Jessica Vosk, Ben Fankhauser, and More Slated for Next Week at 54 Below

By: Jan. 25, 2018
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Jessica Vosk, Ben Fankhauser, and More Slated for Next Week at 54 Below

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551.

54 SINGS CALAMITY JANE, JANUARY 29 AT 7:00PM & 9:30PM:

Join Broadway veterans, Tally Sessions, Kara Lindsay, Christopher Gurr, Tyler Hanes, two-time Tony Award nominee Brandon Uranowitz, and Calamity Jane herself, Sara Jean Ford, on this madcap adventure through Deadwood City in the musical Calamity Jane!

Set amongst the towering mountains and shoot 'em up saloons, watch as Calamity Jane shoots her way into the hearts of all the colorful town folk and tries to win the heart of the infamous Wild Bill Hickok.

Calamity Jane features a score by Academy Award winners Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster and possesses such great songs as "Everyone Complains About the Weather," "Windy City," "It's Harry I'm Planning to Marry," and many more!

Produced by Robert W Schneider.

Featuring: Asher Dubin (The Body Politic, The Babies), Sara Jean Ford (Cats, Phantom of the Opera), Jenn Gambatese (Tarzan, School of Rock), Christopher Gurr (Cats, Memphis)
Tyler Hanes (Cats, A Chorus Line), Will Hutcheson (Next to Normal, The Music Man), Jeremy Konopka (Spring Awakening, Dogfight), Kara Lindsay (Wicked, Newsies), Scott Mikita (The Phantom of the Opera), Paris Alexander Nesbitt (The Book of Mormon), Will Reynolds (Daddy Long Legs, Passion), Tally Sessions (War Paint, Falsettos), Sean Switzer (The Producers), Brandon Uranowitz (Prince of Broadway, Falsettos), and Sean C White (A Christmas Carol).

$30-$45 cover charge. $65-$75 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

ORFEH & Andy Karl: LEGALLY BOUND, JANUARY 30 AT 7:00PM:

She has a "powerhouse voice" (The New York Times). He is "a theater world heartthrob" (The New York Times). And together Orfeh and Andy Karl have had an impressively long run as one of Broadway's best couples. Before Orfeh leaves to star in Pretty Woman the Musical, Broadway's power couple celebrates the release of their new album with a return engagement of their hit show Legally Bound. The sexy, funny, and enormously talented duo tear through an eclectic mix of pop, rock, rhythm and blues, and show tunes that is sure to excite and delight! Orfeh and Andy will be joined by musical director Steven Jamail, and their band for an unforgettable evening of chart-toppers, show-stoppers, and high belting. Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright.

Special Guests: Raymond J. Lee (Groundhog Day, Honeymoon in Vegas, Anything Goes), and Darius Wright (Pretty Woman: The Musical, A Bronx Tale, Matilda The Musical).

$70-$100 cover charge. VIP seating $105-$125. $135-$160 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

Ben Fankhauser, JANUARY 30, FEBRUARY 22, & FEBRUARY 25 AT 9:30PM:

Ben Fankhauser (Newsies, Spring Awakening, Beautiful) reimagines Broadway standards and pop hits with brand Fankin' new arrangements like you've never heard before. Join Ben and the Fank 5 for an unforgettable evening of your favorite songs, all Fanked up!

The evening will feature the signature big band sound and musical direction of Charlie Rosen, and will include a special guest appearance by Natalie Weiss (Wicked, Everyday Rapture).

$35-$55 cover charge. $75-85 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

Aurora Barnes: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SONDHEIM AND LULLABIES, JANUARY 31 AT 7:00PM:

Aurora Barnes, makes her Feinstein's/54 Below debut in Introducing Aurora Barnes & Friends: Somewhere Between Sondheim & Lullabies - Featuring your Sondheim favorites, folk songs, and even some political banter.

A part of the proceeds go to TADA! Youth Theater. Check out Aurora and special guests, including members of TADA! Youth Theater, and support a wonderful organization, committed to arts and education - much needed in the world today.

Featuring special guests Sasha Allen (NBC's "The Voice," Pippin, Hair, Camp), Ricardo Zayas (Hamilton), members of TADA!'s Resident Youth Ensemble, and more to be announced!

Music Direction by Doyle Newmyer.

$35-$45 cover charge. $75 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

THREE-MAN LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, STARRING THE HEAVYWEIGHTS AND Howard McGillin!, JANUARY 31 AT 9:30PM:

"The Heavyweights" return with their madcap, rambunctious, three-man concert of Little Shop of Horrors, featuring special guest star Howard McGillin (The Phantom of the Opera, Gigi)! Join us for this celebration of storytelling, no matter what size or shape you might be, at Feinstein's/54 Below! These comedic and vocal powerhouses will show you that it doesn't matter what you look like to get the girl, wish the grass was greener, fight the monster, or fall in love.

