June 2016
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Words and Music: The Songbook Series
The acclaimed Grammy award winning songwriter (“From A Distance”) performs her songs in the intimate Speakeasy. |
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June 9 - 19
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An Evening with Julie Gold
“AN EVENING WITH JULIE
GOLD”
featured the acclaimed Grammy award winning songwriter (“From A Distance”) performing her self-penned songs for one night
only in the intimate setting of the Bridge Street
Theatre Speakeasy in Catskill, NY on Saturday, June 4 at
8 pm as part of the “Words and Music Songbook Series” curated by Tom Andersen.
Celebrated for her world-wide smash, “From A Distance”
recorded by Bette Midler, Julie will also perform her
other songs that have been performed by Patti Labelle,
Nanci Griffith, Emmy Lou Harris, Patti Lupone and Lea
Salonga among others.It’s sure to be an unforgettable
evening of songs and the stories behind them that’s not
to be missed!
Julie Gold
is a New York Songwriter best known for Bette Midler’s
version of her song
FROM A DISTANCE
which won the Grammy for Song of the Year in 1991.
That song has since received
close to 4 million air plays:
• It has been recited into
the Congressional Record (by Senator Barbara Boxer).
• It has been recorded
internationally and translated into many languages.
• It has been illustrated
as a Children’s Book and mass- produced in Music Boxes.
• It has been quoted in
books, calendars and greeting cards.
• It was used as the
wake-up call for astronauts in the Mir Space Station the
very first time the Americans hooked up with the
Russians in outer space.
A wide range of recording artists have covered it,
singers from Jewel to Cliff Richard to The African
Children’s Choir to Judy Collins to The Byrds to Donna
Summer--just to name a few.
Nanci Griffith, the first to record FROM A DISTANCE, has
also covered Gold’s songs HEAVEN, SOUTHBOUND TRAIN, GOOD
NIGHT NEW YORK, MOUNTAIN OF SORROW, and LOVE IS LOVE IS
LOVE. Other artists who have recorded Julie Gold songs
include Patti LaBelle, Patti LuPone, Lea Salonga, Andrea
Marcovicci, Carol Woods, Sinead O'Connor and Kathie Lee
Gifford. Gold’s Emmy Nominated lyric
WE’RE 4 NEW YORK
was a popular favorite that ran on the local NBC
affiliate for years. Her song
THANKS TO YOU was featured in the motion picture ANDRE, and her song
DREAM LOUD was featured in the motion picture
UNFAITHFUL, starring Richard Gere. DREAM LOUD is also a
favorite song of The Girl Scouts of America. Gold
delights in the fact that she was
paid in Girl Scout cookies for that transaction.
Gold has served on The Board of Governors for NARAS and
is a guest artist for Lincoln Center's prestigious Meet
the Artist Series.
She has 4 CDs documenting her
work over the years: Dream Loud, Try Love, The Girl I
Found and Love is Love is Love. Currently she is writing
songs for the Oxford University Press for a series that
teaches English to elementary school children all over
the world. As the daughter of an immigrant, she sees
this as her most meaningful endeavor to date. She
performs and gives motivational speeches around the
country.
“From the moment she first peered into the audience to her final encore, she held the audience in her talented little hands. You don’t see this kind of star quality often – Streisand and Midler in their early days come to mind."- Susan Madrak, News of Delaware County
Dream Child: The Trial of Alice in Wonderland
Award-winning
playwright/performer Roxanne Fay, whose “Home Fires
Burning” was cited at one of the highlights of the
Capital Region theater season in 2015, returned to
Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre for eight performances
only in a brand new work called “Dream Child: The Trial
of Alice in Wonderland”. This New York premiere, the
second production the play has ever received, opens on
June 9 and plays Thursdays through Sundays through June
19 in the BST Speakeasy, 44 West Bridge Street in
Catskill.
Originally commissioned
by the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida,
and recently premiered there (on May 24, 2016) as part
of the museum’s “Disney and Dali: Architects of the
Imagination” exhibit, “Dream Child: The Trial of Alice
in Wonderland” journeys through the surreal worlds of
memory, sin and absolution within the mind of Alice
Liddell, Lewis Carroll’s original muse and the
inspiration for his timeless stories. It’s 1932 and the
very grown up Alice is having a new adventure; she is
coming to America. Though on the surface her trip is to
attend the centennial celebrations surrounding Carroll’s
100th birthday, her true purpose is much more personal,
more frightening and more visceral. Is she merely
entertaining old memories? Is she seeking absolution for
the past? And from whom? Is there still a chance she’ll
be able to re-enter Wonderland one last time?
ROXANNE FAY
(Playwright/Performer) is an award-winning actor and
writer based in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area in
Florida. She was the first recipient of the Jeff Norton
Dream Grant, awarded by Theatre Tampa Bay, to fund the
creation, production, and publication of her play “Upon
This Rock: The Magdalene Speaks”. Her collected plays,
“Home Fires Burning” were chosen to be presented in the
2014 United Solo Festival in New York City and cited in
year-end “Best of…” lists in the Albany Times Union and
Metroland when they were presented at Bridge Street
Theatre in Catskill in 2015. During 2015, Roxanne was
also named a Hawthornden Writing Fellow and will be
spending the fall of 2016 in residency at Hawthornden
Castle in Scotland, where she will complete two plays
closely tied Florida. For more information about
Roxanne, please visit her websites:
www.roxannefay.com
and
www.circleinthewater.com.
