SONDHEIM UNPLUGS SARAH RICE AT 54 BELOW

Feinstein’s/54 Below continues to celebrate a New York event since 2010, with the BroadwayWorld and Bistro Award-winning monthly series Sondheim Unplugged featuring some of Broadway and cabaret’s most dynamic voices, accompanied by piano only, delving into the musical world of Broadway’s master composer. 

Expect tunes from A Little Night Music, Company, Into the Woods, Follies, Passion, Dick Tracy and more.  The show is hosted by series creator Phil Geoffrey Bond, who will fill the audience in on Sondheimien facts, history & assorted tidbits of theatrical lore! Come join the party!

Sondheim Unplugged will feature Sarah Rice, Sweeny Todd’s original Johanna at the 7pm April 21 Performance.“It began with Sondheim’s 85^th birthday and first at the Beecham Theatre running here for seven years,” said Rice. You get to enjoy performers who originated their roles and sharing their stories such as Lane Bradbury, Gypsy’s original Dainty June. “The show is at a high professional level, especially with Bond giving ‘dish’. I don’t only do songs from Sweeny Todd.  For instance I sang A Boy Like That as a duet from West Side Story.”

Rice said that she is singing “all over the place.”  “I have a booking in London in June doing my own show. I also participate in a weekly program called Peaceable Hour from 6-7pm and given free of charge to the community.  Music by world class singers is diverse and speaking is frowned upon. I sing as well as play the theremin . The location is the St. Clemens Church and non-secular.  www.peaceablehour.com
 
Rice describes 54 Below now being a fancy speakeasy having known years ago as Studio 54. Along with the featured performers cabaret singers are: Kristy Cates, Marquee Five, Alexa Green, Blaine Krauss, Rob Maitner, Julie Reyburn, Courter Simmons, and Lucia Spina. You never know who will stop by as well. 

For tickets and further information go to: www.54below.com  There is an additional $25 food and beverage minimum as well.  

 Sarah Rice is on the far left.

FROM SARAH RICE!

Hi friends and fellow performers,

Would you be please be so kind as to put this on your facebook pages, email out to everyone on your email list that you think might be interested and help beat the bushes for an audience? I need your help to get people there for a very worth cause and a damn good concert! Hope to see you all there! 

If you can't come, donation info is included towards the bottom.

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW AT 

https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/9856053

Thanks!

Sarah

Broadway Concerts Direct

proudly presents

a benefit concert for

ZANI'S FURRY FRIENDS- a wonderful animal rescue organization

at  The Laurie Beechman Theater

LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ‘ROUND

An Evening of Song to Help Our Furry Friends

SAT 11-30-13 • 7pm (doors open at 6:00)

Starring (multiple Tony, MAC and Bistro Award Winners): *

Dana Lorge, co-host

Lee Roy Reams, co-host

Celia Berk

Carole Demas (GREASE -- original Sandy, THE MAGIC GARDEN)
Joanna Morton Gary
Carly Ozard

Craig Pomranz

Sarah Rice (SWEENEY TODD) Lennie Watts
JoAnn Yeoman
*Artists subject to change without notice. 

LAURIE BEECHMAN THEATER

West Bank Cafe

407 W 42nd Street

(between 9th and 10th Ave.)

NYC, NY

RESERVATIONS: 212.695.6909

TKTS via OvationTix:

OvationTix by phone 866-811-4111 (toll free)

$50 / $25 cover

+ $15 Food and/or Beverage Min.

Doors open 1 hour prior to show

Tkts may also be purchased at:

PETQUA

Broadway bet. 98th & 99th Street, NYC, NY

cover: $50 VIP gold circle-$25 general seating / $15 food/drink min. not included-- they have really great food!

Children are welcome.

This evening's cabaret extravaganza by some of Broadway and Cabaret's finest performers will be a party mix of enchanting music, guaranteed to touch the heart and delight the spirit to help this wonderful animal rescue organization, Zani’s Furry Friends, a tax deductible organization, 501c3.

This incredible group rescues dogs, cats and bunnies right out of the euthanasia rooms of the city's animal shelters,  gives them medical care, kindness and loving attention and gets them adopted into loving homes through their own tremendous effort and many times paid for out of their own personal pocketbooks. 

We feel it is an honor to be of some help. 100% of the money from the evening's proceedings (cover charge, raffle, journal) will go to Zani's Furry Friends. 

Please help us pack the room. Buy your tickets early through OvationTix. This will guarantee you get in. Tell your friends.

If you can't come to the performance you can still make a donation www.ZanisFurryFriends.com.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre and Phil Geoffrey Bond have generously donated the full proceeds (100%!!!!) of the cover charge to all go to Zani's Furry Friends. (not including the food/drink charges)

A great way to feel good about the upcoming holidays! Help the unloved and the dumped, find love, safety and kindness.

Prizes! Raffles! for some great stuff! 

Specialty drinks: THE MEOWTINI, THE BARKTAIL and 2 non alcoholic drinks: THE ARISTOCAT and THE TRAMP.

