Richard Skipper Celebrates

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JULIE HALSTON was awarded the 2020 Isabelle Stevenson TONY Award for her advocacy with The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. Last seen co-starring in Tootsie on Broadway, she also received the Richard Seff Award for her performance in You Can't Take It With You. Other Broadway credits: Hairspray, Gypsy, Anything Goes and The Twentieth Century. A founding member of Charles Busch's theatre company, she co-starred with him in numerous productions including The Divine Sister (Drama Desk Nom), Red Scare on Sunset (Drama Desk Nom) and The Lady in Question. Television credits include “Gossip Girl,” “The Good Fight,” “Almost Family” and “Divorce.” She is reprising her role as Bitsy Von Muffling in the “Sex and The City” reboot. Her YouTube series “Virtual Halston“ became a pandemic hit with over 40 episodes.

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Dr. Judi Bloom is a practical, interactive, solution-focused therapist specializing in relationships and in navigating through major life transitions. For 26 years she has treated patients of every background and helped them work through a wide variety of personal challenges. In this episode, we celebrate The Skylight Run Concert Series. Our Guests for This Episode are Carole Demas, Ian Herman, and Sarah Rice. Carole Demas: stole the hearts of audiences and critics alike with her captivating and critically acclaimed creation of Sandy in Broadway’s iconic, original GREASE. Her 60-year career has included thousands of leading role performances on and Off-Broadway and in regional theater.   Sarah Rice: With Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince she became part of theatre history, cast as the original Johanna in SWEENEY TODD on Broadway – winning a Theatre World Award. She originated the role of Marianne in a musical adaptation of THE MISER - HANG ON TO YOUR RIBBONS, Off-Off Broadway. Next cast as Luisa in the original Off-Broadway production of THE FANTASTICKS.  Ian Herman: Award-winning Musical Director, pianist, and composer. His career spans decades in the theater community including Broadway shows, Off-Broadway Shows concerts and cabaret work. Skylight Run Productions was created as a production company focused on live streamed and hybrid events featuring Broadway and TV stars in concert. Their first event was on the first Friday of October 2020. 2021 marks Richard Skipper's 42nd year in New York. He is an entertainer, MC, HOST, and Conversationalist. His show, Richard Skipper Celebrates Streams almost daily on YouTube and most podcast platforms. He has had over a thousand public conversations celebrating people in the arts and other walks of life.

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First created in 2015, Superheroes in Love started as an autobiographical story of how the couple met, fell in love, and are real-life superheroes. Since the pandemic, their show has evolved online into a residency in their living room or wherever they are, ever-evolving into a full hour variety show, often including their 2-year-old daughter (who usually steals the show...). Superheroes in Love is filled with Broadway-worthy performances that are sure to please all ages and make you tap your feet. Also always appearing in their variety show is Liza with a Baby Z, where we get an inside look at Liza Minnelli raising her Baby Z... Nicolas Dromard and Desirée Davar join forces to bring Superheroes in Love to Feinstein’s/54 Below! Known for their roles in Jersey Boys, Disney’s Mary Poppins, Wicked, and West Side Story, this married dynamic duo will share their intimate story of how they met, fell in love, and how their love blossomed through an evening of song and dance. Featuring a range of songs from classic Broadway to pop music, mixed with a few surprises, this love story is one not to be missed. Come spend a night with these Broadway superheroes to celebrate life, love and the start of the holidays!!

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,www.jamesbeaman.com  James Beaman has been working professionally as an actor for 34 years. His work has spanned the worlds of cabaret, female impersonation, classical theatre, Broadway musicals, independent film and episodic television. He has starred opposite such stars as Richard Chamberlain, Gary Beach, Sally Struthers, and John O'Hurley. As a teacher and coach, he has brought his vast knowledge and diverse skills to master classes and intensives for Goodspeed Musicals, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre and to students of the Punahou School in Hawaii. His private coaching clients include Emmy nominees, Metropolitan Opera stars, Broadway veterans, rappers, nightclub singers and 13 year-old powerthouses. This fall, he formalized his coaching business, The Work with James Beaman, bringing his unique and winning approach to performers in the US and abroad. He's the writer of the feature screenplay, "The Girl in Green" (WeScreenplay Competition Quarterfinalist), the short screenplay "T," (Winner, HollywoodJust4Shorts and Big Apple Film Festival) and his latest, the dark comedy series "Wisenheimer." James is the recipient of the MAC Award, the Bistro Award, and the IRNE Award. He trained at Boston University and the Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University.

