Richard Skipper Celebrates

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Happy Pride! Throughout June, #RichardSkipperCelebrates will be celebrating those in the LGBTQ community who are truly making a difference...instilling Pride in ALL of us! Wednesday, June 2nd at 2PM ET Richard Skipper Celebrates Matt Koke Streaming LIVE through Richard Skipper Celebrates on YouTube. The color of the Rainbow Pride Flag TODAY: Orange! orange for healing. Subscribe to Richard Skipper Celebrates and join in the celebration. Ask about our special sponsorship offers. Matt Koke has been a Rockland County, NY resident for the past 17 years via Texas and NYC. He moved to NY to pursue a career in the Arts and worked throughout the country and Europe. Between jobs he became a tour guide for student groups which led him to create his own student travel company- e.e. tours. While living in Rockland he was asked to serve on the Board of Directors for the Rockland County Pride Center which led to his part-time employment there as Community Relations Director. He lives with his husband of 25 years, entertainer Bobby Belfry, and their 7 year old daughter in Nyack, NY

 

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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. Now, the accomplished and lauded cabaret singer and "Saturday Night Live" actor is about to release "Unfinished Business," his debut album set for release in 2021. The highly anticipated album features Bannon's versatile vocal talents and includes duets with Grammy Nominee Jane Monheit and recording star Loren Smith. Bannon recorded the album in his home studio with all musicians adhering to social guidelines. The album's first single, a powerful rendition of the Bette Midler song, "From a Distance," is a highly emotional and inspiring performance that sums up 2020 perfectly, providing an unforgettable, uplifting soundtrack to a tumultuous year. 

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Bay area native Loren Smith is a proud member of a huge musically gifted family that created and nurtured his love of music. Loren sang his first solo at the age of 3 and never stopped. Smith’s latest single “Can’t Wait”, produced by Colin Boyd (IDK, Mac Miller, and Frank Ocean) boasts over 750,000 Youtube views, and his first single the summer smash “Break Free” was featured on NBC’s Today Show. Smith’s solo vocals have been featured in the motion pictures “GET OUT”, “Lincoln”, the CW’s “All American” and the viral video smash ‘Back to the 90s’ to name a few. His original compositions have been on TV’s “Lucifer” and ‘The Today Show”. He’s lent his voice to the recording projects of BTS, the Disney Channel, Nick Carter and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, was a soloist for the Special Olympic Opening Summer Games from 2004-2010, shared the stage as a supporting vocalist for Arcade Fire, Tchami, Erich Bergen, Heather Headley and Andy Grammer and is currently tenor and vocal captain of Michael Buble’s Background Vocalists. Smith has also performed hundreds of concerts throughout the United States, Canada and overseas, bringing his music to countless people worldwide. Smith never fails to leave an audience breathless, making him one of the most sought after vocalists in the country. "My goal is to always perform with Integrity, Excellence, Passion and Skill, and to teach everyone, as I’m learning, to love themselves and each other better."

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Richard Barrios received degrees in both music and film history and worked in both music and film before turning his attention to writing. His first book was the widely acclaimed A SONG IN THE DARK: THE BIRTH OF THE MUSICAL FILM, winner of the Theatre Library Association Prize and reissued in 2009 in an extensively revised second edition. Barrios’s second book, SCREENED OUT: PLAYING GAY IN HOLLYWOOD FROM EDISON TO STONEWALL, was the subject of a month-long film series on Turner Classic Movies programmed by Barrios, who also co-hosted the series with Robert Osborne. For his third book, Barrios returned to the musical genre with DANGEROUS RHYTHM: WHY MOVIE MUSICALS MATTER. This work led the Philadelphia Inquirer to comment that “Barrios knows this business inside and out, upside and down. He can turn a spiffy phrase…and even his footnotes are fun.” In 2017, he renewed his association with Turner Classic Movies for still another well-received book on musicals, the lavishly-produced MUST-SEE MUSICALS: 50 SHOW-STOPPING MOVIES WE CAN’T FORGET. 

Mining studio records, scripts, drafts (including cut scenes), censor notes, reviews, and recollections of viewers, Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory, warning that we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies have made since Stonewall.  

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Freda Charcilia Payne is an American singer and actress. Payne is best known for her career in music during the mid–1960s through the mid–1980s. Payne was born in Detroit, Michigan. As a teenager, she attended the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts. In 1963, she moved to New York City and worked with many entertainers, including Quincy Jones, Pearl Bailey, and Bill Cosby. During that same year, her first Invictus single, “Unhooked Generation” (a minor R&B hit), was released Shortly thereafter, Eddie Holland offered her a song entitled “Band of Gold“, which he along with Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier co-wrote (under the pen name Edythe Wayne) with Ronald Dunbar.

