Valerie Smaldone Kicks off New Series SUNDAY SALON Starting 11/2

Join Celebrity Interviewer/Media Personality Valerie Smaldone as she kicks off a new series of up close and personal interviews with Broadway celebrities and theater icons, SUNDAY SALON.
 
This new regular series kicks off on Sunday, November 2nd at 6 PM with choreographer Christopher Gattelli at Etcetera Etcetera's private salon, 352 West 44th Street between 8th and 9th.
 
Valerie Smaldone will conduct a lively onstage discussion with this acclaimed choreographer and audience members will be invited to ask questions as well.Admission: $20, food and beverage minimum $15, Students: $15
 
For tickets: Visit TheaterMania.com
http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/148791. 
 
On November 2nd the special guest will be Christopher Gattelli. Growing up in Bristol, PA, Gattelli started dancing at the age of 11 and that year was cast in the national tour of Evita. Gattelli landed his first professional job in New York while finishing his senior year of high school in The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. A "Star Search" Grand Champion, he has since amassed an impressive array of acting, dancing and choreography credits to his name. He is the choreographer of the newly opened musical, Thirteen, as well as South Pacific, for which he won a Tony and Outer Critics Circle nomination. His past credits include Sunday in the Park With George, The Ritz, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, High Fidelity. Off-Broadway he has choreographed, Altar Boyz, Bat Boy:The Musical, tick, tick...BOOM!, 10 Million Miles, Adrift in Macao, I Love You Because, How to Save the World...as well as Silence! The Musical, Chess with Josh Groban, Hair with Jennifer Hudson, and The Rosie O'Donnell Show for which he was the resident choreographer. Upcoming this winter, Jim Henson's Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas.
 
Sunday Salon Producer and Host Valerie Smaldone is a 5 time Billboard Magazine Award winner for her years in New York radio hosting a consistently top rated show. She was also the co-creator, writer, producer and host of 'Spotlight On,' a nationally syndicated program that featured in-depth interviews with top recording artists such as Paul McCartney, Elton John, Sting and Celine Dion, to name a few.  Valerie has produced, co-written and performed in her play with music, "Spit it Out!"  Spring of 2007, Valerie performed in the acclaimed Off-Broadway play, 'Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell" and was a "guest speller" in the Broadway show, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." A successful voice-over artist with more than 1,000 commercials, television news promos and movie trailers to her credit, Valerie has been the 'Voice of God' and on stage emcee for Broadway on Broadway in Times Square, Broadway Under the Stars, and Broadway Meets Country. As president of Two Sides of A Coin Productions, Valerie has produced dozens of live shows including: Cyndi Lauper's Broadway Welcome Party: An Intimate Evening with Phoebe Snow, One Wicked Night with Stephen Schwartz and many events for The Three Tomatoes e-newsletter. A spokesperson for women's health and personal responsibility, she is a sought after public speaker and host for corporate and charitable events. She is currently developing several projects for advanced media, and writing a book.