Broadway Vegas

Monday, November 23, 2009

Isaias and Friends

The talented Isaias Hiram Urrabazo will be joined by Phantom company members Nicole Pryor, Jason Forbach, Paul Hansell, Benjamin Hale, and accompanist Michael Wineski singing songs from Sondheim to the Beatles.

Sunday, Dec. 6 at 3pm

Trinity International School (2525 Emerson Ave., LV, NV)

Cost: $15

For more information, contact Camille at 702-255-0695 or Camille@gatewayartsfoundation.org.

The Gateway Gallery

Saturday, November 21, 2009

McHappy Actors!

Yesterday, Andrew Ragone from Phantom and Travis Cloer, Rick Faugno, and Peter Saide from Jersey Boys became honorary crew members at a local McDonald's restaurant in celebration of Ronald McDonald House Charities McHappy Day 2009.

Previously known as World Children's Day, McHappy Day is an annual McDonald's fundraising event that creates awareness for children's issues around the world. On this day, McDonald's restaurants donated a portion of sales from select menu items to their local RMHC chapter.

In conjunction with McHappy Day, participating Las Vegas restaurants are also selling Helping Hands throughout the month of November. These paper hand cutouts will be sold for $1.oo and displayed in the stores.

McHappy Actors!

Yesterday, Andrew Ragone from Phantom, Travis Cloer, Rick Faugno, and Peter Saide from Jersey Boys became honorary crew members at a local McDonald's restaurant in celebration of Ronald McDonald House Charities McHappy Day 2009.

Previously known as World Children's Day, McHappy Day is an annual McDonald's fundraising event that creates awareness for children's issues around the world.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

An Opportunity to Give

Freed's Bakery is giving away cupcakes for cans! Bring in a can of food or a non-perishable food item between November 1st and November 24th and Freed's will call it an even trade for a delicious Freed`s Bakery cupcake! All food goods will be donated to Three Square. Limit one cupcake per customer per day. Cupcake giveaway based on supply. Some restrictions apply. No purchase required.

For a list of needed items, click here:

donate food at ThreeSquare.org

For Freed's locations, click here:

Best Bakery of Las Vegas Directions - Freed's Bakery - Las Vegas, Nevada

Monday, November 16, 2009

Alton Fitzgerald White's Holiday Cabaret

A Benefit for the Cabaret Showroom @ The Liberace Museum

1775 E. Tropicana

Friday, December 4 at 8pm and 10:30pm

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door with all proceeds going toward the Cabaret Fund for the Cabaret Showroom at the iconic Liberace Museum, a great space for artists to showcase wonderful new works.

For reservations, call 702-798-5595, ext. 14

Alton stars as Mufasa in The Lion King at Mandalay Bay. His Broadway credits include Mister in The Color Purple, Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime, Ken in Smokey Joe's Cafe, John in Miss Saigon (original company member), and The Hawker in The Who's Tommy.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Philip Fortenberry in concert!

"Broadway, My Way"

Sunday, November 22 at 2pm

Clark County Library Theater

1401 E. Flamingo

Philip Fortenberry, a concert pianist, “Jersey Boys” Associate Conductor, and star of “Liberace and Me” cabaret, will perform “Broadway, My Way,” a solo piano concert to commemorate the decades he dedicated to performing for Broadway musicals, national tours, and concerts. His concert will be presented by the Performing Arts Society of Nevada Brown Bag Concerts on Sunday, Nov. 22, at 2 p.m. at the Clark County Library Theater, 1401 E. Flamingo Road.

Fortenberry, a virtuoso pianist and Broadway import who now makes his home in Las Vegas, will perform a solo offering of popular and classic Broadway show tunes he knows and loves so well. Too, he’ll play the music he learned directly from the composers, arrangers, directors, and stars of Broadway shows, some of which he helped to originate and bring to life.

In this concert, he’ll weave the music of the Great White Way around the stories of his experiences on Broadway and share unique insights into the music and the special meaning each song – including his own personal take on music from such modern classic hits as “CATS,” “Evita” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” plus lesser known cult favorites like “Ragtime,” “Sideshow” and “Seussical, the Musical.” He’ll also feature songs from the canon of great Broadway classics “Camelot,” “South Pacific,” and “Carousel.”

Fortenberry, in response to requests from his fans, will debut his newest CD, “Broadway, My Way” at the concert, and a limited number of CDs will be sold.

Tickets for the concert are $15 and can be purchased by phone, 702-658-6741 or e-mail ticket requests to pasnv@aol.com.

More information about Fortenberry’s career and other CD releases are available on his website at www.philipfortenberry.com.

Monday, November 9, 2009

It's that time again!

The Liberace Museum proudly presents

The Composers Showcase

Thursday, November 12 at 10:30pm

$5 cover charge at the door... All proceeds benefit the Liberace Foundation.

