Show business tour de force and 12-time Tony® Award-winning producer Jamie deRoy brings her acclaimed Jamie deRoy & friends cabaret show back to New York’s famed Birdland Jazz Club, Monday, October 23rd at 7:00 p.m with special guests Tony Danza, Nikki M. James, Daisy Jopling, Nicolas King, Seth Sikes and Steven Scott. Multi-award winning Composer, Book Writer and Lyricist, Barry Kleinbort directs the show with musical direction by award-winning arranger, orchestrator and conductor, Ron Abel. Ritt Henn is on Bass and Ray Marchica on Drums. The one-night only show is part of the club’s Broadway at Birdland Concert Series www.BirdlandJazz.com
The 92nd Street Y, New York presents Audra McDonald: Musings Through Music with Andy Einhorn, with the Emmy, Grammy, and six-time Tony Award-winning performer in a career retrospective celebrating the 30th anniversary of her professional debut in New York. The event also celebrates 92NY’s 150th anniversary, with an exclusive program featuring the iconic singer in an intimate setting with pianist Andy Einhorn – her longtime music director and collaborator – incorporating songs, stories and clips. Audra McDonald: Musings Through Music with Andy Einhorn at 92NY is on October 12 and 13 and tickets are available here.
Critically acclaimed performing artist turned author, Donna Marie Hayes, makes her debut at The Cutting Room with a brand new show in celebration of the launch of her new book, These Broken Roads, on Friday, October 6, 2023 at 7pm. Copies of the These Broken Roads will be included in ticket price, and a book signing with Donna will immediately follow the performance. The show of the same title is based on Hayes’ stunning and intimate memoir and will take her audience on a musical journey from Jamaica to New York City with songs spanning the catalogs of Bob Marley, to the Great American Songbook, to a bit of Nancy Sinatra for good measure. The Cutting Room (44 East 32nd Street, NYC between Park and Madison (thecuttingroomnyc.com).
Photo: Conor Weiss
Bistro and MAC Hanson Award winning vocalist, Lucille Carr-Kaffashan, returns to Don’t Tell Mama in October 25 @ 7 pm and November 9 @ 4 pm with the fall installment of her 2023 series Three Seasons of Singer-Songwriters. Having just completed highly successful runs of two shows celebrating the work of women singer-songwriters, she turns her attention this fall to male artists in her show How The Light Gets In with music director Jeff Cubeta on piano/back up vocals, Sean Harkness on guitar and Matt Scharfglass on bass. Dvid Hilder directs.
This critically acclaimed show features the work of male singer-songwriters who use their art to give voice to the feelings and experiences and challenges that men are typically discouraged from expressing in our society. www.donttellmamanyc.com
