Entries from September 2007 ↓

“AUTUMN IN NEW YORK” 9/18-10/10
CELEBRATES BROADWAY MUSICALS

Using her own Broadway experience as a departure point, award-winning cabaret, concert and recording artist KT Sullivan explores the songs of musical theatre in “Autumn in New York,” her new Oak Room show from September 18th t hrough October 10th. From Cole Porter to Rodgers & Hart and Lerner & Loewe, from Jerry Herman to Stephen Sondheim and Adam Guettel, KT’s selections include “Falling in Love with Love,” “A Little Girl from Little Rock,” “September Song,” “Do I Hear A Waltz,” “Another Opening, Another Show,” “Autumn in New York,” “I Was Beautiful” and a dozen more popular and lesser known gems from a century of Broadway opening nights. Joining KT will be musical director Tedd Firth and bassist Steve Doyle. Eric Michael Gillett directs.

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OAK ROOM’S FALL SEASON OPENS 9/4-15 WITH
“GOOD THING GOING”
“STEVE ROSS SINGS STEPHEN SONDHEIM”

World-renowned singer/pianist Steve Ross, celebrated for his incomparable renditions of the songs of Cole Porter, Noel Coward and the Gershwins, now with “Good Thing Going,” he directs his famed interpretive skills to the diverse catalogue of Stephen Sondheim, described in The New York Times as “the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater.” Among Steve’s selections are “Losing My Mind,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Another Hundred People,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “Pretty Women” and “Joanna.” Steve’s recent appearances include the debut of his Sondheim show at the “American Songbook in London” series at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre; a concert/lecture on Vincent Youmans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a tribute to Noel Coward at the Lyrics & Lyricists Series at the 92nd Street YMHA.

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