Richard Skipper Celebrates

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For the first time ever, world-acclaimed solo performer Ronald Rand and Goodwill Cultural Ambassador in 25 countries reveals how a solo performance is born, takes off, and can change the face of the world. Step inside his extraordinary two-hour transformation becoming 79-year-old theatre director Harold Clurman in his celebrated solo play LET IT BE ART! to discover an organic process creating your own dynamic solo performance on stage using Stanislavski’s original acting chart “The Method of Physical Actions” to live completely inside your storytelling. The theater is a transcendent communication of the human spirit, flowing from the passion of all those creating in collaboration with each other. Transformation is the embodiment of our joy of being alive. SOLO TRANSFORMATION ON STAGE will: Help you write, direct, and star in your own one-person show. Demonstrate how creation takes place before an actor comes on stage. Guide you toward following your genuine impulses. Allow transformation to occur organically. Inspire you to live completely inside your storytelling and trust your inner compass to fly solo as a performer. Empower you to take your show ‘on the road’ around the world through the ‘Art of Transformation’. You’ll find over twenty inspiring interviews by brilliant performers who performed in solo plays including Christopher Plummer, Eve Ensler, Ben Vereen, Stephen Lang, Billy Crudup, Olympia Dukakis Adrienne Barbeau, Spalding Gray. Solo Transformation On Stage is a must-read for all those who have dreamed of creating their own one-person show - including actors, students, teachers, directors, and lovers of the theater.

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Most books about screen acting, including one of the author’s (100 GREAT FILM PERFORMANCES YOU SHOULD REMEMBER BUT PROBABLY DON’T), concentrate on major stars and major roles. THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS focuses on the wonders achieved by performers in brief roles, sometimes mere cameos. To watch an actor’s complete delineation of a character in a few minutes is to marvel at his/her talent, concentration, and invention. Each of the 100 performances spotlighted in the book aims to evoke not just each actor’s individual impact but how he/she’s imaginative gifts invigorated (and sometimes even stole) their films. From 1935 to 2019, the text surveys great artists who mastered playing for the camera, seizing moviegoers’ attention and deserving places of honor for their contributions. John DiLeo's first book was AND YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW CLASSIC MOVIES (St. Martin's, 1999), hailed by Pauline Kael as "the smartest movie quiz book I've ever seen." His second book was 100 GREAT FILM PERFORMANCES YOU SHOULD REMEMBER BUT PROBABLY DON'T (Limelight Editions, 2002), which Adolph Green called "a valuable and touching work." Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne said, in the Hollywood Reporter, that the book "delightfully throws the spotlight on some remarkable film work," and the Washington Post's reaction was, "Not only is this helpful criticism, but 100 GREAT FILM PERFORMANCES can serve as balm for anyone who has ever been disgruntled by the Academy's choices on Oscar night." John has been a contributing book reviewer for the Washington Post and recently completed a four-year stint as a weekly regular on the Arlene Bynon radio show in Toronto (on SiriusXM).

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Rhonda Ross is singer, songwriter and an International Social-Artist, who explores questions of power, culture and spirituality through her art. Rhonda’s “Grownfolk” music is funky, wholehearted, and wildly intelligent and described by many as “Inspired Neo-Soul”. Her most recent CD, In Case You Didn’t Know includes songs like, “Nobody’s Business”, which is a groovy, bass-led reminder that your joy comes from the inside and it’s nobody else’s job to make you happy. Rhonda’s artistic expression encompasses TV, theater and film as well. She burst onto the acting scene with her highly acclaimed portrayal of “Toni Burrell” on the NBC soap opera, Another World. Within months, she had earned an Emmy Award nomination. She starred in "Bessie Coleman: A Dream to Fly" on Showtime, and the cult classic: “The Temptations” as well as the feature film, “Hook’d Up" and toured nationally with The Vagina Monologues. But she is not only a performing artist, Rhonda is also a writer and producer.  Rhonda is proud to sit on the boards of the following not-for-profit organizations: Hearts of Gold, Figure Skating in Harlem, and Motown EDU - all of which focus on the education and well-being of children. Rhonda is currently penning a newsletter titled "The Force Within” on Meta / Facebook’s platform for independent writers in which she explores the everyday tools that women can employ to boost their joy, peace and inner-fortitude as we juggle our roles as mothers, daughters, entrepreneurs, artists, sisters, & friends. RhondaRoss.bulletin.comwww.TheRhondaRoss.com

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What a wonderful experience.  Many thanks to for the invitation!   Your energy is amazing and a perfect complement to Kassira!  You two have a great thing going!   

