Manhattan-based psychoanalyst and former Broadway singer-dancer, Dr. Bradley Jones, returns to the Laurie Beechman stage on April 30th at 7 pm with a performance of Dr. Bradley’s Fabulous Functional Narcissism…The Psychoanalytic Odyssey of a Once Glorified Chorus Boy. 100% of net proceeds will go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
The show features mainly the music of Jones’ milieu: Broadway standards including the songs of Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Harold Arlen, Ray Heindorf, Brian Yorkey and more. Dr. Bradley’s Fabulous Functional Narcissism is directed by KT Sullivan, artistic director of the Mabel Mercer Foundation, and an internationally renowned performer. Jones is supported by The Freudians, a quartet.
Dr. Bradley’s Fabulous Functional Narcissism regales us through 70 minutes of Jones applying a rapier wit and his psychoanalytic expertise (that shingle is REAL) to true tales of his early childhood as a budding theater queen, nearly ten years on Broadway in A Chorus Line, backstage life and excessive drug use, living through the AIDS pandemic, a murder and making his decision to pursue a new career. In the penultimate scene, he recounts his own 15 years of psychoanalysis in under seven minutes in tap shoes. Dr. Bradley’s musical memoir has been packing in SRO audiences for months at clubs and theaters in New York, Connecticut and Los Angeles, CA.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources, and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $300 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States..For more information, please visit Broadway Cares online at broadwaycares.org
Tickets for Dr. Bradley’s Fabulous Functional Narcissism are $20, with a $20 minimum per person. For tickets, click here.
The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located in the West Bank Cafe, 407 W. 42nd Street, NYC, 212.695.6909
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