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Photo Flash: Mandy Gonzalez & Seth Rudetsky Perform at French Woods Festival Summer Camp

By: Jul. 10, 2015
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Sirius XM Radio host & Broadway personality Seth Rudetsky paid a visit to renowned Catskill theater camp French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts this week. Broadway's Mandy Gonzalez joined Seth for an evening full of backstage stories and songs from her Broadway repertoire including Wicked & In The Heights.

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's ON BROADWAY as well as the host of SETH SPEAKS on Sirius/XM Stars. As a pianist, Seth has played for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miz and Phantom. He was the Artistic Producer/Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts including "Dreamgirls" with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and "HAIR" with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy Nomination). In 2007 he made his Broadway acting debut playing Sheldon (singing "Magic to Do" in a devastating unitard) in "The Ritz" directed by Joe Mantello for The Roundabout Theater. Off-Broadway he wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Rhapsody in Seth" (directed by Peter Flynn) at the Actors Playhouse and has also appeared on TV on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and had a recurring role on "All My Children." As an author, he penned the non-fiction The Q Guide To Broadway, the novel Broadway Nights and the recently published My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan (Random House). Broadway Nights is available on Audible.com starring Kristin Chenoweth, Andrea Martin and Jonathan Groff and My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ana Gasteyer and Megan Hilty. Seth played himself on "Kathy Griffin; My Life on the D-List," was the vocal coach on MTV's "Legally Blonde" reality show and starred opposite Sutton Foster in "They're Playing Our Song" for the Actors Fund. Recently, he co-wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Disaster!," a 1970's disaster movie musical which is now slated to transfer to Broadway in 2015. Right now, he tours the country performing with Broadway stars like Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster and Audra McDonald. His newest book, The Rise and Fall of a Theater Geek was published by Random House and is available here. For more info visit: www.SethTV.com.

With over 85 full productions of musicals and plays a summer, French Woods Festival of The Performing Arts is a creative catalyst for emerging young artists. Run by father daughter team Ron & Beth Schaefer, the camp offers summer programs in the performing arts, theater, dance, music, circus, magic, rock and roll, visual arts, film and video, sports, tennis, fitness, water sports, skateboard, and horseback riding. French Woods is located on a private lake in the western Catskill Mountains of New York State. For more information visit www.FrenchWoods.com

Photo Credit: Paige Veitch

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Seth Rudetsky, Olivia Dei Cicchi, Mandy Gonzalez

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Seth Rudetsky

Photo Flash: Mandy Gonzalez & Seth Rudetsky Perform at French Woods Festival Summer Camp  Image
Seth Rudetsky

Photo Flash: Mandy Gonzalez & Seth Rudetsky Perform at French Woods Festival Summer Camp  Image
Seth Rudetsky, Mandy Gonzalez

Photo Flash: Mandy Gonzalez & Seth Rudetsky Perform at French Woods Festival Summer Camp  Image
Seth Rudetsky, Mandy Gonzalez

Photo Flash: Mandy Gonzalez & Seth Rudetsky Perform at French Woods Festival Summer Camp  Image
Seth Rudetsky, Mandy Gonzalez

Photo Flash: Mandy Gonzalez & Seth Rudetsky Perform at French Woods Festival Summer Camp  Image
Seth Rudetsky, Mandy Gonzalez

Photo Flash: Mandy Gonzalez & Seth Rudetsky Perform at French Woods Festival Summer Camp  Image
Seth Rudetsky, Mandy Gonzalez

Photo Flash: Mandy Gonzalez & Seth Rudetsky Perform at French Woods Festival Summer Camp  Image
Olivia Dei Cicchi, Mandy Gonzalez

Photo Flash: Mandy Gonzalez & Seth Rudetsky Perform at French Woods Festival Summer Camp  Image
Mandy Gonzalez

Photo Flash: Mandy Gonzalez & Seth Rudetsky Perform at French Woods Festival Summer Camp  Image
Seth Rudetsky, Mandy Gonzalez with backup vocalists Victor Legra and Adrian Ruz

Photo Flash: Mandy Gonzalez & Seth Rudetsky Perform at French Woods Festival Summer Camp  Image
Olivia Dei Cicchi, Mandy Gonzalez



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