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Stay warm this holiday season with singers, songwriters, canine acrobats, Jim Belushi photojournalists, and comedians that and the will leave you in stitches! Board of Comedy Jan 31st 2019 Get “Hooked on a Feeling” with 6:00pm & 8:30pm five-time Grammy Award winner BJ Thomas, back by popular demand Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Resturant Tour, comedians Kathleen Madigan, Lewis Black and Jim Belushi and the Board of Comedy, Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang, staple of the New York jazz scene Aaron Diehl, bona fide guitar hero Al Di Meola, 15-time Grammy Award winner Ricky Skaggs and his Kentucky Thunder, Devon Allman with special guest Duane Betts, and Michael Glabicki of Rusted Root. Features
And who said an old dog can’t learn new tricks? From dogs on tightwire 3 Letter from the Executive Director and high flying Frisbee dogs, Mutts Gone Nuts features some of the most 4 Board of Directors & Staff, talented rescue dogs in show business. Our Family Fun continues with Season Sponsors an interactive magic experience as Bill Blagg defies reality with his mind- 7 Boogie, Belugas & Belushi blowing illusions. From teleportation to the world’s only working hover board – quite simply, you won’t believe your eyes! 8 Historical Timeline 10 National Geographic Live Speaker Series We are very excited to present the National Geographic Live Speaker Series. Ocean Soul, with Photographer Brian Skerry, celebrates the sea and her 16 Family Fun Series creatures in magnificent images collected during more than 10,000 hours 17 Arts & Education underwater spanning 30 years. As a passionate spokesman for the oceans 25 Rent The Lyric he loves to photograph, Skerry’s riveting presentations inspire reverence for the marine realm and offer hope for protecting the vitality of the world’s 26 2018-19 Season Lineup oceans. Standing at the Water’s Edge with Cristina Mittermeier centers on 28 2018-19 Director’s Circle & Contributors the delicate balance between human well-being and healthy ecosystems. As a marine biologist and photojournalist for 25 years, Mittermeier knows the 33 Volunteer Bartenders & Ushers power of water: the power to give life when it is respected, and the power to 34 Theatre Box Office & destroy when it is misused (page 10). General Information 34 Seating Chart Calling all Student Youth Performers for the 2019 Youth Arts Celebration! The Lyric League wants YOU – Singers, Dancers, Actors, Musicians, 38 Discovery Series for Young Audiences Comedians, Jugglers, Magicians, Poets, Tumblers and any other talents 42 What Role Will You Play you can amaze us with! Auditions for 1st – 12th grade student performers will be held on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 and Monday, March 18, 2019 43 Youth Arts Celebration Auditions from 3pm-8pm at the Lyric Theatre (page 43). 47 Win Tix Contest!
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“It was me and a guy, Bobby, who had played rock from the last six decades and got its and the drummer got sick; Adinolfi suggested an Oscar for Best Original Song and hit that could be accessed online. It had 3.5 for Chuck Berry for 50 years. He wrote the start as a Dion tribute band. Vinny Sr., who his 11-year-old son Nicky. He was a hit and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It earned million downloads in three days. narrative about the origins of the blues. It plays rhythm guitar, keyboards and sings lead Palminteri suggested he start a band with Thomas his third gold record in four years. ran for four months and was really cool. He vocals, kicked it off, but the band also includes his boys. When Vinny, four-years-older than Come and listen. You’ll get hooked on the had been doing it on the road with an older his son Vinny “The Kid” on keyboards and Nicky, saw the money his kid brother was In the 1970s, Thomas had hits with feeling and the music. gentleman who didn’t want to stay on the guitar and Nicky “Stix” on drums and vocals. bringing home, he signed on too. “Everybody’s Out of Town,” “I Just Can’t road and he found me.” Rounding out the group are Joe Bonasorte Help Believing,” “No Love at All,” “Mighty on guitar, Joe Bari on sax and keyboard and The elder Adinolfi, with record producing Clouds of Joy” and “Rock and Roll Lullaby.” They took the show to Russia on behalf of Fernando Tort on bass. in his blood, said that the group had to have In 1975, he received his fourth gold the U.S. and played throughout the country, a game plan. He told an interviewer for Las record for “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another The Capitol Steps - including in Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. Vinny Adinolfi grew up in…wait for it… Vegas