THANK YOU, Richard, for reaching out to invite me to join you in conversation in celebration of my birthday. Bravo to you for all you do. James Beaman,

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MICHAEL COLBY is the librettist/lyricist of such musicals as CHARLOTTE SWEET (Drama Desk Award nomination), TALES OF TINSELTOWN (Jay Records) NORTH ATLANTIC (Show Business Award), SLAY IT WITH MUSIC (off-Broadway & London), and THEY CHOSE ME!, (originated at TADA!). Upcoming: LUDLOW LADD (December, Urban Stages) and DANGEROUS (March 2022). COSMIC CONNECTIONS: THE LYRICS OF MICHAEL COLBY, a MAC Award nominated show with Maureen Taylor, is due as a CD. Among those for whom Mr. Colby has written: Angela Lansbury, Linda Lavin, Tony Yazbeck, Andrea McArdle, Robert Cuccioli, Savion Glover, Susan Stroman, Cicely Tyson, and Michael Feinstein. A member of BMI, The Dramatist Guild, and TRU, Colby wrote the popular book, The Algonquin Kid. As a special Halloween treat, you can now reserve a visit to the magical, whimsical, mysterious world of MRS. McTHING.   Tickets are on sale at this link ($50 general, $30 students): https://tadatheater.secure.force.com/Events/CnP_PaaS_EVT__ExternalRegistrationPage?event_id=a1g5c00000Aquk2AAB In 1954, Mary Chase wrote her most successful play outside of HARVEY, her Pulitzer Prize winner.  Starring Helen Hayes, MRS. McTHING became the first Broadway play seen by countless children of that generation.  Before she passed away, Mary bequeathed the musicalization rights to composer Jack Urbont (2-time Emmy winner and composer of MARVEL SUPERHEROES themes) and Michael Colby (me, a Drama Desk Award nominee).

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Richard Maltby, Jr. & David Shire (2021 Oscar Hammerstein Award Recipients) have been writing together since 1958, making theirs the longest-running collaboration in musical theater history. They’ve written the scores for more than a dozen musicals, including Broadway’s Baby (Best Musical and Score Tony nominations) and Big (Tony nomination for Best Score.) Two landmark revues played Off-Broadway: 1977’s Starting Here, Starting Now (Grammy nomination) and 1989’s Closer Than Ever (Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Musical and Score; The York’s five-month 2012 revival won the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Revival). Other musicals include The Sap of Life, Love Match, How Do You Do? I Love You!, Take Flight, Sousatzka, and the forthcoming The Country Wife and Dancers at a Waterfall. Their songs have been recorded by artists ranging from Barbra Streisand and Melissa Manchester to Billy Preston and Syreeta. Maltby conceived and directed two Tony-winning Best Musicals: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (also Tony for Best Director) and Fosse, as well as Ring of Fire. He co wrote the lyrics for both Miss Saigon (Tony nomination for Best Score) and The Pirate Queen and the lyrics for Nick and Nora (Tony Nomination for Best Score). Shire’s more than 150 film and television scores include Norma Rae (Oscar for the song “It Goes Like It Goes”), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, All the President’s Men, The Conversation, Zodiac, Return to Oz, Farewell, My Lovely, and Saturday Night Fever (two Grammy nominations.)  www.yorktheatre.org Twitter: @yorktheatrenyc www.facebook.com/yorktheatrecompan

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Billy Gilman burst onto the national stage in 2000 releasing the hit single “One Voice.” His debut album was certified double platinum in the United States, and he was included in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the youngest singer to ever reach #1 on the Billboard Top Country Album charts. He has sold ten million albums worldwide and garnered awards and nods from The Grammy’s, the Academy of Country Music, the Country Music Association, Billboard Magazine, and the American Music Association. Now, Gilman is eager to come back and share his new music and his new sound with his fans after soaring to the finale of NBC's THE VOICE. “It took me a good while to figure out exactly who I was, musically speaking. As a little kid, sometimes I was just told what to sing. But now I have enjoyed coming into my own and discovering what it really is that I want to sing. And I think that my fans will dig what they hear. He shared that he is drawn to the country genre once again since the songs are storytelling tunes, and that's who he is, musically and artistically. "I'm making my transition back home, that's why I calling my newest of concerts 'Coming Home'," he said.  “Music is my life, and it is always what I will be doing with my life. Releasing his newest anthem “Soldier” and 20th anniversary edition of his hit “One Voice” with vocal group HOME FREE, Gilman is more confident than ever standing behind a message he feels this world needs to hear. “We all need to be Soldiers in every way to create a kinder world where we all are one voice.”