Immerse yourself in the thrilling beauty of these naturally gorgeous, powerful, warm voices at that hot spot, The Laurie Beechman Theater at the West Bank Cafe, one of the best  of cabaret/supper club spaces. BCD concerts have been called "Life-affirming", "show-stopping", "Like Babette's feast for the ear" by reviewers and audience members lucky enough to have seen our previous performances. Don't miss out on this heartbreakingly beautiful and thrilling concert.

For more information please visit our web site

www.BwayDirect.com

Seating is limited and filling up fast, so be sure to buy your tickets early for this exciting event. At the last ZFF benefit concert we had to turn so many people away who wanted to be there and to help support ZFF. Don't be left out.

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SARAH RICE AT 54 BELOW

 Sarah performed her own show at 54 Below, a most darling nightclub in Manhattan.   I saw her on the evening of March 3rd, haven't not heard her sing since we were in The Pirates of Penzance in P'Town, the summer of 1982.

The evening entitled “Glamorous Nights and Careless Rapture was dedicated to the music of composers Ivor Novello and Noel Coward.  Accompanying her was Bill Zeffiro on the Piano, Maria Banks on the Harp, and Jonathan Russell, a very young and talented Violinist.

We not only experienced the delight of her sweet soprano voice, with both moving and humorous tunes, the audience was treated to Sarah playing an instrument called the theremin. This particular instrument is never touched but controlled through sound waves. 

 For upcoming performances, visit her website at www.sarahrice.com

ANOTHER SARAH RICE BOOKING

Sarah Rice

SCREEN GEMS

Songs of Old Hollywood! 

I am a winner of the 2010 Bistro Award and 2011 MAC Award, Female Vocalist for this show and the 2009 Cabaret Hotline MEMBERS’ CHOICE AWARD - Female Debut, so I hope you will come and see why we won if you haven't been or hope if you have seen the show, you'll come back and bring a friend. My SCREEN GEMS Symphony Orchestra is so terrific, (Seth Weinstein on the mighty Wurlitzer) it makes your heart happy.

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My Special Guest for Feb 18 will be Frank Basile a possessor of the beautiful, manly baritone voice. We will sing selections from The New Moon and Desert Song. Ahhhh! Guaranteed to make you swoon!

I am expecting a full house again and I would be so sad that you couldn't get in, if you are planning on coming, so please make your reservations. 

212-695-6909 

or purchase your tickets through SmartTix

TKTS via SMARTTIX.COM

SmartTix by phone 212.868.4444

DIRECT LINK:

http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=SAR6

I would really love for you to join me in in the fun as we Vamp our cares away.

Looking forward to seeing you there at the Laurie Beechman Theatre!

XOXO,

Sarah Rice

the original Johanna in SWEENEY TODD on Broadway,

2010 BISTRO AWARD Winner

2011 MAC AWARD, BEST FEMALE VOCALIST

Sarah Rice

SCREEN GEMS

Songs of Old Hollywood

Jo Ann Yeoman, Director

Seth Weinstein, Piano

Frank Basile, Guest Artist

February 18, 2018

Monday @ 7PM

LAURIE BEECHMAN THEATER West Bank Cafe 407 W 42nd Street New York, NY View Map

Reservations: 212-695-6909

TKTS via SMARTTIX.COM

SmartTix by phone 212.868.4444

DIRECT LINK:

http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=SAR6

Cover: $25 premium seating/$15 general seating (MAC discount code MACNYC, will be asked to show card, $5 off )

+ $15 Food and/or Beverage Min.

House opens one hour prior to show.

For more information visit our web site

www.BwayDirect.com

Seating is limited and the previous show was sold out, so reserve your tickets early for this exciting event.

Sarah Rice 

One of the most dazzling and beloved singers on the worldwide cabaret and concert scene today, Sarah brings her acclaimed, multiple award winning show SCREEN GEMS,  The Songs of Old Hollywood, back to the Laurie Beechman. Starting with the silents --Rudolph Valentino, THE SHEIK, Theda Bara, the original vamp, through Helen Kane (the original boop-a-doop girl, prototype of Betty Boop), Pola Negri, A WOMAN COMMANDS, Doloris Del Rio, REVENGE, Kathryn Grayson, THE SINGING BANDIT Jeannette Mac Donald, a little Yma Sumac thrown in for good measure, and more, through the 60s. Seth Weinstein on the Mighty Wurlitzer. Special guest stars, Frank Basile! Get ready to swoon!

Featuring the music of Nacio Herb Brown, Georges Auric, Moises Vivanco, Nino Rota, Jerome Kern, The Sherman Bros., Byron Gay, Ted Snyder and many other rediscovered musical  gems.

Your father's Hollywood. SUITABLE FOR MOST AGES! (Not recommended for children under 8)

www.SarahRice.com

Excerpts from reviews of Sarah Rice in SCREEN GEMS, Songs of Old Hollywood:

RICE IS ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS AT THE BEECHMAN

"If the glorious gods that govern cabaret were to take the coloratura vocal stylings and elegance of Barbara Cook, merge them with the earthiness and humor of Baby Jane Dexter, and wrap the whole package in a unique bundle of sparkle, the end result would without question be Sarah Rice. A Broadway legend perhaps best known for creating the role of Johanna in the original production of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, the revival of her acclaimed act Screen Gems: Songs Of Old Hollywood, is, quite simply, one of those evenings where one feels Beechman herself is looking down upon the room from the heavens and applauding with reckless abandon...

