Urban Stages Closes WINTER RHYTHMS With Steve Ross’s Irvin Berlin Show

 On Sunday, December 10 at 5PM, Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Founding Artistic Director), assisted by director/lyricist Peter Napolitano have announced that they will close their celebrated cabaret series WINTER RHYTHMS with the New York Premiere of Steve Ross's Irvin Berlin Show. The show will be followed by a champagne supper.  Tickets for this event are $75 ($50 for MAC Members) and can be purchased by visiting www.SmartTix.com or calling 212 868-4444. Urban Stages is located at 259 West 30 Street 

WINTER RHYTHMS, marks the third year that Urban Stages has brought noted musical artists to its stage during the holiday period.  Proceeds from the musical series helps to fund Urban Stages' Outreach Program that brings over 300 free "arts in education" presentations to libraries and schools throughout the five boroughs.

WINTER RHYTHMS has featured an amazing collections of performers including a special evening dedicated to Donald Smith which included performances by  KT Sullivan, Jeff Harnar, Nicholas King, Valerie Lemon, Colleen McHugh, Georga Osborne, Karen Oberlin, T. Oliver Reid, and Jennifer Sheehan and hosted by KLea Blackhurst. Othere performers include:  Karen Oberlin, Jennifer Sheehan,  Gay Marshall, Janice Hall,  Sarah Rice and David Vernon, Daryl Glenn and Ricky Ritzel, Gretchen Reinhagen, Tanya Holt, Maureen Taylor, classical pianist Steven Cantor, instrumentalist  Sean Harkness (Guitar) and Sean Hagerty (composite of electronic instruments).   Special group shows include:  an evening devoted to the music of Emmy Award winner Glen Roven, composer/conductor, featuring opera star Lauren Flanigan  with The Broadway Youth Ensemble, Broadway performers Jeff McCarthy, Donna Lynne Champlin, Luba Mason, Nikolas King and noted opera singers Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg, Matthew Garrett and Christopher Herbert;  acclaimed musical director/pianist Barry Levitt's "Jazz Jam" with vocalists Kat Gang, Cleve Douglass  and others to be announced; Very Special Material, an evening of the songs of Bistro Award winner Richard Eisenberg, Bill Zeffiro and others with performers to be announced, and All in Good Time: The Songs of Barry Levitt and Peter Napolitano, featuring their work together and with other collaborators, to be performed by Tony nominee Robert Cuccioli and cabaret artists Julie Reyburn, Susan Winter,  Barbara Porteus, Helena Grenot, Deb Berman, Rob Langeder, Stacie Perlman, Janice Hall, Joshua Dixon, Fran Leonardis and Gary Crawford.