Upcoming: Debbie Gravitte, Birdland – Laura Bell Bundy, The Green Room42 – Stephanie Trudeau, Don’t Tell Mama – Scott Coulter & Friends – Barbara Bleier – Spencer Day
Scott Coulter & Friends in “Rock ’n Radio: Music’s Biggest Hits” on Wednesday, March 2nd, 7pm at Feinstein’s/54Below. This new concert event features members of producer Coulter’s regular roster of Broadway/cabaret superstars performing thrilling takes on the biggest songs in music history. In addition to usual standouts from the Spot-On Entertainment family, “Rock ’N Radio” welcomes Kimber Elayne Sprawl (“The Girl From the North Country”), Anthony Murphy (“Diana”) and Max Chernin (“Bright Star”) to the fold. Sprawl, Murphy, and Chernin will be joined by Carole J. Bufford, Alex Getlin, Jessica Hendy, Lorinda Lisitza, Kelli Rabke, Austin Rivers, and Lexie Dorsett Sharp with musical direction by Michael Holland. Matt Scharfglass on bass, Danny Mallon on drums, and Coulter as host round out the company. Tickets: HERE
Stephanie Trudeau’s update of her cabaret musical, “Becoming Chavela,” (postponed from Dec. 30) will take the stage at Don’t Tell Mama, 343 West 46th Street, Thursday, March 3 at 7:00 PM. with Ben Lapidus on guitar and percussion. The show is an homage to Chavela Vargas, the famed Mexican Ranchera singer, and is a 2020 Bistro Award winner for Outstanding Tribute Show. The show is directed by Tanya Moberly. Written and performed by Ms. Trudeau, the piece is more than just a musical cabaret; it is also a documentary theater project that traces Chavela’s artistic evolution and her relationships with her musical mentor Jose Alfredo Jimenez (the world’s greatest composer of ranchera songs), the painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, the great Cuban courtesan Macorina, and producer Pedro Almodovar, who enabled Chavela’s comeback at age 72 after a 15 year battle with alcoholism. Tickets HERE
Get ready for girl power as Laura Bell Bundy performs her highly acclaimed album Women Of Tomorrow live for the the first time featuring The Resistance Revival Chorus & Shea Carter at The Green Room 42 on March 20 at 7 pm. Tickets HERE.
Critically acclaimed Cabaret Singer/Actor/Writer, Barbara Bleier, releases the first digital only single of her career. Barbara, who made her concert debut at age 4 at the legendary CarnegieHall, and who has traveled the world of cabaret/film/theater over several decades, now enters the realm of Pop music with a sensuous vocal version of the LeonardCohen song, “A Thousand Kisses Deep,” featuring Paul Greenwood, on piano, co-arranged with Ms. Bleier. The song was recorded at Pangea, in New York’s east Village, during her duet show “Bits & Pieces “ with her Cabaret partner in song, Austin Pendleton in 2020. Filmed by cabaret nurse: Maryann Lopinto, with music mix by the staff at the club…remixed by Philip Patnaude and yours truly for Lampkin Magic Productions, and Mastered by CloudBounce at CDBaby. https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-thousand-kisses-deep-live/1610581723?i=1610581724
Debbie Gravitte knows people. . . famous people. She’ll be singing with and speaking to these people in a new series: DEBBIE GRAVITTE PLUS ONE on April 11th with Stephen Schwartz, May 9th with Marc Shaiman, and September 12th with Harvey Fierstein. I will ask questions and hope for good answers of these Legends. And there will be music and surprise guests. Birdlandjazz.com
Fund Raiser for Theatre Aspen – Jed Bernstein, Producing Director announced that the organization will celebrate spring in Aspen with their first live event of the season, The Spring Soirée: A Benefit for Theatre Aspen, an intimate fund-raising concert starring Tony Award® winner and five-time Tony Award® nominee Laura Benanti (Worth, Here Today, “Younger”, forthcoming Hulu series “Life & Beth”), accompanied by Todd Almond, on Saturday, March 12th at 6:00pm MT at Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen. www.theatreaspen.org
CLUB44 RECORDS has released the new album from Spencer Day, the #1 Billboard jazz/pop singer and songwriter seen everywhere from Lincoln Center to the Hollywood Bowl. Broadway By Day, Spencer’s debut from the label, is available on streaming platforms and on CD and in stores and online. Featuring songs not typically heard in a pop/jazz context, Broadway By Day reimagines them with surprising and creative genre-blurring arrangements from swing to Latin.Special musical guests include Jane Monheit, the Grammy-nominated vocalist, and Dave Koz, the nine-time Grammy-nominated saxophonist. The album is produced by Spencer Day and Alex Frank. Stream, download, or purchase the album at club44.lnk.to/BroadwayByDay_SD.
