Patti LuPone, Jeremy Jordan, Sierra Boggess & 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.

PATTI LUPONE, November 3, 4, 5, 6 & 8 at 7PM:

"Patti LuPone generates more raw excitement than any other performer on Broadway. She embodies decades of show business history."-Stephen Holden, The New York Times. Two-time Tony Award winner and 54 Below favorite Patti LuPone returns with Part Two of Far Away Places, the show which she premiered to critical acclaim when 54 Below opened in June 2012. In this continuation of the show (which will include a few encores from the landmark Part One) she further explores her wanderlust, performing songs by an eclectic group of songwriters including Irving Caesar, Billy Joel, David Yazbek, Johnny Mercer and Kris Kristofferson. $85-95 cover charge for 11/3-5. $$95-105 cover charge for 11/6 & 11/8. $30 food & beverage minimum.

IF IT ONLY EVEN RUNS A MINUTE, November 3 at 9:30PM:

"An artistically compelling series... displays the blood, guts, sweat and tears that go into making Broadway shows." -AM New York. "Musical theatre know-it-alls will not want to miss this!" -Time Out New York. Sometimes Broadway musicals run forever, like Cats or Les Miserables. But sometimes, Broadway musicals run for only a minute, like Merrily We Roll Along, High Fidelity, or Via Galactica. This is their story. If It Only Even Runs A Minute is the Bistro Award-winning concert series celebrating rare songs, behind-the-scenes tales, and inspiring photos from underappreciated musicals. Created and hosted by 54 Below Director of Programming Jennifer Ashley Tepper and Book of Mormon's Kevin Michael Murphy, with musical direction by Joshua Zecher-Ross, each concert includes performances and stories from original cast members and writers of selected featured shows, as well as new interpretations. The 13th edition of the concert will feature performances from an amazing lineup of Broadway stars to be announced, and will feature stories about & songs from an incredible array of musicals. Previous editions of Runs A Minute have played at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, Caroline's on Broadway, The Laurie Beechman Theatre, Joe's Pub and Le Poisson Rouge. So far, the series has included 252 performers and 149 featured musicals, as well as many songs that have never before been recorded. For more information, check out: http://IfItOnlyEvenRunsAMinute.com. This edition will feature performances from Anna Grace Barlow, Harrison Chad, Robert Creighton, Melissa Errico, Jenn Gambatese, Jenna Leigh Green, Van Hughes, Nikka Graff Lanzarone, Molly Model, Grace Ralbovsky, Charlie Rosen, Joan Shepard, Kaylee Verble, Evan Thompson, and more to be announced. The concert will feature musical selections and stories from All Shook Up, American Passion, Blood Red Roses, Comedy, Jimmy, Laughing Room Only, Saved, The Shoestring Revue, Sunny River, and more. $25-35 cover charge. $25 food & beverage minimum.

VANISHING POINT WITH KATIE THOMPSON & MORE, November 4 at 9:30PM:

Three of New York's best actress-singers - Farah Alvin (Marvelous Wonderettes, I Love You Because), Kate Shindle (Wonderland, Cabaret) and Katie Thompson (Giant, Pump Boys & Dinettes) appear as three iconic women in selections from Vanishing Point, a new musical by Rob Hartmann, Liv Cummins & Scott Keys. Author Agatha Christie vanished for eleven days in 1926; that same year, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished for three weeks. Amelia Earhart disappeared during her 1937 round-the-world flight. Amelia was never seen again; Agatha and Aimee never spoke of what happened during their disappearances. Vanishing Point brings the three together as they disappear from the world and decide when - or if - they want to return. Farah Alvin (as Agatha Christie), Kate Shindle (as Amelia Earhart) and Katie Thompson (as Aimee Semple McPherson) present selections from this powerhouse three-woman musical, with music direction by Gillian Berkowitz. Vanishing Point has been seen across the country, including productions in Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis. The show had its international premiere at Teatro Lara in Madrid, Spain, in July. $25-35 cover charge. $25 food & beverage minimum.

