For the past ten years, Jim Caruso's Cast Party has been the ultimate place for Broadway, jazz and cabaret folks to entertain each other and the people who love them. This past week was no exception, as show business royalty poured through the doors of Birdland. Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkle, Michael Feinstein, Daisy Egan, celebrated bassist Freebo, and Jane Monheit were all seen singing andor cheering dozens of impromptu performances. Klea Blackhurst was hostess-with-the-mostess as Caruso was helming the Fiddler at 50 event at another venue and as always, the Cast Party Symphony Orchestra Billy Stritch, Steve Doyle and Rick Montalbano accompanied everyone with style and musical panache.
- 5/2/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
'A Swinging Birdland Christmas' opened with a bang on December 21 For the fourth year in a row, Jim Caruso, Billy Stritch, Klea Blackhurst, and the band Steve Doyle on bass and Carmen Intorre on drums kick of Christmas week with their swinging holiday standards, and a few pieces of special material that are impossible to define Opening night saw Broadway folk like Christine Ebersole, Colleen Zenk, Daniel Rowan and Andrea Prestonario leading the applause. Check out a look back below...
- 12/23/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jim Caruso amp Billy Stritch return to Bemelmans at The Carlyle Hotel with their evening of swinging standards tonight, June 9, then running every Today in June, from 9pm - 12 midnight. The two performers, who have performed extensively on their own, gained national exposure together as the host and musical director of the wildly popular open mic, Cast Party, which celebrates talent every Monday at Birdland in NYC, and tours nationally. During their November run at Bemelmans, the duo received critical acclaim, and made news when rock legend Bono joined them in an impromptu performance. In their upcoming Carlyle run, Caruso and Stritch will be joined by bassist Steve Doyle.
- 6/9/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jim Caruso amp Billy Stritch return to Bemelmans at The Carlyle Hotel with their evening of swinging standards on Sunday, June 9, then running every Sunday in June, from 9pm - 12 midnight. The two performers, who have performed extensively on their own, gained national exposure together as the host and musical director of the wildly popular open mic, Cast Party, which celebrates talent every Monday at Birdland in NYC, and tours nationally. During their November run at Bemelmans, the duo received critical acclaim, and made news when rock legend Bono joined them in an impromptu performance. In their upcoming Carlyle run, Caruso and Stritch will be joined by bassist Steve Doyle.
- 5/22/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jim Caruso amp Billy Stritch return to Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel with their evening of swinging standards tonight, March 10, then running every Today in March, from 900 p.m. to midnight. The two performers, who have performed extensively on their own, gained national exposure together as the host and musical director of the wildly popular open mic, Cast Party, which celebrates talent every Monday at Birdland in NYC, and tours nationally. During their November run at Bemelmans, the duo received critical acclaim, and made news when rock legend Bono joined them in an impromptu performance. In their upcoming run, Caruso and Stritch will be joined by bassist Steve Doyle.
- 3/10/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jim Caruso amp Billy Stritch return to Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel with their evening of swinging standards on Sunday, March 10, then running every Sunday in March, from 900 p.m. to midnight. The two performers, who have performed extensively on their own, gained national exposure together as the host and musical director of the wildly popular open mic, Cast Party, which celebrates talent every Monday at Birdland in NYC, and tours nationally. During their November run at Bemelmans, the duo received critical acclaim, and made news when rock legend Bono joined them in an impromptu performance. In their upcoming run, Caruso and Stritch will be joined by bassist Steve Doyle.
- 2/28/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lorna Luft at Birdland, NYC
Attending Lorna Luft's performance at Birdland last Monday night, a foreign tourist couple were seated next to my table. They happened upon the show when looking for a "jazz" club, and knew nothing of Ms. Luft previous to seeing this show. After the performance, they shared that they truly enjoyed the entire evening. I mention this because Ms. Luft, who cannot help but reside to some degree or another in the shadow of her mother, Judy Garland, and sister, Liza Minnelli, is very much a fine and talented entertainer, quite independent of those associations.
The theme of the evening was the men in Ms. Luft's life: the composers with whom she has worked (Burt Bacharach and Jerry Herman), and one who she honors a great deal (Larry Hart). Also the men who she adores working with, two of whom, David Elder and Tony Yazbeck,...
Attending Lorna Luft's performance at Birdland last Monday night, a foreign tourist couple were seated next to my table. They happened upon the show when looking for a "jazz" club, and knew nothing of Ms. Luft previous to seeing this show. After the performance, they shared that they truly enjoyed the entire evening. I mention this because Ms. Luft, who cannot help but reside to some degree or another in the shadow of her mother, Judy Garland, and sister, Liza Minnelli, is very much a fine and talented entertainer, quite independent of those associations.
The theme of the evening was the men in Ms. Luft's life: the composers with whom she has worked (Burt Bacharach and Jerry Herman), and one who she honors a great deal (Larry Hart). Also the men who she adores working with, two of whom, David Elder and Tony Yazbeck,...
- 2/15/2013
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
Strippers and Satchmo and guys who sing gospel sounds like a bastardized Rodgers and Hart lyric, but it helps explain the variety of talent that showed up for Jim Caruso's Cast Party at Birdland on Monday evening. David Phelps, the award-winning tenor best known for his work with the Gaither Vocal Band absolutely thrilled the crowd with Youll Never Walk Alone and Nessun Dorma a Birdland first. Jeremy Giraud Abram is currently portraying jazz legend Louis Armstrong at Theater 3 in Manhattan, and impressed everyone with his Wonderful World. Jaymes and James, Chippendales dancers from Las Vegas currently heating up small screens on The Amazing Race, charmed the room and gained even more fans Adan Canto, starring in the new Fox thriller, The Following, is not just another good looking TV starhes a first-rate singer. Australian bff's Matthew Newton and Matt Baker performed a gorgeous standard together. Dawn Derow showed off her musical stuff,...
- 11/16/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tony and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Linda Lavin will celebrate the release of her debut album Possibilities on Ghostlight Records with a performance and CD signing at Barnes amp Noble on 86th St amp Lexington Avenue in NYC on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 6pm. She will be supported by a trio of musicians, including Billy Stritch on piano, Steve Doyle on bass amp Steve Bakunas on drums.
- 1/18/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tony and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Linda Lavin will celebrate the release of her debut album Possibilities on Ghostlight Records with a performance and CD signing at Barnes amp Noble on 86th St amp Lexington Avenue in NYC on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 6pm. She will be supported by a trio of musicians, including Billy Stritch on piano, Steve Doyle on bass amp Steve Bakunas on drums.
- 1/3/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
On Monday, December 5, Tony and Golden Globe Award-winning actress and singer Linda Lavin celebrated the release of her new CD, Possibilities Sh-k-BoomGhostlight Records by gathering a few good friends to join her in concert on the Birdland stage. Lavin's special guests included Nancy Dussault, Brenda Pressley, Michael Esper amp Kate Jennings-Grant, as well as Billy Stritch piano, Steve Doyle bass and Steve Bakunas drums.
- 12/6/2011
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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