Laura Benanti, 54 SINGS JAMES TAYLOR & More Set for 54 Below this Week

Coming up this week, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com or call (646) 476-3551.

54 SINGS JAMES TAYLOR, December 29 at 7PM & 9:30PM:

Iconic American singer-songwriter James Taylor is the voice of folk rock. Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with "Fire And Rain" and since then has created many beloved songs such as "You've Got A Friend," "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)," "Shower The People," "Up On The Roof," and more. Join us as we celebrate James Taylor's catalogue of joyful songs from the past 40 years on the charts. The show will feature Broadway's best singers including 16-time Grammy Award winner Sting (The Last Ship), Sally Ann Triplett (The Last Ship), Nicholas Rodriguez (Tarzan), Charlie Pollock (Violet), Ryan Andes (Big Fish), Michael Winther (33 Variations), Karl Kenzler (You Can't Take It With You), and Zak Resnick (Piece of My Heart), T. Oliver Reid("Peter Pan Live"), John Arthur Greene, and Zack Dobbins. Produced and directed by T. Oliver Reid, "54 Sings James Taylor" features musical direction by Mark Hartman, and musician Sean Harknesswith John Miller and Warren Odze. $35-45 cover charge. $70 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

A VERY BROADWAY HOLIDAY! STARRING AMY SPANGER, DONNA VIVINO & MORE, December 30 at 7PM & 10PM:

What's better than a holiday concert? A holiday concert featuring songs from your favorite Broadway shows and movie musicals! Join a cast of Broadway performers as they sift through the musical theatre canon to find the best holiday songs. Expect to hear some favorites like "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" from Meet Me in St. Louis, "Turkey Lurkey" from Promises, Promises, "Happy New Year" from Rent, and so many more. Come celebrate the holidays with us in the best possible way...the Broadway way! Produced by Shoshana Feinstein. Starring: Jake Boyd (Rock of Ages, Bull Durham), Harrison Chad (Caroline or Change), Ben Fankhauser (Newsies), Michael Fatica (Newsies, Paper Mill's Elf), JP Ferreri (Newsies), Jenna Leigh Green (Wicked, "Sabrina the Teenage Witch"), Samantha Massell (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Zak Resnick (Mamma Mia, Piece of My Heart), Amy Spanger (Elf, Chicago), Donna Vivino (Wicked, Hairspray), Tommy Bracco (Newsies, Paper Mill's Grease), Ariana DeBose (Pippin, Hamilton Mix Tape), Megan Kane (Gay Bride of Frankenstein), Ben Rappaport (Picnic, "The Good Wife"), Andrew Samonsky (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Mystery of Edwin Drood), Jessica Vosk (The Bridges of Madison County) and Alex Wyse (Lysistrata Jones, "Masters of Sex"). $35-45 cover charge. $70 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

CHARLES BUSCH ON NEW YEARS EVE, December 31 at 7PM:

The acclaimed actor/Tony-nominated playwright and drag legend returns to 54 Below for a special one-night-only New Years Eve show, chock full of outrageous personal stories, original characters, classic songs and music that are sure to put you in the New Years spirit, all performed with his own unique form of glamour. Charles Busch continues to delight and re-define his craft as a master humorist, entertainer and camp icon. The author of dozens of hit plays (Tale of the Allergists Wife, Die! Mommie! Die!, Psycho Beach Party, The Divine Sister, and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom to name but a few), Busch is joined by his longtime Musical Director Tom Judson. Expect laughter, music, tears, champagne, party hats and plenty of sequins. $85 cover charge. $135 premium seating. $45 food & beverage minimum.

LAURA BENANTI ON NEW YEARS EVE, December 31 at 11PM:

What better way to ring in the New Year than with music, laughter, friends and the spectacularly gifted, beautiful and very funny Laura Benanti at 54 Below? Celebrate a never-to-be-forgotten New Year's Eve as Tony Award Winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy, The Sound of Music Live!, Nashville) and critically acclaimed composer and music director Todd Almond open a brand new year with their brand new show. Laura has graced the 54 stage numerous times with her wildly successful solo endeavor, In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention, which was recorded Live at 54 Below by Broadway Records and won multiple awards and critical acclaim. This New Year's Eve enjoy new songs, lots of laughs and one of most spectacular voices Broadway has to offer as Laura Benanti, gorgeous in every way, makes this a very Happy New Year for all of us at 54 Below. $260-285 cover charge (includes dinner, tax & tip). $335-380 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

BARB JUNGR, January 2, 3 & 4 at 7PM:

