Jacques Brel News

The Village Gate's Old Fashioned Piano Party will be celebrating The 65th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 12th starting at 7pm! Come watch the awards in style. Admission is free and it will be a night full of drinking games, prizes, and our popular open mic to follow the telecast!

Broadway Beat brings you an interview with Colman Domingo and Forrest McClendon, Best Featured Actor in a Musical nominees for The Scottsboro Boys. Prior to The Scottsboro Boys, Domingo starred starred as Mister Franklin/Venus of Berlin in Passing Strange, for which received an Obie Award. He reprised his roles in the film version of Passing Strange directed by Spike Lee, which made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. In 2010, Domingo's self-penned play 'A Boy and His Soul' premiered Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theater, for which he won a GLAAD and a Lucille Lortel Award and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and a Drama League Award. He has also starred as Billy Flynn in Chicago. McClendon, who made his Broadway debut in The Scottsboro Boys, has appeared off-Broadway in Faith Journey. He also appeared as CC White in a 2005 Prince Music Theatre revival of Dreamgirls: The Musical in Philadelphia. His most recent theatrical project is a regional production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at the Two Rivers Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey.

The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre, called 'a riotously funny and campy variety show' by Next Magazine, and 'a rollicking, wry affair complete with funny political commentary on current events' by Gay City News, will present their second annual Pride benefit for The Ali Forney Center at Joe's Pub on Monday, June 13 at 7:00 PM.

Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records is proud to reveal the secret identities of THE LEAGUE OF BROADWAY SUPER FRIENDS -- a five-part harmony-singing group featuring Broadway's brightest stars and biggest talents. Their inaugural concert will present Kelli O'Hara, Lindsay Mendez, Gavin Creel, Greg Naughton and Sherie Rene Scott, joining forces and voices for good: a June 7th benefit concert at Le Poisson Rouge, to raise funds in the fight against Pancreatic Cancer. Tickets will go on-sale at 10am on Monday, May 16h. More details here: http://sh-k-boom.com/leagueofbroadwaysuperfriends/

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue its Spring 2011 season with the debut of Billboard "World Music" artist GAY MARSHALL in June for two concerts.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/29 for New Jersey

French Artist Oriane Hazan, best known to the industry and friends as "Oriane," brings her powerful voice to the studio with famed Grammy Award winning maestro Walter Afanasieff and British producer Tom Nichols (All Saints, Celine Dion, Hall & Oats, and Kylie Minogue).

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/22 for New Jersey

How many times have you seen a play where you miss a line of dialogue, and wish there was closed captioning - like there is on television - so you could read what you just missed?

UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. (www.UnsungMusicals.org) will present a special exploratory reading of the 1950 musical comedy Arms and the Girl as part of The Archival Project, a UMC initiative aimed at researching, assembling and restoring the material from unpublished and out-of-print musical shows.

The acclaimed Art of Time Ensemble, under the Artistic Direction of Andrew Burashko, presents The Songbook 5, featuring celebrated Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah Slean, on Tuesday, May 24 and Wednesday, May 25 at Harbourfront Centre's Enwave Theatre.

The hills will be alive in Thousand Oaks as Cabrillo Music Theatre proudly announces its brand-new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue its Spring 2011 season with the debut of Billboard "World Music" artist GAY MARSHALL in June for two concerts.

AUDITION NOTICE set for LITTLE THEATRE OF FALL RIVER'S PRODUCTION OF Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/15 for New Jersey

UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. (www.UnsungMusicals.org) will present a special exploratory reading of the 1950 musical comedy Arms and the Girl as part of The Archival Project, a UMC initiative aimed at researching, assembling and restoring the material from unpublished and out-of-print musical shows.

Michael Feinstein, the five-time Grammy-nominated interpreter of the Great American Songbook, joins the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for a program celebrating the music of 'Ol' Blue Eyes,' Frank Sinatra. The June 11 concert at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) closes the NJSO's 2011-12 POPS series in grand style.