Laurie Beechman News

The Diva and the Baritone, stars Metropolitan Opera baritone Theodore Lambrinos and his singing partner and wife, international operatic soprano Hallie Neill. Elliot Finkel, a concert pianist with the chops of a Broadway musical director wrote the arrangements to showcase the couple's amazing vocal talents in a charming mix of Broadway, opera and the best of the Great American songbook.

Soprano Leah Tehrani and tenor Anthony Caputo will perform at the Enrico Caruso Room on Tuesday, July 31, at 8 PM as part of the venue's Tuesday Night Opera Series. They will be supported on keyboard by David Schaefer.

Ben Rimalower: PATTI ISSUES plays Thursdays at 9:30 PM at the Duplex, August 30th, September 6th, September 13th, September 27th and October 4th.

Broadway Sessions--created and hosted by Ben Cameron and performed Thursday nights at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on 42nd Street, will honor Broadway actress Paige Davis this Thursday, July 26 at 11 pm.

If you're looking for some cool cabaret/nightclub shows over the next month, try these on for size: Darren Williams (July 26) and Lauren Robert (August 7) are ready to rock Iridium, while two lovely ladies of cabaret will be featured at Feinstein's: Karen Oberlin (July 24-28) and Raissa Katona Bennett (August 21-25).

Songs from the new musical FICTION IN PHOTOGRAPHS will receive an industry performance on Tuesday August 7th at 3:00PM at the Laurie Beechman Theater located at the WestBank Café at 42nd Street and 9th Avenue.

After sold-out shows at the Canal Room and the Laurie Beechman, Cutting-Edge Composers brings its latest concert to NYMF tonight, July 23rd at 7 and 9:30 pm at the Theatre at St. Clement's (423 w. 46th Street). Up-and-coming musical theatre writers are teamed with Broadway's hottest performers at the concert directed and produced by Laura Pietropinto (Next to Normal), co-produced by Jillian Robbins, and musically directed by Virginia Hart Pike.

Matt Yee, described as 'that wonderfully funny Entertainer, Artist, Comedian from Hawaii, & evidence that 'Asian Men Are Huge,' brings his Outrageous Adult Sing Along Show to the Laurie Beechman Theater on 42nd Street.

With her thick accent and slippery grasp of the English language, campy Cuban chanteuse MARGARITA PRACATAN has been wowing audiences for decades with her devastating renditions of Broadway standards and pop favorites by the likes of ABBA, Boy George, and Britney Spears.

Tonight, July 20th at 8pm a mixture of Broadway talent and nightlife personas will gather at Elmo is Chelsea to celebrate the 25th Year of Marti Gould Cummings, Brad Gardner, and Joey Contreras. This annual triple birthday event will feature some of NYC's brightest talents celebrating these three young men. Elmo is located in Chelsea on 19th Street and 7th Avenue.

After several workshop productions and an LA Premiere, Alec Mapa (Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, The View, RuPaul's Drag Race, The Gossip Queens, Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure) will present the official New York Premiere of ALEC MAPA: BABY DADDY. It will be presented for a 2-week limited engagement opening tonight, July 19 at The Laurie Beechman Theater at West Bank Café.

With baseball season in full swing, NATIONAL PASTIME, a new screwball musical comedy, will make its New York debut, beginning performances Off-Broadway on August 8, 2012 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons in Manhattan (416 West 42nd Street).

The Laurie Beechman Theater will present a special edition of 'Broadway Sessions' with casts of Off Broadway shows, featured singers, and guest host Emily McNamara (My Big Gay Italian Wedding, The Awesome 80's Prom).

Shana Farr is set to perform her accalimed show, 'Whistling Away the Dark: Through Songs of Julie Andrews' tonight, July 18th at 7:30 p.m. at the legendary Players Club, located at 16 Gramercy Park South. The performance is free and guests are welcome. Julie Andrews' biographer, Robert Windeler, will be joining Farr at this one-time-only performance.

Grab your Magic 8 Ball and see if signs "point to yes" in the World Premiere of Love. Guts. High School, a co-production of the Midtown International Theatre Festival, tonight, July 17th - August 2nd @ Dorothy Strelsin Theatre. The show is written and performed by Jeanette Bonner and developed with Peter Michael Marino.

With her thick accent and slippery grasp of the English language, campy Cuban chanteuse MARGARITA PRACATAN has been wowing audiences for decades with her devastating renditions of Broadway standards and pop favorites by the likes of ABBA, Boy George, and Britney Spears.