ANDREA FRIERSON: ME & ELLA, November 5 at 9:30PM:

In this love letter to the First Lady of song, Broadway songstress Andrea Frierson seamlessly weaves her unique world of opera singing parents, Negro League pitchers, Bronx beauty shops and 1960's television with Ella Fitzgerald's meteoric rise from young band singer to American icon. Celebrating the timeless melodies and sparkling lyrics that made Ella great, Andrea's brilliant, genre-defying vocals backed by a jazzy trio, led by the incomparable Ron Abel, makes this is a 54 Below debut that you won't want to miss! Helen Hayes award-winner Andrea Frierson has performed leading roles in numerous Broadway productions, including The Lion King (Rafiki), Once on This Island (Erzulie, Goddess of Love, original cast), Marie Christine with Audra McDonald at Lincoln Center Theater, Bring in 'Da Noise/Funk ('Da Singer), For Colored Girls... (original Broadway production), and A Christmas Carol (Young Scrooge's Mother, original cast) at Madison Square Garden. Television audiences may remember Andrea as a 5-time winner and semi-finalist on Ed McMahon's nationally syndicated vocal competition, Star Search, and as Ms. Melody on Allegra's Window (Series Regular, Nickelodeon). A Lincoln Center Theatre workshop production of her first musical play, Lady Be Good, which featured the music of her idol, Ella Fitzgerald, later served as a springboard for Me & Ella. Andrea is a former Dramatist Guild Fellow, as well as a Parsons' Fund Award winner (Library of Congress) for her musical, Soon of a Mornin', about the quilters of Gee's Bend, Alabama, which premiered in the NYMF Festival as an invited show. She is currently working on an illustrated memoir entitled How NOT to Fall Off a Broadway Stage. www.andreafrierson.com. $25-35 cover charge. $25 food & beverage minimum.

SIERRA BOGGESS, November 6 at 9:30PM:

Finding the Balance (The Journey Of The Middle Child). Broadway knows her as Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera and as aspiring opera star Sharon Graham in Master Class. London knows her for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in Love Never Dies and Fantine in Les Miserables. After the success of her solo show Awakening debuted at 54 Below last year, she now returns with a show exploring her life as the middle child, always trying to find balance in the "in between"! It is in that balancing act that we begin to ask the questions and look for growth! Through song, stories and her favorite quotes we will "Find the Balance" together! $55-65 cover charge. $25 food & beverage minimum.

JEREMY JORDAN, November 7 at 7PM:

Jeremy Jordan, star of Broadway, film, and television makes his 54 Below and New York City solo concert debut. Recounting iconic and deciding moments from his budding career, Jeremy performs the songs that have defined his swift rise to stardom. Selections include music from Broadway's Newsies, NBC's "Smash," and his upcoming film The Last 5 Years, along with many of his own personal favorites. Often more comfortable on stage as a character than himself, this bright young artist steps into the solo spotlight for the very first time to tell us a bit of his own fascinating story. $65- 75 cover charge. $25 food & beverage minimum.

JACK O'BRIEN, November 7 & 8 at 9:30PM:

I've Still Got My Health, So What Do I Care? Come join Jack O'Brien for a Diamond Jubilee Celebration of a life lived on and off the stage. Tales from Hamlet to Hairspray. Selections from Cole Porter to James Taylor. Stories, songs with an occasional A flat and a surprise guest or two. Directed by Scott Wittman with Musical Director Dan Lipton. $40-50 cover charge. $25 food & beverage minimum.

VILLAIN DEBLANKS, November 7 at 11:30PM:

Good news: Phillip DeBlanks is dead! He was a villain, a scoundrel and a lousy dancer. Or was he? Is it possible Phillip DeBlanks was framed by one of his circle of friends? You provide nouns, verbs, adjectives, desserts and body parts, and we provide the laughs - uncensored and unrehearsed - as the cast enact the story using words you've put in their mouths. It's "Clue" meets adult "Mad Libs," performed by some of the funniest people in New York! Like a ride to summer camp in the back of a station wagon, each eye-watering performance is ridiculously one-of-a-kind, and, best of all, the proceeds benefit Broadway Cares. Featuring Klea Blackhurst, Nick Cearley, Bernard Dotson, Cady Huffman, Lesli Margherita and Christopher Sieber, with Heather Shisler. $15 cover charge. Two drinks or $20 food & beverage minimum.

ASSASSINS IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, November 9 at 9:30PM:

Sunday... by the blue, purple, yellow, red Hudson! 54 Below continues our popular Sondheim Unplugged series with this very special edition, celebrating the music of two landmark musicals: Assassins and Sunday in the Park with George. Everybody's Got the Right to attend when a collection of esteemed voices from Broadway & beyond delve into treasured Sondheim tunes like Color and Light, The Ballad of Booth, Everybody Loves Louis, Unworthy of Your Love, Finishing the Hat & Another National Anthem. Hosted by 54 Below's own Director of Original Programming and regular Sondheim Unplugged host, Phil Geoffrey Bond, expect special tidbits of backstage folklore along with a wide range of compositions from these two ground-breaking shows, among the most admired in the Sondheimian canon. $30-40 cover charge. $25 food & beverage minimum.

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