Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Sean Kanan and Christian Le Blanc Go East!

Two west coast soap actors, Young and the Restless' Sean Kanan (Deacon) and Christian Jules Le Blanc (Michael), are traveling to the east cost for a few appearances.  They will be bringing their comedy/story-telling/autograph-signing tour to The Brokerage Comedy Club in Bellmore NY on Saturday May 14, and to Uncle Vinnie's Comedy Club in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ on Sunday May 15.

You can find more information, discussion, and videos, on the tour's facebook page.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Colleen Zenk: LIVE! at Bob Egan's New Hope

The beautiful and talented Colleen Zenk (aka Barbara Ryan from As the World Turns) will be performing her one-woman show Colleen Zenk: LIVE! at Bob Egan's New Hope in eastern Pennsylvania on Friday, April 8. For more information and to buy tickets see the Bob Egan's New Hope website.

Here's what Colleen has to say about the show: “I believe the old saying that ‘when one window closes, another window opens.’ The end of As the World Turns was a great loss for me, but has given me the time to explore a lifelong dream. I have great material to draw upon and this show will give me the opportunity to sing some of my favorite songs and give the audience a glimpse into my life.”

Eileen Fulton's cabaret show at Bob Egan's New Hope

The fabulous Eileen Fulton (a 50-year veteran of As the World Turns) will be bringing her new cabaret show, called Blame it on My Youth, to Bob Egan's New Hope in eastern Pennsylvania.  For more information and to buy tickets see the Bob Egan website, and scroll down to April 17.

Here's some more info on the show:  Directed by Diana Basmajian, with Bob Goldstone as Music Director and Tom Hubbard on Bass, Fulton will delight audiences when she adds her signature flair to such classic standards as “Fever,” “Blue Moon,” and “Stormy Weather” among others. She will also perform a special rendition of “Blame It On My Youth,” the famous jazz standard written by Oscar Levant and Edward Heyman.  Fulton will also share memorable stories of growing up as a preacher’s daughter in North Carolina; becoming the vixen of daytime television; her time spent in Hollywood and all of her loves and let go’s – the men who got away – and the men who she survived to tell about.

Kim Zimmer and Robert Newman in "Curtains"

Kim Zimmer and Robert Newman, otherwise known as Guiding Light's Reva and Josh, are reuniting in the musical Curtains.  The show is currently playing (through April 10) in Houston at Theatre Under the Stars, and will then be moving to New Jersey's Papermill Playhouse from April 27 through May 22.

Click here for information and tickets to Theatre Under the Stars.

Click here for information and tickets to the Papermill Playhouse.

A summary of Curtains: Aspiring actor and detective Lt. Frank Cioffi is investigating the rising body count on the set of a Broadway-bound show - and starting a romance with one of the actors. Can he solve the case without becoming one of the victims? This musical mystery-comedy was created by John Kander and Fred Ebb, the award-winning composer and lyricist responsible for both Cabaret and Chicago. Curtains will have you on the edge of your seat - laughing!

Annie Parisse in Shakespeare in the Park

Annie Parisse (known to some of us as Julia from As the World Turns) will be appearing in The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park this summer in Central Park, NYC. The company will be performing All's Well that Ends Well and Measure for Measure in repertory from June 6 through July 30. For more information and to buy tickets, see The Public Theater's website.

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
A fairytale for grown-ups, this beguiling fable follows the low-born Helena, one of Shakespeare's most resourceful heroines, as she inventively surmounts obstacle after impossible obstacle in order to win the love of the aristocratic and haughty Count Bertram.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Measure sweeps from the corridors of national power to the intimate confines of the bedroom, and from the convent's chapel to the executioner's block. It is Shakespeare at his grittiest: a bracing and bawdy glimpse of what happens when those in power allow their basest human impulses to range unchecked.