Raue Center is excited to welcome Lisa Rock and her six-piece band as they pay tribute to the music of Karen and Richard Carpenter in "Close to You: The Music of The Carpenters" at 7 p.m. on December 30, 2016. The show will include holiday classics like "Merry Christmas, Darling" and "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" alongside the music of The Carpenters for a unique and unforgettable end of the year!
This ravishing song has an interesting history. The lyric was written in 1946 by a nineteen-year old Frank Pooler, as a gift to a girlfriend he was missing. Twenty years later, a nineteen-year old Richard Carpenter set it to music. In four years, this recording by The Carpenters went to #1, which it did for three consecutive holiday seasons. It sounds as fresh today as it did in 1970, partly because of Richard's lush arrangement and backup vocals, and that famous tenor sax solo. But honestly, it's all about Karen. For my money, Karen Carpenter had one of the warmest and truest voices in the history of popular music. Sometimes the universe makes a terrible mistake and we lose someone way too soon…long before they've finished. That's how I feel about Karen Carpenter.
Each holiday season, many folks find their thoughts wandering back to home. And whether home is a small, familiar house just around the corner, a small town somewhere across the country, or on the other side of an ocean, the season invariably invokes images of a more idyllic reality than the one we know; replete with a loving family nestled around the Christmas tree, or gathered around a warm hearth, taking refuge from the wintry conditions outside with some hot cocoa, and enjoying each other's company.
With Texas twin fiddles and boogie piano, great vocals and sizzling guitars, Ray Benson's Asleep at the Wheel is a 10-time Grammy winning band serving up the very best in western swing and distinctive Wheel favorites, plus a program full of tunes from their all new Christmas collection, Lone Star Christmas Night. Expect melodies like 'Christmas in Cowtown,' 'Baby It's Cold Outside,' 'Deck the Halls Boogie,' 'What Child Is This' and 'Merry Texas Christmas Y'all,' - all with group founder and lead Ray Bensen's inimitable talent and twinkling spirit and the enormous talents of his eight-member band, including the fresh styles of Katie Shore (fiddle, vocals), Dennis Ludiker (fiddle, mandolin) and Connor Forsyth (keyboard, vocals).
Raue Center is excited to welcome Lisa Rock and her six-piece band as they pay tribute to the music of Karen and Richard Carpenter in "Close to You: The Music of The Carpenters" at 7 p.m. on December 30, 2016. The show will include holiday classics like "Merry Christmas, Darling" and "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" alongside the music of The Carpenters for a unique and unforgettable end of the year!
The Children's Hour, Lillian Hellman's startingly relevant Depression-era play opens at The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) on January 12. Director Rachel Walshe (Grizzly Mama, Marie Antoinette) directs a cast of Gamm veteran actors and newcomers, including local high school students, in an emotional journey exploring the power of a lie and the nature of public shaming.
Ultimate Divas of Stage, Screen and Popular music, Barbra, Bette and Bernadette have made their mark from the Baths to Broadway and beyond! With their fifth collaboration, Girls Like Us (Cabaret favorites Laura Freeman, Beckie Menzie and Marianne Murphy Orland), bring you the music and lives of Streisand, Midler and Peters with humor, history and song.
From Branson to Las Vegas, showman Johnny Rogers is in the business of bringing yesteryear's music and history of rock 'n' roll to life with his outstanding music tribute to the great Buddy Holly and legends beyond.
Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Beth Henley will be honored with the William Inge Distinguished Achievement in American Theater Award at the 36th William Inge Theater Festival at Independence Community College, Kansas, April 19-22, 2017.
Raue Center For The Arts is excited to announce the return of Lisa Rock and her six-piece band as they pay tribute to the music of Karen and Richard Carpenter in "Close to You: The Music of The Carpenters" at 7 p.m. on October 30, 2016.
92nd Street Y, in association with Daryl Roth, announced today that the beloved play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which ran Off Broadway from September 2009 through March 2012, will return for one-night-only on Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 8 PM at the 92Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall.
Ultimate Divas of Stage, Screen and Popular music, Barbra, Bette and Bernadette have made their mark from the Baths to Broadway and beyond! With their fifth collaboration, Girls Like Us (Cabaret favorites Laura Freeman, Beckie Menzie and Marianne Murphy Orland), bring you the music and lives of Streisand, Midler and Peters with humor, history and song.
Manhattan Theatre Works and Goode Productions in association with The Theater at the 14th Street Y, present ANAIS NIN GOES TO HELL by David Stallings, directed by Antonio Minino. Performances begin tonight and continue through Saturday, October 29th, 2016 at The Theater at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003). BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Beat the show crowds and get the best views now by calling the Spencer at 575.336.4800 or 888.818.7872 for ticket information and orders, or go to www.spencertheater.com. Get your season tickets now! The theater accepts orders on paper or by web at any time; the orders will be processed beginning September 7. Also on September 7 phone orders and single ticket sales are accepted. Series tickets (four or more shows) will be processed beginning September 6. Call the Spencer Theater at 575.336.4800 or go online to www.spencertheater.com.
They say that home is where the heart is, and this show, with Musical Direction by Steven Ray Watkins and Direction by Lennie Watts proves just that. With a wide range of music, from Cyndi Lauper, to Jerry Herman, and The Muppets to The Spice Girls Castillo will make you feel right at home! Backup vocals by award winning vocalist Karen Mack and MAC award nominee Wendy Ann Russell.
The new musical WALLENBERG will receive a developmental lab this fall in New York City, directed by Tony-winning ANNIE lyricist Martin Charnin.
Raue Center For The Arts is excited to announce the return of Lisa Rock and her six-piece band as they pay tribute to the music of Karen and Richard Carpenter in "Close to You: The Music of The Carpenters" at 7 p.m. on October 30, 2016.
Beat the show crowds and get the best views now by calling the Spencer at 575.336.4800 or 888.818.7872 for ticket information and orders, or go to www.spencertheater.com. Get your season tickets now! The theater accepts orders on paper or by web at any time; the orders will be processed beginning September 7. Also on September 7 phone orders and single ticket sales are accepted. Series tickets (four or more shows) will be processed beginning September 6. Call the Spencer Theater at 575.336.4800 or go online to www.spencertheater.com.
You can feel the standing ovation building the second they start working their way through 30 hit songs that the audience sings along with gleefully. I saw the production the second weekend, and already audience members were proclaiming to others 'This is my THIRD time!'
According to an Equity notice, new musical WALLENBERG will receive a developmental lab this fall in New York City, directed by Tony-winning ANNIE lyricist Martin Charnin.
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