Broadway at the Cabaret - Top 5 Picks for December 14-20, Featuring Norm Lewis, Andréa Burns, and More!
By: Louisa Brady Dec. 13, 2015
Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars! Well after Broadway orchestras 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: Andréa Burns at 54 Below; Darius de Haas: Come a Little Closer - The Holiday Show; Michael Feinstein at 54 Below; Daniel Reichard's "Under the Mistletoe"; and Norm Lewis Wishes You a Swingin' Christmas.
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Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: December 14th at 7:00 PM
Tickets: $35-70 at http://54below.com/artist/andrea-burns/
Broadway's Andréa Burns (In the Heights, The Nance, and On Your Feet) presents a hilarious and moving evening that explores finding a state of grace at forty while reasserting that Latinas don't play. Weaving Broadway with pop culture, expect tunes by Sara Bareilles, Stephen Sondheim, Celia Cruz, Peter Gabriel, and more as Andréa teams up with Tony and Grammy Award-winning music director of Hamilton, Alex Lacamoire.
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Darius de Haas: Come a Little Closer - The Holiday Show
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: December 15th at 7:00 PM
Tickets: $30-70 at http://54below.com/artist/darius-de-haas-come-a-little-closer/
Back by popular demand! Following his critically acclaimed performance last year at Feinstein's/54 Below, Darius de Haas invites you to Come A Little Closer again. For one night only, Darius shares the best of his personal Broadway, Jazz, and Pop/R&B songbook. From Strayhorn to Streisand, from Miles to Monk, from Annie Lennox to Leonard Bernstein, from The Wizto Wicked, Darius celebrates his twenty-five years as a Broadway and concert/cabaret performer.
Darius de Haas has been described as "electrically thrilling" inThe New York Times, "a performer with an intensity and honesty that envelops and mesmerizes the listener" (Variety), and The Village Voice said, "When he sings, it's like the equivalent of silk ribbons being unfurled across the sky." He has sold out critically acclaimed concerts at Lincoln Center, enthralled audiences from Carnegie Hall to London's Royal Festival Hall as well as appeared on Broadway (Rent, Carousel, Dreamgirls). He will next be seen in Broadway's Shuffle Along.
Featuring Tedd Firth on piano and George Farmer on bass.
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Daniel Reichard's "Under the Mistletoe"
Where: Birdland NYC (315 W 44th Street)
When: December 20th at 6:00 PM
Tickets: $30-50 at http://www.birdlandjazz.com/event/999411-daniel-reichard-s-under-new-york/
The Broadway at Birdland concert series is proud to announce Broadway star and concert singer Daniel Reichard will be bringing his holiday show, "Under the Mistletoe," to the historic music room on Sundays, December 13 and 20, with shows at 6pm.
All of the proceeds from the show will go to Broadway Barks, an organization founded 17 years ago by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore, which helps New York City's shelter animals find permanent homes. Every year, Broadway Barks hosts a star-studded dog and cat adoption event in Shubert Alley, which is produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.Daniel Reichard, Broadway star and concert singer, returns to Birdland on December 13th and 20th with his eighth New York City holiday concert, Daniel Reichard's "Under the Mistletoe!" The yuletide celebration, featuring a rousing eight-piece band, will include holiday favorites originally popularized by artists like Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett, and Johnny Mathis. Reichard's holiday show has become a yearly tradition in the Big Apple, offering nostalgic musical classics, heartfelt and often hilarious Christmas stories, and unexpected guest stars and surprises. Jesse Vargas will serve as musical director and arranger. Come see what NY1's Roma Torre describes as "an instant rush of holiday spirit. Reichard reclaims the pure magic of Christmas." If you don't want this heartwarming time of the year to pass you by, join us for this inspiring, joyful evening.Click here for more information.
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: December 20-30th (click link below for times)
Tickets: $85-155 at http://54below.com/artist/michael-feinstein/
Come celebrate a true miracle on 54th Street this holiday season! Michael Feinstein, the acclaimed Emmy and Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling entertainer proudly welcomes everyone to the newly-renamed Feinstein's/54 Below for his annual holiday engagement. The New York Times hailed Michael's show "as much a Christmas season ritual as catching the Rockettes at Radio Music Hall or visiting the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree."
His swinging new show will be filled with timeless standards and holiday classics along with an all-star jazz band.
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Norm Lewis Wishes You a Swingin' Christmas
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: December 20-24th at 9:30 PM
Tickets: $65-140 at http://54below.com/artist/norm-lewis/
Norm Lewis Wishes You a Swingin' Christmas is an all-new show that will help you ring in the holidays and remind you why he is one of Broadway's greatest singers and most sought-after leading men.
Norm and his swingin' band put a mark on holiday classics, sing some of the songs he is famous for, and surprise you with some you would never expect to hear him sing. The evenings will be directed by Richard Jay-Alexander.
Norm said to us, "To be in the heart of Manhattan at this time of year and share the holidays with an audience is something I've always dreamed of doing. It's like having your own TV Christmas Special...Only LIVE! I am really looking forward to it and we've already started rehearsing ...so I'm ready for some surprises. I also plan on inviting some SPECIAL GUESTS to join me for each of the nights."
Last May, Norm Lewis made history as The Phantom of the Opera's first African-American Phantom on Broadway.
He was recently seen on PBS in the Live From Lincoln Center productions of Norm Lewis: Who Am I?, New Year's Eve: A Gershwin Celebration with Diane Reeves, and American Voices with Renée Fleming, and will be seen in the upcoming Live From Lincoln Center production of Showboat. His additional television credits include The Blacklist and Blue Bloods, as well as in his recurring role as Senator Edison Davis on the hit drama Scandal.
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