George Gershwin News

SIRIUS XM Radio announced today that Liza Minnelli will guest host Playing Favorites on Siriusly Sinatra, the SIRIUS XM channel that plays music by Frank Sinatra and the greatest singers of all time. Playing Favorites featuring Liza Minnelli will be broadcast on SIRIUS channel 75 and XM channel 73 on Monday, February 9 at 6 pm ET.

Award-winning Broadway, concert and recording star KT Sullivan sings the songs of the Great White Way in her upcoming show, Colored Lights, at the Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko Monday, Feb 9 and Tues, Feb 10th. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased at www.therrazzroom.com or directly through ticketweb.com or at 866 468 3399. Using her own Broadway and off-Broadway experiences as a departure point, Ms. Sullivan performs a century of musical theater gems including selections from Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Lerner & Lowe, Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim and Adam Guetel. The show?TMs New York run at the Algonquin consistently sold out and earned Sullivan rave reviews from the critics. One of the nation's most in-demand interpreters of the American popular songbook, KT has been a regular headliner at the Oak Room of New York?TMs Algonquin Hotel since 1992. She has performed all over the world, from Town Hall in New York, Live on the Park in London, La Nouvelle Eve in Paris, and The Chichester Festival in the U.K Presented a MAC Award for Outstanding Female Vocalist, KT has seven albums in worldwide distribution. Her CD Crazy World was voted #1 in the vocals category of Pulse Magazine and Live From Rainbow and Stars: The Songs of Bart Howard, won Backstage Magazine?TMs Bistro Award. Her latest CD is A Swell Party, RSVP Cole Porter with Mark Nadler and saxophonist Loren Schoenberg. Ms. Sullivan's Broadway shows include George Abbott's Broadway and the lead role in the revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She also appeared in the workshop production of Easter Parade with Tommy Tune and off-Broadway in Splendora and A My Name is Still Alice. She received Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations and a MAC Award for American Rhapsody: George Gershwin to the World, which she co-wrote and starred with Mark Nadler.

Keith Lockhart and The Boston Pops will kick off its 2009 season at Symphony Hall with a gala concert on May 6 and 7 featuring Tony Award winner Barbara Cook. Lockhart is celebrating his 15th season as conductor with the Pops.

SIRIUS XM Radio announced today that Liza Minnelli will guest host Playing Favorites on Siriusly Sinatra, the SIRIUS XM channel that plays music by Frank Sinatra and the greatest singers of all time. Playing Favorites featuring Liza Minnelli will be broadcast on SIRIUS channel 75 and XM channel 73 on Monday, February 9 at 6 pm ET.

On Tuesday, February 3rd, beloved star of stage and screen Nathan Lane, celebrated his birthday at The Cafe Carlyle in Manhattan by taking in a performance of Christine Ebersole's acclaimed cabaret concert. Ms. Ebersole sang 'Happy Birthday' to Mr. Lane in the style of Marilyn Monroe. Also in attendance at the event were Rupert Everett, Michael Blakemore, Rob Ashford, Chris Noth, Anne Kaufman Schneider (playwright George S. Kaufman's daughter), Scott Wittman and Andrea Martin.

New York critics and theatre audiences fell under the spell of Liza Minnelli's unmatchable magic when she returned to Broadway's legendary Palace Theatre and played a recent sell-out engagement. Now, music lovers around the world will get the same chance when 'Liza's at the Palace....' the new original cast recording of her incomparable show will be released on February 3rd (Hybrid Recordings).

Starting February 3rd with a kick-off signing event at the Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble store, 'Liza's At The Palace....' will be available wherever fine music is sold, for the suggested retail list price of $19.98.

Tony winner and theatre legend Barbara Cook will play a new engagement at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency from April 14 - May 2, 2009.

SHEERA BEN-DAVID, acclaimed as 'an exciting and provocative vocalist' by United Press International and 'a fully-developed dramatic singer who delivers the goods on several counts' by The New York Times, will return to the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel with an exclusive return engagement from February 24 to March 7. Her new show 'Let Me Sing And I'm Happy' will celebrate the new year with an eclectic mix of classic standards by George Gershwin ('Nice Work If You Can Get It'), Harold Arlen ('Ill Wind') and Harry Warren ('Zing A Little Zong') along with popular hits by Stevie Wonder ('Sir Duke'), ABBA ('Thank You For The Music') and John Denver ('Perhaps Love').

