ScoBar Entertainment continues PIANO BAR LIVE! every Monday night at 7pm at Brandy’s Piano Bar on the Upper East Side. Joining Piano Bar Maestro, MICHAEL McASSEY at the keys, will be a veritable Who’s Who of Cabaret and Broadway! PIANO BAR LIVE! is an interactive, live-streaming Piano Bar experience. THERE IS NO COVER CHARGE for PIANO BAR LIVE! but there is a two drink minimum.
Guests for December 9th include Susie Mosher, Kelli Rabke, Brad Simmons, Zasha Rabie and Marvin Lewis.
SUSIE MOSHER grew up in San Diego, CA and landed her first professional acting job as the youngest cast member in The Old Globe’s West Coast Premiere of Godspell. In the 80’s, Susie teamed up with San Diego friends Steve Gunderson, Melinda Gilb and Bryan Scott, originating the role of “Dee Dee” in Suds: The Rocking Sixties Musical Soap Opera, which broke box office records in San Diego, followed by a successful Off-Broadway run. Susie joined up again with Gunderson, Gilb & Lillias White, appearing in the original cast of the Off-Broadway hit Back to Bacharach & David, directed by another San Diego pal, Kathy Najimy. She has worked steadily in TV & film, including “Beverly Hills 90210,” “Without A Trace,” “Nurse Jackie,” HBO’s “If These Walls Could Talk 2” (w/Vanessa Redgrave), Showtime’s “The L Word,” The Wedding Planner, View from the Top, It’s Pat and the popular gay comedy, Bear City 2: The Proposal. In 2007, she joined the Broadway cast of Hairspray, playing Prudy Pingleton for the final two years of its six-year run. She has appeared in the 2013 World Premiere of Gordon Greenberg’s The Single Girl’s Guide and Holiday Inn at the Goodspeed Opera House. Audiences know her as “Pepper Cole,” a painfully optimistic lounge singer turned web entrepreneur, in the long-running cult hit multimedia show she co-created with John Boswell & Hope Royaltey, Cashino. In 2010, she wrote and performed her critically acclaimed solo show, The Great Daisy Theory. Susie can be found hosting Broadway’s favorite late-night musical adventure, The Lineup, at the new Birdland Theater.
KELLI RABKE played the Narrator in the Broadway revival of Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (US Cast Recording). Following that, she played her dream role, Éponine in Les Misérables on Broadway. She has performed in regional theatres across the country as Mabel in Mack & Mabel, Christine in Phantom and at Paper Mill in Stephen Schwartz’s Children of Eden, as Yonah (American Premiere Recording). She is one of the only Broadway stars to originate a role in both a Stephen Schwartz and an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, a distinction for which she is incredibly honored. After leaving the stage to start a family, Kelli is now a staple in the NYC cabaret world. Her first solo cabaret show debuted to a sold-out crowd at Feinstein’s/54 Below. She performs regularly with symphony orchestras from Calgary to Mazatlán and across the country in Blockbuster Broadway, Music of the Knights and The Wonderful Music of Oz. Kelli debuted an original song by David Friedman & Kathie Lee Gifford on “The Today Show” and recorded the PBS American Songbook segment “Stephen Schwartz & Friends,” singing one of his songs from Wicked, “The Wizard and I,” with the composer at the piano.
BRAD SIMMONS has shared the stage with Broadway luminaries Tonya Pinkins, Alice Ripley, Beth Leavel, Donna McKechnie and recording artists Sandi Patty and The B-52s Kate Pierson. He was the musical director of Lysistrata Jones, Mr. & Mrs. Fitch (with John Lithgow), Me & The Girls (with Alan Cumming) and the musical film Hello Again with Audra McDonald and Martha Plimpton. Upcoming productions include Hood and To Wong Foo. Brad currently music directs The Lineup with Susie Mosher every Tuesday at Birdland Theater. He’s had the privilege of headlining and accompanying others at Birdland, Feinstein’s/54 Below, The Green Room 42, Don’t Tell Mama, The Duplex, The Lauri Beechman, Metropolitan Room, etc… for the past 18 years.
MARVIN LEWIS earned a BFA from Western Michigan University, did a few seasons of summer stock and a children’s theatre tour of Michigan, then danced and sang on a cruise ship for a year, where he first met Mac. He then moved to Las Vegas where he landed a gig in Japan. Shortly after returning to Vegas, he was called back to the ships, this time for the long haul. After 13 years at sea and traveling the world, he settled down in NYC, where he is currently finding his Way Back to Then.
ZASHA RABIE is a first-year student at Pace University, studying for her BFA Musical Theatre. Her favorite credits include Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, Éponine in Les Misérables, Jane Banks in Mary Poppins and Young Queen Elizabeth in The Audience. She is excited to be a part of PIANO BAR LIVE! and wants to thank Michael McAssey for providing her with her first New York City performance opportunity!
DATE: Every Monday @7pm
PLACE: Brandy’s Piano Bar – 235 East 84th Street, NYC (212) 744-4949
TICKETS: NO COVER CHARGE – 2 drink minimum
INFORMATION: ScoBarEnt@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/PianoBarLive
Click here to go visit Brandy’s website
If you can’t join us live @ Brandy’s, just like us www.facebook.com/PianoBarLive & come back on any Monday @ 7pm, to chat on Facebook with old friends and new friends, as we watch together…
ScoBar Entertainment would like to thank Brandy’s Piano Bar,
our sponsor for the PIANO BAR LIVE! series…
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