Magazine that his boys knew the goal Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” Make America Grin “The Russians love Boogie Woogie,” he said. the Bronx, in a neighborhood that included was Las Vegas within 10 years. Covering which also had the distinction of being the (January 11, 2019 6:00pm & “We tend to come up with the cool stuff in Dion of Dion and the Belmonts, actor Chazz songs by K.C & the Sunshine Band, the Bee longest titled No. 1 to hit the top 100. Again 8:30pm) The political satire troupe Capitol America, but then (our tastes) move on.” Palminteri and Tommy DeVito of Frankie Gees, and even Coldplay, the musicians got Steps was founded in 1981 by a group of Valli and the Four Seasons. Adinolfi was a reputation for hard work and high energy. In 1976, Thomas’ career took a turn in staffers for Senator Charles Percy planning For his solo show at The Lyric, he will working with record companies and he loved In 2016, they got a gig at Bally’s Windows direction, with Home Where I Belong, the first entertainment for a Christmas party. As they follow a similar format to Boogie Stomp! the music of everyone from Dion to the showroom. That’s Vegas, baby. Partial of his gospel albums and the first Christian Arlo Guthrie: tell it, the first idea was for a nativity play, The ‘Alice’s Restaurant Back but with one piano. “I’ll tell the history of Spinners to Jim Croce. It didn’t matter what proceeds to benefit Tykes & Teens. album to go platinum. He also recorded his by Popular Demand Tour’ but in the whole Congress, they couldn’t find Jan. 14th 2019 | 7:00pm Boogie Woogie piano and stories about the the style of the day last Top 40 hit, “Don’t Worry Baby.” In the th three wise men or a virgin. They said it; please Jan. 15 2019 | 7:00pm origins and the players,” he said. “There will was; he loved 1980s, many of his singles began to chart direct all hate mail to them. They created song be jokes woven in. It’s kind of a musical the classics. in country music. They included “Whatever parodies and skits about what was going on tour. I sing and play and the audience gets He was Happened to Old-Fashioned Love,” and everyone is howling. American politicians around them. As they have grown, they have to know me a little better. I guarantee they playing B.J. Thomas (January 10, 2019 “New Looks from an Old Lover.” In 1981, are not the only fodder: the Russian leader remained relentlessly nonpartisan as they haven’t seen anything like it because not with a 5:00 and 8:00pm) You know the songs he on his 39th birthday, he became the 60th has his turn with “Putin on the Blitz.” No skewer the bombastic, the outrageous and the that many people are doing this music in band sang: “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” member of the Grand Ole Opry. one is too elevated or important not to be just-plain-silly. Staples on NPR, they have the authentic way. I have a personal style, “Hooked on a Feeling,” and “Don’t Worry taken down a peg or three. recorded more than 30 albums, including their but I stay true to the elements that made it Baby.” When B.J. Thomas comes to The Thomas wasn’t finished. He recorded “As latest, Orange is the New Barack. The group is great in the first place. It’s not just banging Lyric Theatre, he brings 50 years of gold Long as We Have each Other,” the theme Newport has always cited her own based in Washington, where ridiculousness away, it’s the subtleties of the music, the records, five Grammy Awards, two Dove from the television show Growing Pains. experiences as proof of the nonpartisan falls like the gentle rain from Heaven, but story-telling, the playing in the groove. Awards and many No. 1 hits. Thomas has nature of the group. She worked for two B.J. Thomas sold more than 70 million records and is they’re not fools and they always make it to Republican Senators, Charles Percy and Even if they think they know what they’re th In 2013, the National Academy of Jan. 10 2019 ranked in Billboard’s top 50 Most Played The Lyric Theatre in January. Alphonse D’Amato, both of whom were going to see, I think it won’t be what they’re 5:00pm & 8:00pm Recording Arts and Sciences announced expecting. I think they’ll be happy.” Artists of the last 50 years, because so many that “Raindrops” would be inducted into the defeated. She is married to a former Clinton For Elaina Newport, a founding member of of us remember the songs as part of the Grammy Hall of Fame. That year, Thomas appointee and considers herself an “extreme the troupe, Florida is the gift that keeps on soundtrack of our lives. released The Living Room Sessions, an album moderate.” You’ll consider the Capitol Steps giving. From chads that hang, to politicians with acoustic arrangements of well-known extreme, too: extremely funny. Proudly