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Stephen Sorokoff

Stephen is also the cabaret/ music and co-theatre editor of the Times Square Chronicles. He studied at the Manhattan School of Music. Besides being a pianist, Stephen’s business career was in the Fashion Industry. He was CEO of a textile manufacturing facility and President of an international textile machinery company. Stephen was on the Board of Directors of the “First All Children’s Theatre” which brought the Stephen Schwartz musical The Trip and Captain Louie to the Kennedy Center in Wash DC. His wife Eda, an interior space designer and classical pianist is Board Emeritus at Board of Barrington Stage Company and is still active at BSC. Stephen’s articles and photographs, appear on Broadwayworld.com, Times Square Chronicles where is is the music editor.  He is a voting member of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association. Stephen is an also an  Advisory Board Member of Dick Robinson's The Society For The Preservation of the Great American Song Book. Email: stephensorokoff@gmail.com.






Photo Coverage: NJPAC Hosts NEW JERSEY PUBLIC TELEVISION Benefit
Photo Coverage: Megan Hilty Makes Cafe Carlyle Debut
Photo Coverage: Megan Hilty Makes Cafe Carlyle Debut
May 28, 2014

Having garnered acclaim for performances on stage and screen,Megan Hilty makes her Cafe Carlyle debut in a two-week engagement, now through June 7. She performs songs from the television show 'Smash,' in which she starred, as well as selections from American Songbook and jazz standards. Hilty is joined by Music Director Matt Cusson on piano, Brian Gallagher on guitar, Ryan Hoagland on percussion and Dennis Keefe on bass.

Photo Coverage: Randy Graff Brings MADE IN BROOKLYN to Helsinki on Broadway
Photo Coverage: Randy Graff Brings MADE IN BROOKLYN to Helsinki on Broadway
May 27, 2014

Tony Award-winning Broadway headliner and celebrated cabaret performer Randy Graff brought her new solo show MADE IN BROOKLYN to Club Helsinki this weekend at Club Helsinki.

Photo Coverage: Nick Ziobro Celebrates Album Release at Birdland
Photo Coverage: Nick Ziobro Celebrates Album Release at Birdland
May 23, 2014

Michael Feinstein joined Nick Ziobro, the 17 year-old pop/jazz vocal sensation, as a special guest for his CD release concert at Birdland Jazz Club (315 West 44th Street in Manhattan) last night, May 22 at 6:00 PM. The CD's all-star band - led by Tedd Firth and featuring music Jay Leonhart on bass, Ray Marchica on drums, Brian Pareschi on trumpet and flugelhorn, and Marc Phaneuf on saxophone and clarinet - also joined the concert. Nick's debut album A Lot of Livin' to Do is produced by Michael Feinstein, the two-time Emmy and five-time Grammy Award-nominated vocalist, pianist and musicologist. Tickets - which include a complimentary CD - are $20 with an additional $10 minimum. VisitBirdlandJazz.com for more information.

Photo Coverage: Pianist Jon Weber Plays the Metropolitan Room
Photo Coverage: Pianist Jon Weber Plays the Metropolitan Room
May 22, 2014

Jon Weber one of the most prominent music directors in New York cabaret performed his one man show at the Metropolitan Room last night. The acclaimed Milwaukee born Jazz pianist and composer lectured and played a program which demonstrated how jazz piano evolved over the last 115 years. From Scott Joplin to Keith Jarrett Mr. Weber recreated the sounds and styles of the various pianists and showed how they influenced piano jazz over the years. Jon is the host of Piano Jazz with Jon Weber on National Public Radio and his recent album titled Simple Complex features his own compositions.

Photo Coverage: Ian Finkel Partners with More4Many for Book Launch!
Photo Coverage: Ian Finkel Partners with More4Many for Book Launch!
May 21, 2014

Regarded as the World's Greatest Xylophone virtuoso, Ian Finkel (www.ianfinkel.com) expands his creative reach by partnering with More4Many books as they publish three works of fiction. The partnership was celebrated on Tuesday, May 20 at the Davis Room at The Warwick Hotel (65 West 54 Street).

