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STAR-STUDDED CAST OF PERFORMERS LINED UP FOR
FIRST ANNUAL “GREAT ENTERTAINERS ON BROADWAY”
LIVE PERFORMANCE SERIES AT TIMES SQUARE ARTS CENTER
Roster Includes Christine Andreas, Tony Babino, Steve DePass, Rebecca Luker,
Donna McKechnie, Mark Nadler, Marni Nixon, Faith Prince, Richard Skipper
and a “Mystery Guest” To Be Named Later
The American Theatre Network is proud to announce the launch of Great
Entertainers on Broadway, a new summer series of live performances
by some of today’s most talented and well known stage, television and
cabaret entertainers. The series will be presented in late July and early
August at the Times Square Arts Center (TSAC) in the heart of New York
City’s world famous theatre district.
The lineup of star performers includes (in alphabetical order): Christine
Andreas, Tony Babino, Steve DePass, Rebecca Luker, Donna McKechnie, Mark
Nadler, Marni Nixon, Faith Prince and Richard Skipper. A mystery
performer -- a leading recording artist and vocalist – will be announced
in June.
Producer/promoter Herbert G. Goldman, the author of books about
Eddie Cantor, Fannie Brice and perhaps the greatest entertainer of them
all, Al Jolson, is presenting the series with the goal of reviving the
glamour and excitement of the Big Apple’s world famous theater district
and Times Square.
Great Entertainers on Broadway will be presented on eight evenings
-- Monday through Thursday, July 26, 27, 28 and 29 and Monday through Thursday,
August 2, 3, 4 and 5 – in the TSAC’s elegant 300-seat venue (to be renamed
the Broadway Emporium for this engagement). There will be two performances
each night at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM. Some performers will headline single
shows while others will perform both shows on a given night.
“This is a dream come true,” says Goldman, a former boxing writer and
editor. “My grandfather introduced me to show business when I was a child
and I‘ve been hooked ever since. This series is dedicated to his memory.”
The performance schedule is as follows:
WEEK ONE
Monday, July 26, at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM – Mark Nadler, the zany
comedian, singer, piano player and all-round entertainer, winner of a coveted
MAC Award and a regular headliner at the prestigious Oak Room at New York’s
famed Algonquin Hotel, will perform two different shows on the same evening.;
Tuesday, July 27, at 7:00 PM -- Tony Babino, one of today’s premier
vocalists, is a first class singer-songwriter and recording artist who
presents a high energy show featuring past classics to modern day gems.
He is proud to be carrying on the traditions of such legendary entertainers
as Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.
Tuesday, July 27, at 9:30 PM – Richard Skipper, a critically acclaimed,
multi-award winning performer, director and co-producer of the 2010 Bistro
Awards, has been spellbinding audiences for years. His tribute to Carol
Channing has been acclaimed all over the world.
Wednesday, July 28, at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM – Rebecca Luker, one
of the hardest working musical performers, has starred in Broadway productions
of Mary Poppins, The Phantom of the Opera,
Showboat, The Secret Garden, Something
Wonderful, Brigadoon, The Sound of Music
and The Music Man in a career dating back to the late 1980’s.
On television, she has also starred in three PBS music specials saluting
Broadway composers and performers – Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating
Oscar Hammerstein II (1995), The Rodgers & Hart Story:
Thou Swell, Thou Witty (1999), and My Favorite Broadway:
The Leading Ladies (1999).
Thursday, July 29, at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM – Donna McKechnie,
the Tony Award winning star of the original Broadway production of A
Chorus Line, is regarded internationally as one of Broadway’s
foremost dancing and singing stars and choreographers. On Broadway, she
has also won rave reviews for her stellar performances in How To
Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Funny Thing
Happened On The Way To The Forum, The Education of Hyman Kaplan, Sondheim
-- A Musical Tribute (which she also choreographed), On The
Town, Promises, Promises, Company and State Fair,
for which she received the Fred Astaire Dancing Awards for Best Female
Dancer of the 1995-1996 season. She also has several award-winning cabaret
shows that she performs in venues all over the world.
WEEK TWO
Monday, August 2, at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM – Christine Andreas,
the multi-talented Broadway musical performer, returns to Broadway
this season as Jacqueline in the Olivier Award winning revival of La
Cage Aux Folles at the Longacre Theater on Broadway. Fresh
off a 55-week national tour of The Light in the Piazza, she
has starred in Broadway productions of My Fair Lady, On Your Toes,
Oklahoma!, Legs Diamond and The Scarlet Pimpernel,
among others. She is also an acclaimed cabaret performer who has entertained
in clubs all across the United States and abroad along with her husband
and musical accompanist Marty Silvestri.
Tuesday, August 3, at 7:00 PM -- – A singer, composer, poet and
master of improvisation, Steve DePass has performed at the White
House on four separate occasions. His songs are witty, poignant, satirical,
humorous or philosophical, and his ability to improvise and ad-lib is uncanny.
Tuesday, August 3, at 9:30 PM – A gifted musical actress who has
sung opera, classical song and appeared in Broadway musicals, Marni
Nixon performed on stage screen and television, most recently the animated
feature, Mulan, and TV popular Law and Order. Blessed
with a magnificent soprano singing voice, she spent year early in her career
dubbing the singing voices of such film stars as Audrey Hepburn in My
Fair Lady), Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and
Deborah Kerr in the King and I and Affair To Remember.
She performs in concert and cabaret venues all over the United States.
Wednesday, August 4, at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM -- A renowned female
vocalist and recording star, whose identity will be made public in mid-June,
has been booked to headline both shows this night.
Thursday, August 5, at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM – Faith Prince, the
multi-award winning musical actress and comedienne, has been dazzling Broadway
audiences ever since she swept the major theater awards – The Tony, Drama
Desk and Outer Circle Awards – for her performances as Miss Adelaide in
the acclaimed revival of Guys and Dolls. Most recently she
starred in Broadway productions of The Little Mermaid, A
Catered Affair; Bells Are Ringing, Nick & Nora,
Little Me and Noises Off. She also has a number
of television credits, including appearances on Ugly Betty,
CSI and Medium.
Tickets are $60, $55, $50, $45 & $40 (
www.americantheatrenetwork.com
) or at the TSAC box office, 669 Eighth
Avenue, between 42nd and 43rd Streets.
Great Entertainers on Broadway is presented by American Theatre
Network, Herbert G. Goldman, Producer.
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