Craig Rubano to Present TAKE THE MOMENT at The Laurie Beechman Theatre This Spring

Craig Rubano – Broadway star of Les Misérables and The Scarlet Pimpernel and multiple MAC and Bistro Award-winning cabaret artist – will return to the New York concert stage in the new show “Take the Moment” at The Laurie Beechman Theatre for three performances. The engagement opens on Friday, March 15 at 7:00 PM, with additional performances on Saturday, April 13 at 7:00 PM, and Sunday, May 19 at 2:00 PM. “Take the Moment” is directed by Jeff Harnar and features music director Beth Ertz on piano, with Marc Schmied (3/15) and Jeffrey Carney (4/13 and 5/19) on bass.  Tickets are available at bit.ly/lbt-rubano-240315

“Take the Moment” is a collection of songs that shine a spotlight on the choices we make during the moments that matter. Using the music and lyrics by Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Jerry Herman, and more, Craig tells the story of those thresholds of change in his life that have made all the difference, drawing from his experiences as Broadway actor, scholar, pastoral theologian, cabaret artist, minister, and goat owner (!).

Craig Rubano will perform “Take the Moment” at The Laurie Beechman Theatre on Friday, March 15 at 7:00 PM, Saturday, April 13 at 7:00 PM, and Sunday, May 19 at 2:00 PM. The cover charge is $30 ($20 for MAC members; use code: MAC), with an additional $25 food/beverage minimum. Doors open for food and beverages one hour before showtime. The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located downstairs in The West Bank Café (407 West 42nd Street at Ninth Avenue, NYC, 10036). LaurieBeechmanTheatre.venuetix.com.

Craig Rubano

Craig Rubano is a Broadway veteran who began his professional theatrical career as a pig when composer Charles Strouse cast him as Wilbur in the New York premiere of Charlotte's Web: The Musical. He made his Broadway debut as Marius Pontmercy in Les Misérables, performing the role over 700 times. Craig was an original Broadway cast member of Frank Wildhorn's Tony and Grammy Award-nominated The Scarlet Pimpernel and Pimpernel II. He played Algy Moncrieff in the first New York revival of Ernest in Love; Dorian in Dorian Gray; and Zeppo Marx in the Goodspeed Opera House's hit revival of Animal Crackers.

Craig's concert experience began a cappella, at Yale. As a member of singing groups Redhot & Blue and, following in Cole Porter's footsteps, The Whiffenpoofs, he performed in 37 U.S. states and 13 foreign countries. As a solo artist, Craig joined the Philip Glass Ensemble in Greece for Monsters of Grace; he sang in Lyon for the Orchestre National de Lyon's Broadway Parade; he soloed in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's tribute to Stephen Sondheim.

Craig's debut solo recording, Finishing the Act: Act One Finales from Broadway (AF Records), was the MAC (Manhattan Association of Clubs) Award-winning Recording of the Year. The New York Post hailed Craig's “resounding legit voice,” on an “impeccably produced, gloriously orchestrated CD.” Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote of the subsequent Finishing the Act concert show, “Craig Rubano has an intelligence and wit to match his robust baritone...an exceptionally well-conceived cabaret debut,” awarding the show a star. Craig has gone on to win Back Stage Bistro, Palm Springs Desert Star, and four MAC Awards, among many others.

His second solo album is Change Partners, and he collaborated with Mark Nadler and KT Sullivan on The Night They Invented Champagne: Operetta and its Musical Legacy. Craig's solo shows are: Stepping into Love: Harold Arlen in the Thirties; Change Partners: Life's a Dance, which debuted at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room; and At Long Last Love: The Music & Lyrics of Cole Porter, which debuted at the Cafe Carlyle.

Craig appeared as a soloist in The Town Hall's Broadway by the Year series (Harbinger Records); and he co-starred in the 92nd Street Y Lyrics & Lyricists production of With Mabel Mercer, the Words Came First. Craig has been a frequent singing ambassador for the Mabel Mercer Foundation's mission of preserving the Classic American Popular Song idiom; he has appeared in Cabaret Conventions in East Hampton, Palm Springs, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, London, and eleven years in New York City — five at The Town Hall, and six on the main stage of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

He is a summa cum laude Yale College graduate with Highest Distinction in Literature and Philosophy; he received a Master of Arts degree in English & Comparative Literature from Columbia University. At Princeton Theological Seminary, Craig received Master of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees, as well as achieving a Ph.D. in Pastoral Theology. Craig is an ordained in the Unitarian Universalist faith movement, as the settled minister of the UU Congregation of Monmouth County in Lincroft, NJ.

Craig has several published articles in the peer-reviewed journal Pastoral Psychology, has just published Emerging as Affirmative Pastoral Caregivers Beyond Gender Binaries: Gender Creative Promise with Lexington Books, and will have an essay in the forthcoming Valor and Vulnerability: Pastoral Explorations of Intimacy, Grief, and Resilience among Boys and Men.

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