ONCE ON THIS ISLAND Sings Ahrens & Flaherty, Vonda Shepard & More Next Week at 54 Below

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551.

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND SINGS AHRENS & FLAHERTY, JULY 18 AT 7:00PM & 9:30PM

Join the amazing cast of the 2018 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival, Once On This Island, as they celebrate the multi-award winning work of lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty!

Now in their 35th year of collaboration, Tony winners Ahrens and Flaherty have created such Broadway and off-Broadway classics as Ragtime, Seussical, Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Rocky, A Man of No Importance, and the upcoming Little Dancer, which will have its West Coast premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater this coming season. Members of the American Theater Hall of Fame, Ahrens and Flaherty have received theater, film, and music's highest honors, and they are currently represented on Broadway by both Once On This Island and the long-running hit, Anastasia.

Featuring a wide range of Ahrens and Flaherty's iconic tunes, Hailey Kilgore (2018 Tony Award nominee for her performance in Once On This Island) will host this evening celebrating 35 sensational years of collaboration, brought to life by the extraordinary cast of Broadway's Once On This Island!

Featuring: Courtnee Carter, Darlesia Cearcy, Merle Dandridge, Cicily Daniels, Quentin Earl Darrington, Emerson Davis, Tyler Hardwick, Cassondra James, David Jennings, Hailey Kilgore, Kenita R. Miller, T. Oliver Reid, Ximone Rose, Aurelia Williams, and Mia Williamson.

Direction by Haley Bennett

Music Direction by Alvin Hough Jr.

Produced by Yael Silver

$35-$50 cover charge. $75-$80 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

Vonda Shepard: SONGS FROM ALLY MCBEAL & MORE, JULY 19 AT 7:00PM & 9:30PM

Vonda Shepard will hit the stage at Feinstein's/54 Below with her stellar trio! Join us for the show on July 19th which celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the hit show Ally McBeal. In this dynamic concert, you'll hear some of the favorites Vonda recorded for Ally, including "You Belong To Me," "Searchin' My Soul," and "Tell Him." You'll also get a chance to enjoy Vonda's original material from her 14 albums including "Maryland" and "Baby Don't You Break My Heart Slow."

Vonda recorded four albums for Ally McBeal, has sold over twelve million albums overall, and has won two Golden Globe Awards, two Emmys, and two Screen Actor's Guild Awards.

Come relax, laugh, sing along, yell out requests, reminisce in the intimate moments with Vonda at the piano, and get up and dance while Vonda and her band whip the room into a frenzy by the shows end.

Featuring James Ralston (Tina Turner) on guitar and Jim Hanson (Bruce Springsteen, Rodney Crowell) on bass.

$35-$60 cover charge. $75-$90 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

Ilene Graff & Nikka Graff Lanzarone, JULY 20 & 21 AT 7:00PM

Ilene Graff and Nikka Graff Lanzarone Are Together Again For The First Time!

Grammy-nominated TV mom ("Mr. Belvedere") and Broadway vet, Ilene Graff (Grease, I Love My Wife), and her daughter, Broadway and off-Broadway performer Nikka Graff Lanzarone (Women on the Verge, Chicago, Sweet Charity), are getting together for their first full-length show at Feinstein's/54 Below. From L.A. to New York, from baby ballet to Broadway premieres, this family will highlight songs and stories that show how those experiences have made their relationship stronger, more fun, more interesting, and generationally challenging.

Musical Direction by Nikka's dad, ASCAP-Award winning composer, Ben Lanzarone.

The evening is directed by Robbie Rozelle.

$35-$45 cover charge. $75 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

Velma Celli: ICONIC- A BRIEF HISTORY OF DRAG, JULY 20 AT 9:30PM

Following sell-out performances in the UK, drag sensation Velma Celli makes her stunning New York solo debut at Feinstein's/54 Below with ICONIC - A Brief History of Drag. With the triple threat of heavenly vocals, theatrical swagger, and razor-sharp wit, Velma celebrates the most iconic drag moments of film, stage, and popular culture. So fasten your seat belts for an experience like no other. This electrifying cabaret features the legendary music of Queen, Bowie, Boy George, Lady Gaga, Tina Turner, and more.

Starring the West End actor who has performed in shows such as RENT, Cats, La Soirée, Fame, and Chicago, drag star Velma Celli has performed to sell-out audiences throughout the UK, is currently on an Australian tour, and has performed with Christina Bianco as part of Divallusion.

$25-$35 cover charge. $65 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

BROADWAY CELEBRATES NEW MUSICAL THEATRE, JULY 20 AT 11:30PM

Have you ever wondered who will be the next Sondheim or Bernstein? Have you ever wondered who will win the next Tony Award for Best Musical 20 years down the line? These talented new musical theatre writers are ready to show you what they got! You'll hear songs that make you laugh, songs that make you cry, and songs you won't be able to get out of your head. Broadway Celebrates New Musical Theatre will bring to light the importance of new musical theatre writing and provide a platform for hopeful writers to work with a group of professionals to showcase their work in front of a larger audience.

