Richard Skipper Celebrates

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Richard Skipper sits down and chats with Fredrick Tucker on his new book, Sweet Oddball - The Story of Alice Pearce. Now available for purchase on Amazon. They will discuss Bewitched and the road that led to her iconic as the first Mrs. Kravitz. Alice Pearce, once called "the adenoidal lass with the most beautiful, homely face on Broadway," carved a unique career playing wallflowers, nitwits, nags, and other oddball characters, all of whom contrasted sharply with their portrayer. As the shy daughter of an international banker, she experienced a privileged upbringing, attending exclusive schools in both Europe and the United States. Against her parents' wishes, she pursued acting, eventually enlivening thirteen Broadway productions and winning acclaim for her smash act at New York's chicest nightclub, the Blue Angel. Although Alice's Hollywood career was comparatively fleeting, the Emmy-winning actress was featured in fourteen films and in dozens of top television series. She achieved her greatest fame-ironically, at the very end of her brief life-for playing Gladys Kravitz, the snoopy neighbor on the TV sitcom Bewitched. Sweet Oddball, exhaustively researched and illustrated with 225 rare photos, chronicles the public and private lives of a lady much beloved by her fellow actors and fans. Fredrick Tucker is a native South Carolinian. Like many children of the 1960s, he grew up watching first runs and reruns of classic sitcoms from that decade and the previous one, including I LOVE LUCY, DECEMBER BRIDE, DENNIS THE MENACE, THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, BEWITCHED, etc. 

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On Sunday, July 18th, singer/songwriter, Joanie Pallatto returns to the legendary Green Mill Jazz Club in Chicago, with a party to celebrate the release of her newest collection of songs.

“My Original Plan” is a journey through the musical spectrum of the gifted singer/songwriter.

 

“Live and In Person”

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Joanie Pallatto “My Original Plan”

CD Release Party @ The Green Mill Jazz Club

4:00 - 6:00 PM $10 at the door.

Friday, October 1, 2021

Joanie Pallatto My Original Plan

CD Release Party at Pangea

7:00 PM - $20 Cash at the door/$20.00 Food or Drink

One Show Only

Pangea 178 2nd Ave. New York, NY 10003 212-995-0900

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Described by Rick Kogan of the Chicago Tribune as having “a stirring and special voice,” Joanie Pallatto is a graduate of The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Pallatto toured with The Glenn Miller Orchestra as a featured vocalist before moving to Chicago in 1979. Co-owner and partner with pianist/composer and husband, Bradley Parker-Sparrow at Sparrow Sound Design Recording Studio and Southport Records, Pallatto has expertise in all aspects of musical production. As a studio singer and voiceover talent, she has recorded on hundreds of Radio and TV commercials. As a jazz vocalist, Pallatto has performed at Chicago clubs City Winery, Andy and The Green Mill and New York venues the Iridium, Pangea and Birdland.

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ILENE KRISTEN, a native New Yorker, Ilene made her Broadway debut as a dancer in Henry, Sweet Henry. She originated the role of Patty Simcox in Grease and portrayed the infamous Leona Helmsley in Mayor. Ilene is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Delia Ryan on Ryan’s Hope, and her ten-year stint as the gambling, beer-guzzling and always-inappropriate hairdresser Roxy Balsom on One Life to Live, for which she received two Emmy nominations for Best Supporting Actress. Ilene portrayed the Brooklynite waitress Norma Gilpin on Loving , wannabe socialite Madeleine Thompson on Another World and reprised the role of Delia Ryan in a character crossover on General Hospital for two years. Night time TV sightings include Deception, Unforgettable, HBO's Show Me A Hero, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, The Good Policeman, Third Watch, The Sopranos, Family, and The Black Donnellys. Along with Morgen Fairchild , Ilene appeared in the pilot Melange” playing bartender Dolly Faye and Stella in the film Bleeker . Ilene has acted extensively Off and Off-Off Broadway and has been a member of The Ensemble Studio since 1984. Her album of original songs “I’m Not Done With U Yet” is available on Amazon and iTunes. CAROLE DEMAS, who created the role of Sandy, in the original Broadway Production of GREASE, as well as the Title Role in THE BAKER'S WIFE, and created leading roles in numerous other shows, various Soap Operas and primetime TV dramas.  www.caroledemas.com