behaving indiscreetly, to the feeling at Thomas was raised in Houston and sang in hits. He used a “wish list” of guest artists sponsored by WQCS/88.9 NPR for the Treasure each election that it’s the first Florida has The Bronx the church choir. He joined the group The from a variety of genres, including Richard Coast. Partial proceeds to benefit Volunteers in ever held and we will get it right someday, Triumphs, and in 1966, when Thomas was Marx for “Hey Won’t You Play,” Vince Medicine. Wanderers Florida is a great source of material. (January 7, 2019 6:00pm & only 24, they released the album, I’m So Gill for “I Just Can’t Help Believing,” Keb’ 8:30pm & January 8, 2019 Lonesome I Could Cry, with a cover of that Mo’ for “Most of All,” Lyle Lovett for In 2007, she predicted the 2008 race pitting 6:00pm & 8:30pm) Yo’ hit Hank Williams song. The single sold “Raindrops,” and Isaac Slade of the Fray for Clinton against Giuliani. That was wrong Vinny! No, really, that’s his over a million copies and earned a gold “I’m So Lonesome I could Cry.” There are but it doesn’t matter, because to the Capitol Arlo Guthrie: The name. Yo’ Vinny Adinolfi is record. In 1968, he released “Hooked also several solo performances by Thomas Steps, whatever the situation is, they mine the founder and patriarch on a Feeling,” which became his including “Don’t Worry Baby,” a Beach Boys ‘Alice’s Restaurant it for humor. For Clinton, there may be a of the Bronx Wanderers, second million-seller. A year later, classic Thomas covered in 1977. Back by Popular song to the Pointer Sisters’ “I’m So Excited,” who bring their vocal the movie Butch Cassidy and the but in the hands of the Capitol Steps, it’s Demand Tour’(January 14, stylings, great musicianship, Sundance Kid featured the Hal Thomas continues to tour and has “I’m Not Indicted.” They may do a play on 2019 7:00pm & January 15, 2019 7:00pm) high energy and real love David/Burt Bacharach song, discovered that he has a loyal fan base. Some little hands or bad hair. It’s hard to tell the It was Woody Guthrie’s dream to have for the music they sing. The “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My years ago, he did an interview with an online political persuasion of the audience because music is the best of pop and Head,” sung by Thomas. It won DJ, who put together a one-hour package continued on page 12
community groups and was used Spring of 1913 May 27, 1925 November 29, 1930 A Brief History of Construction for The “first” Lyric began on Construction of The “new” Lyric Theatre Newly equipped with RCA Photophone to present traveling vaudeville Osceola Avenue near Belle Flora and opened commenced on Flagler Avenue sound picture machines, The Lyric Theatre shows, news weeklies and for its first performance a year later. opened with railroad thriller “Danger movies The Lyric March 15, 1926 Lights' (picture with sound) 1917 The “new” Lyric Theatre opened to the public 1978 The “first” Lyric was abandoned and moved with the feature picture “Skinner’s Dress 1941 The Lyric was purchased by New Theatre to a little wooden structure on Osceola Suit” Life in Christ Church and served The Lyric Theatre fell on hard times after Avenue the depression and closed its doors. Over as a venue for weekly services the following years, it was rented out to 8 Voyage across the oceans with one of National Geographic’s most seasoned photographers and discover a As a photojournalist for the past 25 years, Cristina Mittermeier’s work centers on the balance between vast, hidden world beneath the waves. Using his camera to communicate, Brian Skerry has spent more than human well-being and healthy ecosystems; the power to give life when it is respected, and the power to 10,000 hours underwater telling the oceans’ stories. His images celebrate the mystery of the depths and destroy when it is misused. With the Kayapó people in the Amazon, she documented a society that relied offer portraits of creatures so intimate they sometimes appear to have been shot in a studio. on their local waterway to survive. In British Columbia, she found First Nations protecting Skerry will take us from the glacial waters of the North Atlantic, where harp seals face off with commercial their sacred headwaters, and in Hawaii, a new hunters, to the balmy central Pacific, where he photographed damaged coral ecosystems rebuilding them- community of indigenous peoples seeking selves. As a passionate spokesman for the oceans he loves to photograph, Skerry’s riveting presentations to reclaim their connection to the sea. She inspire reverence for the marine realm and offer hope for protecting the vitality of the world’s oceans. learned that one concept bound these three disparate communities together: “Enough- ness,” or taking only that which you need.
