'Saturday Night Underground' Returns Jan.26 with Rapp & Shuford

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is pleased to announce the return of the new talk/variety evening, "Saturday Night Underground" on January 26. The evening will be a casual variety show, featuring interviews and performances from some of New York's most intriguing personalities. And the fun doesn't stop there, audience members are encouraged to get up on stage and sing a song or tell a joke, recommend a great restaurant or complain about a bad date.  

Host Ben Rimalower will mingle with the crowd, inviting people to join the show.  So bring your sheet music or guitar, your funny stories and your axes to grind. From 11pm til 2am, join host Ben Rimalower (director of The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero, Joy and Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches), the fabulous Dreams (Larry Hamilton, Rob Tucker and Jamal Wilson) and pianist Matt Castle (seen on Broadway in Company) for this new, regular event in the theatre district, which Adam Feldman  of Time Out New York, calls "promising."

On January 26, "Saturday Night Underground" welcomes an array of New York's most ground-breaking talent, including: Rent's Anthony Rapp,  Look Ma… No Ears' Lindsey Alley, The Little Mermaid's Bret Shuford, and The Jewish Gay White MC Soce: The Elemental Wizard. Also new to the show is the Shot to Sing promotion where, each evening, audience members can win a free shot by singing a song from a particular theme.  The theme for January 26 theme will be rock musicals. (Performance opportunities subject to the discretion of Ben Rimalower.)

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located downstairs, within The West Bank Cafe (407 West 42nd St. at 9th Avenue.) There is a full bar menu available, and reservations are not necessary for this event. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis, and priority may be given to those who wish to order from the bar menu. There is no cover charge.

Photo of Ben Rimalower by Karen Marshall