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| THIS WEEK AT 54 BELOW ALEX JOSEPH GRAYSON, FEAT. MIKI ABRAHAM LESLIE UGGAMS MY FIRST SONDHEIM A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION ...AND MORE! www.54Below.org This week, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club and 2022 Tony Awards® Honoree for Excellence in the Theatre, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. 54 Below celebrates Broadway musicals and writers of the past and present, promoting an ongoing engagement with their work. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.org or call (646) 476-3551. Limited $15 tickets are available for some shows. Visit 54Below.org/TicketInitiative for more information. ALEX JOSEPH GRAYSON: WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF YOU? – MARCH 18 AT 7PM This performance will also be livestreamed. For tickets and more information, click here. "Add in the powerhouse vocals of Alex Joseph Grayson, who steals every single scene as the bombastic Jim Conley" – Entertainment Weekly Join Grammy nominee and breakout star of the Tony Award®-winning revival of Parade, Into the Woods, and Girl from the North Country, Alex Joseph Grayson, for his NYC solo show debut! Enjoy an evening of music, stories, and immaculate vibes as Alex shares his unique journey to stardom; featuring songs from Luther Vandross, Soundgarden, Michael Bolton, and many more. Come experience the magic, and discover why everyone is asking, Why have I Never Heard of You? Directed by Jarvis Antonio Green. Music directed and accompanied by John Fischer. Featuring special guest Miki Abraham (Shucked). $56.50 cover charge (includes $6.50 in fees). $89.50 premium seating (includes $9.50 in fees). $25 food & beverage minimum. QUEEN OF DISCO: THE MUSIC OF DONNA SUMMER – MARCH 18 AT 9:30PM Join us for an evening celebrating The Queen Of Disco; the remarkable Donna Summer at 54 Below! You'll hear timeless classics such as, "Last Dance," "Hot Stuff," and many more! This show will be sure to get you moving and grooving! Produced and directed by Solana Blu and Alana Janai in celebration of Women's History Month, this night will pay homage to the icon, her music, and the rate at which she continues to inspire generations both old and new. You will surely be dancing the night away! Come on out, "Feel Love," and don't miss this show-stopping event! Produced and directed by Solana Blu and Alana Janai. Music direction by Criston Oates. Featuring Blu Allen, Dasia Amos, Ashline Arnaud, Briona Bojorquez, Mayah Lourdes Burke, Cristina-Rae, Ndaya Dream, Faith Jones, Tyrone Kiaku, Gabbi Mack, William Maus, Alaina Newell, Brianna Paradiso, Deanna Richards, Chelsea Udoye, and Olivia White. $45.50 cover charge (includes $5.50 in fees). $73 premium seating (includes $8 in fees). $25 food & beverage minimum. 54 CELEBRATES THE MARQUIS THEATRE, FEAT. KATE BALDWIN, JOHN BOLTON, & MORE! – MARCH 19 AT 7PM This performance will also be livestreamed. For tickets and more information, click here. Me and My Girl! Thoroughly Modern Millie! 9 to 5! On Your Feet! Once Upon a One More Time! Those five musicals, plus many others, all made their Broadway debut on West 46th Street at the historic Marquis Theatre. Now, in its 37th year of bringing memorable stories and life changing performances to audiences, 54 Below will be celebrating the Marquis Theatre's rich, legendary history with an all-star musical celebration. Join us on March 19th for an evening of songs and stories, performed by the legends themselves who were lucky enough to grace the Marquis stage! The celebrated host of the podcast Closing Night, Patrick Oliver Jones, will be on hand to share trivia and anecdotes about the theatre that has been home to such legends as Bernadette Peters, Sutton Foster, Shirley Bassey, Tyne Daly, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerry Lewis! Expect some of the Marquis' favorite artists to make an appearance and take a musical stroll down memory lane. Produced by Rob Schneider. Music direction by Nissa Kahle (The Great Comet, Chicago). Featuring Kate Baldwin, John Bolton, James Brennan, E. Clayton Cornelious, Janine DiVita, Leah Horowitz, Lisa Howard, Diego Prieto, Jonathan Shew, Jane Summerhays, and more stars to be announced! $62 cover charge (includes $7 in fees). $100.50 premium seating (includes $10.50 in fees). $25 food & beverage minimum. 