The Richmond / Ermet Aids Foundation presents HELP IS ON THE WAY XV: NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOWBUSINESS, the 15th Anniversary Gala and Northern California's Largest Annual Star-studded AIDS Benefit Concert & Gala. HELP IS ON THE WAY XV will be held Sunday, August 2, 2009 at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, benefiting four Bay Area AIDS service organizations.
The revised cast list for the upcoming Benefit Concert, Help Is On The Way, is now available. Help Is On The Way 15: No Business Like Show Business is on Sunday, August 2nd at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.
Wesla Whitfield, San Francisco's own chanteuse, jazz and cabaret singer,, will appear at The Rrazz Room, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, SF for two weeks, May 26-June 7 at 8 PM.
The musical legacy of Frank Loesser, often called the most versatile of all Broadway composers, will be celebrated at Center Theatre Group's Salon XVI at the Taper, 'Happy to Make Your Acquaintance,' hosted by Michael Feinstein, Monday, November 17 at 8 p.m., at the Mark Taper Forum of the Los Angeles Music Center.
The superstars are staying in alignment when Barb Jungr and Marilyn Maye return to the Metropolitan Room to reprise two of the most well-received shows in recent memory - Jungr's 'I Got Life' and Maye's 'Love on the Rocks.' Both ladies, who appeared in overlapping sold-out engagements during an exciting two-week span in September, are featured at this year's Mabel Mercer Foundation's Cabaret Convention at Lincoln Center. They will supplement their appearances there with late-night encores of their two recent Metropolitan Room acts.
Martin Vidnovic, who currently stars as 'Bellomy' in The Fantasticks, the world's longest running musical, will star for one night only in the finale concert of the 18th Annual New York Cabaret Convention to be held at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall (Broadway at 60th Street) on Thursday, November 8 at 6PM.
The Mabel Mercer Foundation's 2007 New York Cabaret Convention will include the talents of Andrea Marcovicci, Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole and Julie Wilson
Tony Award-nominee Stephen Bogardus and Sarah Uriarte Berry will headline the cast of the St. Louis Muny's White Christmas, the stage version of the Irving Berlin film classic that has fast become a regional favorite; it will run from July 24th through July 30th
Some of the most acclaimed talents in the cabaret and musical theatre worlds--including Andrea Marcovicci, Karen Mason, Ann Hampton Callaway and Julie Wilson--will gather for 17th Annual New York Cabaret Convention, which will take place at the Frederick P. Rose Hall's Rose Theater of Lincoln Center from October 16th through 20th
Stars such as Tonya Pinkins, Bruce Vilance, Betty Garrett and Karen Mason will headline the tribute benefit Do Re Mi--Comden & Green's Broadway in LA, which will be presented for three performances this March
Alice Ripley, Tonya Pinkins, Alan Cumming, Lillias White and others performed in Hooray for Love: A Celebration of the Music of Harold Arlen on November 12th
On November 12th in LA, Tonya Pinkins, Billy Porter, Alice Ripley, Lillias White and others will take center stage for Hooray For Love: A Celebration of the Music of Harold Arlen, a concert presented by the Actors' Fund