Our Month of Cabaret Saturdays and a Classical Sunday
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Using standards, country and pop songs, and inspired by a Revlon lipstick color, Fire and Ice is a musical exploration of heat and cold, affection and rejection, hate and love. It's hot and it's cool. Saturday, August 9 7 pm and 9 pm |
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Continuing his mission of re-introducing great songs which have been almost completely forgotten, Tom Judson’s Mostly From the Movies presents an evening of words and music from cinema classics, cinema flops and everything in between. Saturday, August 16 7:30 pm |
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From Oz to
Nuremberg is a love letter to Judy Garland, a
celebration of her life and music. From 1939,
when we fell in love with her as Dorothy in The
Wizard Of Oz, through her MGM years to her
triumphant "comebacks" on the concert stage and
television, this evening pays tribute to the
milestones of her legendary career. Saturday, August 23 7:30 pm |
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Sunday Afternoon Classics The Hearts Content Quintet perform works by Bach, Debussy, Gounod, Ibert and Reiche Sunday, August 17 3:00 pm |
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Saturday, August 9 at 7 pm and 9 pm
Fire
and Ice
Lynn Kearney with Wells Hanley
at the piano
Singer and actress Lynn Kearney appeared
on Broadway replacing Sandy Faison as Grace Farrell in
the original production of Annie, having previously
toured with the first national company in which she
understudied the role.
Lynn started her
professional career with the Chicago Free Street Theater
touring eight states in the Midwest. A documentary film
was made of her first season with the company called A
Season of Celebration, narrated by Studs Turkel. She
returned to New York and appeared in the original cast
of Christy based on the play The Playboy of the Western
World by John Millington Synge and in several other
showcase productions. Lynn then got her Actor’s Equity
card playing all of the white women in a children’s
theater production Escape to Freedom based on the life
of Frederick Douglas directed by Robbie McCauley. Next
she appeared in Finian’s Rainbow with Charles Repole at
the Jones Beach Theater. Soon after she got her big
break in Annie.
On
television Lynn appeared on All My Children and
Edge of
Night, in the latter as a mean nurse in a mental
institution during the final months of the production.
Later Lynn helped create along with her long time friend
and director, Rosemary Quinn, the play Ladies Lounge
which played at the legendary off Broadway house LaMama.
And she repeated the role of Grace in Annie at Allenbury
Playhouse.
Lynn
started her cabaret career working at Jan Wallman’s
restaurant and then for Sidney Myer at Panache Encore
and then Don’t Tell Mama, where she still appears
regularly.
Lynn
is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the
Arts and received a Pastry degree from the Culinary
Institute of America. She previously studied acting with
Olympia Dukakis, Alice Spivak and Lloyd Richards. She
continues to study acting with Eric Michael Gillett and
voice with Michael Warren.
From 1995 through 2010 Lynn worked at the
television Food Network as first an intern in the
kitchen, as one of the first editors of foodnetwork.com,
as a production assistant and finally in the culinary
production department where she wore many hats ending as
the Manager of Culinary Editorial.
Lynn
lives in New York City and in Catskill, New York. More
at LynnKearney.com
Wells
Hanley
is an Adjunct Instructor of Jazz at Virginia
Commonwealth University, where he teaches Jazz Piano,
Jazz Piano for the Non-Keyboard Player, and Small Jazz
Ensemble. He holds a Bachelor of Music in classical
piano from James Madison University and a Master of
Music in jazz piano from The Manhattan School of Music.
He has studied jazz piano with Bob Hallahan, Garry Dial,
and Fred Hersch and has performed with David Liebman,
Chris Potter, Stanley Jordan, Wynton Marsalis, Dick
Oatts, Bill Watrous, John D’earth, Tim Reynolds, and
Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead. He has appeared at the
Spoleto Music Festival in Italy as well as The North Sea
and Montreux Jazz Festivals. In addition to his work as
a jazz pianist, Hanley has collaborated with Broadway
singers Darius DeHaas and Tom Wopat, as well as rock
musicians Brian Vander Ark, Dave Matthews, Carter
Beauford, and Boyd Tinsley. Wells has served on the
faculty at The New School University and at James
Madison University.