"Barb Jungr interprets songs with a ferocity and truthfulness that demolishes every cover version you've ever heard." -The New York Times. Following her critically acclaimed show Hard Rain at 59E59 Theaters, Britain's top song stylist and international cabaret singer Barb Jungr presents the American premiere of a special concert originally created for London Festival of Cabaret 2013. In Mad About the Boy and No Regrets, walk on the dark side of love and loss, sex and corruption of the soul as Barb sings Springsteen, Coward, Dylan, Weill, Cohen and more. Every performance is a roller coaster ride. Are you strong enough? In 2013 and 2014 Barb Jungr performed in the O'Neill Connecticut Celebration of Cabaret twice, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, toured Australia, and performed in New York, Toronto, and across the UK. Her CD Hard Rain - The Songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, released in March 2014, has had 4 and 5 star reviews and been praised the world over. She's been a guest on Start The Week, Saturday Live, A Good Read on BBC Radio 4, appeared in a program celebrating the lives of the great divas on BBC4 TV, and has written for The New Statesman. She has won awards including Time Out New York - Best Cabaret CD of the Year 2010, Time Out New York - Best Cabaret 2008, Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist 2008, and Backstage Award for Best International Artist 2003. Barb is accompanied by her musical collaborator in New York, the renowned pianist, MD and songwriter Tracy Stark. $35-45 cover charge. $65-70 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

MICHAEL PADGETT & ANTHONY LOGAN COLE, January 2 at 9:30PM:

Two of New York's most dynamic and powerful vocalists team up for an evening of Broadway and more. An Evening With Michael Padgett and Anthony Logan Cole is a night of big Broadway sound and personal stories from the stage and the wings. Padgett (Jekyll and Hyde, Carousel, Camelot) and Cole (Les Miserables, Jekyll and Hyde, Beauty and The Beast) sing from their favorite scores with special guests from Broadway and beyond. The duo share their favorite stories from life on the road, family, dirty lyric changes, and more in this unique cabaret. $25 cover charge. $50 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

THE LOBBYISTS: SONGS FROM SEAWIFE , January 2 at 11:30PM:

Born out of the lobby of The Flea Theater in 2012, downtown indie-rockster/folksters The Lobbyists have crafted a distinctive harmony-driven style that draws on folk, bluegrass, country, pop, and Americana. Their charismatic live performance has been charming audiences from Rockwood Music Hall and Ars Nova to New York Stage & Film and The Cape Cod Theater Project. For this one-night-only concert event, The Lobbyists perform songs from their upcoming concert play SeaWife, created with playwright Seth Moore and developed by director Liz Carlson, as well as Lobbyists favorites. SeaWife, an epic nautical ghost story with music set at the height of the golden age of American whaling, is slated for production with Naked Angels in New York City in summer 2015. $15 cover charge. $30 premium seating. $20 food & beverage minimum or two drinks.

ELENA SHADDOW, January 3 at 9:30PM:

After a sold-out solo debut at 54 Below last fall, Broadway leading lady Elena Shaddow returns to kick off 2015 with an exciting evening dedicated to her favorite contemporary composers. Elena recently played Sister Sophia in the NBC live television event The Sound of Music, and played Francesca in The Bridges of Madison County. Her Broadway credits include Anne Dindon in La Cage Aux Folles, The Woman in White, Fiddler on the Roof, Nine, Sweet Smell of Success, and Les Miserables. She starred as Fanny in Fanny at City Center Encores, played Magnolia in Showboat at the Royal Albert Hall, and received a Helen Hayes Best Actress nomination for playing Clara in the first national tour of The Light in the Piazza. Possessing one of the most beautiful voices in theater today, Elena has had the good fortune to perform the works-on Broadway and regionally-of her favorite contemporary composers, to whom she pays tribute in this show Always Better: The New Golden Age of Musicals. $30-40 cover charge. $65 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

ELLYN MARIE MARSH, January 3 at 11:30PM:

Ellyn Marie Marsh is... INAPPROPRIATE. Currently in the hit show Kinky Boots, Ellyn Marie Marsh balances maintaining a busy Broadway career with playing mom to 5 year old Lola, who's too cavalier to care what Ellyn had to do to get her that Elsa dress! In INAPPROPRIATE, Ellyn shares her sharp comedic wit and high belting, offering an evening of popular songs, musical theater songs, and of course, medleys - accompanied by stories of performing on Broadway and persuading her daughter to be doctor. Ellyn's received accolades for her versatile performances: from Ellen's Stardust Diner to the rehearsal room for her Broadway debut as a replacement in Cry Baby, which closed before her first performance. $20 cover charge. $55 premium seating. $20 food & beverage minimum or two drinks.

RACHELLE RAK, January 4 at 9:30PM:

In her world premiere show, Sas with One S , Broadway's Rachelle Rak is going to share her strength, her passion, and her Sas with you. Rachelle has been performing in Broadway shows for over two decades. Her credits include Cats, Fosse, Thou Shalt Not, Oklahoma!, The Look of Love, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Catch Me If You Can. Rachelle is ferociously 44 and proud of it. This new mom has worked with some of the most talented people in show business and boy does she have a story to tell. From Broadway to Dance Moms to motherhood and back! This event will include songs from Starlight Express, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Fosse, The Jack Cole Project, Rachelle's signature song "SAS," and so much more. So come out and bring your Sas - or maybe it's time for you to find it - at 54 Below! With Musical Direction by Steven Jamail and special guest performers: Marty Thomas, Fred Tallaksen, Marissa Rosen, Angie Schworer, and Steven Skeels! $30-40 cover charge. $60 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

*** 54 Below will be closed on New Year's Day ***

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