Photo Coverage: Hal Linden Plays Cafe Carlyle
Photo Coverage: Hal Linden Plays Cafe Carlyle
May 21, 2014

Tony award-winning actor/performer Hal Linden returns to the New York stage for six performances with his 'Hal Linden Live in Concert' cabaret style, big-band classics inspired live show at Manhattan's Cafe Carlyle - 35 East 76th Street, NY, NY 10075 - now though May 24th. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you coverage from last night's show!

Photo Coverage: Inside Yankee Stadium from the 'Bosses' Box
Photo Coverage: Inside Yankee Stadium from the 'Bosses' Box
May 19, 2014

Seeing great artists perform in great venues with great friends is my usual activity. Sunday afternoon was no different. The venue, Yankee Stadium. The artists, The New York Yankees. The friends. Haley Swindal (actor, singer, and granddaughter of George Steinbrenner, the man that built the place). Steve Tyrell (handsome singer extraordinaire, fresh from his recently completed sold out Carlyle engagement). Jamie deRoy, supreme friend, Broadway Producer/entertainer (taking time out from counting all the nominations her shows have gathered). And of course, best friend for 44 years Eda Sorokoff.

Photo Coverage: Kate Baldwin Brings SING PRETTY, DON'T FALL DOWN to 54 Below
Photo Coverage: Kate Baldwin Brings SING PRETTY, DON'T FALL DOWN to 54 Below
May 18, 2014

Acclaimed for her work in the recent Broadway musical Big Fish, the groundbreaking off-Broadway musical Giant and her breakout performance in the 2009 Broadway revival of Finian's Rainbow, Kate Baldwin offered her first solo concert program in NYC in three years at 54 Below earlier this week, from May 15 through yesterday, May 17. Check out a look back below!

Photo Coverage: Julie Budd Plays Metropolitan Room
Photo Coverage: Julie Budd Plays Metropolitan Room
May 16, 2014

Beginning last night, May 15, Julie Budd premieres "They Wrote the Songs," based on her new CD just out in April. In this show Budd turns a new leaf, focusing on newer songwriters of our generation... at least nothing written before the mid-'60s! The concert version of "They Wrote the Songs" continues for a four-night stint at The Metropolitan Room through Sunday May 18.

Photo Coverage: Mandy Gonzalez Returns to 54 Below with LOVE, ALL WAYS
Photo Coverage: Mandy Gonzalez Returns to 54 Below with LOVE, ALL WAYS
May 16, 2014

Mandy Gonzalez, back by popular demand, returned to 54 Below last night, May 15 (9:30PM), in Love, All Ways- A Musical Retrospective of Triumph and Hilarity. Gonzalez, star of Broadway's Wicked, In the Heights, Lennon and more,performed an unforgettable evening of great music and hilarity, all revolving around love and its crazy themes and variations. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the special concert below!

Photo Coverage: NJPAC Announces 2014-15 Season
Photo Coverage: NJPAC Announces 2014-15 Season
May 15, 2014

Surprise, surprise. It was an evening of 'who-knew?' for the 200-plus guests at the announcement of NJPAC's 2014-15 season in the nightclub-y Chase Room.

Photo Coverage: Clint Holmes Brings THIS THING CALLED LOVE to Landmark on Main Street
Photo Coverage: Clint Holmes Brings THIS THING CALLED LOVE to Landmark on Main Street
May 11, 2014

Clint Holmes brought his critically acclaimed show "This Thing Called Love" to Landmark On Main Street on May 10th. The show imagines the two songwriters, Cole Porter and Paul Simon, meeting at a bar and brings together such classics as Night & Day, The 59th Street Song, Have A Good Time and It's Alright with Me plus many more.

Photo Coverage: Marilyn Maye's A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CARSON at 54 Below
Photo Coverage: Marilyn Maye's A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CARSON at 54 Below
May 10, 2014

Johnny Carson knew and featured great singers, including one he called 'Super Singer' - - The multi-talented Marvelous Marilyn Maye. Ms. Maye appeared on The Tonight Show a record 76 times, more than any singer. Cabaret legend Marilyn Maye continues her latest 54 Below show, A Tribute to Johnny Carson, on May 9, 10 & 13, 2014.