Due to popular demand, Two-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will continue her critically-acclaimed engagement at the legendary Caf? Carlyle. Originally scheduled for an exclusive two-week engagement (January 20-31), Ms. Ebersole will now perform 8 additional performances beginning Tuesday, February 3rd and playing through Thursday, February 11th. The evening includes songs by Rodgers & Hart, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Stephen Foster, Cole Porter - and even a little bit of opera. John Oddo (Musical Director) leads a quartet. Tony Award-winner Scott Wittman directs.

Award-winning Broadway, concert and recording star KT Sullivan sings the songs of the Great White Way in her upcoming show, Colored Lights, at the Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko Monday, Feb 9 and Tues, Feb 10th. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased at www.therrazzroom.com or directly through ticketweb.com or at 866 468 3399. Using her own Broadway and off-Broadway experiences as a departure point, Ms. Sullivan performs a century of musical theater gems including selections from Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Lerner & Lowe, Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim and Adam Guetel. The show?TMs New York run at the Algonquin consistently sold out and earned Sullivan rave reviews from the critics. One of the nation's most in-demand interpreters of the American popular songbook, KT has been a regular headliner at the Oak Room of New York?TMs Algonquin Hotel since 1992. She has performed all over the world, from Town Hall in New York, Live on the Park in London, La Nouvelle Eve in Paris, and The Chichester Festival in the U.K Presented a MAC Award for Outstanding Female Vocalist, KT has seven albums in worldwide distribution. Her CD Crazy World was voted #1 in the vocals category of Pulse Magazine and Live From Rainbow and Stars: The Songs of Bart Howard, won Backstage Magazine?TMs Bistro Award. Her latest CD is A Swell Party, RSVP Cole Porter with Mark Nadler and saxophonist Loren Schoenberg. Ms. Sullivan's Broadway shows include George Abbott's Broadway and the lead role in the revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She also appeared in the workshop production of Easter Parade with Tommy Tune and off-Broadway in Splendora and A My Name is Still Alice. She received Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations and a MAC Award for American Rhapsody: George Gershwin to the World, which she co-wrote and starred with Mark Nadler.

Tony Desare tunes in to the Golden Era of radio on New Telarc CD 'RADIO SHOW', spanning decades of Swing, Jazz, and Pop. Featuring special guests Jame Monheit and bucky Pizzarelli. In stores and online January 20, 2009. For most of the 20th century, well before the dawn of the digital age, radio was the primary channel for popular music of every kind. More than just a means to transmit sound on a wave to remote locations, radio created an intimate entertainment experience, a fraternal atmosphere wherein the music and everyone associated with it became a friend to the listener.

Beethoven, As I Knew Him will be performed in Tucson from April 8 -27, 2009 and in Phoenix from May 7 - 24, 2009.

Josh Kornbluth, the renowned playwright, performer and former host of KQED TV's 'The Josh Kornbluth Show,' will debut his new one-man show, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum on January 10, 2009.

Starting February 3rd with a kick-off signing event at the Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble store, 'Liza's At The Palace....' will be available wherever fine music is sold, for the suggested retail list price of $19.98.

New York critics and theatre audiences fell under the spell of Liza Minnelli's unmatchable magic when she returned to Broadway's legendary Palace Theatre and played a recent sell-out engagement. Now, music lovers around the world will get the same chance when 'Liza's at the Palace....' the new original cast recording of her incomparable show will be released on February 3rd (Hybrid Recordings).

Due to a bad cold, Tony Award winner Barbara Cook has rescheduled her performance and CD signing at Barnes and Noble to January 6, 2009. At that time Cook will sing selected sings from her new album 'Rainbow Round My Shoulder,' accompanied by her musical director, Lee Musiker.

BARBARA COOK in conversation with Steven Sorrentino featuring musical performances from her new CD, Rainbow Round My Shoulder, with Lee Musiker as music director. Tuesday, January 6, 7:30pm, Barnes and Noble Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street

BARBARA COOK in conversation with Steven Sorrentino featuring musical performances from her new CD, Rainbow Round My Shoulder, with Lee Musiker as music director. Tuesday, January 6, 7:30pm, Barnes and Noble Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street

Back in Pictures celebrates the songs that were originally written for the masterpieces of the Golden Age of Hollywood, featuring music from Casablanca, Easter Parade, A Star Is Born, Pennies From Heaven, Disney, Meet Me In St. Louis, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, The Wizard of Oz and many more. Back in Pictures is showing at the Reprise Room, 245 West 54th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue, New York, from April 7, 2008 through January 5, 2009.