Theater arts

A listening party for ‘The Sunday Set’ album and a concert of songs from ‘The World to Come’ streaming this week

Allow the tunes of New York continue to keep you heat this 7 days, with two great on the web functions that you can stream at home without having owning to courageous the freezing weather conditions!

Just released by Club44 Information on Friday, January 21, The Sunday Set – an album of vintage favorites by the acclaimed duo of Billy Stritch and Jim Caruso that right away zoomed to #4 on the iTunes Jazz Charts – will be offered and hosted by the two extensive-time collaborators in a digital listening social gathering on Tuesday, January 25, commencing at 7 pm. The tunes, which include such standards as “Lullaby of Birdland” and “42nd Road,” ended up recorded stay, accompanied by bass player Steve Doyle, in a live performance engagement at Birdland in February of 2019, before the pandemic hit.

Jim tells me, “This listening bash just could possibly have a fly-on-the-wall vibe . . . two outdated close friends reminiscing, telling tales, and answering viewer concerns! Billy and I have been BFFs for almost forty yrs, which we are equally horrified to admit. But we’ve shared so several extraordinary experiences – our “salad days” in Texas nightclubs, relocating to NYC all-around the identical time, the ‘Liza Experience’ and subsequent world-tours, and the lots of, several, Many nights cavorting at Birdland!  We have schlepped Cast Celebration all more than the earth, also, so you can imagine the brilliant talent we have been in a position to satisfy. Also other people! We remember it all, and we are not shy about naming names! And of system, we’ll go over our new undertaking The Sunday Set.”

The Sunday Established Listening Celebration streams on Tuesday, January 25, 7 pm, on the Forged Celebration Network on YouTube. Viewing is free and no reservations are demanded.

On Thursday, January 27, at 9:30 pm, Iconoclast Theatre Collective and David Treatman Resourceful will present a stream of The World to Come: The Tracks of Fiveboro as part of the new digital ReWINEd sequence from The Green Area 42, offering audiences an opportunity to revisit popular reveals that have been beforehand staged at the club. Initial carried out there reside on Oct 25, 2021, the recorded live performance capabilities a collection of tunes from the strike podcast series The World to Appear, directed by Rachel Klein, with audio, preparations, and tunes direction by Andy Peterson, and lyrics by Erik Ransom.

Telling the story of the futuristic dystopian modern society of the 5 boroughs of New York Town, the large-energy live performance, emceed by Remy Germinario and Kate Hoover, is done by users of the authentic audio sequence solid from Broadway and past, which includes Ransom, Justin Sargent, Marissa Rosen, Tara Martinez, Em Grosland, Sandra Marante, Luis Villabon, Tsebiyah Mishael Derry, Jonathan Hoover, and Joanna Carpenter, accompanied by musicians by Peterson, Mike Lunoe, Debbie Christine Tjong, Michael Ferrara, and Mike Rosengarten.

According to Klein, “This concert was a truly magical practical experience! It was very cathartic last but not least to be ready to obtain in celebration of the function that we designed remotely in the course of the quarantimes. I am so happy of my collaborators Erik Ransom and Andy Peterson, who are an endlessly outstanding producing workforce – they actually outdid by themselves with these songs. We are so grateful that a are living audience was in a position to knowledge this incredible music, and that it was carried out so superbly by our powerhouse ensemble of singers and musicians.”

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The Planet to Arrive: The Tracks of Fiveboro streams on Thursday, January 27, at 9:30 pm, at The Inexperienced Place 42. For tickets, priced at $19, go on the net. A link will be emailed on the working day of the overall performance.

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