It is so kind of you to give the link to Wholly You.  The show is live each Tuesday at noon Eastern Time.  Replays are also available.  The link is:  

https://www.unityonlineradio.org/wholly-you  

Tonight it would be great to know you are relaxing and basking in your Light. 

Rev. Karen Romestan

 

The Let That Go! Show with Kassira McKee and Richard Skipper Sunday February 6th 5PM Are you in control? That is the theme of this show. JOIN IN THE CELEBRATION

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James P. Jimirro is the creator and founding President of The Disney Channel and Walt Disney Home Video. During his tenure at the helm of The Disney Channel, Mr. Jimirro was responsible for the conception, development and launching of the fastest-growing pay service in history. 

Robert W. Schneider (Artistic Director & Co-Founder) Schneider-Robert-W.jpg Robert is one of New York City’s most acclaimed concert producers and director. As an original programming producer at Feinstein’s/54 Below, Robert has produced and directed over thirty five concerts at the venue including Feinstein’s/54 Below 5th Anniversary Concert (w/Michael Feinstein & Marilyn Maye), 54 Celebrates The Colonial Theater, which helped to save Boston’s famed Colonial Theater from destruction, tribute shows to Broadway’s Neil Simon, Broadhurst, and Music Box Theaters, and the celebrated Broadway Bound series, which introduced audiences to musicals that closed on the road. Shows in concert include: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (w/Robert Morse), Sugar (w/Tony Roberts), Woman of the Year (w/Joyce DeWitt), Curtains (w/Karen Ziemba and Richard Kind), Memphis (Original Cast Reunion), Lennon (Original Cast Reunion), and We Will Rock You (w/Alice Ripley). Robert is also the co-host of Behind The Curtain: Broadway’s Living Legends, which launched on iTunes in 2016. The podcast is dedicated to collecting the anecdotes of Broadway’s greatest legends from yesteryear. Guest have included Carol Lawrence, Peter Marshall, Charlotte Rae, Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, Mimi Hines, Kaye Ballard, William Ivey Long, George S. Irving, Len Carious, Anita Gillette, and many others. His award-winning work as a director has been seen in the United States and Europe.

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It's World Cancer Day An important day to raise awareness about prevention, detection, and treatment of this sometimes fatal disease. One of the topics discussed on this new series launced this week to sort of wrap up the week on a positive note. I say sort of because there is still the weekend! I am joined by Robert Bannon, Richard Holbrook, Tym Moss, Steven A. Rosenzweig, and maybe a surprise guest...or two... to discuss the week we've all just experienced. Come join in the conversation!

Robert Bannon has been dazzling audiences on the stage and screen for years, his emotive and powerful vocals and knack for comedy bringing people by turns to tears of emotion, laughter and elation, and always to their feet. 

Born in New York City, Richard grew up in the small town of Congers, New York, as the

middle child in a family of nine. At an early age he became addicted to watching old films,

especially the great Hollywood musicals. He dreamed of becoming a movie star as well as

a singer. His CD, Richard Holbrook Steps Out, is available through his e-mail at

[email protected] . Richard currently lives in Manhattan on the West Side,

loves being a New Yorker, and is happy to announce he is happy, healthy, and cancer-free.

TYM MOSS is one of New York City’s most dynamic performers. This

Singer/Actor/Host is a legitimate movie star (He stars in JUNK a full feature

musical film) TYM also has a critically acclaimed Cabaret show he has taken across the USA. He co hosts a weekly talk show with Wendy Stuart called If These Walls Could

Talk. TYM MOSS also covers red carpet events and performs on stages around NYC.

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Gene Castle - Director/Choreographer/Performer Gene began his theatrical career as a “newsboy” in the original Broadway production of GYPSY with Ethel Merman and was a featured performer and lead dancer in several more original Broadway shows, including, FLOWER DRUM SONG, HIGH SPIRITS, HOT SEPTEMBER, GEORGE M! and OH KAY! Off Broadway shows include the revival of BEST FOOT FORWARD, starring Liza Minnelli and TIN PAN ALLEY, which he also wrote, directed and choreographed. He also guested on episodes of TV Series as well as several TV Specials. He wrote, directed & choreographed nine shows for DR PEPPER and seventeen for PRINCESS CRUISES and won the BAY AREA THEATER CRITICS OUTER CIRCLE AWARDS for BEST DIRECTION, BEST CHOREOGRAPHY and BEST MUSICAL for his production of ON THE TOWN for the San Jose CLO. He directed & choreographed several Off Broadway shows including THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF SONG/Harold Arlen, TIN PAN ALLEY and BABALU-CY. He also choreographed LOVE DIVIDED BY, DIETRICH & CHEVALIER and DANNY AND SYLVIA, also Off Broadway, as well as the national tour of GILLIGAN’S ISLAND. Other choreographic credits include THE EMMY AWARDS, the feature film KISS ME GOODBYE, starring Sally Field, Jeff Bridges and James Caan, STRIKE UP THE BAND for REPRISE/LA, MOVIN’ ON, an original Sondheim musical at the Laguna Playhouse; THE DYBBUK at the Mark Taper Forum; CINDERELLA at the Long Beach CLO as well as tributes to GINGER ROGERS and other celebrity award shows at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Gene has taught for many years both independently and at USC and AMDA. He is also the General Manager and a booker of the Triad Theater. He survives his wife, actress Jane Actman, a veteran of Broadway and television.

