Broadway at the Cabaret - Top 5 Cabaret Picks for February 2-8, Featuring Marin Mazzie, Jenn Colella, and More!
By: Louisa Brady Feb. 01, 2015
Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars! Well after Broadway orchestra's begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven- o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week as picked by our theatre editors, including: Jenn Colella & Nina Storey; RSO at 54 Below with Lindsay Mendez; Marin Mazzie; Greg Hildreth; and #SOBLESSED: Live.
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Where: Birdland (315 W 44th Street)
When: February 2nd at 7:00 PM
Tickets: $25 at http://www.birdlandjazz.com/event/756853-jenn-colella-nina-storey-new-york/
Jenn Colella is currently starring as Anne on Broadway in If/Then with Idina Menzel. She attended Columbia College in her home state of South Carolina and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Drama. During her undergraduate years she accrued a number of professional acting credits as a company member of Trustus Theater. Later she journeyed to California on scholarship as a Chancellor's fellow and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of California, Irvine. After graduate school, she remained in Los Angeles and pursued a career in standup comedy. She was a regular at The Comedy Store and at The Laugh Factory in Hollywoood. Colella's first starring role on Broadway was in 2003, as Sissy in Urban Cowboy. Her performance earned her an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination.
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RSO at 54 Below with Lindsay Mendez
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: February 2nd at 7:00 & 9:30 PM
Tickets: $35-85 at http://54below.com/artist/rso-at-54-below-featuring-jay-armstrong-johnson-derek-klena-more/
Ryan Scott Oliver returns to 54 Below with material culled from his diverse and growing body of work: multimedia musical 35mm; southern gothic thriller We Foxes; epic Civil War-era folk opera Rope; macabre jazz operetta Darling; and rocking underworld odyssey Jasper in Deadland. Broadway powerhouses will bring his high-octane songs of heroism, salvation, brotherhood and twisted tragedy to life in a celebration of the singularity and power of this composer's inimitable musical voice.
Starring: Alex Brightman, Lindsay Mendez, Katie Thompson, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Julia Mattison, Ben Fankhauser, Derek Klena, Katie Rose Clarke, Keala Settle, Andy Mientus, Jason Gotay, Ephie Aardema, F. Michael Haynie, Julia Murney, Taylor Trensch and more to be announced...
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Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: February 4th-7th at 7:00 PM
Tickets: $50-120 at http://54below.com/artist/marin-mazzie/
You think you know three-time Tony Award Nominee Marin Mazzie from her recent show-stopping turn in BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, her corseted characters in RAGTIME and PASSION or maybe from the scene-chewing screwballs of KISS ME KATE and SPAMALOT... or possibly you thought you gained a glimpse of her as the star of NEXT TO NORMAL(heaven help us if that is really her in the guise of Margaret in CARRIE!). Come see and hear the real Marin Mazzie as she steps back into her formative years with an evening of fun and fantasy as we get inside the head of a Midwest girl and the music she loved.
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Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: February 7th at 9:30 PM
Tickets: $35-75 at http://54below.com/artist/greg-hildreth/
You may (or may not) remember Greg Hildreth from being dimly lit to the left of Benjamin Walker in the original cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, stepping out from behind the ropes and bamboo sticks upstage of Celia Keenan-Bolger and Christian Borle in the original cast of Peter and the Starcatcher, or mugging downstage left of Santino Fontana and Laura Osnes in the original cast of Cinderella. Come enjoy him in his 54 Below solo debut: Second Fiddle: an evening of songs and stories about performing immediately stage left or right of beautiful people.
With special guests including: Celia Keenan-Bolger, Christian Borle, Santino Fontana, Jason Danieley andKate Baldwin, and a 6-piece band led by Charlie Rosen.
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#SOBLESSED: Live!
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: February 7th at 11:30 PM
Tickets: $25-50 at http://54below.com/artist/actor_friend-54below/
After a sold out performance in September, #SOBLESSED: Live! returns to 54 Below for a special winter engagement benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fight's AIDS! Starring A Bunch of Really Awesome People You Love That Will Be Announced Later, #SOBLESSED: Live! is the concert adaptation of #SOBLESSED, a satirical tell-all describing the life of the modern day actor in New York City, written by Internet personality, Annoying Actor Friend (@Actor_Friend).
#SOBLESSED: Live! features performances and stories associated with actors' experiences in college, pounding the pavement, on tour, Broadway and even while on unemployment. It will be nothing short of the type of experience you would expect from Annoying Actor Friend. Complete with interactive liver-murdering drinking games, profanity, hashtags, prizes, and the celebration of self deprecation, this event is sure to embody the essence you've grown to love or hate - but it won't matter anyway because you'll be so wasted you won't remember a thing the next morning.
So come on down to 54 Below to party for the good of BC/EFA! We're not going to say @Actor_Friend will be there, but we're not NOT going to say @Actor_Friend is going to be there. #grateful.
Hosted by Lesli Margherita (Matilda), #SOBLESSED Live! will feature performances by Jeremy Jordan ("The Last Five Years", "Smash"), Wesley Taylor (The Addams Family, "It Could Be Worse"), Michael James Scott (Something Rotten!, The Book of Mormon), Keala Settle (Les Miserables), Adam Kaplan (Newsies), Megan Sikora (Like A Million Broadway Shows), Nikka Graff Lanzarone (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), Ellyn Marie Marsh (Kinky Boots) and MORE AWESOME PEOPLE WHO MAY JUST SHOW UP. The evening will be music directed by Drew Wutke.
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