Laurie Beechman News

Broadway veterans and real-life couple NIcolas Dromard (Mary Poppins) and Gabrielle Ruiz (In The Heights) performed a parody of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN's 'Anything You Can Do' at Broadway Sessions on Valentines Day, February 14, 2013. Watch them sing below!

Broadway Sessions is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created/hosted by Ben Cameron (Wicked, Aida, Footloose). This Tuesday, April 16th, Broadway Sessions will feature a special 'bonus edition' celebrating alums and graduates from Baldwin Wallace University.

Singer Eva Kantor is making her solo debut in 'The Way I Am,' directed by Eric Michael Gillett at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. Remaining shows are three Sundays, April 7, 14, and 21 at 7pm. Ward Morehouse lll will interview Eva Kantor his TV show Broadway After Dark.

The Concerts for City Greens may be a Spring and Summer music extravaganza held in the lovely early evening air of Manhattan's East Side, but Broadway actress and cabaret headliner Raissa Katona Bennett, who is the concert series' founder and producer, is launching the 2013 season indoors-with a gala benefit concert featuring a star-studded lineup of performers, including quadruple-platinum songwriter and Today Show regular David Friedman as a special guest performer (with Bennett in photo, left). A celebratory retrospective of the program's first five seasons will be staged at The Laurie Beechman Theatre, 407 West 42nd Street, on Tuesday April 23 at 7pm.

Karen Gross-Philadelphia's celebrated cabaret singer, songwriter, and comedienne who recently put down roots in New York City-will debut her all-new show 'Cabaret Mixtape' at 4:30 p.m. today, April 13, 2013 at the premier cabaret venue The Metropolitan Room, 34 W. 22nd Street (between 5th and 6th Aves.), New York City, NY.

BROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron (Bway Wicked, Aida and Footloose) and features musical director Joshua Stephen Kartes on piano. Tonight, April 11th, Broadway Sessions will feature performances from cast members from past Broadway favorite The Little Mermaid!

Help is on the Way Today, a 501c3 non-profit which assists children and youth living with HIV/AIDS, is announcing their annual Gala on May 19th at the Laurie Beechman Theater.In addition, founder Joseph Macchia is announcing a name change to the charity's Lifetime Achievement Award."It is with a bittersweet pleasure that we've renamed the Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of the late Ruth Kurtzman," says Macchia. "Ruth was a true lady and a kind and caring person who was a tireless supporter of the Cabaret Cares series, as well Help Is On The Way Today, MAC and Broadway Cares. She is someone I will never forget and her kind heart will live on in everyone she touched. I'm very happy to announce the 2013 Cabaret Cares Ruth Kurtzman Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Peter Leavy. Like Ruth, Peter is a true champion of the community, the publisher of Cabaret Scenes magazine - the world's only magazine dedicated to the art form - and a generous supporter of Cabaret Cares and its mission."

Jared Zirilli performed John Legend's 'Refuge (When It's Cold Outside)' at Broadway Sessions on January 17th, 2013. Click below to watch him sing!

Acclaimed writer/performer Candice Guardino appears in the outrageous premiere of Italian Bred Off-Broadway, produced by Bull By The Horns Productions & 22Q Entertainment LLC. Check out a promo for the one-woman show below!

Greenlist Productions presents Ryan Raftery's return to the Laurie Beechman Theatre for his fifth solo show, 'Ryan Raftery is Black and Better Than Ever: A Caucasian Celebration of the African-American Songbook'. The show sold out on March 3rd, and Raftery has added a second performance tonight, April 10 at 9:30 p.m.

Acclaimed writer/performer Candice Guardino appears in the outrageous premiere of ITALIAN BRED Off-Broadway, produced by Bull By The Horns Productions & 22Q Entertainment LLC.

After sold-out performances in New York City and her hometown of San Francisco, critically acclaimed comedic cabaret artist and musical theater singer Carly Ozard brings her smash cabaret show Somebody to Love: My Musical Tribute to Freddie Mercury to New York City's jazz institution Iridium for two performances: 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

BROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron (Bway Wicked, Aida and Footloose) and features musical director Joshua Stephen Kartes on piano. This Thursday, April 11th, Broadway Sessions will feature performances from cast members from past Broadway favorite The Little Mermaid!

Jonathan Whitton (Bistro & MAC Award Winner, HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH) continues his critically lauded concert residency with guitarist Aaron Jones at Don't Tell Mama. BLACK SHEEP CARNIVAL will play once a month through 2013 with initial dates scheduled for Friday, May 3 & June 7 @ 7:30PM and Monday, July 8 & August 5 @ 7:30PM. Tickets are $10 plus a two-drink minimum.

MargOH! Channing is back with an all new show aptly titled 'MargOH! Sings the Booze' May 11 at 7:30PM at Dixon Place Lounge, 161A Chrystie Street. The evening is directed by Thom Fogarty.

Singer Eva Kantor is making her solo debut in 'The Way I Am,' directed by Eric Michael Gillett at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. Remaining shows are three Sundays, April 7, 14, and 21 at 7pm. Ward Morehouse lll will interview Eva Kantor his TV show Broadway After Dark.

On April 28 at 9:30pm, Krysta Rodriguez (Smash, The Addams Family), Lindsay Mendez (Dogfight, 35mm: A Musical Exhibition), and Barbara Walsh (Company) will join bright new composer and lyricist team Tim Rosser and Charlie Sohne at 54 Below.

This spring, Libra Theater Company presents the world premiere of The Thirteenth Commandment, a new play by Joshua H. Cohen.

Tony Nominee Meg Bussert (Camelot, Brigadoon, The Music Man), Leenya Rideout (Company, War Horse, Cyrano de Bergerac), and Drama Desk nominee Jeremy Morse (Bloodsong of Love) are among the artists set to perform in Two Legit to Quit: a Riff- Free Evening May 14th at the Laurie Beechman.

Matt DeAngelis sang a cover of LMFAO's 'Sexy and I Know It' at Broadway Sessions on February 28th, 2013. Click below to watch his performance!