Broadway at the Cabaret - Top 5 Picks for April 13-19, Featuring Melba Moore, Patti LuPone, and More!
By: Louisa Brady Apr. 12, 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: Melba Moore Live Covering Iconic Legends; Patti LuPone: The Lady with the Torch; Seth Sikes Is Still Singing Judy Garland; The Wedding Singer Reunion Concert; Reefer Madness Reunion Concert.
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Melba Moore Live Covering Iconic Legends
Where: Metropolitan Room (34 W 22nd Street)
When: April 13th at 9:30 PM
Tickets: $32.50-115 at http://metropolitanroom.com/event.cfm?id=188100
American Rhythm & Blues singer and actress Melba Moore (b. New York, NY, 29 October 1945) is a four-time Grammy nominee and the winner of the 1970 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, for her performance as Lutiebelle in Purlie. With a total of eleven top ten U.S. hits on the Billboard charts over the past 40 years, both singles and albums, Melba Moore continues into the 21st century as one of pop music's most enduring artists.
Click here for more information.Patti LuPone: The Lady with the Torch
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: April 13-14 at 7:00 PM
Tickets: $95-155 at http://54below.com/artist/patti-lupone/
Patti LuPone's appearances at 54 Below have already achieved the status of legend. Experiencing the great diva in the intimate atmosphere of 54 Below is not only a never-to-be-forgotten experience but is one you will want to repeat again and again. This April, the two-time Tony Award winner returns to 54 Below with her critically-acclaimed show The Lady with A Torch. LuPone performs an eclectic collection of torch songs by such composers and lyricists as Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz, Jule Styne,Sammy Cahn, Billy Barnes, Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin, and Cole Porter. Enjoy what Don Heckman of The Los Angeles Times described as "a beautifully paced, marvelously delivered torch-song exploration of the pleasures and pains of love; LuPone's remarkable, larger-than-life qualities and stunning musicality are distilled into the pure essence of her art."
Conceived and Directed by Scott Wittman. Musical Direction by Joseph Thalken. Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. Dialogue by Jeffrey Richman.
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Seth Sikes Is Still Singing Judy Garland
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: April 16 at 7:00 PM
Tickets: $30-70 at http://54below.com/artist/seth-sikes/
Back by popular demand, Seth Sikes returns to 54 Below with more of Judy Garland's most celebrated songs - some of them in her key. Best known in the theater as an Assistant Director (on shows like The Nance, Tribes, and Pageant), Sikes gets on the stage with a seven-piece band to recount how Garland captivated him as a young boy in Paris, TX, and to sing her greatest hits. Surprise special guests may also appear.
New songs added!
The evening was co-conceived by Tony Winner Lisa Lambert and directed by Eric Gililland. Orchestrations are by Matt Aument, and the Music Director is Gary Adler.
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The Wedding Singer Reunion Concert
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: April 19th at 7:00 & 9:30 PM
Tickets: $45-90 at http://54below.com/artist/the-wedding-singer-reunion-concert/
We're gonna party like it's 1985... again! Join original cast members of the 2006 Tony Award- nominated Best Musical The Wedding Singer for a once-in-a-lifetime reunion! From "It's Your Wedding Day" to "Let Me Come Home" to "Saturday Night In The City," enjoy one of your favorite contemporary Broadway scores live. Join us to celebrate scrunchies and parachute pants, jersey high bangs and acid washed jeans, to the music of Matt Sklar and Chad Beguelin...with a few songs that never made it to opening night!
Featuring original cast members:
Constantine Maroulis, Amy Spanger, Felicia Finley, Matt Saldivar, David Josefsberg, Kevin Kern, Eric L Summers, Rita Gardner, Tina Maddigan, Adinah Alexander, Spencer Liff, Ashley Amber Haase, Cara Cooper, Matt Allen, Nicolette Hart, Tracee Beazer, Matt Stocke, and J. Elaine Marcos.
Produced by T. Oliver Reid. Musical Direction by James Sampliner. Directed by Paul Stancato
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Reefer Madness Reunion Concert
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: April 19th at 11:30 PM and April 20th at 7:00 & 9:30 PM
Tickets: $42-100 at http://54below.com/artist/reefer-madness-in-concert/
Observe your 4/20 in style with the concert version of REEFER MADNESS celebrating the 10th anniversary of the hit Showtime movie! Featuring original cast members and special guest stars, this two-night-only event will "melt your resistance down like hot Velveeta."
REEFER MADNESS tells the cautionary tale of Jimmy Harper, a "sweet-as-Shirley-Temple-dipped-in-pudding" American teenager, who is viciously dragged into a downward spiral of sex, debauchery, and jazz music by the deadly drug assassin known as Marijuana (pronounced "mare-a-hwua-na"). Join Jimmy, Mary Lane, Sally, Jesus Christ, and the Benjamin Harrison High School cast of Green Grow the Lilacs as we celebrate William Randoph Hearst and everything that is great in the U.S. of A! Think you can handle the high?
Presented by the same team who brought you last year's star-studded, sold-out success at New World Stages. Reefer Madness features a book and score by Dan Studney and lyrics and book by Kevin Murphy.
Starring original stage & movie cast members:
Christian Campbell, John Kassir, Kristen Martin, Harry S. Murphy, Amy Spanger, Mary Testa, and Robert Torti, and several guest stars to be announced soon!
With:
Andrew Aaron Berlin (A Christmas Story: the Musical), Saum Eskandani (Disaster!), Heather Parcells (Soul Doctor, A Chorus Line), and Ryann Redmond (If/Then, Bring it On).
Directed by Ilana Ransom Toeplitz. Consulting producer: Christian Campbell. Produced by Shoshana Feinstein.
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