Story-oke: Sing and Tell at Caveat

Part karaoke, part confessional. STORY-OKE is a karaoke storytelling show which invites performers and audience members alike to share a story about their personal connection to a song - or the song itself - then sing the hell out of it!

We have stories about songs and songs about stories - from stars of comedy, Broadway, film, television, opera and the downtown stage! Plus, whatever you, our audience, want to share with the class!

Submit your story and song here: https://forms.gle/FTcQC8LvBJpv2VoY7

Song Lists here: https://www.karafun.com/karaoke-song-list.html

Hosted by Shyap*rn Theerakulstit (Song Sung Blue, Nerd Nite, Peer Revue)

FEATURING:
Brian Morabito (And Scene, Drunk Planet Earth)
Emily Baker (Antique Jokeshow)
Lee Harrington (Where'd You go Bernadette)
Kofi Hayford (Carnegie Hall)

... and viewers like YOU.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:

BRIAN MORABITO is an actor and comedian from New York and does not have any formal dog massage training. He has a BFA from Carnegie Mellon, studied animal behavior at Columbia and taught mixed martial arts for three years. He is also transitioning to using his middle name, so we'll see how that goes. He has been in UCBNY house sketch and improv teams for many years, and now performs on their monthly Assketch show. He is the creator and host of NY's longest running animal drinking show Drunk Planet Earth, as well as a principal performer on one of New York's highest profile improv shows And Scene at Caveat Theater. He is best known for his 'Museum Tours' on social media with over a million followers, improvising voice overs on the spot for paintings in museums around the world (but usually the MET.)

LEE HARRINGTON is originally from Fayetteville, Arkansas and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in musical theatre. Credits include Merrily We Roll Along (Cincinnati Playhouse), Man of La Mancha (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) and Company (Pittsburgh Public). She can be seen in Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go Bernadette opposite Cate Blanchett and Last Flag Flying opposite Bryan Cranston. TV: Gone (NBC). Her solo play, Jellybean, has appeared at Carnegie Mellon, the PIT, Theatre Row, The Fringe Festival and most recently at the Irondale Ensemble Project.

EMILY BAKER has appeared at Caveat in Antique Jokeshow - a history-themed comedy show, The Earth is Flat and Other Facts, Friends with Caveats, Dirty Shirley, Lemonade and is the co host of @flopsaucemic. She is also pretty and a notary public,

KOFI HAYFORD is a prize-winning British Ghanaian-American bass, acclaimed for his “impressive,” “sonorous,” and “stentorian” voice, as well as a distinctive timbre that makes his sound immediately recognizable. He has performed more than 40 operatic roles and appeared in concerts and productions with organizations including the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Fort Worth Opera, Indianapolis Opera, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others. A double laureate of the 2024 Grand Voix Lyrique d’Afrique International Competition, Hayford made his mainstage Carnegie Hall debut at Stern Hall in May 2024 as the bass soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. His performances have drawn enthusiastic, sold-out audiences from the Arctic Circle to the Caribbean, and across Europe and Africa. Recent highlights include a six-city concert tour in France; a concert tour of Martinique and another in Canada; appearances at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Auditorium with AfterArts; the bass soloist role in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the United Nations Orchestra; and his Lincoln Center mainstage debut at Alice Tully Hall in September 2025 with the Manhattan Philharmonic Society, performing a major Mandarin-language work centered on the Yellow River.

SHYAp*rn THEERAKULSTIT is an actor, writer, fake scientist, cosplayer, lapsed YouTuber and general “nerd about town.” He has appeared at Caveat with his presentations, "Godzilla: History, Biology and Behavior of Hyper-Evolved Theropod Kaiju" and “How to Become the Batman,” as well as the slide improv show Peer Revue, Vocabaret and The Earth is Flat, a conspiracy comedy show. He has lectured at Nerd Nite, TEDx and the Smithsonian, produced and written for Dark Horse Comics, and could last be seen off-Broadway playing Admiral Kirk in “Khan!!! The Musical!” as well as such shows as The Flight Attendant and Girls5eva. He is in the Oscar-nominated film, "Song Sung Blue," singing Neil Diamond songs alongside Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, currently on streaming. Yet never once on Law and Order.