Cutrell's FEELIN' FROSTY Plays Encore at the Laurie Beechman 12/19

MAC and Bistro Award winner Brandon Cutrell's Feelin' Frosty (which just had its premiere at Feinstein's on December 1) will have an encore at the Laurie Beechman Theater on Friday, December 19 at 6pm. Tickets are $15 with a $15 food/drink minimum

Brandon's longtime musical director, Ray Fellman, will be at the piano and Lisa Asher will direct. Expect an eclectic mix from holiday favorites to Great American Songbook standards to contemporary pop to new songwriters. Brandon and Ray will revisit old favorites and share new discoveries.

Brandon Cutrell is a Bistro Award winner and a two-time winner of the MAC Award, an annual award given by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs. Brandon is Host of The After Party, the wildly popular, weekly Friday night Broadway soiree at The Laurie Beechman Theatre on 42nd Street in Manhattan. Time Out New York proclaims "The After Party is the thing to do in New York on a Friday night." Brandon's New York credits include Broadway By The Year at Town Hall, Broadway Unplugged at Town Hall, Pippin (with Ben Vereen and Rosie O'Donnell), La Gioconda at TheatreSource, David Friedman's King Island Christmas, and Liz Swados' Waiting For Lefty. National: Theatre of the Stars, Goodspeed Musicals, the Human Race Theatre, the Fulton Theatre and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Brandon has a yearly engagement at Feinstein's, Michael Feinstein's legendary nightclub on Park Avenue. As part of New York's Fashion Week last February, Brandon performed with Liza Minnelli and Rita Moreno for First Lady Laura Bush at the Red Dress Collection Fashion Show. During the summer Brandon and his musical director, Ray Fellman, are the hosts of Brandon and Ray's Broadway At The Beach in Cherry Grove on Fire Island. A proud member of Actors' Equity and a native Hoosier, Brandon completed two years of study of the Indiana University School of Music before graduating from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music with a BFA in Musical Theatre. Time Out New York raves, "One of the most sheerly engaging young singers on the nightclub scene, Brandon Cutrell sings his heart out, and he's got a lot of heart to sing. He often seems like a creature of pure bounce-boyishly ebullient, mischievously campy, gleefully profane-but he can also draw on an impressive emotional range." For more information about Brandon or his cd, please visit www.BrandonCutrell.com.

Bloomington's own and Bistro Award winner Ray Fellman recently made his Off-Broadway debut when he was handpicked by Stephen Schwartz to musical direct his off-Broadway musical, Captain Louie. Other New York and national Musical Director credits include The Tutor by Wood/Gerle (59 E. 59th), Reluctant Pilgrim (The Barrow Group), Blood Drive: A Musical Triptych by Sheinkin/Derfner (workshop at the O'Neill Theater Center) and Amahl and the Night Visitors (national tour directed by David Aiken). Ray has been seen behind the piano in The Storefront Theatre's New Mondays (with Bill Russell and Emily Skinner), No Reservations (starring Brandon Cutrell with special guests Karen Mason and Shoshana Bean), Broadway Downtown (with Kristy Cates) and We Miss Nancy: The Storefront Sings Lamott (with Liz McCartney). He has also served as accompanist for Utah Festival Opera Company, The Opera Company of Brooklyn , Mid America Productions at Carnegie Hall (with John Rutter) and A Yuletide Celebration with the Indianapolis Symphony starring Judy Kaye. As a singer, Ray has sung with some of the finest opera companies in the country, including Florida Grand, Glimmerglass and New Orleans operas. Ray holds degrees in piano and voice from the Indiana University School of Music. Ray was appointed to Indiana University in 2007 as Assistant Professor of Vocal Instruction for Musical Theatre in the Department of Theatre and Drama.

The Laurie Beechman Theater is located at 407 W. 42nd Street (below the West Bank Café).

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