New York City: November/December 2014 News
The Urban Stages Winter Rhythms series boasts over 100 artists over 12 nights and 20 shows from 12/2-14.
Aspects of Andrew Lloyd Webber: 54 Below
Andrew Lloyd Webber is so prolific that 54 Below has had to dedicate several programs to his songs in a series called Aspects of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Deborah Silver: Sing Happy
With glamour, pizzazz and authority, Deborah Silver pulled out all the stops for a one-night-only benefit for the Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook.
Carole J. Bufford: Boulevard of Broken Dreams
One part sultry, one part girl next door, Carol J. Bufford was singing her first song—the show’s title number—as she entered 54 Below from the back of the packed house.
54 Sings Sinatra: 54 Below
Impresario Scott Siegel brought eight of today’s best cabaret and Broadway performers to 54 Below to pay tribute to Frank Sinatra.
Joanna Gleason featuring Well-Strung
Joanna Gleason’s cabaret performance at 54 Below was that rare kind that stays with you, savoring moments, glances, stories, but most of all the extraordinary talent of a great artist singing songs she loves.
Amanda McBroom & George Ball: Some Enchanted Evening
In their fabulous show at 54 Below, Some Enchanted Evening, Amanda McBroom and her husband, George Ball, sang of love, marriage, time, loss, and a theme that has always characterized Amanda’s own songwriting—the gap between dreams and reality, between a couple’s hope to be in love forever, and of settling down to an existence of “comfortable despair.”
Smile: A Broadway Reunion: 54 Below
Marvin Hamlisch had had two huge successes on Broadway before he partnered with Howard Ashman (after the death of the original lyricists Carolyn Leigh) to turn the 1975 film Smile, about a California beauty contest, into a musical.
Randy Graff: Made in Brooklyn…Revisited
Tony Award winner Randy Graff comes across as a big-voiced tough cookie, but, as she proved in Made in Brooklyn…Revisited, her tribute to Brooklyn-born artists, there are soft, sexy emotions under the surface, rearing to get out.