Deborah Grace Winer presents her monthly musical revue NEW YORK: BIG CITY SONGBOOK at the Birdland Theatre on Sunday, May 12 at 7:30 pm. Featured are Klea Blackhurst, Nicolas King and Laurie Wells with Joe Davidian on piano and Jay Leonhart on bass and vocals. Mark Waldrop directs with musical arrangements by the late John Oddo.
The show is a virtual guide book to New York City in song, with numbers such as “Take the A Train,” “I Happen to Like New York,” “Boy from New York City” and more offering a kaleidoscopic tour of life in the city, from the inspiring and romantic to the aggravating and the quirky.
Winer (Creator, Writer, Host) is an authority on the classic American Songbook, with current collaborations including Feinstein’s/54 Below, Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Schimmel Center/Pace University. She was formerly the Artistic Director of the 92Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists™ concert series, presiding over 50 original shows. As an author, her four books include On the Sunny Side of the Street: The Life and Lyrics of Dorothy Fields, recently reissued on Amazon, and The Night and the Music: Rosemary Clooney, Barbara Cook and Julie Wilson Inside the World of Cabaret. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times.
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Birdland is located at 315 West 44th Street, NYC.
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