Saturday, February 20, 2010

What to Do: February 22nd - 28th

By Byrne Harrison

Lots of shows opening this week, thanks to FRIGID New York. Also a number of "one night only" events. Take your pick. There's no reason to spend another night in front of the TV.

Monday, Feb. 22
Broadway Backwards 5 - Never underestimate the power of a pronoun! With women singing men’s songs and men singing women’s – and the original pronouns intact – a song can mean something entirely new. Featuring host Florence Henderson, Nick Adams (A Chorus Line), Martine Allard (The Tap Dance Kid, Tony Award nom.), Dan Butler (NBC’s "Frasier", The Only Thing Worse…), Gary Beach (The Producers, Tony Award), Tituss Burgess (Guys and Dolls), Mario Cantone ("Sex and the City", Laugh Whore), Len Cariou (Sweeney Todd, Tony Award), Robert Cuccioli (Jeckyll & Hyde, Tony Award nom.), Raul Esparza (Company, 4-time Tony Award nom.), Tony Goldwyn ("Ghost", Promises, Promises), Ann Harada (Avenue Q, 9 to 5), Hunter Ryan Herdlicka (A Little Night Music), Aaron Lazar (A Little Night Music, The Light in the Piazza), Michele Lee (Seesaw, How to Succeed…, 2-time Tony Award nom.), Julia Murney (The Wild Party, Wicked), Becki Newton (ABC’s "Ugly Betty", Girl Crazy at Encores!), Tonya Pinkins (Caroline or Change, Jelly’s Last Jam, Tony Award), Lee Roy Reams (42nd Street, Tony Award nom.), Seth Rudetsky (The Ritz, Sirius Radio, Broadway Chatterbox), Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon, Tony Award), Douglas Sills (The Scarlet Pimpernel, Tony Award nom.), Bruce Vilanch (Hairspray), and over 50 Broadway singers & dancers.



Love N' Courage - 7th Annual Benefit for Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program. Hosted by Charles Busch and Julie Halston, honoring Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson and Martha Coigney's service to the arts.

Featuring Performances by F. Murray Abraham, Chuck Cooper and other stars from Finian's Rainbow, Tammy Grimes (accompanied by David Lewis), Phoebe Legere, Romulus Linney, Marian Seldes, Elaine Stritch, Betsy von Furstenberg, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, and Tango Dancers Anna Amadei and Daniel Fetecua-Soto.

As part of their Matt Crowley reading series, The Transport Group (currently producing Crowley's The Boys in the Band) presents Remote Asylum. One night only.

Broadway by the Year kicks off its 10th anniversary season with Broadway Musicals of 1927 starring Marc Kudisch, Kate Baldwin, Christine Noll, Christopher Fitzgerald, Chad Kimball, Noah Racey, Jeffry Denman, and Alexander Gemignani.

If you find yourself in Glendale, CA, drop by the Alex Theatre to see a one-night-only production of High Spirits, Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray's rarely produced musical version of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit.

Tuesday, Feb. 23
GraceNotes presents Prescription Strength Theater featuring The Benefits of Elsewhere by Patrick Link and Susan's Medical Blog by Sharyn Rothstein (3Graces Theater Co. - The Milagro Theater at CSV)

As part of their Matt Crowley reading series, The Transport Group presents A Breeze From the Gulf. One night only.

Wednesday, Feb. 24
Aristophanes’ The Bohemians by Gabe Miner (Second Best Bed Productions and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)

Four Quarters by Christopher Heath (Agony Productions and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)

Medea by Euripides (No.11 Productions and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)

price by David Fierro (Secret Weapon Theatre and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)

Kill The Band by Kelly Dwyer (Killer Killy Productions and FRIGID New York 2010 - UNDER St. Marks)

LATE NIGHTS WITH THE BOYS: confessions of a leather bar chanteuse by Alex Bond (The Lopsided Company, Inc. and FRIGID New York 2010 - UNDER St. Marks)

Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag by John Murdock ((a) muse Collective and FRIGID New York 2010 - UNDER St. Marks)

tenderpits by Anthony Johnston (sh+sh=gold and FRIGID New York 2010 - UNDER St. Marks)

Fishbowl by Mark Shyzer (Mark Shyzer and FRIGID New York 2010 - The Red Room)

IT OR HER by Alena Smith (Alena Smith and FRIGID New York 2010 - The Red Room)

Mechanically Separated Meat by Jeff Belanger and Amanda Sage Comerford (International BTC and FRIGID New York 2010 - The Red Room)

Nobody’s Token by Nobody’s Token (Nobody’s Token and FRIGID New York 2010 - The Red Room)

YANK! A World War II Love Story, opens at the York Theatre. Music by Joseph Zellnik, Book and Lyrics by David Zellnik. Featuring Nancy Anderson (Wonderful Town), Jeffry Denman (White Christmas), Ivan Hernandez (Romantic Poetry), Bobby Steggert (Ragtime), and Andrew Durand (Spring Awakening), Zak Edwards (No No Nanette at Encores!), Todd Faulkner (PBS' "Wordscape"), Denis Lambert (A Chorus Line), Joseph Medeiros (Guys and Dolls), David Perlman (Calvin Berger), Christopher Ruth (Happy Days: The Musical), and Tally Sessions (South Pacific).

