Town Hall's 'Broadway By The Year' Season Kicks of with Musicals of 1921, 2/14

By: Jan. 18, 2011
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The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) New York's landmark concert venue presents the 11th season of its acclaimed Broadway By The Year® series, created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall on Valentine's Day, Monday, February 14th at 8PM. Kicking off the 90th Anniversary of The Town Hall, the Broadway By The Year® season will begin with THE BROADWAY MUSICALS of 1921, celebrating the great music that was performed the same year the historic building came to be.

Tickets are just $45, $50 and $55 and are available at The Town Hall Box Office, 123 West 43rd Street, 212-840-2824 or www.the-townhall-nyc.org or Ticketmaster, 800-982-2787 or www.ticketmaster.com.

Broadway by the Year takes the audience on a musical journey through the best of the Great White Way, featuring show-stopping numbers as well as lesser-known gems and little known facts and humor about our favorite shows. The New York Times called the series "an event that is treasured by Broadway babies." This season's shows will include the Broadway musicals of 1921, 1932, 1982 and 1997.

"Every year we try to do something we've never done before, making the series bigger and more surprising at every turn," said Scott Siegel. "With 1921, when Broadway was flourishing with shows like The Follies, The Scandals, etc. we're going to recreate that saucy era with our own bevy of tall, leggy showgirls - except our "SiegFeld Girls" will be among the most talented of all our Broadway Gypsies . In a word, this show is going to be fun."

Monday, February 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM -- BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1921
Kicking off the 90th Anniversary of Town Hall with this special Valentines Day performance, the cast will include Broadway by the Year favorites KendRick Jones (most recently seen starring in The Scottsboro Boys on Broadway), Christiane Noll and Bobby Steggert (Tony Nominated for their performances in Ragtime), and Jeffry Denman, who returns after directing, choreographing and starring in last summer's critically acclaimed All Singin' All Dancin'. The Broadway Musicals of 1921 features songs including "I'm Just Wild About Harry" by Eubie Blake, "Say It With Music" by Irving Berlin, and the Al Jolson hits "April Showers," "Toot Toot Tootise," "California, Here I Come" and more!

Monday, March 21, 2011 at 8:00 PM -- BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1932
This concert presents songs from the fantastic musicals of the year 1932. Featuring such shows as Kern & Hammerstein's Music in the Air, Irving Berlin's Face the Music, Cole Porter's Gay Divorce, Deitz & Schwartz's Flying Colors, and more!

Monday, May 16, 2011 at 8:00 PM ­­--BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1982
This piece of the series showcases songs from the musicals of the year 1982. Featuring shows such as Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats and Webber & Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Maury Yeston's Nine, Craig Carnelia's Is There Life After High School? and more.

Monday, June 20, 2011 at 8:00 PM Broadway by the Year: 1997
This piece of the series presents songs from the musicals of the year 1997. Featuring such shows as Elton John's The Lion King, Frank Wildhorn's The Scarlet Pimpernel Jekyll & Hyde, Duke Ellington's Play On!, Johnny Mercer's Dream, Stock/Birkenhead's Triumph of Love, Maury Yeston's Titanic, Kander & Ebb's Steel Pier, Carl Beitell Smith's Side Show, and more!


Past Broadway by the Year shows have featured such stars as Nancy Anderson, Christine Andreas, Brent Barrett, Bryan Batt, Stephanie J. Block, Liz Callaway, Carolee Carmello, Chuck Cooper, Scott Coulter, Robert Cuccioli, Darius de Haas, Mary Bond Davis, John Dossett, Tovah Feldshuh, Sutton Foster, Davis Gaines, Annie Golden, Robert Goulet, Jason Graae, Debbie Gravitte, Eddie Korbich, Leslie Kritzer, Marc Kudisch, Liz Larsen, Beth Leavel, Shannon Lewis, Heather MacRae, Karen Mason, Sally Mayes, Amanda McBroom, Jeff McCarthy, Howard McGillin, SharonMcNight, Julia Murney, Christiane Noll, Nancy Opel, Brad Oscar, Connie Pachl, Hugh Panaro, Christine Pedi, Noah Racey, Rachelle Rak, Alice Ripley, Steve Ross, Emily Skinner, Bobby Steggert, Mary Testa, Lenny Watts, Lari White, Michael Winther, Tom Wopat and Chip Zien.



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