Vocalist Patti Bottino-Bravo debuts her new show on Saturday, June 24 at 3:30 PM at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Music director/arranger is Gregory Toroian on piano, with Skip Ward on bass and David Silliman on drums. Directed by Lina Koutrakos.
Bottino-Bravo celebrates endings, beginnings, and everything in between with this new show about one woman’s unexpected reaction to facing retirement and finally doing what she always said she wanted to do—featuring songs spanning the 1950s through the 1990s from musical theater, pop, rock and jazz genres with new twists on familiar tunes and some hidden gems.
Bottino-Bravo recently retired from her day job as a speech-language pathologist for the New York City Department of Education. She was introduced to the cabaret community in the 1980s and nominated for a MAC Award for Best Newcomer-Duo with her then singing partner, Sal Bovoso, for It Takes Two. She left performing when pursuing her master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology became all-consuming.
A mere twenty-seven years later, due to a chance meeting with the marvelous Marilyn Maye, Bottino-Bravo enrolled in a Master Class where she met Maestro Barry Levitt. In 2016, with Levitt as musical director, she launched her return debut Dream, Come True! Bottino-Bravo has performed in NYC at Panache, Panache Encore, Jan Wallman’s, Don’t Tell Mama, The Metropolitan Room, and now, the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Outside of NYC, she has performed at Davenport’s in Chicago, IL, and the Montparnasse in Mykonos, Greece.
Tickets: $25/plus $25 food or drink minimum. Click here to reserve: https://bit.ly/lbt-PBB-230624
The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located in the West Bank Cafe, 407 West 42nd Street, NYC,