From the opening strains of "At The Moving Picture Ball" coupled with "The Vamp," and a delightful array of anecdotes about such silent film stars as Theda Bara, Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino, Rice hits her stride with a medley of "The Age Of Not Believing," "I'm Wishing" and "Someday My Prince Will Come." Once firmly flying high in this particular holding pattern, from there the evening soars to the skies on an unequaled trip that takes us through a coupling of "Hindustan" and "The Sheik Of Araby," the Helen Kane hit "He's So Unusual," sprinkled with the appropriate Noo Yawk accent and boop-boopy-doops, and a true standout, "Paradise," originally made famous by Pola Negri, and which could not be more captivating on every level. ... As if none of this is enough, her eleven o'clock number is a coupling of Meredith Willson's "My White Knight" with "Bill" from Show Boat, impressive enough to cause the audience to momentarily stop breathing. And by the time Rice brings the evening to a close, with a singularly unique version of Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini's "Moon River," the crowd gathered is not merely her fans but a worshiping cult.

...Whether Sarah Rice makes her next appearance in Screen Gems or an entirely new cabaret vehicle, one simply must run and not walk to see and hear the power and the glory that will surely be her performance." -- Andrew Martin, NightLife Exchange

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Sarah Rice Heats up The Stage!

"Sarah Rice, the original Johanna in Sweeney Todd was the idol of sopranos after she gloriously sang “Green Finch and Linnet Bird.” Now, she celebrates her idols in Screen Gems...

For lovers of the silent and not so silent past, this is a gloriously sung tribute. During most sopranos’ performances, audience members are so besieged with high notes that border on shrill that they pray for the lower register. However, Rice’s sumptuous bell tones have you wishing for more and more you get. Her voice sounds simply effortless, and her unforced warmth has the dulcet tones of a mother singing, just for you... And not only can she sing; she can act, too. ... “Temptation, Italian Street Song” and Yma Sumac’s “Taki Rari” showed a sense of humor and vocal gymnastics that Rice makes appear effortless...

Guest star Mark Watson joined Rice for “Wanting You” and their chemistry was reminiscent of Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel, the original stars of Kiss Me, Kate."-- Suzanna Bowling, TIMES SQUARE CHRONICALS

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"For a guided tour through varied vintage movie melodies, Sarah Rice’s show is just the ticket... She’s comfortable and cozy wrapping her golden soprano in their sheet music and like a song plugger of yore, she sells you on their charms. And hers... Gloriously sung, or held back, the showcase presents different sides of the radiant Rice voice." -- Rob Lester, Cabaret Scenes

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"In her entertaining new cabaret show of songs from or about "old Hollywood," it is evident that  her voice remains a ravishing instrument... Not only is her acting commanding and her singing exemplary...the result is quite simply the best and most riveting rendition of "Pirate Jenny" I've ever heard...Speaking of giving in, eleven years later, Pola Negri introduced "Paradise" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gordon Clifford, from A Woman Commands), which was originally banned from radio play because the humming sections of the lyric were considered too arousing. Indeed, the song is overtly and rather startlingly sexual, but at the same time understated and elegant; Rice's performance is all of the above—and also charming...There are other impressive numbers, among them: a smoldering medley of "Temptation" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed), "Jalousie" (Vera Bloom, Jacob Gade), and "Revenge" (Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, Harry Akst); and an exquisitely interpreted pairing of Meredith Willson's "My White Knight" and "Bill" (Jerome Kern, P.G. Wodehouse, Oscar Hammerstein II)." -- Roy Sander, Bistro Awards

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Sarah Rice

Broadway: (SWEENEY TODD) Johanna, original, Theatre World Award, Grammy for Best Show Recording. 

Off-Broadway: Luisa (FANTASTICKS); Susan (THE WAVES); Elizabeth (SWAN SONG). 

Opera/Operetta/Music Theatre/Theatre:

leading soprano and dramatic roles performed all over the world with a bunch of great people (Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, Leona Mitchell, Marni Nixon, Angela Lansbury, Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim among others) and companies including the famed Gran Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Italy, Santa Fe Opera, Central City Opera, Minnesota Opera, and Dallas Opera in the leading soprano roles of DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT; RIGOLETTO; LE NOZZE DI FIGARO; THE BARBER OF SEVILLE; PIRATES; STUDENT PRINCE; NAUGHTY MARIETTA; MERRY WIDOW; DIE FLEDERMAUS; BITTERSWEET; THE MEDIUM; SHOWBOAT; PHANTOM; DESERT SONG; CANDIDE; MUSIC MAN; and HAMLET; to name a few.  

2010 Bistro Award winner and 2011 MAC AWARD winner, Female Vocalist, for her critically acclaimed solo cabaret debut, SARAH RICE sings SCREEN GEMS, Songs of Old Hollywood and voted favorite female cabaret debut performer by Cabaret Hotline Online readers in 2009. 

www.SarahRice.com