Voices From The Great White Way!!!!

This series sounds fantastic. In addition, have a Cosmo if you're of age and eat. The food at this theater is incredible. I will be doing a review of the Westbank Cafe very soon.



The Laurie Beechman Theatre



is very pleased to present



Voices

from the Great White Way



A new series featuring one night only concerts

from some of Broadway’s most thrilling performers



Mondays, April 9, 23, 30 @ 7pm





NEW YORK – The Laurie Beechman Theatre is pleased to announce an exciting new series: Voices from the Great White Way. Beginning in April, we’ll be celebrating some of the most thrilling voices from Broadway in our intimate theatre located in the heart of New York’s Theatre District. The schedule is as follows:



Monday, April 9: Nikki Renee Daniels (Les Miserables)

Monday, April 23: Kristy Cates (Wicked)

Monday, April 30: Farah Alvin (Nine)



Please plan to join us for what will be three memorable evenings. All performances begin at 7pm. There is a $20 cover charge for each performance, as well as a $15 food/beverage minimum (there is a full bar and dinner menu available). The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located within The West Bank Café, 407 West 42nd St. (@9th Ave). For reservations, which are necessary, please call 212 695 6909 between the hours of noon and 6pm, or e-mail beechmantheatre@aol.com.





NIKKI RENEE DANIELS Broadway: Les Miserables, Lestat, Nine, Aida, Little Shop of Horrors and The Look of Love. New York City Opera: Porgy and Bess (Clara). Regional credits include Anything Goes (Hope) at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Beauty and the Beast (Belle) at North Shore Music Theatre and Sacramento Music Circus; Dorian (Celia Vane) at the Denver Center and Ragtime (Sarah) at North Shore Music Theatre. Nikki has performed as a soloist with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music.



KRISTY CATES is best known for playing the role of Elphaba in the smash hit musical, Wicked. She made her Broadway debut as a member of the original Broadway cast (as, among other things, “the woman with the parasol” in the Emerald City). Kristy was the original understudy to Idina Menzel, and filled in for an injured Stephanie Block for several weeks in Toronto, the first stop of the Wicked National Tour. Recently, Kristy returned to New York, following a nearly twelve month run as Elphaba in the Chicago production of the mega-hit. Other New York credits include Princess Ida and her acclaimed portrayal of Ruth Wallis in the off-Broadway production of Boobs! The Musical. Kristy has also appeared at the St. Louis MUNY, The Lucille Lortel White Barn Theatre, North Bay Opera, The Playhouse on the Green and The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference. As a singer, she’s appeared at a number of nightlife hotspots, including Don’t Tell Mama, The Duplex Cabaret Theatre, The Producer’s Club, Joe’s Pub, XL, The Triad and Therapy. She was also honored to sing the National Anthem for the Chicago Bears, Bulls and White Sox. In January of 2007, Kristy was proud to present a series of sold out solo concerts at Metropolis Performing Arts Center in Arlington Heights, IL. Kristy is a proud graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music where she was the first recipient of the Laurie Beechman Scholarship Award.



Singer/Songwriter FARAH ALVIN has been making a name for herself in New York Theater for over ten years. Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal dubbed her “the best young musical-comedy singer to come along in years.” On Broadway, Farah has appeared in the Tony Award-winning revival of Nine, The Look of Love: The Music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Saturday Night Fever, Grease! (also National Tour) and Madison Square Garden’s A Christmas Carol. Last year, Farah starred as Marcy Fitzwilliams in the off-Broadway cult hit I Love You Because. Other off-Broadway credits include Kuni-leml at the Jewish Repertory Theatre, as well as Cam Jansen and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie for TheatreworksUSA. Recently, she starred as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance at Goodspeed Opera House. She has appeared as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Indianapolis, Seattle, Detroit and the National symphonies of The United States and Canada. Farah can also be heard on the original cast recording of I Love You Because, the concept recording of Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll and Hyde and Varesse Sarabande’s Burt Bacharach Album, among others. In addition to her theater work, Farah is also an accomplished singer/songwriter. Her album of original folk/jazz music, entitled someday, is available at farahalvin.com and cdbaby.com. Her songs blend the worlds of folk, jazz, pop and blues with deeply expressive and ironically humorous lyrics. She has been performing with her band, The Farah Alvin Orchestra, around New York for three years.