Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS launched the 22nd Annual GYPSY OF THE YEAR COMPETITION yesterday, December 6 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The competition continues today. The proceeds from the event, a dazzling once-a-year variety show filled with lavish musical numbers, original skits and Broadway stars, will benefit BC/EFA. This year's GYPSY OF THE YEAR is being hosted by Broadway personality Seth Rudetsky ('Seth's Big Fat Broadway' on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio).
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has just wrapped the 22nd Annual GYPSY OF THE YEAR COMPETITION at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The competition began yesterday, December 6. The proceeds from the event, a dazzling once-a-year variety show filled with lavish musical numbers, original skits and Broadway stars, will benefit BC/EFA. This year's GYPSY OF THE YEAR was hosted by Broadway personality Seth Rudetsky ('Seth's Big Fat Broadway' on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio).
The results are in and the grand total raised for BC/EFA amongst Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring shows is $3,776,720!
Didn't get your tickets yet to the amazing GYPSY OF THE YEAR 22 Event? You can still buy 'em at the door. If you've never been, they really are amazing, poignant and fun-filled afternoons that pay tribute to those working their butts off onstage and off fundraising for BC/EFA.... Hope to see you there!
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will present the 22nd Annual GYPSY OF THE YEAR COMPETITION on Monday, December 6 (4:30 PM) and Tuesday, December 7 (2 PM) at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 W. 42nd Street). The proceeds from the event, a dazzling once-a-year variety show filled with lavish musical numbers, original skits and Broadway stars, will benefit BC/EFA.
Well today, Dear Readers was one helluva day! A group of spectacular shows and aside from a few interesting conversations I had with true New Yorkers on the bus, not a lot of time for anything else but shows since I was seeing three of them. So let's dive right in shall we?
In this new weekly panel/matchmaking comedy show, host J. Keith van Straaten ('Beat The Geeks,' 'What's My Line? - Live On Stage') welcomes celebrity guests and real single Angelenos looking for love. Two strangers will be fixed up on a date, live on stage! Fresh from its hit run in New York City, where Celebrity guests included Dick Cavett, Jeff Garlin, Eve Plumb, and Aasif Mandvi, guests for this run will be announced shortly. Updated info available at www.thefixupshow.com.
Abigail Grotke... a real-life person named Abigail Grotke... has been collecting vintage books on relationship advice for 25 years, amassing over a thousand volumes published from 1822 to 1978, with titles such as The Unfair Sex, She Cooks to Conquer, How to Get a Teen-Age Boy and What To Do With Him When You Get Him and A Virtuous Woman: Sex Life in Relation to the Christian Life. In her archival website, Miss Abigail's Time Warp Advice, questions like, 'Is a man abnormal if he likes art and dislikes sports,' are answered by quoting the wisdom of experts like Fred Brown and Rudolf T. Kempton, authors of 1950's Sex Questions and Answers: A Guide to Happy Marriage ('Every normal man has a bit of woman in him and every woman contains some of the male in her personality.').
Perhaps not content with merely being the best comic actress on the New York stage, Jan Maxwell follows her hilarious turns in last season's revivals of The Royal Family and Lend Me A Tenor by refreshing her dramatic chops a with a riveting, edge of your seat performance in John Doyle's senses-tingling production of Arthur Kopit's 1978 drama, Wings.
In this new weekly panel/matchmaking comedy show, host J. Keith van Straaten ('Beat The Geeks,' 'What's My Line? - Live On Stage') welcomes celebrity guests and real single Angelenos looking for love. Two strangers will be fixed up on a date, live on stage! Fresh from its hit run in New York City, where Celebrity guests included Dick Cavett, Jeff Garlin, Eve Plumb, and Aasif Mandvi, guests for this run will be announced shortly. Updated info available at www.thefixupshow.com.
Calling all mingling singles, dating disasters, mating mavens and nuptial know-it-alls-Miss Abigail is in town! After a successful run at The David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center), Ken Davenport will present the New York City premiere of Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage (www.MissAbigailsGuide.com). The open-ended engagement began previews on October 7, with its opening night last night, Sunday, October 24, 2010, at the Downstairs Cabaret Theater at Sofia's (221 West 46th Street, next to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre).
Calling all mingling singles, dating disasters, mating mavens and nuptial know-it-alls-Miss Abigail is in town! After a successful run at The David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center), Ken Davenport will present the New York City premiere of Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage (www.MissAbigailsGuide.com). The open-ended engagement began previews on October 7, with its opening night last night, Sunday, October 24, 2010, at the Downstairs Cabaret Theater at Sofia's (221 West 46th Street, next to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre).
Calling all mingling singles, dating disasters, mating mavens and nuptial know-it-alls-Miss Abigail is coming to town! After a successful run at The David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center), Ken Davenport will present the New York City premiere of Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage (www.MissAbigailsGuide.com). The open-ended engagement began previews on October 7, with opening night set for tonight, Sunday, October 24, 2010, at the Downstairs Cabaret Theater at Sofia's (221 West 46th Street, next to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre).
With divorce rates soaring and golf clubs flying (cough, cough, Tiger Woods), now is the perfect time for Miss Abigail to bring her expert relationship advice to New York City in Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage!
Theater producer Ken Davenport announced today that Manuel Herrera has been cast to co-star alongside actress Eve Plumb in the New York City premiere of Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, & Marriage! (www.MissAbigailsGuide.com).
With divorce rates soaring and golf clubs flying (cough, cough, Tiger Woods), now is the perfect time for Miss Abigail to bring her expert relationship advice to New York City in Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage!
What is better than adding your own flair to the set of Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage? Getting a discount off your admission ticket for doing so! Theater producer Ken Davenport has announced today that from Monday, September 27, through Friday, October 1, those who drop off a hard-cover book at the Davenport Theatrical Enterprises offices (250 West 49th Street, Suite 301) will find their heirloom decorating the stage of his newest production starring The Brady Bunch's Eve Plumb as Miss Abigail.
What is better than adding your own flair to the set of Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage? Getting a discount off your admission ticket for doing so! Theater producer Ken Davenport has announced today that from Monday, September 27, through Friday, October 1, those who drop off a hard-cover book at the Davenport Theatrical Enterprises offices (250 West 49th Street, Suite 301) will find their heirloom decorating the stage of his newest production starring The Brady Bunch's Eve Plumb as Miss Abigail.
Theater producer Ken Davenport announced today that Manuel Herrera has been cast to co-star alongside actress Eve Plumb in the New York City premiere of Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, & Marriage! (www.MissAbigailsGuide.com).
A DAY AT DILLER'S ... Broadway, Screen and Comedic Icon Phyllis Diller Opens Up Her Estate. 'You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type,' says Phyllis Diller, who at 93 is still entertaining audiences everywhere... even in her own home.
