America’s Perfect Housewife, Doris Dear and her friends celebrate the holidays on Thursday, December 16, Friday, December 17 and Saturday, December 18 at The Triad at 7 PM. The party in the Rumpus Room also streams live on December 17. This sixth annual fête reunites the award-winning team of musical director Blake Allen and director Lina Koutrakos with writer and creative producer Ray DeForest/Doris Dear.
The Doris Dear Christmas Special is an evening full of stories and songs. This year’s theme, “Christmas Through the Decades,” featuring songs from the 1900’s to present day. The party will be a non-stop holiday fête full of award-winning artists. The party is jam packed with entertainment glitterati like Caribbean-American Mezzo-Soprano Eliza Bonet known for her “sparkling, uninhibited delivery;” the star of Broadway’s Kinky Boots and The Book of Mormon, Darius Harper; Chicago on Broadway star, Haley Swindal; worldwide acclaimed jazz vocalist Vanisha-Arleen Gould ;and internationally recognized award-winning vocalist, Regina Zona. Also appearing are New York City favorites, the vocal harmony group “Those Girls;” award-winning singer/songwriter and “Home Shopping Diva” Meg Flather and Lina Koutrakos.
DeForest Theatricals, producer of “The Doris Dear Christmas Special” has teamed with the OUT Foundation to raise needed funds to empower the LGBTQ+ students and alumni of Brigham Young University through the sale of a new custom designed enamel pin depicting the star of the show, Doris Dear. The OUT Foundation was created in the spring of 2017 when three gay men, all of whom had graduated several years earlier from the LDS Church-owned Brigham Young University, came together with the same thought: they knew they weren’t the first gay people to graduate from BYU, so where were the others? After spending several years in the workforce, they saw that there was no formal organization to help queer alumni from BYU. The OUT Foundation has created campaigns to document and share alumni stories, build communities, create scholarships, and set up emergency funding for housing and other resources for the LGBTQ+ BYU students in need.
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The Triad Theater is located at 158 W 72nd St, New York, NY
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