54 SINGS LOVE LETTERS TO NYC – MARCH 19 AT 9:30PM Join us at 54 Below for a night of love letters to "the city that never sleeps" from the perspective of some of New York City's freshest talent! Directed and produced by Katy Hollis, Love Letters to NYC is destined to be a night of reminders as to why the hustle and bustle will always be worth it. Whether you're here for a day or a lifetime, these meaningful musical theatre songs will make for an evening that will certainly sweep you off your feet. Come for a night of falling back in love with the greatest city in the world. Produced by Katy Hollis. Music direction by Joseph Thor. Joined by Austin Birdy on drums and Sam Swinnerton on bass. Featuring RJ Christian, Addison Clover, Bryanna Cuthill, Joseph Keegan, Juliana Malicoat, Katy Manderfeld, Ella Mardirossian, Lanes Miller, Isabella Orosco, Alyssa Payne, Kayla Platania, Jessie Rathnbun, Andres Reyes, Emma Smiler, Kacey St. Jean, and Reilly Sylvester. $40 cover charge (includes $5 in fees). $67.50 premium seating (includes $7.50 in fees). $25 food & beverage minimum. LESLIE UGGAMS: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE – MARCH 20, 21, & 23 AT 7PM Stage and screen legend Leslie Uggams returns to 54 Below with her hit show drawing from Broadway and beyond. Featuring musical theater showstoppers, American Songbook classics, jazz standards and current pop hits, this timeless romp through an exciting song catalog will have audiences cheering, "Hallelujah, Baby!" Expect songs Ms. Uggams has performed to great acclaim on Broadway, from shows including Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jerry's Girls, and Hallelujah, Baby!, as well as your favorites from shows like Gypsy, Funny Girl, and Carousel. See the show that BroadwayWorld called "one of the most entertaining and enjoyable shows to play a nightclub this year or any other!" Ms. Uggams is a celebrated Tony® and Emmy Award-winning actress and singer whose seven-decade career has brought her from Harlem (The Apollo Theater) to Broadway (Hallelujah, Baby!), the big screen (Deadpool, Skyjacked) to television ("Empire," "The Leslie Uggams Show"). Perhaps best known for her stirring portrayal of Kizzy in the landmark TV mini-series, Alex Haley's "Roots" (Critics Choice Award, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), Leslie has performed to critical and popular acclaim ever since her first professional appearances at the age of nine at the famed Apollo Theater in New York City. $95 cover charge (includes $10 in fees) - $117 cover charge (includes $12 in fees). $155.50 premium seating (includes $15.50 in fees) - $181.50 premium seating (includes $16.50 in fees). $25 food & beverage minimum. THE REDEMPTION CABARET – MARCH 20 AT 9:30PM Ever bombed an audition? Almost got the part, but flubbed your sides in the final callback? At The Redemption Cabaret, NYC's best musical theater performers band together to "redeem" themselves for their past auditions and performances. Produced by Katie Stahl and London Riley Keller, join Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional stars on the Road to Redemption for a night of wild and hilarious audition stories, show-stopping vocals, and incredible 54 Below Cocktails. Accompaniment by Benjy Balatbat. Featuring Max Bartos, London Riley Keller, Sarah Lepre, Dani Loren, Annika Martens, Marisol Medina, Valentina Perdido, Adrianna Romeo, Mickey Skinner, Joey Soto, and Katie Michelle Stahl. $40 cover charge (includes $5 in fees). $67.50 premium seating (includes $7.50 in fees). $25 food & beverage minimum. 54 SINGS THE "DO NOT SING" LIST – MARCH 21 AT 9:30PM This performance will also be livestreamed. For tickets and more information, click here. Join your favorite New York City performers at 54 Below for a night of Broadway music that we all know and love… maybe a little too much! Directed and produced by Annie Brown, 54 Sings The "Do Not Sing" List is bound to get your toes tapping and fingers snapping as you hear your favorite songs reimagined! Instead of wanting to spend the night "On My Own," join us as we revive some musical theater classics! Even if "Everybody Says Don't," this will be an "Astonishing" evening you won't want to miss! Featuring Arden Agos, Elizabeth Bedley, Emma Christmann, Emery Cunningham, Erin Rose Doyle, Brett Evans, Nicole