premiere of Melissa Dunphy's Tesla's Pigeon with The Secret Opera. Equally at home in oratorio, she recently appeared as the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah with the Metro Chamber Orchestra. Later this season she teams up with The Secret Opera again, as Frasquita in Carmen. Chelsea is a founding director of The Secret Opera, an innovative opera company dedicated to politically and socially relevant readings of new and classic works. From 2011-2014, she served as a co-director of Art Powers Arusha, an arts-empowerment program bringing workshops to underserved youth in Arusha, Tanzania. There is a $10 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
NYC: SONGS FROM AN UNMADE BED: IN CONCERT
Original ensemble members, Michael Winther, Kimberly Grigsby, Shane Shanahan are joined by cellist, Peter Sachon at SUBCULTURE NYC (45 Bleaker Street, NYC) on Monday, May 26th at 8:00 pm as they reunite with lyricist Mark Campbell and many of the composers for a special one-night-only concert event, celebrating the ten year anniversary of SONG FROM AN UNMADE BED, the critically acclaimed, theatrical song cycle directed by David Schweizer and originally produced off-Broadway by New York Theatre Workshop in 2005. It will be the first opportunity to hear this piece in NYC in ten years! Come and hang out with us all after the performance. The event features vocalist Michael Winther, Kimberly Grigsby, musical director, Peter Sachon, on cello, and Shane Shanahan, percussion. Lyrics by Mark Campbell, Music by Debra Barsha, with Mark Bennett, Peter Foley, Jenny Giering, Peter Golub, Jake Heggie, Stephen Hoffman, Lance Horne, Gihieh Lee, Steve Marzullo, Brendan Milburn, Chris Miller, Greg Pliska, Duncan Sheik, Jeffrey Stock, Steven Lutvak, Kim D. Sherman and Joseph Thalken. There is a $35 cover - no minimum.
NYC: NICK SPANGLER SINGS RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN
Nick Spangler (The Book of Mormon, Cinderella, and this year's It Shoulda Been You) presents The Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein at 54 BELOW(254 West 54th Street, NYC - 646-476-3551) on Monday, March 25th at 7:00 pm. His show salutes the revolutionaries of the American musical, whose songs have stayed with us forever: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Nick sings his way through the seemingly limitless melodies of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Favorites to be presented include If I Loved You and Edelweiss, and a few you're sure to be less familiar with, like You Are Never Away and All At Once You Love Her. Nick's soaring baritone was recognized nearly a decade ago when The Theater Hall of Fame awarded him The Elaine and Jerry Orbach Fellowship Award for his performance as Matt in the long-running Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks! In 2013 Nick appeared multiple times opposite Laura Osnes as Prince Topher in the Broadway production of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella. With musical direction by Stephen Christopher Anthony (The Book of Mormon, Catch Me If You Can National Tour) and a special guest appearance by Joyah Love Spangler (Kerrigan and Lowdermilk's The Bad Years) will recall a time when men sang like men, and why you fell in love with musical theater. There is a $30-$70 cover plus a $25 food/drink minimum.
NYC: 24 AT 54: NYU GRADUATE MUSICAL THEATRE WRITING PROGRAM IN CONCERT - THE NEXT GREAT SONG
The Class of 2015 (aka Cycle 24) at NYU's MFA Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program celebrate their hard-won matriculation at 54 BELOW (254 West 54th Street, NYC - 646-476-3551) on Monday, May 25th at 9:30 pm, featuring all-new songs from 18 all-new 'thesis musicals.' Members of the class have spent two years in windowless rooms, living on fast food, striving for the most perfect perfect rhymes, probing the most surprising chord progressions. There's bound to be something for everyone! Featuring songs by Liz Barnett, Ross Baum, John Blaylock, Kate Chadwick, Angelica Cheri, Lane Dombois, Jonathan Fadner, Sarah Fiete, Ana Garcia, Eloise Govedare, Peter Hodgson, Edison Hong, Orian Israelsohn, Ayesu Lartey, Minhui Lee, Clara Luthas, Marella Martin, Ariel Mitchell, Greg Moss, Casey O'Neil, Timothy Parker, Emily Roller, Aferdian Stephens, Paulo Tirel, Peter Michael von der Nahmer, Aleksandra Weil, Kathleen Wrinn, and Mehmet Salih Yildirim. Performers TBA. There is a $20-$40 cover plus a $25 food/drink minimum.
NYC: PENNY ARCADE AT JOE'S PUB: LONGING LASTS LONGER
Penny Arcade and her long-time collaborator Steve Zehentner, continue their development of Longing Lasts Longer, a passionate rumination on love, longing and the loss of New York's cultural identity at JOE'S PUB at THE PUBLIC THEATRE(425 Lafayette Street, NYC - 212-967-7555) on Mondays, May 18th, 25th, and June 1st & 8th, all shows at 7:00 pm. In the post-gentrified landscape of "The Big Cupcake," where ideas too have been gentrified, Longing Lasts Longer is set in a New York disappearing under the weight of suburbanization, cultural amnesia and the politically correct straightjacket of consensus. An ode to the eternal seeker, Longing Lasts Longer is equal parts memoir, manifesto, cultural critique and Cri de Coeur, where Arcade's snake-bite observations create a nourishing euphoric rush of truth telling as visionary as it is inclusive and hilarious. Embedded into this rollicking landscape, a live-mixed soundscape of music grooves ranging from Al Green to John Lennon, jump, counterpunch and exalt, charting an emotional pathway for the audience and a new anthem to personal happiness. Driven by her magnetic rock n' roll energy, Penny Arcade creates a crack in the post-gentrified landscape where you can think, laugh and dance at the same time! There is a $20 cover.
