Back Stage Bistro Award-winner for Outstanding Vocalist and 2005 MAC
Award-winner for Best Male Vocalist Brandon Cutrell and Captain Louie musical director Ray Fellman will celebrate their October birthdays
when they host their second annual birthday party, Ray and Brandon's Birthday Bash on Sunday, October 9 at 9:30pm. The second annual Ray and Brandon's Birthday Bash will feature music never before performed
by the two, as well as songs from Cutrell's
critically-acclaimed show No Reservations. Cuttrell and Fellman will also
perform songs often requested of them at their weekly open-mic party,
Mostly Sondheim. Special guests will include Shoshana Bean (B'way:
Hairspray and Wicked), Nick Cearley, Scott Coulter, Karen Mason (B'way:
Mamma Mia, Sunset Boulevard, Jerome Robbins' Broadway), Kate Pazakis,
Anne Runolfsson (B'way: The Phantom of the Opera, Victor/Victoria,
James Joyce's The Dead),
Gabrielle Stravelli and John Wasiniak (B'way: The Phantom of the Opera.
Off B'way: When Pigs Fly).Cutrell made his entrance on the New York cabaret stage in
2001's It's an Art: The Music of Stephen Schwartz. Other New York
credits: Broadway Unplugged at Town Hall, Pippin (with Ben Vereen and
Rosie O'Donnell), Rags: In Concert, Dead Divas, New Mondays, Arise!,
Mad About The Boy, Waiting For Lefty, and David Friedman's
King Island Christmas. Nationally, Brandon has performed with Theatre
of the Stars, Goodspeed Musicals, the Human Race Theatre and the
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. His solo cabaret debut, entitled, was
honored by TheaterMania as the best debut show of 2002 and by the
Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC), which honored Cuttrell in 2003 with the MAC Award for Best Male Debut. His most
recent show, No Reservations, enjoyed a four month run in New York, and earned him his second MAC Award, the 2005 MAC
Award for Outstanding Male Vocalist. Every Friday night from 11pm to
4am at The Duplex in New York, he is the host of Mostly Sondheim,
an open-mic, musical theatre party.
Fellman currently is musical director for Stephen Schwartz' off-Broadway-bound
musical, Captain Louie. Other musical director credits include The
Tutor by Wood/Gerle (59 E. 59th), Reluctant Pilgrim (The Barrow Group),
Blood Drive: A Musical Triptych by Sheinkin/Derfner (Workshop at the
O'Neill Theater Center), and Amahl and the Night Visitors (national tour). He has been seen behind the piano at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre
in New Mondays (with Bill Russell and Emily Skinner), No Reservations
(starring Brandon Cutrell with special guests Karen Mason and Shoshana
Bean), Broadway Downtown (with Kristy Cates) and We Miss Nancy: A
Tribute to Nancy La Mott (with Liz McCartney). He is also an accomplished opera singer.There is a $15 cover, as
well as a two drink minimum for the show. The Duplex Cabaret Theatre is located at
61 Christopher St., in the heart of New York's West Village. For
reservations, please call 212.255.5438.
