Cabaret - 1982 - Regional (US) Articles Page 13

World-famous theater district entertainment destination Don't Tell Mama continues to blur the lines between classic cabaret and stand-up comedy every Friday night at 9:30PM

Walter Stearns, Executive Director of Mercury Theater Chicago, announced today that a production of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS will run on the main stage from March 1 through April 28. The press opening is Sunday, March 10 at 7pm. This hit sci-fi musical has devoured the hearts of audiences around the world for more than 30 years, following the story of floral assistant who stumbles across a new breed of carnivorous plant that promises to grant him fame, fortune and all his desires - as long as the blood keeps flowing. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS will feature the creative talents of Walter Stearns (Director), Eugene Dizon (Musical Director) and Chris Carter (Choreographer)

Carolines on Broadway, New York City's premier comedy venue, kicks off 2019 with its talented line-up for the month of January, highlighted by headliners Sinbad, from FOX's Rel, January 3 - 5; Jaboukie Young-White, from Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, December 10 - 12; Lil Rel Howery, star of FOX's Rel, Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend, December 18 -20; DeRay Davis, from FOX's Empire, January 24 - 27; and Nick Thune, as seen on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, January 31 - February 2.

Jed Bernstein, Producing Director of Theatre Aspen, announced today two musicals for the 2019 season. The Tony Award-winning musical Guys and Dolls will kick off the summer production slate, directed by Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster, who returns to Theatre Aspen for his second summer. Additionally, Carbonell Award winner Mark Martino returns for a remarkable eleventh time to direct a newly reimagined production of Little Shop of Horrors.

Carolines on Broadway, New York City's premier comedy venue, presents its talented line-up for the month of November, highlighted by headliners D.L. Hughley, host of Radio 103.9 FM's 'The D.L. Hughley Show,' November 1 - 4; Yvonne Orji, from HBO's Insecure, as part of the 2018 New York Comedy Festival, October 8 - 11; Iliza Shlesinger, from her Netflix special 'Iliza Shlesinger: Elder Millennial,' November 15 - 18; Jim Norton, host of SiriusXM Radio's 'The Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Show,' Thanksgiving Weekend, November 22, 24 and 25; and Mo Amer, from his Netflix special 'The Vagabond,' November 29 - December 2.

Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) announces the naming of its Studio 4B for the great American entertainer, actor, singer, and comedian Danny Kaye (1911-1987) and his wife Sylvia Fine Kaye (1913-1991), an accomplished lyricist, composer, and producer who mostly collaborated with her husband, writing material that he performed. The dedication completes the naming of all of BAC's studios and theaters for gifted artists, friends and/or mentors to Founder and Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov-a roster that includes philanthropist Howard Gilman; artists Jerome Robbins, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Rudolf Nureyev; and BAC's founding managing director emerita, Christina Sterner.

Angela Lansbury has enjoyed a career without precedent. Her professional career spans more than half-a-century, during which she has flourished, first as a star of motion pictures, then as a four-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical star, and most recently as the star of 'Murder, She Wrote,' the longest running detective drama series in the history of television.

Broadwayworld.com had the pleasure of interviewing Caroline Hirsch, founder and owner of Carolines on Broadway, about the upcoming New York Comedy Festival.

Don't Tell Mama and Dr. Bradley Jones will present a special performance of the hilarious and moving coming-of-age story, Dr. Bradley's Fabulous Functional Narcissism, to benefit the American Songbook Association (ASA) on October 31, 2018* at 7pm at the legendary theater district cabaret, where Dr. Bradley has been packing in SRO audiences for months. The ASA is committed to sustaining and forwarding this living legacy of American song and its many genres, which is loved and performed in every corner of the earth.

Carolines on Broadway, New York City's premier comedy venue, presents its talented line-up for the month of October, highlighted by headliners Rob Stapleton, for his Super Birthday Bash featuring Tony Rock, Rudy Rush and Mark Viera, October 5 - 7; Donnell Rawlings, 'Ashy Larry' from Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show, October 11 - 14; Chris Redd from NBC's Saturday Night Live, October 18 - 20; Sarah Tiana from Comedy Central's Roast Battle and Andrew Santino from Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here, October 26 - 28; and The Breakfast Club presents T.K. Kirkland, featuring Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee and special guests, October 26 & 27.

Linda Thompson's career began in the much beloved late '60s/early '70s British folk-rock scene, when she went by the name Linda Peters. At first, she was mostly a session singer and a part of a short-lived duo with Paul McNeill with whom she released two singles, in 1968 and 1969. McNeill happened to be friends with Sandy Denny, and soon so was Linda. She became one of the “supergroup” of musician friends related to Fairport Convention for the 1972 The Bunch album, a side project of sorts that highlighted rock hits of the '50s. The album's single featured Linda and Sandy covering the Everly Brothers' “When Will I Be Loved.” Also in 1972 Linda married Richard Thompson; she and Sandy can be found in the credits for his solo debut, Henry the Human Fly. Beginning in 1974, albums started appearing by Richard & Linda Thompson, winding up with 1982's classic Shoot Out the Lights — which also signaled the end of their marriage.

