Linda Lavin, Nicholas Guest & More Set for 54 Below This Week

This week at 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, visitwww.54Below.com or call (646) 476-3551.

NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY SINGS EWALT, WALKER AND OVERCASH, SEPTEMBER 8 AT 7PM:

Songwriters Ewalt & Walker and Drew Overcash introduce the talented students of New York Film Academy's musical theater to the legendary 54 Below in NYFA Sings Ewalt, Walker, and Overcash. NYFA's burgeoning musical theater department is ready to meet the city's cabaret scene and wow the crowds with the newest crop of undiscovered talent. After working with the students on new projects, Ewalt & Walker and Drew Overcash are excited to invite NYFA's young stars to join them onstage for a concert of work from some of their newest shows. Expect surprise Broadway special guests and some of the best new voices sure to be Broadway's future stars. Ewalt & Walker, writers of the hit show Bromance, return to 54 Below after two smash, sold-out Pajamboree concerts, where they turned the club into a musical theater sleepover party. Their work has also been seen at Joe's Pub, Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova, Caroline's On Broadway, and 92Y. They are also the curating producers of the emerging composer series Behind the Music-al, produced in conjunction with The Dramatists Guild of America. www.ewaltandwalker.com. Drew Overcash is a Midwestern songwriter whose work has been heard around the city at venues like Joe's Pub, Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, Birdland, 54 Below, and The Pershing Square Signature Center. His musical, BOYS VS. GIRLS, under production contract with Last Call Theatricals, held its NYC premier concert at (le) Poisson Rouge this past spring. He is a creator of the sold-out concert seriesTwenty-Somethings (in it's third year at The Highline Ballroom), the St. Jude Benefit Concert series raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and the Fresh Pens Contest, which gives new songwriters the opportunity to showcase their music. @djovercash. With Special Guest Faculty Stars: Natalie Weiss (Everyday Rapture, Les Miz, Breaking Down The Riffs), Kristy Cates(Elphaba in Wicked), Rob Maitner and more. Produced by Kristy Cates with Musical Direction byAnna Ebbesen. $25-35 cover charge. $60 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

THE HARVARD- YALE CANTATA, SEPTEMBER 8 AT 9:30PM:

Join us for a very unique evening at 54 Below, featuring Harvard grads performing songs written by Harvard grads in fierce competition with Yale grads performing songs written by Yalies! Likely showstoppers will include "Songs Unduly Influenced by Tom Lehrer," "Who You Got? We Got EGOT," and "Best School Song." Hard to say whose songs will make the finals, but Harvard's heavies include Leonard Bernstein, Alan Jay Lerner, and Tom Lehrer, while Yale has Cole Porter, Bobby Lopez, and Maury Yeston. This show is co-produced by Tom Toce (Yale, 1978) and Madeline A. Smith (Harvard, 2014), direct from their recent hit cabaret endeavor Mr. Victor's Cabaret for Hipsters: Songs of the 1990s. Tom will host and Madeline will be the musical director. Each promises to treat the opposing school's songs with respect. May the best songs win! Featuring Rachel Dratch ("Saturday Night Live") as a guest judge. $25-35 cover charge. $60 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

GRATEFUL BY JOHN BUCCHINO: THE 15th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT, SEPTEMBER 9 AT 7PM & 9:30PM:

Fifteen years ago John Bucchino released a CD of his original songs performed by some of the biggest stars in the world of music. The concept for the album was simple: singer, song, piano. What resulted was pure magic. Grateful: The Songs of John Bucchino is arguably the most successful songwriter compilation of this century and one that will stand the test of time. To honor the fifteenth anniversary of the CD's release, John Bucchino once again accompanies his famous friends - and fans! - on the songs in this treasured collection. Joining the composer will be select artists from the original recording as well as some of today's most vibrant performers - all of whom are grateful for the brilliance of John Bucchino. Featuring: Tom Wopat (Two-time Tony Award nominee), Liz Callaway (Tony Award nominee), Brian Lane Green (Tony Award nominee),Michael McCorry Rose (Wicked, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder), Haley Bond(Collected Shorts), Anne Runolfsson (Victor Victoria, Les Miserables), Lucas Steele (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812), Julie Garnye (Man of La Mancha), The NYC Gay Men's Chorus and John Bucchino. $35-45 cover charge. $75 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

LINDA LAVIN, SEPTEMBER 10, 11 & 12 AT 7PM:

"A sizzling, electric connection... a human tornado!" -Stephen Holden, The New York Times. Tony and Golden Globe winner Linda Lavin takes the 54 Below stage this September, performing Broadway favorites, standards, jazz, and even some songs she learned from the great girl singers. New York audiences remember her from It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Broadway Bound, Collected Stories, The Diary of Anne Frank, Gypsy,The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, and many others, and the world over knows her as Alice Hyatt in the long-running hit TV series Alice. A veteran of the cabaret stage, Linda began her career playing such NYC nightspots as The Showplace in Greenwich Village and midtown's Downstairs at the Upstairs. Recently, Linda released her very first CD, Possibilities. This September, she'll be joined by Musical Director Billy Stritch, Ron Affif on guitar, Steve Doyle on bass, Steve Bakunas on drums and special guest violinist, Aaron Weinstein. $50-60 cover charge. $95 premium seating. $25 food and beverage.