A
jazz pianist with deep roots in both its historical
traditions and its newer paths, Hanley is also a
collaborator at the keyboard with vocalists in the
Broadway and cabaret styles—so sought after in New York
City that he performs there several days a month. His
classical expression is honed sufficiently that he can
and does accompany classical vocalists for their arias
at a major music festival. He also writes and sings
rock, plus plays some drums and guitar as well.
Saturday, August 16 at 7:30 pm
Mostly From the Movies
Tom Judson at the Piano
As a solo cabaret artist, as well
as serving as accompanist to Charles Busch and Varla
Jean Merman, Tom Judson has appeared in most of the
important cabaret venues throughout the country. He is
pleased to bring his new show, Mostly From the Movies
to the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, NY for one
night only, Saturday August 16 at 7:30 PM.
Accompanying himself on the piano, Tom will sing a
selection of songs which were introduced in
films—musical and dramatic—that are both familiar and
surprising, including a couple of songs composed by Tom
himself. Some, like the classic “Moon River” from
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, will be instantly familiar,
while others—even from the pen of such movie titans as
composer Marvin Hamlisch—will be virtually unknown to
most listeners. Continuing his mission of re-introducing
great songs which have been almost completely forgotten,
Tom Judson’s Mostly From the Movies will present an
evening of words and music from cinema classics, cinema
flops, and everything in between.
Tom Judson has
appeared on Broadway in the Roundabout Theater
production of Cabaret at Studio 54. He toured the
country in that show and in 42nd Street. He composed
the score to Whit Stillman’s indie film classic
Metropolitan and has written songs for Ann Magnuson,
Lisa Kron and Charles Busch. Tom is an author (Laid
Bare), magazine columnist and Huffington Post
contributor and is a proud resident of Catskill.
Saturday, August 23 at 7:30 pm
From Oz to Nuremberg
Mary Ellen Nelligar with
Joel Flowers at the Piano
From Oz to Nuremberg is a
love letter to Judy Garland, a celebration of her life
and music. From 1939, when we fell in love with her as
Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz, through her MGM years to
her triumphant "comebacks" on the concert stage and
television, this evening will pay tribute to the
milestones of her legendary career.
Mary Ellen
Nelligar is thrilled to be premiering From Oz to
Nuremberg at the Bridge Street Theater. She has been
performing in the Hudson Valley area for over 30 years
in theater and cabaret. When not on stage, she is an
accomplished director who recently helmed a show at the NYCFringe Festival. One of the things that brings her
bliss is her frequent collaboration with her husband,
playwright Brian C. Petti, whose Echoes of Ireland was
the first show presented in the Speakeasy at Bridge
Street Theatre. Their best collaboration is as parents to
their three sons, Mychal, Conor and James.
Joel Flowers served for many years as the entertainment director for the U.S. Army in Germany, where he also performed and accompanied vocalists at the Theatre Des Westerns and The Deutches Oper in Berlin. A Hudson Valley resident since 1994, Mr. Flowers has served as musical director for many local theatre productions and is the community recreation coordinator at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Margo Byron - flute
Music major
Williams College, Berkshire Symphony (Julius Hegyi)
Lory Frankel - oboe
Music studies at the
Eastman School of Music
Gail LeSuer - clarinet
Music major Hartwick
College
David Woodin - violin, viola
Music major
Williams College, Berkshire Symphony, violin student of
Julius Hegyi
Bill Skiff - bassoon
Crane School of Music,
has studied with Jim Stoltie, Frank
All
performers are musicians with the Catskill Chamber
Orchestra, which was formed in 2008 by David Woodin
under a grant from the Decentralization Program of the
NYS Council on the Arts and has performed in numerous
venues in Greene and Columbia Counties.
Program for
August 17, 2014
Chamber works by J.S.Bach,
Debussy
This event is made possible with
public funds from the Decentralization Program of the
NYS Council on the Arts, administered in Greene County
by the Greene County Council on the Arts through the
Twin Counties Cultural Fund.