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Sandra Bargman is a creative soul, intuitive communicator, and energetic leadership consultant. It started when she was three years old, marched into her family kitchen, hands on my hips and announced to her Mother that she was here on “a mission”! Every career choice Sandra made has ultimately rested on the ancient Greek maxim of “Know Thyself”, the directive that is at the heart of every artistic, spiritual and leadership journey. Sandra holds a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in drama and music and has had a happy 30+ year career as a professional actor, singer, voice-over artist, director, teacher and presentation coach. She has performed on the stages of Broadway national tours, off-Broadway, the world renowned cabaret rooms and beyond. (See SandraBargman.com for full resume) SAndra's spiritual life called her further inward, and in 2007, she was ordained as an Inter-spiritual Minister from The New Seminary for Interfaith Studies. She holds an advanced certification from One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in Spiritual Counseling. Unaffiliated with any single religious tradition, she has helped clients of all faiths and traditions (including none) in pursuing deeper self- understanding in their personal quest to ’Know Thyself”. Sandra is an edge walker. She traverses the borders, the edges between worlds, the spirit filled and the mundane. In nature-based cultures, shamans enter invisible worlds to retrieve future-focused information, direction, or guidance for our communities. In our modern world, Sandra's edge walking also occurs when she and the clients she supports, actively seek out the edges and boundaries of accepted beliefs, assumptions and unexpected challenges.

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ttps://54below.com/events/michael-kushner-sings-his-hits-for-pride/ Michael Kushner is NYC’s leading multi-hyphenate and the Executive Producer of the EMMY Nominated series Indoor Boys. Performance: On the Town at Barrington Stage (Pre Broadway, Directed by John Rando), Sons on the Prophet at GableStage (Directed by Joe Adler). He is the creator of his one man show, Moo With Me (Directed by Max Crumm). Photography: Featured in The NYTimes, Vogue, The Tony Awards, Playbill, and more. Producing: Emmy Nominated web series, Indoor Boys, created by Wes Taylor and Alex Wyse, XaveMePlease, starring Isaac Powell. Michael is one of the founding members of Musical Theatre Factory, currently in residency with Playwrights Horizons, and was awarded the first ever MTF Builder Award.   www.michaelkushneronline.com or www.michaelkushnerphotography.com.  Podcasts: Dear Multi-Hyphenate and My Broadway Memory with Broadway Podcast Network. Proud AEA Member. Ithaca College BFA Musical Theatre. @themichaelkushner on IG and TikTok.

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Richard Skipper and Carolyn Montgomery chat about her career and keeping creative in an ever changing world. Carolyn Montgomery is a MAC, Bistro and Nightlife award winning singer and songwriter. She performs in theaters and clubs across the country and in Europe, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, 54 Below, Crazy Coqs London, Davenports Chicago and The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. She composed a Choral piece called Rise (based on Maya Angelou's poem Still I Rise) and traveled to 11 cities in 14 months, performing the piece as a soloist with Gay Men's Choruses across the country. The piece is dedicated to Matthew Shepard's mother, Judy Shepard, who established the Matthew Shepard Foundation to carry on her son's legacy. Montgomery is also the Director of Education and Outreach for the American Songbook Association. During the pandemic lockdown period, she created WithCarolyn, a series of Virtual Culinary, Cocktail and Cabaret Classes that she currently teaches five days a week. Most important, Carolyn is a Mom to son Eli (16) and two Jack Russell Terrier rescue pups, Chipmunk (17) and George (11). They all live on the west side of Manhattan and divide their free time between the Adirondack Mountains and Cape Cod.