Music Direction by Steven Cuevas (Kinky Boots).

Featuring: Michael Buchanan (1st National Tour of The Book Of Mormon, Cry-Baby), Jeremy Geller (The Pillsbury Doughboy - Voice, The Great Blueness), and Max Wilcox (Glee, Gigantic).

$30-$40 cover charge. $65 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

Jessica Vosk: BEING GREEN, FEBRUARY 1-3 AT 7:00PM:

After finally getting all of the green out of her hairline from a year on the road as Elphaba in Wicked, Jessica Vosk returns to Feinstein's/54 Below with her all-new show Being Green. Written with her frequent collaborator/director Robbie Rozelle, Jessica will take us on a musical tour of the hilarious highs and lows of starring in the musical phenomenon in an eclectic evening of songs, hilarity, and some very special guest stars. It will be the best time you ever have in your entire life, including the actual day of your birth!

Written by Robbie Rozelle and Jessica Vosk.
Musical Direction and Arrangements by Mary-Mitchell Campbell.
Directed by Robbie Rozelle.

$50-$60 cover charge. $90-$95 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

THE LADIES WHO LUNCH: AN EVENING TO FUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NYC, FEBRUARY 1 AT 9:30PM:

Claire Manship and Friends are proud to bring their celebration of female empowerment, The Ladies Who Lunch: An Evening for Planned Parenthood of NYC, to Feinstein's/54 Below! Directed and produced by Claire Manship and the evening's performers, The Ladies Who Lunch is a night featuring songs that help woman verbalize, vent, and discuss their specific issues, wherein a portion of the proceeds will go to Planned Parenthood of NYC. The Ladies Who Lunch is an exciting evening of fundraising and female empowerment, with music and messages all can relate to. Join us to show your support for this worthy cause and these incredible performers!

Featuring: Trista Dollison (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Bronx Tale), Tessa Grady (Dames At Sea, Cinderella), Emily Schultheis (Wicked), Madison Johnson (The Muny), Brooke Shapiro (My Big Gay Italian Midlife Crisis), Bronwyn Tarboton (Paper Mill Playhouse), Caitlin Humphreys (Beauty and the Beast), Monica Bradley (Paper Mill Playhouse), Katie Moran (North Carolina Theatre), Alexis Kinney (The Island of No Tomorrow), Cassie Austin Taylor (Music Theatre Wichita), Lily Kaufmann (Music Theatre Wichita), Stacie Gogo (Westchester Broadway Theatre), Claire Manship (Music Theatre Wichita), and more!

$25-$35 cover charge. $60 premium seating. $25 food & beverage minimum.

CHRISTIAN DE GRÉ: A DRINK WITH DEATH- VOL. II, FEBRUARY 2 AT 9:30PM:

New York Innovative Theater Award Nominee Christian De Gré (Fatty Fatty No Friends) returns to Feinstein's/54 Below with the second chapter of his dark and twisted, macabre, and hilarious immersive song cycle about the trials and wonders of death.

Hosted by Robb Moreira as La Muerte, and starring a mix of Broadway veterans, Mind The Art Entertainment all stars, and fresh new souls, A Drink with Death leads a group of curiously morbid travelers on a journey to the underbelly of the underworld. Hailed as "Burton-esque, funny and heartbreaking, dark and lighthearted, old school and yet completely modern," join in the drunken celebration of our very own mortality.

Music direction by Trevor Pierce.

Featuring: Dean Cestari, Mollie Craven, Charly Dannis, Matthew Johnson Harris, Claudillea Holloway, Amy Jo Jackson, Josh Jacobson, Tara Martinez, Caitlin Mesiano, Tony Mowatt, Eric Michael Parker, and Vinnie Urdea.

Featuring lyrics from works by: Joseph Reese Anderson, R. Patrick Alberty, Joe Kurtz, Serrana Gay, and Chuk Obasi.

$30-40 cover charge. $70 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

HUMANS OF PUNXASUTAWNEY, FEBRUARY 2 AT 11:30PM:

It's Groundhog Day... again!

After Groundhog Day The Musical's closing in September, original Broadway cast members are reuniting on Groundhog Day to relive their favorite experiences from the Tony-Nominated Best Musical.

The concert is produced and directed by Aviva Sokolow, creator of the popular social media account, Humans of Broadway, and will be accompanied by never-before-heard interviews with your favorite Humans of Punxsutawney.

This one-night-only concert has no intention of repeating itself, so get your tickets and join us for the reunion we all need.