Off-Center, the most unconventional line of programming at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is proud to announce full casting for Bite-Size, an evening of original, short plays and performance pieces by Colorado artists, performed off-site at BookBar and directed by Meridith C. Grundei.

If I were to tell you that a band of NYC teenagers who met in 1979 decided to form a band influenced by Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Eno, Chrome and all sorts of proto-industrial music, it would be enough to pique your interest. If you learned they went to the lengths of recording an album while in high school without a label or distribution and actually pressed a couple hundred copies, even weirder. Now those records sell for hundreds of dollars on the collector's market, which perhaps isn't unusual for such a rare record. You would expect the unlikely story of Capital Punishment's Roadkill to end there-which would be cool enough. Except it doesn't.

As BroadwayWorld reported last week, the legendary playwright Neil Simon passed away at age 91 due to complications from pneumonia. Today, BroadwayWorld remembers Neil Simon with a look back on some photos from our archives.

September 14 will see the reissue of the debut (and only) album from NYC's Capital Punishment. Entitled Roadkill it was first released in 1982 and the new remastered and expanded version will be made available via Captured Tracks. Today they share the newest single, 'Confusion, which premiered via Rolling Stone who call the band's album, 'a mix of industrial art-collage, synth-tweaked post-punk and teenage kicks.' The band's Ben Stiller and Kriss Roebling had a chat with Rolling Stone about the album and you can read that story HERE.

Actor Patrick Cassidy, best known for his roles in musical theatre and television, headlines Some Enchanted Evening ~ A Night of Broadway Song & Dance to benefit Inland Pacific Ballet, the professional ballet company based in the Inland Empire. This 2nd annual intimate cabaret evening features song and dance by Inland Pacific Ballet dancers and Academy students, cocktails, hor d'oeuvres, dessert, silent/live auction, and is hosted by IPB Associate Director Jonathan Sharp (The Red Shoes, Carousel, The Rocky Horror Show Live, The Dance of the Vampires, Fiddler on the Roof). Some Enchanted Evening takes place on Saturday, September 22 at 6 p.m., at Inland Pacific Ballet located at 9061 Central Avenue, Montclair, 91763.

'Dr. Bradley's Functional Narcissism…The Psychoanalytic Odyssey of a Once Glorified Chorus Boy' has been packing in SRO crowds in a series of cabaret evenings in NYC, offering a hilarious and touching combination of psychotherapy, (of which Dr. Bradley Jones is a bona fide, longstanding practitioner in New York City) and song and dance (of which he was a bona fide practitioner in Broadway's 'A Chorus Line" for nearly ten years). He'll return, by popular demand, to Don't Tell Mama on September 16th at 7pm for an encore performance. If you want to attend, reservations are essential.

'Dr. Bradley's Functional Narcissism…The Psychoanalytic Odyssey of a Once Glorified Chorus Boy' has been packing in SRO crowds in a series of cabaret evenings in NYC, offering a hilarious and touching combination of psychotherapy, (of which Dr. Bradley Jones is a bona fide, longstanding practitioner in New York City) and song and dance (of which he was a bona fide practitioner in Broadway's 'A Chorus Line" for nearly ten years). He'll return, by popular demand, to Don't Tell Mama on September 16th at 7pm for an encore performance. If you want to attend, reservations are essential.

Carolines on Broadway, New York City's premier comedy venue, presents its talented line-up for the month of August, highlighted by headliners Michelle Buteau, host of WNYC Radio Studios' podcast Late Night, Whenever!, August 2 - 4; Nick Mullen, host of the podcast Cum Town, August 9 - 11; Gilbert Gottfried, from the documentary film Gilbert, one night only, August 16; Lavell Crawford, from AMC's Better Call Saul, August 17 - 19; Joel McHale, host of Netflix's The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale, August 24 and 25; and Gary Owen, from his Showtime stand-up special 'I Got My Associates,' Labor Day Weekend, August 30 - September 2.

PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES was my first Broadway musical, so it not only holds a special place in my heart, but I still remember most of the lyrics. Running for 577 performances in 1982-83 and earning a Tony nomination for Best Musical, PUMP BOYS was 'the little show that could' with just six cast members and a small set. But the characters and songs captured many fans who came out to relive the experience at Feinstein's/54 Below July 22.

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

Captured Tracks is thrilled to announce the upcoming reissue of Capital Punishment's 1982 sole LPRoadkill. The LP - now remastered and expanded - will be released on September 14, 2018. Today the label shares the first single, 'Muzak Anonymous,” a Beefheart-ian, gong-afied freak-funk that needs to be heard to be believed. LISTEN HERE.

Ayer domingo 1 de julio fallecia a los 92 años la bailarina y coreografa DameGillian Lynne, responsable de las coreografias de algunos de los musicales mas iconicos de la historia y una gran leyenda del Teatro Musical a nivel mundial.