RYAN RAFTERY IS BLACK AND BETTER THAN EVER to Return to the Laurie Beechman, 5/29 & 6/26

Ryan Raftery returns to the Laurie Beechman Theatre for Ryan Raftery IS BLACK AND BETTER THAN EVER: A CAUCASIAN CELEBRATION OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN SONGBOOK! with very special guest Romelda Teron Benjamin (Catch Me if You Can, Bare) and musical direction by Daniel Lincoln. The show will be presented on Wednesday, May 29 and Wednesday, June 26, at 9:30 pm at Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Tickets are $20 plus a $15 food/drink minimum, available at 212-352-3101, www.SpinCycleNYC.com, or https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9790587. A special $40 VIP ticket including preferred seating, a backstage meet & greet, and a signed headshot is also available. The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located at 407 West 42 Street (inside West Bank Cafe at 407 West 42nd Street -- at Ninth Avenue, accessible from the A,C,E,N,R,V,F,1,2,3 trains at 42nd Street).

Ryan Raftery IS BLACK AND BETTER THAN EVER: A CAUCASIAN CELEBRATION OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN SONGBOOK! focuses on Raftery's upbringing in Brooklyn, where he first discovered his love for Sammy Davis, Jr., Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie and many other singers. Audiences have come to love Raftery's hilarious parodies and interpretations of pop songs, musicals and rock classics alike.

Described as a "demented Rat Packer for the millennium", Ryan Raftery has been seen on television on ABC's "Ugly Betty", "Malcolm in the Middle", "What I Like About You" and, most memorably, on "Law & Order: SVU" as Dennis Faber, the lovable Amish teenager with measles. In addition to his previous solo shows (Ryan Raftery & Friends: A Solo Act, Ryan Raftery's This Isn't It, Ryan Raftery's It Gets Worse! and Ryan Raftery King of the Jews), Raftery was part of a workshop reading of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman's "Catch Me if You Can" as well as a performer in the Defying Inequality benefit at the Gershwin Theater.

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