People Be Heard 2004 - Articles Page 23

Brooklyn The Musical is pleased to announce a unique relationship with Movie Tunes LLC that will bring the music of Brooklyn The Musical into the top 200 markets across the country through July 21, 2005.

New York City Center Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel and Music Director Rob Fisher have announced that Tony® Award nominee Malcolm Gets and Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris will join the previously announced Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth in The Apple Tree, the final Encores! presentation of the 2004-5 Season.

The show runs May 12-16, and features Rob Fisher as Music Director.

Stage and Screen star Susan Egan will perform a few songs and sign copies of her latest CD, 'Coffee House' on April 22.

On Saturday, March 19, at 6:00 p.m., West Coast Singers (WCS) presents The Beauty of Broadway: An Evening With Susan Egan and the West Coast Singers, a benefit concert for the chorus which includes a silent auction.

The stately Samuel Tilden Mansion on Gramercy Park, home to The National Arts Club (NAC) was the setting for an elegant soiree for the committee, sponsors and friends of the upcoming Stella by Starlight Gala to benefit the scholarship and outreach programs of The Stella Adler Studio of Acting. The Gala will be held at The Pierre Hotel, November 8.

Stephanie J. Block, currently co-starring as Liza Minnelli opposite Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz, will make her nightclub debut at Birdland on Monday, August 2 at 8pm. The show's musical director is Billy Stritch, with direction by Jim Caruso.

In this years' final UK column Jake looks at the year ahead in London's West End, including Billy Elliot the Musical, Mary Poppins and the casting game for The Producers