NYC: 4th ANNUAL BROADWAY CABARET FESTIVAL OCTOBER 17th-19th

NYC: 4th ANNUAL BROADWAY CABARET FESTIVAL OCTOBER 17th-19th
*** FEATURED FESTIVAL EVENT ***

THE TOWN HALL (123 West 43rd Street, NYC - 212-997-1929 - http://www.the-townhall-nyc.org/ ) presents the Fourth Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, Friday through Sunday, October 17th through 19th. The shows feature top Broadway talent in three cabaret concerts over one weekend featuring classic favorites to contemporary Broadway and newest stars to our venerated icons. The series is created, written, and hosted for The Town Hall by Scott Siegel.

The festival kicks off on Friday, October 17th at 8:00 pm with A TRIBUTE TO LERNER & LOEWE, starring Brent Barrett (Chicago, Candide, Annie Get Your Gun), Jim Caruso (touring the world with Liza Minnelli 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 8:00 pm 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 3:00 pm, 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.

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 http://www.ticketmaster.com/ and also by visiting THE TOWN HALL (123 West 43rd Street, NYC - 212-997-1929 - http://www.the-townhall-nyc.org/ ) between noon and 6:00 pm (except Sundays).