Maravel Arts Center Hosts The Spotlight Series 3/29
By: Gabrielle Sierra Mar. 24, 2010
The SPOTLIGHT Series set to benefit with Rosie's Broadway Kids. Come join us for an intimate series of evenings of songs and stories featuring BROADWAY'S BEST at the Maravel Arts Center, located at 445 W. 45th St. on Monday, March 29th - 7:30PM.
TITUSS STRIPPED - Who Needs A Band?
Tuesday, March 30th - 7:30PM
LADIES NIGHT
Featuring Kristy Cates, Kate Pazakis, and Cortney Wolfson
Wednesday, March 31st - 7:30PM
Deconstructing with Seth Rudetsky
Thursday, April 1st - 7:30PM
The Broadway Boys Unplugged
Producer - Colin Sheehan
$25 tickets can be reserved by calling Rosie's Broadway Kids - (646) 434-2774 or emailing tj@rbkids.org
THE SPOTLIGHT SERIES showcases New York's finest talent in the Russ Berrie Theater at the Maravel Arts Center.
Rosie's Broadway Kids (RBKids) is a non-profit arts education organization dedicated to enriching the lives of children through the arts. Using professional teaching artists, RBKids offers classes in dance, music and drama and a professional theater experience for children who might otherwise not have the opportunity. Its goal is to inspire excellence, motivate learning, uplift the human spirit, and to instill a lifelong appreciation for the arts.
Founded in 2003, Rosie's Broadway Kids began with a pilot project at one school with 40 students and has expanded to serving almost 1,700 low-income New York City public school students annually with its in-school and after-school musical theater programs.
More information about RBKids programs and facility, Maravel Arts Center, can be found at www.rbkids.org
Tituss Stripped-Who Needs A Band?
Tituss Burgess appeared in the Original Broadway casts of: Little Mermaid "Sebastian," HAl Miller in Jersey Boys, Eddie in Good Vibrations. Regional: The Wiz (La Jolla), Songs for a New World (Music Center at Strathmore), Jesus Christ Superstar (Kansas City Starlight). Television: "The View," "The Today Show," "Late Night With David Letterman." BA in music from the University of Georgia. Solo CD: Here's to You available on iTunes.
Tituss will offer a stripped down concert of new material and dust off some old standards. Brian Whitted will serve as musical director.
LADIES NIGHT @ MAC featuring:
These diva's can belt! Each performer will be singing a number of songs that showcase their fierce talent. Colin Sheehan will host the evening and Jim Morgan will serve as musical director.
Deconstructing with Seth Rudetsky;
The Brady Bunch Variety Hour
Seth Rudetsky is presenting a night doing his favorite thing: Deconstructing. For this show, he'll be focusing on the short-lived but mind-boggling series: The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. The show debuted in 1977 and was cancelled the same year, but there are nine delicious episodes that merit severe analysis. The outfits, the dance steps, the swimming pool, the disco song medleys, the budding romance between Alice and Rip Taylor, the sub-plot of Greg moving out of the house, Carol Brady's ensuing depression and most shockingly, the fake Jan! Seth Rudetsky is the Broadway host on Sirius/XM radio every afternoon as well as a weekly columnist for Playbill. He's been on Broadway as a pianist, conductor and actor and has appeared on "ALL MY CHILDREN", "LAW AND ORDER C.I." MTV's "MADE" and "LEGALLY BLONDE: THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT ELLE WOODS". His books "The Q Guide to Broadway" and "Broadway Nights" are about to enter their fourth printing and his audible.com version of "Broadway Nights" stars himself, Kristin Chenoweth and Jonathan Groff. He was voted "NY's Funniest Gay Male" and is constantly uploading new deconstructions at www.SethRudetsky.com.
The Broadway Boys Unplugged
The Broadway Boys are a collection of the hottest tenor voices currently working on the New York Stage. Representing shows such as WICKED, HAIRSPRAY, HAIR, JERSEY BOYS, ALTAR BOYZ, Billy Elliott, THE LITTLE MERMAID, and many more, the Boys infuse elements of pop/gospel/funk/jazz to traditional Broadway repertoire creating an evening that has been called "A Symphony of Sound." By redefining the musical theater sound for audiences, the Boys are able to present showtune listeners with music that they are familiar with in a new, fresh way while introducing non-theater listeners to an amazing genre of music in musical forms to which they are accustomed. www.bwayboys.com
"If you love musical theater, you should see The Broadway Boys. If you think you don't like musical theater (you know who you are), you NEED to see The Broadway Boys.
-Orlando Sentinel, May 2008
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