Part of the proceeds will go to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

Featuring: Andy Karl, Kevin Bernard, Michael Fatica, Rebecca Faulkenberry, Katy Geraghty
Jordan Grubb, Taylor Iman Jones, Tari Kelly, Raymond J. Lee, Joseph Medeiros, Sean Montgomery, Jenna Rubaii, John Sanders, Vishal Vaidya, Travis Waldschmidt, and more to be announced! Cast subject to change.

$35 cover charge. $60 premium seating. 2 drink minimum or $20 food & beverage minimum.

Shana Farr: THE SONGBOOK OF Barbara Cook, FEBRUARY 3 AT 9:30PM:

Award-winning performer Shana Farr celebrates the legendary Broadway, concert, and cabaret star, Barbara Cook in her new show It's Not Where You Start: The Songbook of Barbara Cook. This show is one of vocal amazement and stellar interpretation that pays tribute to Barbara Cook and her love of music and lyrics with songs by Bernstein, Hammerstein II, Sondheim, and more. The show exudes warmth and optimism featuring Barbara's signature songs such as "'Til There Was You," "Ice Cream," "This Is All Very New To Me," and Bernstein's astonishing "Glitter and Be Gay" as well as Sondheim greats from Follies, Merrily We Roll Along, and Anyone Can Whistle. It is sure to be an engaging, varied and virtuosic evening of optimism, sophisticated silliness, and life experience!

Music Director: Jon Weber.
Director: Duncan Knowles.

$25-35 cover charge. $50 VIP Seating. $60 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

54 SINGS MEMPHIS, FEBRUARY 4 AT 7:00PM & 9:30PM:

Hock-a-doo!

Feinstein's/54 Below is going to be tearing the roof off the joint when the Tony Award-winning musical, Memphis, returns for one night only in an all-star engagement reuniting members of the original cast plus some Broadway newcomers!

Memphis tells the tale of pioneering deejay Huey Calhoun and his passion to integrate the world of rock and roll in the segregated South of the 1950s. When Huey meets his muse, Felicia, he will stop at nothing to get the world to hear the music of his soul.

Memphis features music by Bon Jovi's David Bryan and lyrics by Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change). This Tony Award winner for Best Musical features such songs as "The Music of My Soul," "Colored Woman," "Memphis Lives In Me," and "Big Love."

Directed and Produced by Robert W Schneider.

Featuring: Joseph Allen (Be More Chill, Something Wicked This Way Comes), Justin Baret (Little Shop of Horrors, West Side Story), Darius Barnes (Memphis, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Brad Bass (Memphis, Jersey Boys, Wicked), Tracee Beazer (Memphis), Tanya Birl (Memphis, On the Town), Ashley Blanchet (Memphis, Frozen, Annie, Beautiful), Felicia Boswell (Memphis, Shuffle Along), James Brown III (Memphis), J. Bernard Calloway (Memphis, All the Way), Cam Cote (The Mollyhouse, Question 1), Kevin Covert (Memphis, Spamalot, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying), Hillary Elk (Memphis), Dionne Figgins (Memphis), Graham Hancock (Be More Chill, American Idiot), Lauren Lim Jackson (Memphis, Pretty Woman, Motown), Tyrone Jackson (The Little Mermaid, Equus, Memphis), John Jellison (Memphis), Chad Kimball (Memphis - Tony Award nomination, Come From Away), Candice Monet McCall (Memphis), Michael McGrath (Memphis, Nice Work If You Can Get It - Tony Award, Spamalot - Tony Award nomination), Cass Morgan (Memphis, The Bridges of Madison County), Sydney Morton (American Psycho, Motown, Evita), Allsun O'Malley (The Light in the Piazza, Avenue Q), Antoine L. Smith (Memphis, The Color Purple, Carousel), Cary Tedder (Memphis, Dames at Sea, A Bronx Tale: The Musical), Charlie Williams (Memphis), and Dan'yelle Williamson (Memphis, Rocky).

$40-$60 cover charge. $80-90 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.

MORE ABOUT FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, is a performance venue in the grand tradition of New York City nightlife. A few blocks from the heart of Times Square and just below the legendary Studio 54, Feinstein's/54 Below is a classically designed state-of-the art nightclub in the theatre district that hosts audiences with warmth and style. Feinstein's/54 Below presents iconic and rising stars from the worlds of Broadway and popular music and has set a new standard for culinary excellence worthy of the world-class entertainment on the stage.

In their description of the venue, The New York Times writes, "Feinstein's/54 Below has the intimacy of a large living room with unimpeded views and impeccable sound; there is not a bad seat in the house. Its sultry after-hours ambience is enhanced by brocade-patterned wall panels planted with orange-shaded lanterns. And the atmosphere is warmer and sexier than in Manhattan's other major supper clubs."

Located at 254 West 54th Street, Feinstein's/54 Below features up to three shows nightly with cover charges ranging from $5-$105. 54Below.com/Feinsteins



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