The Sunday Giveaway: Two Tickets to the newest Hot Spot on Broadway
There’s a brand spanking new place to see stuff and a new place to be seen that just opened up called . . . 54 Below.
Where is it?
Below Studio 54.
It’s kind of a mashup of Bar Centrale and Feinstein’s. See, in addition to food and drink, they’ve got a cabaret room . . . and because the brains behind 54 Below have got some serious connections (including Hairspray and Smash’s Scott Wittman as well as a few Tony Award winning Designers), the room already has soom serious headliners.
Patti Lupone, Jackie Hoffman, Andrea Martin, and Brian d’Arcy James are just a few of the whos-who who’ve got shows lined up for June and July.
But one of the coolest shows they’re hosting is something called New Mondays, where established songwriting vets and the “ones to watch” get a chance to debut brand spanking new material in front of an audience.
The first one is on June 4th and it features David Zippel (City of Angels, The Goodbye Girl, Woman in White), Steve Marzullo (Somedays), and Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk (The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown) with Annie Golden, Lindsay Mendez, Darren Ritchie and others lending their vocal chops.
Sounds fun, right? New stuff? Great singers?
Free tickets?
Done.
Here’s how to win 2 tickets to the first 54 Below New Mondays concert:
Performing a cabaret show (as yourself) is a lot different than playing a role and being able to hide behind a character.
Comment below with the name of an artist (can be anyone . . . Hollywood star, Broadway star, or your Aunt Ethel) that you’d like to see perform in cabaret.
And then, for extra credit, give the show a title.
Example? Barry Manilow: I literally write the songs that make the whole f’in world sing, but my musical Harmony still hasn’t made it to Broadway.
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Bernadette Peters: I inspired thousands of little girls to give Broadway a shot.
Kyle Dean Massey 🙂
Title? It’s about time (ok not a real title but you know it would be fitting)
A no-brainer for me: kd lang, hands down. As for the show title: either “Raising Twang” or “Driving Miss Chatelaine” (Absolute Torch & Twang is my favorite album of hers & Ingenue is next on the list :)).
Mj Rodriguez – title, “AngelSong”
how many times can I enter! LOL!!!
Johnny Depp: Scissors, Pirates, and Burtons, Oh My!
Sutton Foster another Broadway inspiration
Alan Cumming- Cumming All Night with Alan
or if it’s for kids
Cumming Along Nicely 🙂
Liev Schreiber
Liev Live
Neal Patrick Harris in Actual Broadway
Whoopi Goldberg – Moonlighting on Broadway
Clay Aiken: Measure of a Runner-up (twice!)
Norbert Leo Butz!
Mary Testa
Pay attention there will be a little testa.
Rudolph Guiliani- My Way or the Highway
He will take it seriously; everyone else will howl with laughter.
Stephan Sondheim, God Finished The Hat, you can’t diminish that, does anyone still where a Finnish Hat?
Male: Mick Jagger: “Can’t Get No…”
Female: Marion Cotillard: “La Vie En Rose
Paul Reuben’s – Pee Wee Exposed
Karen Morrow: Day to Day to Morrow.
Bebe Neuwirth: To Bebe, or Not to Bebe
Song suggestions:
Cabaret
Life of the Party
Spanish Rose
Fever
If They Could See Me Now
Broadway Baby
Send in the Clowns
New York, New York
Name: Bill Clinton
Title: Clinton! From the White House to the White Way.
Liza Minnelli, of course, in “I’m Back!”
Too bad my old college buddy Steve Rubell isn’t around anymore to introduce his friend Liza.
Liza should start her set with “Cabaret” and close it with “New York New York”
All the other songs in the set should be those made famous by her mother Judy Garland.
You think the show would sellout?
Haha that’s so funny that we both suggested a cabaret show opening with Cabaret and closing with New York, New York! Difference is I said Bebe Neuwirth, you said Liza. 🙂
Sarah Palin:
“And The Wolves Shot Back…”
Allison Janney
Seriously, she can do NO WRONG! It would just be hysterical to see her live, doing her own thing.
Tom Hiddleston (Loki in Avengers) in “How To Succeed In Slowly Converting Everyone on the Internet to Join my Legion of Fangirls”
The show would be sold out every night, guarantee it, thanks to his fangirls (and fanboys!) ;D And that guy can sing and dance, yo! It’d be a great show!
