BRENT BARRETT TO STAR AT TOWN HALL!!!!!!!!

THE TOWN HALL
PRESENTS THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED
4th ANNUAL BROADWAY CABARET FESTIVAL
OCTOBER 17 - 19
CREATED WRITTEN & HOSTED BY SCOTT SIEGEL

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT 8PM - A TRIBUTE TO LERNER & LOEWE
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 AT 8PM – COLM WILKINSON:
BROADWAY & BEYOND
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 3PM - BROADWAY ORIGINALS

(NEW YORK, NY) The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) presents the Fourth Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival! All Broadway Music! All Broadway Stars! All Weekend Long! October 17- 19, 2008. The shows feature top Broadway talent in three cabaret concerts over one weekend. From classic favorites to contemporary Broadway, from our newest stars to our venerated icons, this is the festival New York theatre fans have been waiting for. The series is created, written, and hosted for The Town Hall by Scott Siegel.

The festival kicks off on Friday, October 17th at 8pm with A TRIBUTE TO LERNER & LOEWE, starring Brent Barrett (Chicago, Candide, Annie Get Your Gun), Jim Caruso (touring the world with Liza Minneli in concert), Alexander Gemignani (Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Tony nominee for ...Spelling Bee), Sarah Jane McMahon (Pirates of Penzance, Metropolitan Opera), Euan Morton (Taboo, Cyrano) Julia Murney (Wicked, Saved), Daniel Reichard (Drama Desk Nominee for Jersey Boys), and Max Von Essen (Les Miserables), among others. The evening is a celebration of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, the famed Tony and Oscar Award winning collaborators of such hits as Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot and Gigi.

COLM WILKINSON, the world’s original John Valjean returns to the New York stage and makes his Town Hall debut on Saturday, October 18th at 8pm with his show BROADWAY AND BEYOND. The celebrated Broadway star has spent years on the stage starring in Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera. Mr. Wilkinson will sing an eclectic program ranging from Broadway favorites by Rodgers & Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber to popular standards by Ray Charles, Leonard Cohen, Muddy Waters and John Lennon. Les Miserables’ Susan Gilmor will reunite with Wilkinson as his special guest star, and he will be backed by a nine-piece orchestra led by music director Steve Hunter.

Like having your musical theatre CD collection come to life is BROADWAY ORIGINALS – on Sunday, October 19th at 3pm, where approximately twenty stars will sing the songs they originated in Broadway productions or revivals. They include Lucie Arnaz (They’re Playing Our Song), Stephen Mo Hanan (Tony nominee for Cats), Karen Morrow (I Had a Ball), and Pam Myers (Company). This is a chance to experience the performances that the original audiences saw and if you were lucky enough to see them the first time, to relive them.

Built in 1921 by a group of suffragettes, The Town Hall began as a lecture hall and public forum for debates. Over the decades, the stage has been graced by Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Billie Holiday, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Dylan and Miles Davis. Today the hall flourishes as a popular, affordable venue, boasting the hottest acts in rock, pop, folk, cabaret, world music, comedy and dance, including Billy Joel, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Natalie Merchant, Graham Nash, Liza Minnelli, Cyndi Lauper, Norah Jones, Andre Watts, Henry Rollins, Joe Jackson, Pink Martini, Regina Spector, Brian Adams, Aimee Mann and Dawn Upshaw. For over a decade, The Town Hall has hosted live broadcasts of Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion. Over the past two-and-a-half decades, The Town Hall has produced a number of new and critically acclaimed musical series, which include The Century of Change, Not Just Jazz, Broadway By The Year, The Summer Broadway Festival, and The Broadway Cabaret Festival.

In The Town Hall tradition of affordable entertainment, subscriptions for all three concerts are only $150 and are available through mail order only. Individual tickets are only $55 per show for this all-star weekend and can be purchased through TicketMaster (212) 307-4100 or www.ticketmaster.com and also by visiting The Town Hall Box Office between noon and 6PM (except Sundays) at 123 West 43rd Street, (212) 840-2824 or long on to www.the-townhall-nyc.org.


Corine's Comments: Brent is one of my favorite performers. I can't wait to see this!!!