MARISSA MULDER: THE SONGS OF TOM WAITS, SEPTEMBER 10 AT 9:30PM:

Tom... In His Words. The Songs of Tom Waits. "Ms. Mulder sang as if the song were torn from inside of her and reduced the room to a hushed silence. Far and away the season's best cabaret show. It's everything the genre can be but almost never is." -The New York Times. Come hear the songs of Tom Waits as you've never heard them before... sung by a performer who will break your heart with every note. 2014 MAC Award winner Marissa Mulder sheds new light on some of Waits' most ambitious works, in one of the most counter- intuitive yet brilliant pairings in cabaret history. Mulder sings some of Waits familiar hits such as "Downtown Train" and "Ol' 55" as well as lesser known gems including "Alice" and "Broken Bicycles." "Ms. Mulder has given us a virtual definition of what cabaret is all about, the projection of one's own soul through through the lens of songs written by someone else. " -The Wall Street Journal. "Stunning." -Woman Around Town. "One of the gutsiest performances in cabaret." -BroadwayWorld. "A startling act of musical theatre." -Cabaret Scenes. $25-35 cover charge. $60 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

54 CONCERT LAB, SEPTEMBER 10 AT 11:30PM:

54 CONCERT LAB: the concert series where artists hand picked by 54 Below develop new solo concerts bit by bit and draft by draft, culminating in a 20-25 minute piece performed in a showcase for 54 Below staff and other industry panelists. Featuring: Reji Woods, Christopher Timson andAmanda D'Archangelis. 54 Concert Lab is expertly hosted by the fabulous Amy Jo Jackson!

NICHOLAS GUEST, SEPTEMBER 11 & 12 AT 9:30PM:

"Nicholas Guest is a wonderfully charismatic performer, and when he sings, the stage virtually lights up!" -Stage and Cinema. In bringing his critically-acclaimed show Finding Nick to 54 Below for its NYC premiere, actor Nicholas Guest (National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, The Long Riders, Trading Places, Sons of Anarchy, Mad Men, Frozen, and Tangled) explores his youthful search for an identity through live music, poetry and multiple personalities. Nicholas, born and raised in New York City, is a member of the talented Guest family, whose half-brother is the New York-based writer and humorist Anthony Haden-Guest. His brother Christopher Guest is a well-known actor-writer-director and the star of films including This is Spinal Tap. Nicholas, the son of an English diplomat stationed in New York at the U.N and a Jewish mother, finds that in the 1967 "Summer of Love" just as he is choosing a college, his family has been reassigned to Geneva, Switzerland, causing him to begin a journey abroad to find the person he is yet to be. Experience a concert evening populated by over 20 entertaining characters of all nationalities and genders that he encountered along his way, popular songs (in both English and French) from that period, and alarmingly humorous situations! The veteran actor, already known for his outstanding characterizations on film and TV, as well as brilliant vocal work for both the large and small screens will surprise New York audiences with his versatility and voice in this comedic concert detailing his very personal journey to self-discovery. $30-40 cover charge. $70 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

CHARLIE! ANYTHING BUT BASIC, SEPTEMBER 12 AT 11:30PM:

"I didn't merely enjoy the evening. I was elated by it." - Roy Sander, Bistro Awards. "Mr Johnson was an undying ball of energy." - Jonathan Shade, Nitelife Exchange. After completing sold out runs at The Duplex and The Metropolitan Room, fast-rising cabaret artist Charlie Johnson is finally bringing his new act, CHARLIE! Anything but Basic, to 54 Below! Mr. Johnson's unique style pairs classic cabaret with a modern day sensibility in a way no one else is doing. Through a mix of anecdotes, stand up, observations, and songs- Mr. Johnson creates an evening that is anything but basic. Brace yourself to be ENTERTAINED. $15 cover charge. $35 premium seating. $20 food and beverage minimum or two drinks.

THE ENSEMBLIST & THE BOWERY BOYS CELEBRATE BROADWAY'S ST. JAMES THEATRE, SEPTEMBER 13 AT 7PM & 9:30PM

Two of NYC's top podcasts collide for a one-of-a-kind evening celebrating Broadway history through one of its most storied theaters! The Ensemblist, the only podcast that shows you Broadway from the inside out, teams up with The Bowery Boys, one of the internet's most popular history podcasts, to time travel through the incredible history of the St. James Theater. The Bowery Boys discuss the St. James' lore and its place in history of the Big Apple while The Ensemblist provides Broadway mega-talents who have worked there to share stories and music from the shows that have graced the St. James stage. Prepare for fun facts, crazy stories, and some incredible singers-all in the name of Broadway! Featuring: Krystina Alabado (Evita, American Idiot), Lauren Elder (Side Show), Jason Gotay (Bring It On, "Peter Pan Live!"), Grasan Kingsberry (Motown), Angie Schworer (Something Rotten), plus Tom Meyers and Greg Young of The Bowery Boys and Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone of The Ensemblist! $25-40 cover charge. $60-70 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

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