Directed by Isobel Duncan

Music Directed by Justin Ramos (On Your Feet!, Motown The Musical)
Stage Managed by Kate Carolan

Produced by Jacob Stuckelman

Cast: Aaron Alcaraz (Rent: National Tour), Nicholas Barasch (She Loves Me, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, West Side Story), Alana Cauthen (Rent: National Tour), Grace Choi (Avenue Q), Karl Josef Co (Pacific Overtures), CJ Eldred (The Book of Mormon), MaryJoanna Grisso (West Side Story: National Tour), Cory Jeacoma (Jersey Boys), Noah Plomgren (Finding Neverland: National Tour, Hair: National Tour), and Brynn Williams (Spongebob Squarepants, Bye Bye Birdie,13).

Songwriters: Keurim Hur, Jacob Fjeldheim, Adam David, Amy Engelhardt, Jacob Ryan Smith, Emily Chiu, Rona Siddiqui, Alanya Bridge, Elaine Romanelli, Star Johnson, Richard Hanson, Divya Maus, Rebecca Murillo, Charissa Bertels, Ayumi Okada, and Christian Duhamel.

$20 cover charge. $45 premium seating. 2 drinks or $20 food & beverage minimum.

54 SINGS BROADWAY'S GREATEST HITS!, JULY 21 AT 9:30PM

Previous volumes of this Scott Siegel concert event hit Feinstein's/54 Below like lightning! This was the show that every musical theater-lover had been waiting for... and now we're going to do it again, with a brand new line-up of Broadway's Greatest Hit Songs of All Time!

If you skip through cast albums just to hear the very best songs in each show, this is the nightclub concert event for you. If you love the classics of the Great White Way, come and hear the songs that made Broadway great, that made your heart soar, that you used to sing (maybe still do) in the shower! But at Feinstein's/54 Below, you will hear the greatest Broadway songs of all time performed by today's greatest stars, singing them straight up, the way you want to hear them!

And who better to produce/direct/host this show than the creator of Town Hall's critically acclaimed Broadway by the Year series, Scott Siegel, creator of more than 200 major concert events centered on Broadway music! Broadway's Greatest Hit Songs of All Time will be a thrilling night that you won't forget...

Featuring: Laura D'Andre ("Nothing Short of Enchanting" - NY Times), Rick Faugno (Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys), Maxine Linehan ("Fiercely Talented" - NY Times), Brian Charles Rooney (The Three-Penny Opera), and Martin Vidnovic (Tony Nominee: Brigadoon, Baby, Oklahoma!).

$40-$60 cover charge. $75-$95 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

BILLY ANDERSON IN #RIPSEYRESISTS, JULY 21 AT 11:30PM

Having conquered his Election Night PTSD in his hit show #IMWITHRIPSEY, nightlife fixture Billy Anderson returns to Feinstein's/54 Below with the original Jewish Japanese pop musician Danny Katz for #RIPSEYRESISTS. The dynamic duo pick up right where they left off to continue Ripsey's own personal handmaid's tale with fresh arrangements of pop classics along with songs you've likely never heard before! Featuring guest stars Andrew Boeckmann, Justin Cook, Miranda Wilson, and a special appearance by John C. Hume, this cabaret (that thinks it's a rock concert that thinks it's a Broadway musical) is sure to inspire your own resistance, along with many, many laughs.

$20 cover charge. $45 premium seating. 2 drinks or $20 food & beverage minimum.

PUMP BOYS & DINETTES REUNION CONCERT, JULY 22 AT 7:00PM & 9:30PM

Pump Boys And Dinettes, a band as well as a show, ran for 577 performances on Broadway in 1982-83 while earning a Tony nomination for Best Musical. The original cast-Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, Jim Wann, John Foley, John Schimmel, and the late Mark Hardwick-were downtown New Yorkers with Southern musical roots who created "a singular mixture of country-pop concert and musical theatre... [the show] doesn't merely celebrate the value of friendship and life's simple pleasures, it embodies them" (Stephen Holden, The New York Times).

Now, for the first time since their Broadway run, the creators of this pioneering work for actor-musicians will be onstage together to play and sing their score and tell their stories. Bob Stillman will join on piano, and yes-there will be a Pump Boys raffle! It's been 37 years - now join the original Pump Boys & Dinettes for an unforgettable reunion concert!

$35-$60 cover charge. $75-$90 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

MORE ABOUT FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, is a performance venue in the grand tradition of New York City nightlife. A few blocks from the heart of Times Square and just below the legendary Studio 54, Feinstein's/54 Below is a classically designed state-of-the art nightclub in the theatre district that hosts audiences with warmth and style. Feinstein's/54 Below presents iconic and rising stars from the worlds of Broadway and popular music and has set a new standard for culinary excellence worthy of the world-class entertainment on the stage.

In their description of the venue, The New York Times writes, "Feinstein's/54 Below has the intimacy of a large living room with unimpeded views and impeccable sound; there is not a bad seat in the house. Its sultry after-hours ambience is enhanced by brocade-patterned wall panels planted with orange-shaded lanterns. And the atmosphere is warmer and sexier than in Manhattan's other major supper clubs."

Located at 254 West 54th Street, Feinstein's/54 Below features up to three shows nightly with cover charges ranging from $5-$105. 54Below.com/Feinsteins

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