Charles Bloom News

Concerts for City Greens, the award-winning free outdoor concert series, will present five concerts throughout the summer beginning today, May 30. Produced and hosted by Raissa Katona Bennett, the fifth annual edition of the summer series will showcase the songs of eight songwriters who are the semifinalists in the first Concerts for City Greens Songwriting Contest.

Concerts for City Greens is dedicating four of this summer's free, outdoor concerts to the music of its illustrious song contest judges. The award-winning series, that brings the sounds of music to heart of Midtown, will showcase Amanda McBroom (May 30), Neil Sedaka (August 1), Ann Hampton Callaway (September 12) and Michael John LaChuisa (October 3). These four - plus David Friedman and Matthew Parillo - are serving as judges for the first Concerts for City Greens Songwriting Contest. (The quadruple-platinum songwriter and Today Show regular David Friedman provided the theme of last summer's concert finale, and Matthew Parillo, a two-time Emmy Award-winning MTV Networks executive, has yet to begin his songwriting career.)

Concerts for City Greens, the award-winning free outdoor concert series, will present five concerts throughout the summer beginning Wednesday May 30. Produced and hosted by Raissa Katona Bennett, the fifth annual edition of the summer series will showcase the songs of eight songwriters who are the semifinalists in the first Concerts for City Greens Songwriting Contest.

Musically Human Theatre Productions (MHTP) today announced that 'Our Time II' -- a concert featuring songs by the next generation of theater composers--will be held this Monday, March 12, at 9:30 p.m. at the Duplex, located at 61 Christopher Street in Manhattan. A portion of the evening's proceeds will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Tickets, priced $15 plus a two drink minimum, are available by calling 212-255-5438 or visiting http://www.theduplex.com/~thedup/webcalendar/view_entry.php?id=6320&date=20120312.

Musically Human Theatre Productions (MHTP) today announced that 'Our Time II' -- a concert featuring songs by the next generation of theater composers--will be held this Monday, March 12, at 9:30 p.m. at the Duplex, located at 61 Christopher Street in Manhattan. A portion of the evening's proceeds will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Tickets, priced $15 plus a two drink minimum, are available by calling 212-255-5438 or visiting http://www.theduplex.com/~thedup/webcalendar/view_entry.php?id=6320&date=20120312.

Musically Human Theatre Productions (MHTP) has announced that the second concert in their 'Our Time' series, featuring songs by the next generation of theater composers, will be held on Monday, March 12, at 9:30 p.m. at the Duplex, located at 61 Christopher Street in Manhattan.

Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art September 13, 2011, through March 4, 2012, will explore humorous imagery from the Italian Renaissance to the present.

Performers include Bronte Barbe (BBC's Over the Rainbow), Lucy May Barker (Spring Awakening, Earthquakes in London), Cassidy Janson (Avenue Q, Wicked), Jeremy Legat (Wicked), Gemma Sutton (Oklahoma! National Tour and Imagine This), Michael Peavoy (Hamlet at the National Theatre, Stephen Sondheim Society Young Performer of the Year winner) and Lucy Mills (Austentatious).

The show's associate director Josh Seymour shares his views from behind the scenes...

Performers include Bronte Barbe (BBC's Over the Rainbow), Lucy May Barker (Spring Awakening, Earthquakes in London), Cassidy Janson (Avenue Q, Wicked), Jeremy Legat (Wicked), Gemma Sutton (Oklahoma! National Tour and Imagine This), Michael Peavoy (Hamlet at the National Theatre, Stephen Sondheim Society Young Performer of the Year winner) and Lucy Mills (Austentatious).

Following the success of the original Snappy Title last September, New Musicals Network will present Snappy Title: From the Heart at the Pigalle Club in Piccadilly on Sunday 21st February, 2010.

Kirsty Hoiles, who has spent the summer wowing audiences as the young Viv Nicholson in Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill Theatre, has now joined the all-star cast of Snappy Title, (the charity cabaret at Piccadilly's Pigalle Club in aid of MMD and the Actors' Benefit Club.

The Triad Theatre presents the World Premiere of GOING THROUGH A STAGE: Broadway's Best Sing the Songs of Charles Bloom, a musical journey exploring the quirks, longings and joys we face while going through the stages of our lives, at The Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd Street, 2nd floor, NYC on Mondays, May 18 & 25, 2009 at 7pm.

The Triad Theatre presents the World Premiere of GOING THROUGH A STAGE: Broadway's Best Sing the Songs of Charles Bloom, a musical journey exploring the quirks, longings and joys we face while going through the stages of our lives, at The Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd Street, 2nd floor, NYC on Mondays, May 18 & 25, 2009 at 7pm. Tickets are $10 (plus a two-drink minimum) and reservations are available online at www.triadnyc.com.

The Triad Theatre presents the World Premiere of GOING THROUGH A STAGE: Broadway's Best Sing the Songs of Charles Bloom, a musical journey exploring the quirks, longings and joys we face while going through the stages of our lives, at The Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd Street, 2nd floor, NYC on Mondays, May 18 & 25, 2009 at 7pm.

The Triad Theatre presents the World Premiere of GOING THROUGH A STAGE: Broadway's Best Sing the Songs of Charles Bloom, a musical journey exploring the quirks, longings and joys we face while going through the stages of our lives, at The Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd Street, 2nd floor, NYC on Mondays, May 18 & 25, 2009 at 7pm. Tickets are $10 (plus a two-drink minimum) and reservations are available online at www.triadnyc.com.

The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director), winner of a special 2006 Drama Desk Award for 'Vital contributions to theatre by developing and producing new musicals' will present NEO5, a benefit concert celebrating emerging musical theatre writers, on Monday, April 27 at its home in Saint Peter's Theatre. Following the 8 PM performance featuring the voices of many of today's top musical theatre talent, there will be a champagne and dessert reception to end the evening catered by Kitchenette.