Nat "King" Cole News

As we move on into the New Year, I hope your list of resolutions includes taking in some theatre at one of our California Central Coast live performance venues!

On December 17 at Kean University, Liberty Hall Museum collected nearly 500 toys and a donation of $1,000 and delivered them to the U.S. Marines Toys for Tots Foundation in Edison, NJ.

For nearly five decades, Michael Jackson and his music affected and moved generations of people all over the world. His accomplishments as an entertainer were unprecedented, he embodied the definition of a superstar and his music is intimately intertwined with some of the most memorable moments of our lives.

Joe Chambers and M'Boom Re-percussion Concert and Clinic/Demonstration Thursday, December 9th 9:30 a.m. Chester High School, Chester, Pa.

Hello Dere starring Marty Allen & Karon Kate Blackwell Wednesday, December 8th 8:00 p.m

Nine-time Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter and performer Natalie Cole makes her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut with big band accompaniment, Wednesday, December 8, 2010, singing classic R&B and American standards.

UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. (www.UnsungMusicals.org) will present a special exploratory reading of the 1947 musical comedy Barefoot Boy With Cheek on January 14 at 3pm as the launch of its new initiative: The Archival Project.

Come on and sing! It's Irving Berlin - the Russian immigrant who transformed American music with some of the greatest popular songs ever written - who gets the SING! SING! SING! "sing-in" treatment with Isn't This A Lovely Day? - The Songs Of Irving Berlin on Tuesday, December 7th (2010) at 7 p.m. at The Triad, 158 West 72nd Street in New York City.

For nearly five decades, Michael Jackson and his music affected and moved generations of people all over the world. His accomplishments as an entertainer were unprecedented, he embodied the definition of a superstar and his music is intimately intertwined with some of the most memorable moments of our lives.

Hello Dere starring Marty Allen & Karon Kate Blackwell Wednesday, December 8th 8:00 p.m

Nine-time Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter and performer Natalie Cole makes her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut with big band accompaniment, Wednesday, December 8, 2010, singing classic R&B and American standards.

The David Berger Jazz Orchestra - the acclaimed band featured in the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and PBS TV - recently released their latest CD, 'Sing Me A Love Song: Harry Warren's Undiscovered Standards', featuring Freda Payne ('Band Of Gold,' 'Bring The Boys Home') and Denzal Sinclaire (National Jazz Award Winner). The CD has had great radio airplay and was singled out in USA Today's Best Tracks of the Week and is on sale now at retailers nationwide, as well as Amazon.com, iTunes, CD Baby and their website, http://www.davidbergerjazz.com.

Joe Chambers and M'Boom Re-percussion Concert and Clinic/Demonstration Thursday, December 9th 9:30 a.m. Chester High School, Chester, Pa.

Bay Area Cabaret audiences will get a first look at the national tour concert ADAM & ANTHONY LIVE starring Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp. After 15 years of friendship and co-starring roles in Jonathan Larsen's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, these two iconic Broadway stars are coming together to bring fans what they've been waiting for: an up-close-and-personal concert featuring their individual work as well as fan-favorite numbers from the production that rocketed them to international stardom. The concert plays one night only 7pm, Sunday, November 21, 2010 in the Venetian Room of the Fairmont San Francisco. For tickets ($20 students under 21/ $35 subscribers / $40 general) call City Box Office (415) 392-4400 or visit www.bayareacabaret.org. A limited number of attendees will be treated to a post-show party with the artists. For reservations ($75) to the post-show party, call Bay Area Cabaret at 415-927-4636.

Gospel recording artists VaShawn Mitchell and Zacardi Cortez will each make a special guest appearance at select performances of the Washington-area premiere of the award-winning new gospel musical comedy Sanctified, playing the historic Lincoln Theatre now through November 14.

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & UPRIGHT CABARET are thrilled to announce a second season of shows at the theatre and the performers for its first show of the season!

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine, and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, continues its Fall 2010 season with the debut of legendary comedian MARTY ALLEN - with special guest Karon Kate Blackwell - for two nights only: Thursday, November 4 and Saturday, November 6.

The Meyer Theatre, once known as the FOX Theatre, opened 80 years ago in 1930 and has been entertaining guests ever since. November 6, in celebration of their 80 years of entertainment, the Meyer Theatre will present the third annual 'Starstruck at the Meyer,' a fundraiser to keep the Meyer Theatre maintain its operations and support the building's restorations.

Two-time Tony Award winner CHITA RIVERA will perform songs from her legendary Broadway career with an intimate evening of music in CHITA RIVERA: MY BROADWAY coming to the Venetian Room 8pm, November 5, 2010 as the first subscriber show of Bay Area Cabaret's ongoing series.

Bay Area Cabaret audiences will get a first look at the national tour concert ADAM & ANTHONY LIVE starring Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp. After 15 years of friendship and co-starring roles in Jonathan Larsen's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, these two iconic Broadway stars are coming together to bring fans what they've been waiting for: an up-close-and-personal concert featuring their individual work as well as fan-favorite numbers from the production that rocketed them to international stardom. The concert plays one night only 7pm, Sunday, November 21, 2010 in the Venetian Room of the Fairmont San Francisco. For tickets ($20 students under 21/ $35 subscribers / $40 general) call City Box Office (415) 392-4400 or visit www.bayareacabaret.org. A limited number of attendees will be treated to a post-show party with the artists. For reservations ($75) to the post-show party, call Bay Area Cabaret at 415-927-4636.