Swingin’ for the Maestro:
A Barry Levitt Foundation Cabaret
December 6 at 8:30 pm
Iridium
1650 Broadway, NYC
212.582.2121
Join Marilyn Maye, John DeMarco, Dawn Derow, Cleve Douglas, Natalie Douglas, Kat Gang, Terese Genecco, Helena Grenot, Janice Hall, Jeff Harnar, Jerome Jennings, Gabrielle Lee, Karen Saunders, Cynthia Scott, Marlene VerPlanck, Sal Viviano, and Lennie Watts at a gala cabaret. Music Director is Russ Kassoff with Boots Maleson on bass, and Brian Brake on drums.They’re swingin’ to help The Barry Levitt Foundation provide scholarships, mentoring and seminars for talented youth. $30 cover contributes to expanding the audience for live music. Additional donations welcome. Stop by. Keep NY hip.
Barry Levitt, well known as “the Maestro”, was a music director, conductor, arranger, composer, pianist, producer, educator and songwriter who worked on Broadway, in musical theatre, television and cabaret, and led jazz and big bands. He served as president of the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs and was artistic director of the Lyrics & Lyricists series at the 92nd Street Y.