Summer Season Heating Up at Arci's Place

Three Young Stars Headline a Critically Acclaimed June Line-Up
JIM CARUSO Æ ROB EVAN Æ DARIUS de HAAS

Three of the cabaret world's most lauded young headliners will take the stage at ARCI'S PLACE (450 Park Avenue South, NYC - 212-532-4370 - http://www.arcisplace.com/) to kick off the highly anticipated summer cabaret season. Jim Caruso, a MAC and Back Stage Bistro award winner for musical comedy, opens his new show, "Laughing Matters" on Monday June 4th at 8 pm. The show continues every Monday through July, except July 2nd. JEKYLL & HYDE leading man Rob Evan brings his rich baritone to Arci's Place for the first time, performing his show "The Kid Inside" June 12th through 23rd. Darius de Haas was called "an astonishing vocal acrobat" (New York Times) when he debuted "So This Is Love: A Billy Strayhorn Evening" at the cabaret arm of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series earlier this year. He will present a streamlined version of the show called "Variations on Strayhorn" at Arci's Place June 26th through July 7th. Jim Caruso's Monday shows will be at 8:00 pm. All other shows are Tuesday through Thursday at 9:00 pm and Friday and Saturday at 8:30 pm and 11:00 pm. Tickets to the shows are $30, with a $15 food / drink minimum. Reservations are strongly suggested.

JIM CARUSO has won many awards for his unique blend of humor and music, most recently the 2001 MAC Award for Excellence in Musical Comedy and the 2001 Back Stage Bistro Award for his show "Caruso Æ Live and in Person." This year's show "Laughing Matters" proves that Jim is showing no signs of letting up as he features comic songs by Weird Al Yankovic, Amanda Green, John Wallowitch, Carol Hall and Dave Frishberg intertwined with his trademark wit and irreverent between song banter. Jim also will be performing the Bette Midler / Marc Shaiman titty-ditty "Otto Titsling" (from "Beaches"), as well as an homage to Jim's personal hero Dick Van Dyke. "Laughing Matters" features Johnny Rodgers, who accompanies Mr. Caruso on piano and occasional vocals. Performances are Mondays at 8:00 pm (No Performance July 2) through July 30th.

ROB EVAN starred on Broadway as Jean Valjean in LES MISERABLES and in the original Broadway cast of JEKYLL & HYDE, playing the title roles for three years and over 600 performances. His rendition of "This is the Moment" has been performed at numerous prestigious events including the 1998 Goodwill Games, the 1998 and 1999 New York Yankees World Series Celebration at City Hall, ABC's Monday Night Football and the Today Show. "The Kid Inside" reveals Rob's love for his family through a series of songs that show his playful devotion to his three young sons and his passionate love for his wife. Mr. Evan is backed by his musical director Neil Berg on piano, Bernd Schoenhart on guitar and Roger Cohen on percussion. Performances are Tuesdays through Thursdays at 9:00 pm and Fridays and Saturdays at 8:30 pm and 11:00 pm, June 12th through 23rd.

DARIUS de HAAS is already a Broadway veteran, beginning with his debut in KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN (starring Chita Rivera and later Vanessa Williams) and continuing through Broadway productions of CAROUSEL, The Gershwin's FASCINATING RHYTHM, MARIE CHRISTINE and the original Broadway cast of RENT. "Variations on Strayhorn" features the work of the great Duke Ellington collaborator Billy Strayhorn, an often-overshadowed jazz composer who died in 1967. Deidre Rodman accompanies Darius on piano with Roy Nathanson on saxophone. Of Mr. de Haas's performance, the New York Times raved: "Every gesture seemed informed by the singer's understanding of Strayhorn's compositions as being not simply pop or jazz songs but pliable tone poems that ask to be stretched and flexed for all their colors to be revealed. This extraordinary program (the high point so far in this series) has to be recorded and videotaped, perhaps for PBS's ïGreat Performances.'" Performances are Tuesdays through Thursdays at 9:00 pm and Fridays and Saturdays at 8:30 pm and 11:00 pm from June 26th through July 7th.

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