4th Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival Kicks Off TONIGHT 10/17

The critically acclaimed 4th Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival will take place this weekend October 17th, 18th and 19th when The Town Hall (123 West 43 Street) presents a three-day festival of Broadway stars and song. The festival is created, hosted and written by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall.

A concert Tribute to Lerner & Loewe on Friday, October 17th at 8PM features an evening of song and dance. Jeffry Denman (Irving Berlin’s White Christmas) will direct, choreograph and star. He will be joined by other Broadway performers including Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde), Julia Murney (Wicked, The Wild Party), Daniel Reichard (Jersey Boys, Candide), Ron Bohmer (Woman in White), Sarah Jane McMahon (The Pirates of Penzance), Jim Caruso (Liza Minnelli on Tour and opening on Broadway), Douglas Ladnier (award-winning vocalist),  and Special Guest Star Marni Nixon (the singing voice of Audrey Hepburn in Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady). Broadway hoofers will include Erin Denman, Kevin Worley and Lorin Lattaro. Ross Patterson is the musical director.

Colm Wilkinson, the world’s original Jean Valjean, returns to the New York stage for one day more on Saturday, October 18th at 8PM in Broadway & Beyond. Wilkinson, who is making his Town Hall debut, will sing an eclectic program ranging from Broadway favorites by Rodgers & Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber to popular standards by Ray Charles, Leonard Cohen, Muddy Waters and John Lennon. In this exclusive one night only performance, Wilkinson will be backed by a nine-piece orchestra led by music director Steve Hunter.  This long-awaited and much anticipated return to Broadway is the centerpiece of this year’s Broadway Cabaret Festival.

The Broadway Cabaret Festival concludes on Sunday, October 19th at 3 PM with Broadway Originals!  This year, stars from five decades of Broadway history will take the Town Hall stage to perform songs they originated on Broadway or brought back to life in the original cast of a revival. The concert will star Lucie Arnaz (They’re Playing Our Song), Kerry Butler (Little Shop of Horrors, Xanadu, Hairspray) Alan Campbell (Sunset Blvd.), Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde), Alice Ripley (Sunset Boulevard, Rocky Horror, The Dead, Side Show, etc.), Alli Mauzey (Cry-Baby), Gary Beach (La Cage aux Folles) Karen Morrow (I Had a Ball), Stephen Mo Hanan (Cats), D’Jamin Bartlett (A Little Night Music), Pam Myers (Company), Chuck Cooper (Caroline or Change), Bobby Steggert (110 in the Shade), Michael Arden (The Times They Are A-Changin’), Rita Gardner (The Fantasticks), Joan Copeland (Pal Joey revival), Jerry Lanning (Mame), Cheryl Freeman (Tommy), Terri White (Barnum) and Liz Callaway (The Look of Love). Directed by Dan Foster, the show has musical direction by John Fischer.
 
'Five decades of Broadway history will be represented in this unique concert' said Siegel. 'Every decade from the 1960s to the present will be heard on The Town Hall stage on Sunday afternoon. I'm particularly delighted to welcome the Tony nominated star of Jekyll& Hyde, Robert Cuccioli, to the Town Hall stage in both the Tribute to Lerner & Loewe concert on Friday and the Broadway Originals! concert on Sunday.I 'm thrilled that this year,we were are working with  incredible stars as Gary Beach, Alice Ripley, Karen Morrow, Kerry Butler, Cheryl Freeman, and Lucie Arnaz.  Among recent Broadway standouts, it's a kick to get Bobby Steggert from the recent revival of 110in the Shade, Michael Arden who starred in The Times They Are A-Changin', and Alli Mauzey from Cry-Baby.'

This all Broadway weekend will take place at historic Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Tickets can still be bought either for individual shows ($55 per show) or you can subscribe to the entire weekend ($150 – save $15 and get choice seats). Individual tickets are available at the Box Office or through TicketMaster at 212-307-4100 or at TicketMaster.com. For subscriptions, call 212-997-1003.

Photo Credit Linda Lenzi

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