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RICHARD JAY-ALEXANDER, just before the pandemic, directed FOR THE GIRLS on Broadway, starring Kristin Chenoweth. His career is in its 46th year, having arrived in NYC in fall of 1975. He began his career as an actor/singer/dancer, making his Broadway debut in Luis Valdez’ play ZOOT SUIT at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1979. He was in the original Broadway cast of AMADEUS, alongside Ian McKellen and Tim Curry, worked on SONG and DANCE with Bernadette Peters and the revival of OLIVER! Starring Ron Moody and Patti LuPone. Richard is widely known for his 12 years working with Cameron Mackintosh as Executive Director of his North American company. He staged 11 productions of LES MISÉRABLES as well as serving as Executive Producer for LES MIZ, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MISS SAIGON, FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE and Stephen Sondheim’s PUTTING IT TOGETHER, which starred Julie Andrews, presented at MTC. He entered the recording industry, via cast albums, and has worked with many of the greatest artists in the world, in recording studios and on stages across the globe.  Richard proudly serves on the Executive Board of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and is a frequent contributor to BroadwayWorld, writing focus pieces and interviews about people and things that interest him in the business. Richard makes his home in Miami Beach, with his adopted schnauzer, Sally, who isn’t the least bit impressed by any of it.

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JoAna Gray: Cabaret Singer, Cabaret Coordinator for 42nd Street Moon and Randy Taradash: creative director / general manager Feinstein's at the Nikko | San Francisco. JoAna Gray, coordinator for our new cabaret program, has attended shows at 42nd Street Moon in SF since “the script-in-hand” days and ushered since 2006. 

The recipient of a 2010 Emmy® award, Rand Taradash is enjoying his 14th year at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco where he is the Associate Director of Marketing. Recent campaigns have included the west coast premieres of George C. Wolfe’s Tony award-winning production of The Normal Heart, The Scottsboro Boys (dir. Susan Stroman), 4000 Miles, Clybourne Park, and the world-premieres of Stuck Elevator, Dead Metaphor, and Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City.

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Terence Guardino is a well-known Western and Vedic astrologer residing in Los Angeles, California. Terence began his astrological career in 1977 and hosted a public access TV show “Astrology and You,” from 1985 until 2001 in Los Angeles. In 2006, Guardino launched his Youtube channel that has brought him clients from around the world that he speaks with via Zoom, Skype and FaceTime. On Terence's media experience. Terence has appeared twice on the ABC morning show, “Good Morning America” when he gave his predictions for the New Year. He has also been featured on: · VH-1 as the astrologer to an aspiring rock star. · National Examiner about his astrological findings with dolphins that were born in captivity with birth dates for these amazing animals.  The Los Angeles Times wrote up a piece on his horoscopes for children when they found out he had written an analysis for Madonna. youtube.com/videoastrologer

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Vivian Reed Credits include: ‘Tartuffe,’‘Damn Yankees,’ ‘Show Boat,’ ‘Marie Christine,’‘Sophisticated Ladies,’ ‘Blues In The Night,’‘Tintypes,’‘Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd,’ ‘Bubbling Brown Sugar,’ ‘High Rollers,’ ‘Hallelujah Baby,’‘More than a Song,’ ‘One For My Baby,’ ‘Countess of Storyville,’ ‘Blues for an Alabama Sky,’ ‘Crumbs from the Table of Joy,’ ‘Cookin’ at the Cookery,’ ‘The Second Tosca,’ ‘Pork Pie,’and ‘Invisible Life.’ Awards include two TONY Award Nominations, Drama Desk, Mabel Mercer, NAACP, Dance Educators of America and Outer Critics Circle. Also, Vivian has created 4 one-woman shows: An Evening with Vivian Reed, Standards and More, Vivian Reed Sings Lena Horne and Little Bit of Soul, Little Bit of Pop. She has performed in major theaters and clubs in the US as well as Europe. www.vivianreed.com

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DAVID ANDREWS ROGERS

Music Director/Conductor

David Andrews Rogers - frequently known as DAR - is currently Music Director and Conductor for the World tour of The Phantom of the Opera. That production opened in early 2019 in Manila, Philippines; and although now on a brief pandemic-hiatus, they are scheduled to reopen this summer in Shanghai, followed by a year of performances throughout Mainland China.

He was also Music Director and Conductor for the Broadway first national tour of An American in Paris, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of The Wizard of Oz, Topol’s farewell tour of Fiddler on the Roof, as well as the Broadway national tours of Chicago, Cats, Show Boat, and Les Misérables.

DAR’s additional conducting credits include the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, New York’s Lincoln Center, and Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theatre. He has conducted and/or written orchestrations for Broadway stars and pop artists including Harvey Fierstein, Patti LuPone, Joel Grey, Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth, Nell Carter, Sheena Easton, Olivia Newton-John, Theodore Bikel, Florence Henderson, Len Cariou, Sandy Duncan, and over 10 years, as Music Director and Conductor for 80s pop star Debbie Gibson.

His other credits include symphony pops concerts, recordings, and numerous readings of new musicals, as well as over 150 productions in US regional theatre, including Washington DC’s Ford’s Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Casa Manana in Fort Worth, Texas, Westchester Broadway Theatre, and over 50 hit productions at his favorite summer theatre home, Oklahoma City’s Lyric Theatre.