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Phyllis Pastore arrived from Colorado 30 years ago fully intending to take the NY cabaret stages by storm and sang regularly at Don’t Tell Mama, the Duplex, Rose’s Turn, Eighty-Eights and most recently at Pangea in the East Village. She was nominated for an award by the Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets for her debut show and named Best Female Vocalist by Backstage Magazine. she has performed at Town Hall and Symphony Space as a part of the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention and has become a regular entertainer in the esteemed series Sondheim Unplugged at Feinstein’s/54 Below. Fate smiled on Phyllis when she was offered the opportunity to sing in Mykonos Greece at Montparnasse, The Piano Bar.   It was a joy and privilege to be a resident vocalist in that beautiful club. After watching her fair share of commercials on television, she decided that THAT is what she desired to do in her “golden years” so she has taken on a new career as a commercial/film actress being featured in several national commercials. During the early stages of the pandemic, I converted a closet into a voice-over booth and have been working as a voice-over actor from home, voicing The Darkle Dragon in Nickelodeon’s animated series Nella the Princess Knight, as well as another animated series called Barley and Tabby. The Finellis, originally planned to be a series has since become a film which was released world-wide earlier in January on Amazon Prime, Google Play and Apple TV. 

http://www.thefinellis.com/

www.thep1hyllispastore.com

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George Pettignano has a deep love for singing and performing. In grammar school he sang in the choir . George started entertaining in the high school drama club and chorus doing the night club circuit in Brooklyn at 16 With his band Billy D and the boys, he was Billy Dee. A high school play coolest cat in town continued to street theater, summer stack, Café LaMama where he met and was befriended by Miss Ellen Stewart to City Center Theater. A brief run on Broadway in Grease when the coolest cat in town closed. 1980 after getting some assistance from Mr. Burt Reynolds, George went to California and had a meeting with Hal Needham's Stunts Unlimited and became a stunt man which was a life goal for him. Going through the 80s, he worked on major motion pictures and television shows and first met all the friends that he would continue to maintain friendships with like Tony Danza, Danny Aiello, Sonny Grasso Sylvester and Frank Stallone and many others that he worked with in the 80s. Starting again about 2005 with the help of friends, he resurrected his singing career. Met and became very good friends with Sal of Patsy's Italian restaurant in New York City and began putting shows together for him in New York and Atlantic City.  As a singer, George loves to sing, to be there and make people smile and he will do whatever it takes to make his audience happy. In 2014. he started the Philadelphia Music Hall of Fame for Bobby Rydell and all the other Philadelphia people who actually could not get into the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame. Now, he enjoys his nightclub act entertaining at bars, restaurants, and in theaters and also doing a lot of private events.  He truly believes in old fashion nightclub entertainment clubs when music was cool and entertainment was outrageous.

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Carol Elaine Channing (January 31, 1921 – January 15, 2019) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and comedienne, known for starring in Broadway and film musicals. Her characters usually had a fervent expressiveness and an easily identifiable voice, whether singing or for comedic effect. Channing became known for creating the lead roles in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1949 and Hello, Dolly! in 1964, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the latter. She revived both roles several times throughout her career, playing Dolly on Broadway for the final time in 1995. She was nominated for her first Tony Award in 1956 for The Vamp, followed by a nomination in 1961 for Show Girl. She received her fourth Tony Award nomination for the musical Lorelei in 1974. As a film actress, she won the Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967). Her other film appearances include The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) and Skidoo (1968). On television, she appeared as an entertainer on variety shows. She performed The White Queen in the TV production of Alice in Wonderland (1985), and she had the first of many TV specials in 1966, titled An Evening with Carol Channing. Channing was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1981 and received a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1995.She continued to perform and make appearances well into her 90s, singing songs from her repertoire and sharing stories with fans, cabaret-style. She was also a friend and night, on the 101st anniversary of her birth, I will share my memories and personal anecdotes with a few surprises!