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Acclaimed, award winning pop vocal group Uptown Express ® celebrates the release of their new CD 'Take You There' with a concert performance on Wednesday, June 23 at 6:00pm at Barnes & Noble's Lincoln Triangle location, 1972 Broadway, New York. They will be joined and accompanied by their musical director and arranger James Followell and his band. After the performance, they will be selling and signing CDs. For further information call (212) 595-6859 or visit www.bn.com or www.UptownExpressNYC.org. The group is the winner of Backstage Magazine's Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocal Group and the recipient of multiple MAC Award nominations.

Acclaimed, award winning pop vocal group Uptown Express ® celebrates the release of their new CD 'Take You There' with a concert performance on Wednesday, June 23 at 6:00pm at Barnes & Noble's Lincoln Triangle location, 1972 Broadway, New York. They will be joined and accompanied by their musical director and arranger James Followell and his band. After the performance, they will be selling and signing CDs. For further information call (212) 595-6859 or visit www.bn.com or www.UptownExpressNYC.org. The group is the winner of Backstage Magazine's Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocal Group and the recipient of multiple MAC Award nominations.

The critically-acclaimed show, Brand New Day, returns to the Metropolitan Room for three more shows this Fall.

Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and what's coming up in the world of cabaret (and sometimes beyond!) This week's column features Kathleen France at the Metropolitan Room, Rob Langeder 'Undead in Hell's Kitchen' and more!

The critically-acclaimed show, Brand New Day, returns to the Metropolitan Room for three more shows this Fall.

The critically-acclaimed show, Brand New Day, returns to the Metropolitan Room for three more shows this Fall.

The critically-acclaimed show, Brand New Day, returns to the Metropolitan Room for three more shows this Fall.

Julie Wilson Award winner Jennifer Sheehan makes her Laurie Beechman Theatre debut celebrating the upcoming 100th birthday of The Great American Songbook. After all, its first chapter was written in 1910, with the publication of Shelton Brooks's 'Some of These Days,' a song that experts regard as the first modern American standard!

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Julie Wilson Award winner Jennifer Sheehan makes her Laurie Beechman Theatre debut celebrating the upcoming 100th birthday of The Great American Songbook. After all, its first chapter was written in 1910, with the publication of Shelton Brooks's 'Some of These Days,' a song that experts regard as the first modern American standard!

Julie Wilson Award winner Jennifer Sheehan makes her Laurie Beechman Theatre debut celebrating the upcoming 100th birthday of The Great American Songbook. After all, its first chapter was written in 1910, with the publication of Shelton Brooks's 'Some of These Days,' a song that experts regard as the first modern American standard!

The critically-acclaimed show, Brand New Day, returns to the Metropolitan Room for three more shows this Fall.

Julie Wilson Award winner Jennifer Sheehan makes her Laurie Beechman Theatre debut celebrating the upcoming 100th birthday of The Great American Songbook. After all, its first chapter was written in 1910, with the publication of Shelton Brooks's 'Some of These Days,' a song that experts regard as the first modern American standard!

Uptown Express ushers in an era of hope with a ?soup to nuts? tour of great pop music, from the 2008 Jason Mraz hit ?I?m Yours? to the 1938 ?Sing For Your Supper.? In between, they will lift you up with music from The Temptations, Erasure, Dusty Springfield, The Crew Cuts, Madonna, The Beatles and much more. This all-new show promises to raise your spirits with the optimistic sounds of a Brand New Day!

Uptown Express ushers in an era of hope with a ?soup to nuts? tour of great pop music, from the 2008 Jason Mraz hit ?I?m Yours? to the 1938 ?Sing For Your Supper.? In between, they will lift you up with music from The Temptations, Erasure, Dusty Springfield, The Crew Cuts, Madonna, The Beatles and much more. This all-new show promises to raise your spirits with the optimistic sounds of a Brand New Day!

On Wednesday, September 10th, New York's favorite five-part harmony guys, Uptown Express, offered a live performance at New York's Barnes & Nobel Lincoln Sqaure location. The program featured musical numbers featured on Uptown Express' new CD, 'Walk Like a Man.'

The American Musicals Project (AMP), a creative educational curriculum that promotes the study of history and English through musical theater to seventh and eighth grade students, presents a month-full of marvelous show tune and concerts, featuring the best of Broadway actors and veterans. Tributes to John Kander and Fred Ebb, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman and Noel Coward.

Uptown Express is kicking off the holiday season with two performances of 'Red, Hot & Xmas' on Sunday, December 16 at 7PM and Thursday, December 20 at 7:30PM at the Metropolitan Room

On July 16th, the acclaimed Broadway star made his cabaret debut in 'Martin Vidnovic: What Matters To Me' at the Metropolitan Room

Karen Mason, Richard Skipper and others will help to ring in the holidays with two evenings of pop, jazz and comedy in 'Seasons of Love' on November 29th and November 30th