MERMAN'S APPRENTICE Performance & CD Release Set for Birdland
By: Tyler Peterson
"Merman's Apprentice," starring Klea Blackhurst, Anita Gillette, Fred Applegate, Elizabeth Teeter & more, will play Birdland on Mon, January 18, 2016. Doors: 5:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm.
Merman's Apprentice is a tuneful new musical comedy about childhood, parents, Broadway, and Ethel Merman. Who could ask for anything more?
CD's will be available.
General Seat Tickets; $25.00 (There is a $10.00 food or beverage minimum per person, per show. Dinner is served)
Please email cw@birdlandjazz.com for reservations or by calling 1- 212- 581- 3080
The evening will be a return engagement of June 2015's sold out concert of "Merman's Apprentice " by Stephen Cole & David Evans celebrating the release of the Original Cast Album produced by John Yap for Jay Records! Once again, Birdland favorite Klea Blackhurst will star as Ethel Merman with a star-studded supporting cast lead by Tony Nominee Anita Gillette, Fred Applegate, Bill Nolte, Adam Grupper, Eddie Korbich, Brian Charles Rooney, F. Michael Haynie, Desi Oakley, Sarah Sessler, a six piece band with orchestrations by Lynne Shankel, led by Lawrence Yurman, and featuring 13 year old Elizabeth Teeter as Muriel Plakenstein. Picture it: 1970. The Golden Age of Musical Theatre is drawing to an end. But twelve-year-old Muriel Plakenstein doesn't know that. So she runs away from home to become a Broadway star, and meets the Queen of Broadway, Ethel Merman, who takes her to a Hello, Dolly! rehearsal where they sing together. When legendary producer David Merrick hears the kid, he decides to star Muriel in the first all-child cast of Dolly! Naturally, Merman takes her under wing to teach her the ropes of being a star...making little Muriel Plakenstein Merman's Apprentice.Photo by Kevin Alvey
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