Cash bar provided by Carluccio's.

$5 special at the cafe --- sandwiches, salads, soups, and sweets!

Featuring the songs of local songwriters and composers...

Michael Brennan

Vita Corimbi

Wayne Green

Rylan Leo Helmuth

Christopher Lash

Sarah Lowe

Jason Martinez

Richard Oberacker

Niles Rivers

Keith Thompson

AND MORE!

And the Delightful Song Stylings and Vocal Powers of:

John Ambrosino

Drew Gehling

Leslie Goddard

Kristofer McNeeley

Nicole Pryor

Lauren Tartaglia

Alton Fitzgerald White

And other special guests!

Plus the Amazing Instrumental Chops of

Jim Campbell

Shawn Elsbernd

James Harvey

Ryan Jacobs

Alan Lawson

Ray Pancarowicz

Naldo Posella

Melanie Schiemer

Eric Tewalt

And more

The mission of the Liberace Foundation is to help talented students pursue careers in the performing and creative arts through scholarship assistance.

Friday, November 6, 2009

The Apple Sisters

The Apple Sisters are playing Vegas... Don't miss it!

Friday, November 27 at 10pm

The Stage Door Theater @ Town Square

$20

The Apple Sisters Variety Show

"Not only tuneful voices but also sharp comedic timing and a great sense of physicality to boot."
- The Onion's Decider

"There's something gut-funny and satisfying about watching gorgeous, leggy ladies inexplicably make themselves unattractive, a tenet Amy Sedaris proves again and again."
- Time Out NY

"Joy! They are a 1943 radio trio that charms their way into your heart. The Apple Sisters are three young Lucille Balls."
- ifc.com

LA Weekly - Best Things to Do in LA
- A bunch of Funny, Smart Women - LA Weekly

(Pick of the Week) "It's Sarah Silverman meets the Shaggs."
-LA Times

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Excellent Review of "A Bronx Tale"

Joe Brown of the Las Vegas Sun wrote a great review of Chazz Palminteri's A Bronx Tale, calling it "richly comic and compelling." Let's hope that theatre of this caliber makes it here to Vegas more often!

To read the full review, click here:

Compelling ‘Bronx Tale’ is refreshingly good theater - Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Matt Donnelly's Celebrity Tarot Lounge

Where:The Stage Door Theatre at Town Square

When: October 16-17 at 7pm and 10pm

Tickets: $24.95 - $44.95

Call 949-6123 or visit Matt Donnelly's Celebrity Tarot Lounge.

Matt Donnelly's Celebrity Tarot Lounge is a dynamic new show filled with comedy, mystery, and celebrity secrets sure to entice any audience. The show features the best and brightest improv comics from Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago, who instantly create a series of characters, sketches, and montages based solely on an intimate tarot reading of a guest celebrity live on stage.

This weekend will feature Robin Leach, Terry Fator, Adam Savage, Annie Duke, and Andy Bloch.

Benefit concert for a fellow actor in need!

SEASONS OF LOVE: A Benefit Concert featuring the cast of Jersey Boys and special guests.

The Cabaret Showroom at The Liberace Museum

(1775 E. Tropicana Ave.)

October 15 (TONIGHT!) at 10:30pm and October 18 at 2pm

Tickets: $25

For reservations call 702-798-5595 ext.14

These two concerts will help celebrate and benefit Broadway and Stratford Shakespeare Festival actress Lindsay Thomas (Hairspray, Jersey Boys), who was recently diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy in Toronto.

The concerts will help raise funds to contribute to the cost of Thomas' medical care.

"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

-Albert Camus

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Benefit Concert for Family Promise and The CSN Performing Arts Center

On October 24 and 25, members of the casts and orchestras of Jersey Boys, The Lion King, LOVE, Menopause: The Musical, and Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular will come together for a performance to raise money for Family Promise of Las Vegas and the CSN Performing Arts Center.

Written by Robert Landy and composed by Jersey Boys conductor Keith Thompson, God Lives in Glass consists of 16 songs from rap to reggae to pop to gospel that reflect different faiths from around the world.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Steven Hood Tribute

The Phantom company recently lost a great friend. Original cast member Steven Hood passed away in August and the cast and crew will be celebrating his life and beautiful spirit this Saturday.

Steven was a wonderful man, full of life, wise, always smiling. He has been greatly missed at the theatre and our hearts go out to his wife, children, and grandchildren.

If you knew Steven and would like to attend this musical celebration of life, please join us.

When: Saturday, October 17 at 2pm

Where: The Phantom Theatre at The Venetian

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Jersey Boys welcomes new cast member

There's a new 'Bob Gaudio' in town! Jersey Boys welcomes Drew Gehling to the cast, but he's no stranger to the show. Drew previously played Gaudio in the Chicago company.