Fauci, Andrew Feigenbaum, Austin Gebhardt, Annabella Gleeson, Jesse Lynn Harte, Dani Lorin, Maya (Mickey) Michalski, Bea Mienik, Rin O'Brien, Morgan Paige, Ava Kate Rankin, Nicky Redd, Michael Reitano, Grace Schofield, Reagan Shook, Sean Steele, Jessica Vanek, Ariana Velasquez, Keith Weiss, and Taylor Jaz Woodruff. $45.50 cover charge (includes $5.50 in fees). $73 premium seating (includes $8 in fees). $25 food & beverage minimum. MY FIRST SONDHEIM – MARCH 22 AT 7PM This performance will also be livestreamed. For tickets and more information, click here. In honor of the late great Stephen Sondheim's 94th birthday, 54 Below will present My First Sondheim. This unforgettable evening will be an intimate journey through the immense and impactful catalogue of Stephen Sondheim. Performed by some of Broadway's best singers, the performance will be both a concert of Sondheim's beloved songs (ranging from Anyone Can Whistle to Road Show) as well as a personal celebration, with each performer sharing a milestone first of theirs with Sondheim. Whether it was originating a role in a premiere of Merrily We Roll Along or being first exposed to the Sweeney Todd cast recording…each of us has a Sondheim "first" that we love to relive. After all, you never forget your first… Produced by Matt Koplik, of the popular podcast Broadway Breakdown. Co-hosted by Matt Koplik and Robert W. Schneider. Featuring Nicholas Barrón, Sean Bell, Etai Benson, Amy Jo Jackson, Caitlin Kinnunen, Kate Loprest, Samantha Massell, James Seol, Sam Simahk, Natalie Walker, and Nikisha Williams. $56.50 cover charge (includes $6.50 in fees). $89.50 premium seating (includes $9.50 in fees). $25 food & beverage minimum. 54 SINGS BROADWAY'S GREATEST HITS! – MARCH 23 AT 9:30PM Previous volumes of this Scott Siegel concert event hit 54 Below like lightning! This was the show that every musical theater-lover had been waiting for… and now we're going to do it again, with a brand new line-up of 54 Sings Broadway's Greatest Hits! If you skip through cast albums just to hear the very best songs in each show, this is the nightclub concert event for you. If you love the classics of the Great White Way, come and hear the songs that made Broadway great, that made your heart soar, that you used to sing (maybe still do) in the shower! But at 54 Below, you will hear the greatest Broadway songs of all time performed by today's greatest stars, singing them straight up, the way you want to hear them! And who better to produce/direct/host this show than the creator of Town Hall's critically acclaimed Broadway by the Year series, Scott Siegel, creator of more than 500 major concert events centered on Broadway music! 54 Sings Broadway's Greatest Hits! will be a thrilling night that you won't forget… Music direction by Ron Abel. Featuring Ash Marie Alina, Jared Goodwin, Luke Hawkins, Danyele Yvonne James, Ryan Knowles, Dory Lorenz, Sophie Rapeijko, Jenny Lee Stern, and more stars to be announced! $62 cover charge (includes $7 in fees). $100.50 premium seating (includes $10.50 in fees). $25 food & beverage minimum. A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, FEAT. LAUREN WORSHAM, SCARLETT STRALLEN, & MORE! – MARCH 24 AT 7PM This performance will also be livestreamed. For tickets and more information, click here. Join us for an evening to die for – the 10th Anniversary Celebration of 2014 Best Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder! Enjoy highlights of the beautiful and hilarious score – "Foolish to Think," "Better With a Man," the iconic "I've Decided to Marry You," and more – honoring the life and legacy of composer and consummate cabaret performer Steven Lutvak and featuring an all-star cast of company members from the Gentleman's Guide Broadway run. A portion of the proceeds from this performance will benefit Flight Path Dance Project, a nonprofit organization providing tuition-free dance training and professional development to NYC youth. Featuring Kristen Hahn, Greg Jackson, Jeff Kready, Kevin Massey, Kristen Mengelkoch, Chuck Ragsdale, John Rapson, Ben Roseberry, Jennifer Smith, Scarlett Strallen, Catherine Walker, Kristen Beth Williams, Lauren Worsham, and more stars to be announced! $100.50 cover charge (includes $10.50 in fees). $150 premium seating (includes $15 in fees). $25 food & beverage minimum. I CAN DO THAT! FRONT OF HOUSE TAKES THE