NYC: JOE'S PUB PRESENTS JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND: LOVE IS CRAZY!
After sold-out performances in Paris, London, San Francisco, and Australia, Justin Vivian Bond returns to JOE'S PUB at THE PUBLIC THEATRE (425 Lafayette Street, NYC - 212-967-7555) on Friday through Monday (Memorial Day Weekrnd), Mat 22nd through 25th at 9:30 pm, with "Love is Crazy!", an evening in celebration of obsession, sex, romance and all their queer and mysterious complications. Accompanied by Nathann Carrera on guitar, Claudia Chopek on violin, and under the musical direction of Matt Ray, Mx Bond displays v's legendarily twisted wit, along with songs from Dendrophile and Silver Wells, numbers from v's stage and film appearances. Expect the unexpected because, let's face it, LOVE IS CRAZY!!! There is a $25 cover.
NYC: AN EVENING WITH STEVE ROSS AT BIRDLAND
In one special evening Steve Ross gives us excerpts from shows he's performed over his long career at BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street, NYC - 212-581-3080) on Monday, May 25th at 7:00 pm. Expect songs of and stories about many of the songwriters he's saluted: Rodgers & Hart ("With a Song In My Heart"), Irving Berlin ("Let Yourself Go"), Jacques Brel ("Fanette"), Lerner & Loewe("If Ever I Would Leave You"), Stephen Sondheim ("Too Many Mornings"), Kander& Ebb ("Life of the Party") and Fred Astaire ("Cheek to Cheek"). He'll be accompanied by bassist Jesse Bielenberg. Steve Ross was raised in Washington, DC, and heard a lot of music at home, some from his mother who played piano. In due course, he studied piano himself and by the time he had attended Georgetown University, spent a little time in a seminary, and served in the US Army, he had become an accomplished pianist, drawing his repertoire not from contemporary pop but from the Great American Songbook. In the early 70s he settled in New York City where he soon became well known on the city's cabaret scene. At first a background pianist, he was urged by club owners to sing and gradually began to do this, eventually training as a singer. As his personal style developed, so his reputation spread. Ted Hook, owner of Backstage, a piano bar in the midtown theatre district, hired him. The association was hugely successful and in 1979 Hook opened a new club, Onstage, especially to showcase Ross' talents. In 1981, Ross was booked into the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel where he played a considerable part in establishing the room as a perennial favorite of artists and customers. At some venues he would find himself accompanying leading entertainers who happened to be in the audience, among them Liza Minnelli and Ginger Rogers. Ross toured Australia in 1986, one of his shows there being recorded at Don Burrows' Supper Club, and he returned to that country in the late 90s. He has played many festivals, including Perth in Australia, Spoleto in Italy, and Hong Kong. Other international venues include seasons at London's Ritz Hotel and Pizza On The Park. In 1989, he hosted a live cabaret series for BBC Television, and back in America was host of New York Cabaret Nights, a series for National Public Radio. Ross maintained his popularity and high standards through the 90s and into the early 00s. In the winter of 1996-97, he appeared in a revival of Noel Coward's 'Present Laughter' at the Walter Kerr Theatre; the show, which starred Frank Langella, ran for 175 performances. At New York's Stanhope Park Hyatt Hotel in the winter of 2003-04 he presented a new cabaret show, My Manhattan, an elegant portrait of a hundred years of the city's life seen through song. Ross' repertoire draws from the work of songwriters past and present, such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, with whose work he has a special affinity, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and Stephen Sondheim. He has appeared with stride pianist Judy Carmichael, performing a show entitled Style Meets Stride that featured the music of Porter and Fats Waller. Ross sings in a light baritone voice, playing the piano with verve. For several years, he has been referred to as 'the Crown Prince of New York Cabaret," an unofficial but merited title. There is a $30-$40 cover plus a $10 food/drink minimum.
NYC: JIM CARUSO'S "CAST PARTY" MONDAYS AT BIRDLANDFEATURED OPEN MIC EVENT
Every Monday night at 9:30 pm, Broadway impresario Jim Caruso hosts "Cast Party", a combination open-mic, networking event and party at BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street, NYC - 212-581-3080) during which the biggest stars on Broadway relax on their night off by performing their favorite songs in an informal setting. Cast Party is a mix of music, impromptu performance and cocktail party revelry, where showbiz superstars, stunning jazz talents and cabaret glitterati hit the stage alongside up-and-comers to serve up jaw-dropping music and general razzle-dazzle. It's the ultimate spot to mix and mingle with talented show folk and their fans. There is a $20 cover plus a $10 food/drink minimum.
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