Thursday, Feb. 25
SIGNS OF LIFE: A Tale of Terezin, book by Peter Ullian, lyrics by Len Schiff, and music by Joel Derfner (Amas Musical Theatre in association with Snap-Two Productions)

Aurelia and Imago by Brianna Stark (Brianna Stark and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)

Let That Sh*t Go by Live Blaggard (Live Blaggard and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)

Onomatopoeia by Phillip Gerba (Onomatopoiea productions and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)

The Bike Trip by Martin Dockery (Martin Dockery and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)

1/4 Life Crisis by Alison Lynne Ward (8 Monkeys Production and FRIGID New York 2010 - UNDER St. Marks)

Floundering About (in an age of terror) by David Lawson (David Lawson and FRIGID New York 2010 - UNDER St. Marks)

No Traveler by Penny Pollak ((a)muse collective and FRIGID New York 2010 - UNDER St. Marks)

Vodka Shoes by Leslie Goshko (Leslie Goshko and FRIGID New York 2010 - UNDER St. Marks)

Crack’d by Catherine Montgomery (the performance tube and FRIGID New York 2010 - The Red Room)

GREEN MAN by Don Nigro (Pageant Wagon and FRIGID New York 2010 - The Red Room)

My Life of Crime by Stephanie Stephenson ((ral-u-pop) Theatre and FRIGID New York 2010 - The Red Room)

T-O-T-A-L-L-Y! by Kimleigh Smith (KIMLEIGH and FRIGID New York 2010 - The Red Room)

Drag theatre company Shim Mamsir Productions presents it's inaugural outing - She'll Be Dying at the Bowery Poetry Club. This is the first in a series of wholly unauthorized staged readings of plays, films,TV movies, sitcoms and after school specials -- all presented with a drag twist. The reading stars high-voltage drag talents Sweetie, Mimi Imfurst, Bianca DelRio, Bianca Leigh, Lavinia Co-op and Dallas Dubois.

Cooper Union commemorates the 150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's "Right Makes Might" speech in the same room and from the same lectern he used in 1860. Noted Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer (author of Lincoln at Cooper Union) will narrate the evening. Selections of the speech will be read by Governor Mario Cuomo, and actors Tony-nominee and Obie-winner Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America, Wit,) Tony, Obie, and Drama-Desk honoree André DeShields (The Wiz, The Full Monty,) Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss and Broadway and film actor Stephen Lang. The event is the concluding program in the Great Evenings in The Great Hall series that began in April 2009 as a celebration of The Cooper Union's 150th anniversary.

Friday, Feb. 26
2-Man No-Show by Ken Hall, Isaac Kessler and Mark Andrada (ZeekTech Productions and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)

Uncorseted by Patrick di Battista with Anne Laffoon (LaGoDi Productions and the Shark Tank Players and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)

Bonne Nuit Poo Poo by Theatre Reverb (Theatre Reverb and FRIGID New York 2010 - UNDER St. Marks)

Legs and All by Summer Shapiro and Peter Musante (Summer Shapiro & Peter Musante and FRIGID New York 2010 - UNDER St. Marks)

Roll With It by Maggie Nuttall (Nuttall Productions and FRIGID New York 2010 - The Red Room)

Saturday, Feb. 27
pornStar by Chris Craddock (Fancy Molasses and FRIGID New York 2010 - The Red Room)

THE SAME SEX-TACULAR! featuring John Flynn, Michael Hartney, Marcus Bishop-Wright, Tim Dunn, Shayna Ferm, Jeff Hiller, Corey Johnson, Kate McKinnon, Megan Neuringer at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre

Sunday, Feb. 28
As part of their Matt Crowley reading series, The Transport Group presents The Men from the Boys (Crowley's follow up to The Boys in the Band). One night only.

The Off Broadway Alliance will hold the first in a series of planned seminars focusing on the culture, business and history of Off Broadway theater. The seminar, titled "The Bad Boys of Off Broadway", will feature playwrights Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Essential Self-Defense) and Christopher Shinn (Dying City, Now Or Later, What Didn't Happen) and participants to be named. David Cote, theatre editor and chief drama critic for Time Out New York, will serve as moderator.

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