STAGE – MARCH 24 AT 9:30PM You see them at every show and depend on them as the backbone of Broadway… whether it's helping you to your seat, selling you a souvenir, or pouring you the best speciality cocktail, they make your experience special. Bet you didn't know they can sing too! I Can Do That!: Front Of House Takes The Stage is a celebration of the best of Front of House. See Broadway ushers, bartenders, and merchandise workers perform songs from the shows they work 8 times a week. They've got the best attendance in showbiz and know it just as well as the performers. Hear ushers from Wicked, Hadestown, Into the Woods, and more sing the night away and recount stories from celebrity encounters to 911 calls. Join us for a spectacular show as well as the opportunity to see the unsung stars and be able to say you saw them before they "made it!" Co-directed and produced by Amber DiGrazia and David Drew Herndon, with music direction by JQ Welch. Featuring Ernest Allen, Noa Azar, Dorey Casey, Sarah Daigle, Amber DiGrazia, Angela Geraci, Emma Gordon, Julia Holzschuher, Nadia Hudson, Starr-Lyne Paul, Tannalee Poythress, Christian Spinella, Jessica Toledo, and Tony Westbrook. $45.50 cover charge (includes $5.50 in fees). $73 premium seating (includes $8 in fees). $25 food & beverage minimum. LIVE AT 54 BELOW 54 Below's new series is designed to make more shows accessible to fans all over the world. "Live from 54 Below" will feature LIVE performances of current shows on the calendar, streamed directly from Broadway's Living Room. Seven cameras will capture the excitement of being at the venue – all paired with the club's dramatic lighting and award-winning sound design. To recreate the live experience, all shows will be presented exclusively at the time of performance with an in-house audience and will not be available on demand afterwards. The following performance will be streamed live. For tickets, visit www.54Below.org/LIVE. ALEX JOSEPH GRAYSON: WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF YOU? March 18 at 7pm ET / Tickets $28.50 (includes $3.50 in fees.) 54 CELEBRATES THE MARQUIS THEATRE, FEAT. KATE BALDWIN, JOHN BOLTON, & MORE! March 19 at 7pm ET / Tickets $28.50 (includes $3.50 in fees.) 54 SINGS THE "DO NOT SING" LIST March 21 at 9:45pm ET / Tickets $28.50 (includes $3.50 in fees.) MY FIRST SONDHEIM March 22 at 7pm ET / Tickets $28.50 (includes $3.50 in fees.) A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, FEAT. LAUREN WORSHAM, & MORE! March 24 at 7pm ET / Tickets $28.50 (includes $3.50 in fees.) MORE ABOUT 54 BELOW 54 Below, a recipient of the 2022 TONY AWARDS® Honor for Excellence in the Theatre, is a non-profit organization with a mission to preserve the music of Broadway and expand the art of the cabaret while growing opportunities for diverse communities of emerging and established artists and providing unparalleled audience experiences. It was founded as a place for the Broadway community to celebrate Broadway performers, both established and new, who sing not only the music of Broadway and the Great American Songbook, but also new material intended for Broadway and off-Broadway stages. One of the most in demand venues in the city presenting over 700 shows per year, the club features fine dining and superb scenic, lighting, and sound designs entirely imagined by Broadway designers. For performers, writers, musicians, and more, 54 Below gives opportunities to advance their craft, expand their repertoires, and develop their voices in a way that is more personal, making them stronger as artists. It gives Broadway fans an opportunity to see their favorite artists in a different way, deepening their relationship and understanding of their talent. 54 Below celebrates Broadway musicals and writers of the past and present, promoting an ongoing engagement with their work. It is also a place for innovation in musical songwriting and performance. Collaborations born at 54 Below give rise to and help develop new theatrical projects and new musicals. In addition, its popular streaming video activities and audio recordings support these activities, helping to build a new Broadway audience worldwide, both in age and geography. Located at 254 West 54th Street, the club presents live shows at 7pm and 9:30pm. Tickets and information at 54below.org. |
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