Broadway at the Cabaret - Top Cabaret Picks for November 17-23 Featuring Ann Hampton Callaway, Christine Andreas, and More!
By: Louisa Brady Nov. 16, 2014
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: Chasing the Day, Broadsway, Christine Andreas in Love Is Good, Ann Hampton Callaway in Turning Points, and Seth Sykes Sings Judy Garland.
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Chasing the Day, featuring Annaleigh Ashford, Matt Doyle, and more!
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: November 17 at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM
Tickets: $35-65 at http://54below.com/artist/the-songs-of-will-van-dyke-starring-matt-doyle-annaleigh-ashford-more/
CHASING THE DAY: The Songs Of Will Van Dyke, starring Matt Doyle, Annaleigh Ashford, Tamika Lawrence, & Preston Sadleir
Originally released as an album on Sh-k-boom record in October 2010, CHASING THE DAY has been reimagined as a song cycle, which will soon be available for theatrical licensing. Featuring four singers, CHASING THE DAY explores the best of Will Van Dyke's collaboration with co-lyricist Josh Halloway (Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!) as well as additional work with Randy Blair and Rick Elice. The evening will include all of the original tracks from the album as well as all new original material penned the theatrical piece. Written on the road, aboard planes, across time zones, between sets, in hotel lobbies, at 24 hour coffee shops, miles apart, when the thought of home is your only companion; CHASING THE DAY is about the places life takes us and the people who bring us back.
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Broadsway
Where: Metropolitan Room (34 W 22nd Street)
When: November 17 at 9:00 PM
Tickets: $25-115 at http://metropolitanroom.com/event.cfm?id=172624
What do you get when you combine two award-winning Jazz singers, a Dora Award-nominated music director, and an array of music as wide as the smiles of their audience members' faces? The answer is: "BROADSWAY".
Heather Bambrick, Diane Leah, and Julie Michels are all very busy women, working in a number of projects and musical genres. It's this degree of exciting musical energy that brought them together, and helped them create a show that is eclectic, funny, and very, very musical. "Broadsway" was born when the ladies found themselves together on stage one night and discovered their mutual love of Broadway music. Julie and Heather (also host of "Wake Up ... " on JAZZ.FM91) are both acclaimed Jazz performers, and Diane is a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominated Music Director, pianist and arranger. Their combined experience brings together the classic sounds of Broadway music, the improvisation of Jazz, a pop sensibility, and their unique senses of humour. They truly are three broads, doing it their own way ... hence, "Broadsway".Click here for more information.
Christine Andreas: Love Is Good
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: November 18 at 7:00 PM (November 18-22)
Tickets: $35-65 at http://54below.com/artist/christine-andreas/
After a triumphant run last fall, Christine Andreas returns to 54 Below with a brand new evening of song. LOVE IS GOOD is Christine's most personal show.... Together with her husband, award-winning composer Martin Silvestri, Christine has fashioned a warm, witty, and beautiful evening of music drawn from the American songbook and Broadway. The program will also include some very personal original songs, performed with an energy that can only evolve with the intimacy of a 22-year-old musical relationship!
Originally conceived for a command performance at the White House in the intimate setting of the presidential living room, Christine and Martin have created a sophisticated, romantic evening crafted to show the power of brilliant lyrics set to unforgettable melodies...Rodgers & Hart, Lerner & Loewe, Gershwin, Piaf, and a few surprises that we promise will lighten your spirit and make your heart sing!
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Ann Hampton Callaway: Turning Points
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: November 23rd at 7:00 PM (November 23-29)
Tickets: $45-85 at http://54below.com/artist/ann-hampton-callaway/
Tony-nominated Broadway star and multiple MAC Award winner Ann Hampton Callaway brings a new personal and inspiring show to 54 Below. Called Turning Points, the show explores the milestones of life as celebrated through song. Backed by The Ted Rosenthal Trio, Callaway sings classics from the Great American Songbook, Broadway, jazz and pop as well as songs the Platinum Award winning songwriter has penned.
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Seth Sikes Sings Judy Garland
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: November 23rd at 9:30 PM
Tickets: $25-65 at http://54below.com/artist/seth-sikes/
Seth Sikes makes his concert debut at 54 Below in an evening of Judy Garland's most celebrated songs--some of them in her key. Mostly known in the theater as an Assistant Director (for shows like The Nance, Tribes, and Pageant), Sikes gets on the stage this time with a 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.
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