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About The Author Producer, philanthropist, and activist Norman Lear has the distinction of being among the first seven television pioneers inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. He won his first two Emmy® Awards in 1971 (for All in the Family’s premiere season) and his most recent one in 2020, for Live in Front of a Studio Audience: ”All In The Family” and ”Good Times.” His memoir, Even This I Get to Experience, was published in 2014. Jimmy Kimmel is the host and executive producer of the Emmy® Award–nominated Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC’s longest-running late-night talk show. Also a comedian and writer, he has hosted some of the biggest events in pop culture, including the Academy Awards, the Emmys, the American Music Awards, and the ESPY Awards, as well as executive-produced and hosted the Emmy Award–winning Live In Front Of A Studio Audience: “All In The Family” and “The Jeffersons” and Live in Front of a Studio Audience: “All In The Family” and “Good Times.” Veteran television historian Jim Colucci covers television and other entertainment media on his blog Must Hear TV. He is the author of the authorized companion book Will & Grace: Fabulously Uncensored (2004), The Q Guide to the Golden Girls (2006), and the New York Times best-seller Golden Girls Forever (2016).

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Mary Jo Catlett has been part of the main voice cast on SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) since its premiere, playing SpongeBob's teacher, Mrs. Puff. She is an unmistakably happy and hearty veteran character actress and comedienne who has found success in all three mediums (stage, film and television) with her trademark flowery voice, giddy demeanor and ever-cheery disposition. Having made her off-Broadway debut in 1963, the endearing Mary Jo Catlett is now broaching six decades in the entertainment business. Catlett was born on September 2 in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Robert and Cornelia (Callaghan) Catlett. A graduate of Loretto Heights College in Denver, she was drawn to acting quite young -- musical comedy, in particular. While she made her off-Broadway debut in a 1963 melodrama, "Along Came a Spider", which opened at the Mermaid Theatre, the following year Mary Jo was right back in her tuneful element scoring as Ernestina in the original Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly!" starring Carol Channing. It was not until the mid-1970s that she began making the normal rounds with dozens of appearances on the sitcom circuit, including roles on "The Bob Newhart Show", "M*A*S*H", "Mr. Belvedere", "Night Court", Gimme a Break", "Saved By the Bell", "Maude" and "Welcome Back, Kotter". In 1982, she joined the cast as a housekeeping regular for television kids Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges and Dana Plato on Diff'rent Strokes (1978) and found plentiful work on lightweight dramatic series too such as "Murder, She Wrote," "Matlock" and "Fantasy Island". In daytime, she was nominated for an Emmy Award during the 1989-1990 season of General Hospital (1972).

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Michael Ernest Renzi (April 28, 1941 – September 28, 2021) was an American composer, music director, pianist, and jazz musician. We celebrate his rich legacy with a few of those who worked with him and knew him best. Nicolas King was among the guests to appear.

An immensely talented musician, Renzi was influenced in his early years as a pianist by Bill Evans. After living and working in and around Providence, he graduated from the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1973 and Berklee College Of Music the following year. During these years of study he worked with local bands and as accompanist to visiting artists. Among these was Sylvia Sims and it was as a direct result of this engagement that he was hired to work with Mel Tormé. In 1976 he moved to New York City and from the late 70s onwards through the next two decades and into the early years of the twenty-first century, he appeared on scores of albums, sometimes only as pianist but most often also as arranger. Renzi also plays keyboards and occasionally guitar. Developing his own, hard bop style, Renzi also became a much sought after arranger. As a brief listing of the numerous artists with whom he has worked will show, many of them are singers with whom he established a special rapport, and in some cases has acted as musical director: Ruth Brown, Laverne Butler, Ann Hampton Callaway, Diahann Carroll, Freddy Cole, Cynthia Crane, Meredith D’Ambrosio, Blossom Dearie, Scott Hamilton, Lena Horne, Etta Jones, Jack Jones, Eartha Kitt, Steve LaSpina, Cleo Laine, Peggy Lee, Jay Leonhart, Gloria Lynne, Maureen McGovern, Liza Minnelli, Gerry Mulligan, Mark Murphy, Houston Person, John Pizzarelli, Annie Ross, George Shearing, an eight-week tour with Frank Sinatra, Carol Sloane, Grady Tate.