Carol Channing: I’m still here…really.
David Bowie- title for it? Wow, so many to choose from:
It could be called simply “Changes” or “Moonage Daydream” or “Modern Love” or even “Love You Til Tuesday” or “Life on Mars?”
Ron Howard. Mayberry This Time.
Karen Akers
in
“9 Reasons Why I Should Play the Grand Hotel”
The ever-fabulous Chris Sieber, in “Sieber Will Make You A Belieber!” 🙂
Stark Sands: Stark, Raving
“Leap of Faith Prince”
Seth Redutsky
Singing ” Ahmaaazing Grace” rewritten with Jewishly oriented lyrics of course or “72 Trombones” for the Broadway satelite station where you can find his “Ahmaaazing Seth Redutsky” show
Stephen Sondheim: The Glamorous Life
Sure, there’s a Sondheim revue every few years on Broadway, but let’s see the man at the piano telling his stories AND singing his songs. The video of him singing and playing and describing the scene of “Glamorous Life” at a backer’s audition makes me hungry for more!
Christian Borle, the Right Hand Man
Will Chase, Story of My Career
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Taking it to New Heights
ELAINE STRITCH!
at Liberty or anything for that matter.. she’s just wonderful!
Mandy Patinkin (Was a role model to me in Sunday in the Park and Secret Garden)
Fitting title? “Prepare to Die”
Anne Hathaway, she has an amazing voice, a great dancer and zero shame. Plus, she went to AADA. 🙂
Daphne Rubin-Vega in ♪♫ “It’s All About Me-me-me-me” ♫♪
Clint Eastwood – “Go Ahead, Make My Day by Day!”
Reese Witherspoon ~ Reese’s Pieces of Theater
I would love to see Amy Adams perform a cabaret show, I think she is an under rated performer, and can’t wait to see her this summer in Into the woods!
Raul Esparza: Really, it’s an honor just to be nominated
Meryl Streep would do a fascinating cabaret show.
“Who is she, when the cameras aren’t rolling?”
She sings beautifully and of course, she is as fascinating as her brilliant self as she is when bringing other characters to life.
She could tell anecdotes of her films and fun anecdotes about the Yale Drama School, and sing some specialty songs written especially for the act, e.g. “Everyone Wants to Be Me”, “Here’s My Real Accent”, “So Tired of the Envy”, etc. She could do a song in character as Margaret Thatcher or Karen Blixen. She could introduce her talented daughters who could join her in a song; how about a specialty song, “Who is Mama This Week?”
Barbra Streisand: Why I Stopped Performing Live
Ruthie Henshall
“RUTHless Renditions”
Jesse L. Martin, “I’ll Cover You.”
Neil Patrick Harris
Title ideas –
How I Met Your Father (songs for a two daddy household)
or
Murder and Vengeance (NPH loves a good comic book or superhero story, plus we know he can handle Sondheim. Musical theatre has a lot of violence and I bet his brand of funny could really nail some interesting counterpoints to this subject)
Russell Crowe.
Because if his co-star in Les Mis can do one (let’s face it, it was essentially a cabaret act on a broadway stage) that he can too
I can’t come up with anything better than Russell Crows! which is a terrible title. will post again if I come up with anything better
Kevin Kline
– Kevin’s Choice: A Soundtrack of Love Songs
Patti LuPone: “The Quintessential Diva”
Barbra Streisand, Roslyn Kind, Liza Minelli, Lorna Luft, Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway all together in SISTERS ACT…The Cabaret!
Meghan Hilty and Katherine McPhee in Two Divas perform in the center ring, who will win???
Ru Paul in ‘You’ll Ru the Day you Read Me, B@#*h!’
Jennifer Holliday: And I’m Telling You
Scarlett Johansson: “Red Hot”
I’d love to see Scarlett Johanssen do a cabaret show — she’s a great actress and singer, and seeing her put together a fizzy show to show a fun and funny side of her would be incredible. The title could be something like: “Miss Scarlett, Miss Scarlett! I don’t know nothing about producing no cabaret show!”
David Campbell
The other…Boy from Oz…who can also sing and dance!
Nick Adams
Title: I will survive