The American Popular Song Society will honor Lee Roy Reams with a Lifetime Achievement Award, in a star-studded benefit concert celebrating the art and legacy of the American popular song, at The Cutting Room, on Sunday June 12 at 4:30 PM. A cocktail hour is followed by the performance at 5:30 PM. Among the featured performers are: Danny Bacher, Jim Brochu, Charles Busch, Michael Denby Cain, Scott Coulter, Robert Cuccioli, Tony Danza, George Dvorsky, Melissa Errico, Beth Fowler, Penny Fuller, Anita Gillette, Jeff Harnar, Richard Kind, Karen Mason, Andrea McArdle, Sidney Myer, Ron Raines, KT Sullivan, Mark William, Walter Willison and Karen Ziemba, among others.
The music director is Michael Lavine. The event is co-produced by Sandi Durell and Marilyn Lester. Linda Amiel Burns is the president.
A Kentucky native, Lee Roy Reams is an actor-singer-dancer, choreographer and director. He has starred and been featured in 15 Broadway productions including 42nd Street (for which he received a Tony nomination), The Producers, and Hello, Dolly! In March he premiered his much-heralded showbiz travelogue Goodbye Kentucky! Hello Broadway! at Feinstein’s/54 Below, where he is a frequent headliner.
Established in 1980 as the New York Sheet Music Society, the American Popular Song Society is a New York-based non-profit organization with a national membership, dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Great American Songbook and American popular song. By providing a forum for discussion, education, and performance, the Society fosters not just the preservation of an immense legacy of popular American songwriting for film, the stage and records, but it also encourages current songwriters to create new songs that extend the tradition. It still collects and preserves vintage sheet music, recordings and other ephemera related to American songwriting.
For tickets, which are $75 and $125 visit www.apssinc.org
The Cutting Room is located at 44 East 32nd Street (between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue South), NYC