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Jason Dottley is a television and stage actor, 5-Time Top 40 Billboard singer, director, producer, activist and writer. In 2003, Dottley made his professional acting debut in a production of Terrence McNally's “Lisbon Traviata” at the Actor’s Lab in Hollywood, CA. His performance was reviewed "Letter-perfect" by the LA Times.  In 2008, in his starring role as “Ty Williamson” in Sordid Lives: The Series, from IMG Global and Viacom. Sordid Lives The Series aired in 16 countries around the world with Dottley starring with icons Rue McClanahan and Olivia Newton-John, and TV stars Caroline Rhea, Beth Grant, Leslie Jordan and Margaret Cho.  Jason Dottley has released 5 consecutive Top 40 Billboard records, 3 of those Top 25 Billboard, 1 Top 20 (US) and additionally aTop 20 and Top 10 (UK) hit singles.  In 2010, Dottley produced "Yellow" at the Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood, CA, for which he won the most prestigious West Coast theatre award, the Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle "Best World Premiere Play" Award. He has produced and starred in major national tours with icons Rue McClanahan, Delta Burke, Caroline Rhea and Georgette Jones.  In 2015, Dottley began a multi-city tour for his first full length one-man comedy show "Life on the gAy-List". The show was named comedy "Pick of the Week" in the Boston Globe and “Best Bet” in the Dallas Voice.   https://www.postofficecafe.net/mevents/an-evening-with-jason-dottley

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JOHN McDANIEL is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning Music Director, Composer, Director, Arranger, Orchestrator and Producer and is an Artistic Director at the Tony Award winning O’Neill Theater Center.

Recently, McDaniel produced and directed a virtual concert of Sticks and Stones, for which he is also the composer, starring Audra McDonald and Javier Muñoz. He is also one of the camp directors of Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Boot Camp. John directed Into The Woods and Hair in Concert at the historic Patchogue Theater, Sondheim Originals at 54 Below and Piano Men at Birdland,. Broadway music credits include Bonnie and Clyde (Drama Desk Nomination, Best Orchestrations), Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn (Producer and Orchestrator), Annie Get Your Gun (Grammy Award), Taboo, Chicago, Grease, Patti LuPone on Broadway and Company – the Original Cast in Concert at Lincoln Center.

On Television: “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” (two Emmy Awards and eight nominations). John has collaborated with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Joel Grey, Carol Burnett, Betty Buckley, Bette Midler and has guest conducted at 15 Symphony Orchestras across America, including 5 concerts with his hometown St. Louis Symphony.  John received a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University.

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About Vince Spinnato https://vincespinnato.com; https://turnkeybeauty.net Cosmetic Chemist, Certified Nose, Executive and Marketer Vince Spinnato began his career in the Personal Care, Cosmetics, and Fine Fragrance industries over 25 years ago. Over those years, Spinnato has consulted, helped develop and manufacture new product lines and private label lines for numerous cosmetics and health care companies such as Chanel, Limited (Victoria Secret, Bath & Body Works), Gap/Banana Republic, Proctor and Gamble, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Kmart/Sears and many others. He also worked on developing new products for celebrities including Jennifer Lopez, Ole Henriksen, Jessica Simpson, Lilian Garcia, Carrie Underwood, and Pitbull, among others. Spinnato’s vigilance to ingredients and their corresponding results have been key to his product successes. Spinnato’s book My Pursuit of Beauty – The Glitz, The Glam and The Batsh*t Crazy is available at all booksellers, and the audio book has just been released. A documentary about Spinnato, Skin Deep and formulating a Legacy,has also just been completed and will be on the film festival circuit beginning in the fall of 2021. Caviar and Diamond, his luxury beauty line is now available! For more information about ‘Judy’-A Judy Garland Fragrance, visit https://JudyGarlandFragrance.com

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Miles Phillips is a multiple award-winning actor, director, producer, nightclub vocalist, and recording artist with appearances in theaters, clubs and concert halls from Honolulu to London. He has numerous leading New York and regional theatre roles, many film, television and radio appearances, an acclaimed solo album, and over two dozen original and studio cast recordings to his credit. He’s been honored with the Hollywood Drama-Logue and Chicago Jeff Awards for his work as an actor, by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs for four of his nightclub acts and twice by the NY Nightlife Awards. Miles received his graduate training with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and his MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory. His acclaimed directorial ventures span from contemporary to classical theatre, from full scale musicals to concerts, cabaret, and film.  Since his return to Hawaii, Miles has been honored by the Hawaii State Theatre Council with Po'okela Awards for his direction of Shear Madness (Manoa Valley Theatre) and 1776 (Paliku Theatre), and for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol: The Musical (Diamond Head Theatre).  Please visit: MilesPhillips.com