On Thursday, July 13, Squeeze returned to Radio City Music Hall. There’s not much else to say, really except that they sound just as good — if not better — then they did when I first heard one of their recordings.
Performing were Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook, John Bentley (bass) and The Fluffers’ Simon Hanson (drums) and Stephen Large (keyboards).
Click here to see photos from Squeeze’s concert.
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On Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 8 PM at The St. George Theater on Staten Island, The Harbor Lights Theater Company presented Stephen Schwartz—Making Music, which chronicled the career journey of an artist whose early success and later disappointment ultimately ends in triumph.
Directed and choreographed by Chet Walker (Co-creator of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show Fosse and Founder of WALKERDANCE), this dramatic story features some of Schwartz’s most memorable music from shows including Godspell, Pippin, The Baker’s Wife, Children of Eden, and Wicked. Book by The Harbor Lights Co-Founder Tamara Jenkins.
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A audience full of theater fans attended the event to support The Harbor Lights Theater Company, Staten Island’s new, not-for-profit, professional theater company.
For more information go to www.theharborlightstheatercompany.org
Click here to see photos from MAKING MUSIC (155 images).
The images above are from a press conference at Staten Island’s The Snug Harbor Cultural Arts Center, naming The Harbor Lights Theater Company its “Company-in-Residence” on Monday, April 12th. HLTC’s founding artistic director is Tamara Jenkins (pictured) and their founding associate artistic director is Jay Montgomery (also pictured).
Harbor Lights’ home will be the Snug Harbor Greek Revival Musical Hall, which originally opened in 1892 and is currently undergoing restoration (pictured). As an fyi, Snug Harbor was created in 1801 as a “haven for aged, decrepit and worn out sailors.”
Sierra Boggess
Raul Esparza (Speed-the-Plow), Sherie Rene Scott (Dirty Rotten Scoundrel), Tyler Maynard (Altar Boyz, Mary Poppins), Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid) and more Broadway stars joined forces for the second holiday concert to benefit Artists Striving to End Poverty.
Although the concert is titled “New York City Christmas,” it should be titled “The Best Christmas Concert Ever!” Lynne Shankel and all of the artists involved are absolutely amazing! If you missed the concert, you can purchase the CD via ASTEP’s website and iTunes.
Other artists performing were Randy Aaron, Katy Basile, Nick Blaemire, Derrick Cobey, Chester Gregrory II, Miles Johnson, Andy Karl, Lindsay Mendez, Orfeh, Cristen Paige, Tory Ross, Anya Singleton, Sally Wilfert, Betsy Wolfe, Lynne Shankel, Joe Mowatt, Randy Landau, Peter Calo, Michael Aarons, Cliff Lyons, Roger Rosenberg, Scott Keitzer, Kenny Rampton, Maxim Mosten and Summer Boggess. The evening was hosted by the wonderfully witty Harriet Harris and directed by Stafford Arima.
The concert also was a celebration of the release of the NEW YORK CITY CHRISTMAS benefit recording on Sh-K-Boom Records and, also, the 10th anniversary of Sh-K-Boom.
ASTEP uses the arts as a tool to empower young people with creativity, knowledge, and a strong sense of self-esteem, factors which help them advance their lives and communities. ASTEP provides artists with opportunities to connect with global youths, allowing them to use their gifts to create meaningful and effective change for young people in need.
Click here to view the images from ASTEP’s 2009 New York City Christmas.
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Last year, I volunteered to photograph A New York City Christmas, a Christmas concert to benefit Artists Striving to End Poverty.
I learned today that some of my photos from last year’s concert are in the cd booklet of new release from Sh-K-Boom records.
The concert was, without a doubt, the best Christmas concert I’ve ever experienced. And the creative forces (including the extraordinarily talented musical director Lynne Shankel) behind last year’s concert are bringing it back again this year on Monday, December 13. All the details about the 2009 New York City Christmas concert are here.
I don’t usually repost images but, if you are curious and don’t feel like searching my blog, you can view the photos from the 2008 New York City Christmas concert here.
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On Sunday, August 30, Saycon Sengbloh, star of the new Broadway musical Fela! rocked Joe’s Pub in Manhattan with soul rock band Kojo Modibo Sun! Here are some photos from her performance.
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Fred Schneider
The B-52s took to the stage on Governor’s Island in New York at approximately 9 pm on Tuesday, August 18. Less than an hour later, a storm came thundering in — right in the middle of “Roam.” Thunder crashed and the heavens opened. I wound up waiting out the down pour in a porta-potty (it was actually large and air conditioned so it wasn’t that horrible). Sadly, the concert ended much too soon!
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Dee Roscioli, WICKED's new Elphaba
Every summer, Broadway stars take to the stage on Thursday afternoons to perform scenes and songs for the Broadway in Bryant Park free concert series. On Thursday, July 23, cast members from Vanities, Rock of Ages, Mary Poppins and Wicked performed a wonderful 45-minute concert hosted by 106.7 LiteFM’s Delilah.
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Cast members of SESAME STREET
On Monday, February 23, a gaggle of stars came out to perform at the Gershwin Theater in “Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert,” a benefit concert for the following organizations: Family Equality Council, Empire State Pride Agenda, Equality California, Garden State Equality, and The Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force. For more information, visit DefyingInequality.Com.
Personally, I was thrilled that cast members of SESAME STREET took part in the event. I remember watching the premiere episode of the television program—over and over again. If there ever was a show that embraced diversity, SESAME STREET is the one. It was a groundbreaking show in 1969 and it is still breaking ground today! Maybe they’ll help save a few kids from getting beaten up (or worse).
Cyndi Lauper offered a nice piece of wisdom:
The truth is: if one person doesn’t have any rights, nobody does.
One of the highlights of my evening, however, was listening to Sally Struthers tell Fox News about how she married her dog (“He’s my best friend.”). And she said (although I may be paraphrasing, I didn’t write it down), “If I can marry my dog, why can’t a man marry a man?” Gotta love her! 🙂
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Jessica Goldyn & Deidre Goodwin by Bob Johnson
On Monday, February 9, Broadway Backwards 4, a gender-reversed benefit concert extravaganza for New York City’s LGBT Center took place at Broadway’s American Airlines Theatre.
The star-studded line-up of stars performing included Anne Meara, Whoopi Goldberg, Florence Henderson, Sandra Bernhard, Cheyenne Jackson, Ron Palillo and more!
For more information about the concert, click here.
To visit the gallery click here.
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