LAST CHANCE TO SEE LEE ROY REAMS TONIGHT AT 54 BELOW!

Lee Roy Reams = Broadway. It's really that simple. Or as Phil Geoffrey Bond, from 54 Below, likes to call this show: BROADWAY 101, and I would Certainly concur. If you have nothing to do tonight, get yourself to the Hottest venue in town, where Sunday Nights have become a "hot ticket" To see some some of the best talent around, doing all sorts of shows.

Lee Roy Reams' conceit is that he is celebrating his 40th Birthday. Not literally, Of course, but in a unique way. about that year in his life. The idea came to him As he began looking at all the activities and writing, being built around the 100th Birthday of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional stage actor.

I saw this show a few weeks ago and this is an encore booking. I can't recommend This highly enough. Although Lee Roy has been perceived more as a dancer, than anything else, do not be fooled. He is a wonderful actor and singer and the voice still thrills. He has knowledge we can only dream about and it comes bursting through in his story telling and performance.

If you wanna hear stories about SEESAW, LORELEI, APPLAUSE, 42nd STREET, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, HELLO, DOLLY! and be a party to delicious "name-dropping" (in a good way) like Cy Coleman, Bob Fosse, Jerry Herman, Lauren Bacall, Carol Channing, Ruby Keeler ... and on and on ... then join the crowd.

The night I was there, in the audience were: Len Cariou, Anita Gillette, Penny Fuller, Harvey Evans, Mark Sendroff, Baayork Lee, Don Correia, Sandy Duncan, Tony Danza, etc., etc.

I talked to him for awhile on the phone this week, telling him how much I enjoyed his show and asked him how this was different than past engagements he had played around town or around the country (or across the Atlantic, as well as on Cruises).

He told me that usually people are interested in how you started in "the business." This one gets specific about a particular birthday night, at a new disco in town, down on 14th Street, It was called THE PALACE ... and what a night it was.

Lee Roy's show is full of great music, great songs and even a "special request" made by Jerry Herman, for this engagement. Alex Rybeck delivers glorious arrangements and musical direction and the entire audience left 54 below in awe of the man, the career and the talent.

Here's a guy who actually played the Continental Baths, right after Bette Midler, and one of the few male acts that did. (I know ... right)?! Talking with Lee Roy Reams is like talking to a living history of Broadway and feeling like you really missed something special, But he doesn't live in the past .. he celebrates it and, lucky for us, shares it.

You stand warned. This is the last time this year he will be performing this show. Set the DVR for tonight and get out and see Lee Roy. After all, "What good is sitting alone in your room ....."?

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