Broadway at the Cabaret - Top 5 Cabaret Picks for June 15-21, Featuring Ann Hampton Callaway and More!

By: Jun. 15, 2015
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Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars! Well after Broadway orchestras begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week as picked by our theatre editors, including: "Merman's Apprentice" In Concert, Starring: Klea Blackhurst & Anita Gillette; BLAME CANADA! Featuring Broadway's Canadian Talent; Ann Hampton Callaway: On My Way to You; and The Melody Lingers On: A "Benefit" for Victims of Earworm.

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"Merman's Apprentice" In Concert, Starring: Klea Blackhurst & Anita Gillette

Where: Birdland NYC (315 W 45th Street)

When: June 15th at 7:00 PM

Tickets: $25 at http://www.birdlandjazz.com/event/834259-mermans-apprentice-in-new-york/

The Broadway at Birdland Concert Series is proud to announce that Stephen Cole and David Evans musical fable, Merman's Apprentice, will appear at the historic Birdland stage One Night Only, Monday, June 15 at 7pm. Directed by Igor Goldin (Yank) the cast features (in alphabetical order) P.J. Benjamin, Klea Blackhurst, Anita Gillette, Richard Kind, and Elizabeth Teeter supported by a six piece band with orchestrations by Lynn Shankel .

Merman's Apprentice is a new musical fable with Book & Lyrics by Stephen (After the Fair, The Road To Qatar, Night of the Hunter) Cole and Music by David (Birds of Paradise, Children's Letters To God) Evans. Bistro Award Winner Klea Blackhurst will appear as Ethel Merman, with a cast lead by Tony nominee Anita Gillette as Ethel's Mom, with Tony nominee Richard Kind as David Merrick, J.P. Benjamin (Broadway's current Wizard in Wicked) as Ethel's Pop and 13 year-old Elizabeth Teeter, who is currently playing Young Queen Elizabeth in The Audience on Broadway, will play Muriel Plakenstein: Merman's Apprentice. Additional cast members include Adam Grupper, Eddie Korbich and Brian Charles Rooney.

Synopsis: Time: the 1970's. The Golden Age of Musical Theatre is drawing to an end, although twelve-year-old Muriel Plakenstein doesn't know that. So she runs away from home to become a Broadway star, meets the Queen of Broadway Ethel Merman, who takes her to a Hello, Dolly! rehearsal, where they sing together. When legendary producer David Merrick hears the kid, he decides to star Muriel in the first all-child cast of Dolly! Naturally, Merman takes her under wing to teach her the ropes of being a star...making little Muriel Plakenstein Merman's Apprentice. It's a tuneful, original smart, funny, warm, new musical comedy about childhood, parents, Broadway and Ethel Merman. Who could ask for anything more?

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BLAME CANADA! Featuring Broadway's Canadian Talent?

Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)

When: June 15th 9:30 PM

Tickets: $25-60 at http://54below.com/artist/blame-canada/

The Canadians are back! After smash concerts in New York and Toronto, Blame Canada returns to 54 Below for another evening celebrating the best in Canadian musical theatre and featuring an all-star cast of Broadway's Canadian talent. The concert will celebrate work by the members of the Canadian Musical Theatre Writers Collective (CMTWC). Founded by Landon Braverman and Joseph Trefler, the CMTWC is Canada's largest national organization devoted to supporting and promoting the work of homegrown musical theatre writers. With Musical Director Rick Fox (Doctor Zhivago, Jesus Christ Superstar, Rent)

Featuring:
Chilina Kennedy (Beautiful, JC Superstar), Clyde Alves (On The Town), Camille Eanga-Selenge (The Book of Mormon), Tyley Ross (Finding Neverland), Aaron Walpole (Les Miserables), Keely Hutton (Stratford Festival Tommy and Fiddler on the Roof), Sam Strasfeld (An American in Paris), Kira Guloien (Doctor Zhivago), Denis Lambert (Doctor Zhivago), Blythe Wilson (Mary Poppins National Tour), Alyssa LeClair (NYU's A Man of No Importance), Nyk Bielak (Book of Mormon), Natalie Daradich (Wicked), and Andrew Keltz.

Casting subject to change.

A list of writers will be announced soon!

Proceeds from the evening will go to support the CMTWC and its initiatives. To learn more, please visit the official CMTWC website: www.cmtwc.com. Produced in partnership with the Canadian Music Theatre Project and Sheridan College. Michael Rubinoff, Producer.

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Ann Hampton Callaway: On My Way to You

Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)

When: June 18-20th & 25th 7:00 PM

Tickets: $50-115 at http://54below.com/artist/ann-hampton-callaway/

In celebration of recent nuptials, Ann Hampton Callaway has crafted a brand new, gorgeous night of love songs about the ups and downs of finding lasting love. The multi-Platinum artist delivers classics from Gershwin, Rodgers, and Porter, as well as gems from Jobim, Lauper, and her own original compositions. Leavened with wit and laughter, On My Way To You is Callaway's musical embrace of all the shades of love. In the words of the Bergmans, "If I had changed a single day/What went amiss/Or went astray/I may have never found my way to you."

Tony-nominated singer/songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway is a 54 Below favorite. BroadwayWorld has called Ann "the current queen of American cabaret." The New York Times says, "For sheer vocal beauty, no contemporary singer matches Ms. Callaway." Callaway has won multiple BroadwayWorld Awards and the 2013 MAC Award for Show of the Year. She promises a stirring night of great music as only she can share.

Directed by Dan Foster.

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The Melody Lingers On: A 'Benefit' for Victims of Earworm?

Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)

When: June 20th at 9:30 PM

Tickets: $25 at http://54below.com/artist/the-melody-lingers-on/

The Germans call it "Ear Worm," the French "Stubborn Music," and the Italians "Tormenting Songs," but in any language the phenomenon is the same: a song gets stuck in your head and stays there, burrowing its way into your subconscious until all you can hear is "Jellicle Cats" over and over and over again.

We are here to help. Research is underway to help victims of this unbearable malady, and our show of support can make a difference. We have gathered a team of expert performers to help us explore what makes an earworm - and what we can do about it. Featuring songs from Broadway, film, and the radio, this show will have you tapping your toes for a good cause - and absolutely won't have you humming these songs for the rest of the week. Brought to you by the team behind SONDHEIMAS: producers Maggie Larkin and David Levy and music director Andrei Strizek.

Featuring:
Justin Barnette (Broad City, Hairspray), Ariane Rinehart (The Sound of Music Live!), Molly Pope (Found), James Jackson, Jr. (The Black-Ups), Olli Haaskivi (Saturday Night), and Aaron David Gleason (Midnight at 9:30).

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