Photo Coverage: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and May Festival Chorus Rehearsal at Carnegie Hall
Photo Coverage: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and May Festival Chorus Rehearsal at Carnegie Hall
May 11, 2014

James Conlon, Music Director of the Cincinnati May Festival since 1979, conducted the May Festival Chorus and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on Friday, May 9 at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium during the fourth and final installment of the Spring For Music festival. The centerpiece of the Carnegie Hall program is the New York premiere of The Ordering of Moses, a work by Robert Nathaniel Dett that received its world premiere at the 1937 May Festival, performed by a chorus of 350 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra led by Eugene Goosens. Mr. Conlon opened the program with John Adams' Harmonium.

Photo Coverage: Mark Nadler Brings RUNNIN' WILD to 54 Below
Photo Coverage: Mark Nadler Brings RUNNIN' WILD to 54 Below
May 8, 2014

Continuing on May 14, Mark Nadler brings Runnin' Wild: Songs & Scandals of the Roaring Twenties to 54 Below. Award-winning entertainer Mark Nadler takes you on a tour of the sex, booze, drugs & even murder from the wildest decade of the 20th century. Says Clive Davis of The London Times, 'The nearest most of us get to the music of the Roaring Twenties is a late-night rerun of Some Like It Hot or two tickets for Chicago. With Mark Nadler as your guide, you get an even richer sense of what it was like to live, or rather party, through the Jazz Age. By the time he has sung his last song & thundered through his final piano solo, you may want to text your local bootlegger & order a fresh supply of illicit gin.'

Photo Coverage: Steve Tyrell Brings THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITER to Cafe Carlyle
Photo Coverage: Steve Tyrell Brings THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITER to Cafe Carlyle
May 7, 2014

Cafe Carlyle welcomes back GRAMMY Award-winner Steve Tyrell for a two-week engagement, through May 17. Celebrating his 10th anniversary at the legendary venue, the singer returns with a new show, The Great American Songwriter, featuring the songs of Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein, Sammy Cahn, Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter and more. Joining Tyrell on stage will be musical director Quinn Johnson (piano), David Finck (bass), Bob Mann (guitar), Kevin Winard (drums) and Jon Allen (keyboards).

Photo Coverage: Inside the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards Nominations
Photo Coverage: Inside the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards Nominations
May 6, 2014

The nominees have been announced for the 32nd Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, which will be held on Monday, June 2 at 7:30pm at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Select tickets are available to the public priced at $425, $200 & $75; tickets can currently be purchased online at www.TheAstaireAwards.org. Broadway World brings you photos from inside the announcement event below!

Photo Coverage: FORBIDDEN BROADWAY COMES OUT SWINGING Celebrates Opening Night
Photo Coverage: FORBIDDEN BROADWAY COMES OUT SWINGING Celebrates Opening Night
May 5, 2014

The gloves are off! One of the most highly anticipated new shows of the season,Gerard Alessandrini's FORBIDDEN BROADWAY COMES OUT SWINGING! opened last night, May 4th at 7PM at the newly refurbished Davenport Theatre (354 West 45th Street - between 8th and 9th Avenue). This up-to-the-minute new edition includes Alessandrini's takes on Hedwig, Idina Menzel, Rocky, Cabaret, The Bridges of Madison County, Aladdin, Pippin, the turntable-less Les Miz, Motown, The Sound of Music Live!, Bullets Over Broadway, Kinky Boots and Matilda, among others. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from opening night below!!

Photo Coverage: Faith Prince, Capathia Jenkins, Leslie Kritzer & More Sing Fanny Brice at LYRICS & LYRICISTS
Photo Coverage: Faith Prince, Capathia Jenkins, Leslie Kritzer & More Sing Fanny Brice at LYRICS & LYRICISTS
May 5, 2014

Funny girl, singular talent, American icon. Fanny Brice hit stardom in the 1920s and, almost a century later, still inspires the public imagination. Continuing tonight, May 5, Lyrics & Lyricists pays tribute to Fanny with Ziegfeld Girl: The Many Faces of Fanny Brice, a night of songs she put on the Broadway map, led by artistic director Ted Sperling, music director of the smash 2008 Broadway revival of South Pacific. Vocalists Capathia Jenkins, Leslie Kritzer, Faith Prince and Clarke Thorell sing classics like 'Second Hand Rose' and 'My Man'-as well as songs she inspired in Funny Girl. Check out photos from the special event below!



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