Featuring new performers with every show, the weekly, award-winning Piano Bar Live! (PBL!) streams this Tuesday, August 25th at 7:15 pm ET with host Scott Barbarino and The World Famous Stardusters. PBL! is proud to continue the long-established tradition of the piano bar—that special place where we can gather, entertain, support and create, as we connect with live music. Best of all, PBL! is the the unique chance to see veteran performers pass the torch to the next generation of blossoming young talent. The line-up always features a mix of veteran and rising star performers from the world of piano bars, cabaret and Broadway.
This weeks guests are The World Famous Stardusters, featuring Chrissy Albanese, Shannon Antalan, Michael RJ Campbell, Chris Mauro, Dave Rubin, Kevin Ray, Gabriella Saramago and Cat Yates, plus Mystery Guests and MORE!
Join us this TUESDAY, August 25th at 7:15 pm ET at www.facebook.com/PianoBarLive, on BroadwayOnDemand.com or on YouTube @PianoBarLive
Chrissy Albanese has appeared Off-Broadway in PUFFS (Sally) and regionally in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder at Florida Studio Theatre and Florida Repertory Theatre, Austen’s Pride at Fingerlakes Musical Theatre Fest, Sister Act and The Music Mana at Maine State Music Theatre, Tartuffe at Westport Country Playhouse and My Fair Lady (Eliza). She has also appeared in New York City at Joe’s Pub and The Duplex. chrissyalbanese.com Instagram @chrissyalbanese
Shannon Antalan has performed on Broadway, appeared in commercials and has released albums, Sweet Dreams: A Blanket of Love and Sunny Sunny Christmas. In 2006 she started her company, Toy Candy Productions LLC and operated a storefront for 10 years dedicated to the growth and creative arts for black and brown people. Most recently she was cast in Broadway’s Caroline or Change, which was paused because of the coronavirus pandemic and closure of live performance venues.
Chris Mauro recently traveled the world as a lead singer for Aida Cruise Lines, as well as Mayor Humdinger in the International Tour of Paw Patrol Live! His many credits include Dave in The Full Monty, Big Bad Wolf in Shrek and Inspector Pinckney in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.
Dave Rubin has performed harmonica accompaniments for many Stardusters over the years and is proud to be appearing on PBL!
Kevin Ray is a composer/lyricist whose piano-based pop-rock mixes elements of theater, jazz and soul music. His musical, Central Avenue Breakdown, received six awards at the 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival, including Excellence in Music and Orchestration. It had a full production in July 2011 at the Daegu International Music Festival and a return engagement at NYMF 2012. He is currently working on a new project called Maquiladora about factory workers in the Mexican border town of Juarez. As a solo artist, Ray has recorded seven albums and is working on his new CD, Radio Silence. Additionally, his music was featured in the 2010 independent film Zerophilia. In 2006 he produced, wrote and recorded Seasoned Greetings—a CD with 12 original Holiday songs performed by the wait staff of a renowned Times Square restaurant. That record went onto receive critical acclaim including a MAC nomination for the song “Fat Christmas.” For more information go to www.kevinray.net as well as iTunes and CDBaby.com.
Gabriella Saramago is thrilled to return to Piano Bar Live! She is a Brazilian-American multidisciplinary artist, especially proud to have opened a charity event, led by Fran Drescher at Madison Square Garden, with her fellow Stardusters. Some of her favorite credits include: Godspell at Ivoryton Playhouse; workshopping the role of Lola in Victor Kazan’s and Kevin Purcell’s Stranger from Seville at Winter Park Playhouse; singing in the choir of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Slowburn; creating and completely improvising every performance of Abigail Nightingale (a silly bumbling scullery wench) at Sterling Renaissance Festival; puppeteering in Australia; performing original shows for children in the Amazon; and Christmas Caroling during her most beloved time of year for families all over south Florida. Saramago has also performed at Don’t Tell Mama Piano Bar, The Duplex, The Nuyorican Poets Café, NJPAC, George Street Playhouse and The Belvedere in Lancaster. Follow her on Instagram @gabigabbles
Cat Yates and Michael RJ Campbell are seasoned actors from Northern California who met three years ago performing in Meet Your Mountain, a world premiere musical. An instant team, they also played Hannigan and Warbucks in the musical Annie.The pair now make New York their home where they pursue the life of artists, actors and now(since the pause) voiceover artists.
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