“My work is about building a greater aware- ness of the responsibility of what it means to be a human. It is about understanding that the history of every living thing that has ever existed on this planet also lives within us. It is about the ethical imperative—the urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to all other species on this planet and that we have a duty to act as the keepers of our fellow life forms.” - Cristina Mittermeier
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enough kids to form a family band that stupid, began as a friendly gesture when of the Year in 2017. National Geographic an archive of the Machine’s bi-annual businessman, he was the lead singer for would travel the country. Guthrie’s son Guthrie, 15, was arrested for littering. He National Geographic has named one of his photographs among residency at the historic Philadelphia venue. Tony Orlando and Dawn. Their variety Arlo has fulfilled at least part of the dream was deemed unfit for the army and he wrote Live Ocean Soul with their 50 Greatest Photographs of All Their album Unplugged, captures a special show was the first multi-ethnic variety show with his Alice’s Restaurant tour, featuring his a song about it when he was 19. It quickly photographer Brian Times. He is the only photographer to win acoustic performance at B.B. King’s in New on television. daughter, Sarah Lee Guthrie. The tour will became an anti-establishment anthem. the prestigious Peter Benchley Award for York, featuring rare Syd Barrett solo material th Skerry (January 17, 2019 7:00pm) coincide with the 50 anniversary of the Photographer Brian Skerry was 13 the Excellence in Media and has appeared on and deep cuts from early Floyd albums. Most The singer was born Michael Anthony film Alice’s Restaurant, starring Guthrie and For Guthrie, the joy with which people summer Jaws scared most people out of The Today Show and on CBS’s This Morning. recently, in 2011, they released a live recording Orlando Cassavitis. As a teen, he formed th directed by Arthur Penn. greeted the 50 anniversary tour was a the water. Skerry felt differently; he wanted He has given his presentations at TED, of symphonic Pink Floyd music drawn from a doo wop group and made demos that surprise. “I didn’t think I was gonna to to be in the water, studying sharks. As a Harvard and London’s Royal Geographic their many orchestra appearances. reached record producer Don Kirshner. He Guthrie, a songwriter, storyteller, social live long enough to have to learn Alice’s photo- journalist, he has spent more than Society. It’s a story no one who loves the was hired to write songs with a group that commentator, actor and activist, grew up Restaurant again,” he said. “It was a quirky 10,000 hours under water and he brings his planet should miss. The Machine Performs Pink Floyd has included Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Barry in a musical household. Dad, of course, kind of thing to begin with. Nobody writes expertise, his passion and his photos to The drawn rave reviews, with Matt Diehl of Mann and Bobby Darin. He had his first was the iconic folk singer Woody Guthrie an 18-minute monologue expecting fame Lyric Theatre in National Geographic Live Rolling Stone saying they played with hit as a singer with “Halfway to Paradise” and mom was Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a and fortune. The initial success of the Ocean Soul. “chilling accuracy.” Dan Greenhaus of when he was 17, and he went on to record dancer with Martha Graham. The Guthrie song really took me by surprise more than The Machine JamBands.com said the group “has a set up and produce records as vice president of home in New York had frequent visits from anyone else. The fact that I have contended Skerry began his career shooting shipwrecks comparable to some bands two or three Columbia/CBS Music. A multiple threat, he Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and with it for five decades, either by having to in New England. His first assignment for Performs Pink Floyd times its size. The group comes complete continued recording with Telma Hopkins (January 19, 2019 7:00pm) Unless you’ve Brownie McGhee and the younger Guthrie learn it again or by not doing it, has been an National Geographic was 20 years ago and he with a light show, helicopter searchlight, and Joyce Vincent Wilson as lead singer been on The Dark Side of the Moon, drew from all these artists as he set his own interesting balancing act. I’m surely looking was always ready to take on any underwater heartbeat and clock chimes, all of which for the group Dawn, and when “Candida” you know the music of Pink Floyd. The style. He collaborated with Seeger many forward to it again being a centerpiece of story. Soon, he began to ask for stories on result on a satisfying live experience.” became a hit, he started using the name Machine Performs Pink Floyd returns to times over some 40 years; their last show my live repertoire.” ocean-related issues that showed both the Tony Orlando and Dawn. The group went th The Lyric Theatre as they bring to life some together was at Carnegie Hall in November, In July 2017, to celebrate the 50 magic and the dark side of the ocean, from on to have 19 other Top 40 hits. of the seminal rock band’s most beloved and 2013, a few months before anniversary of the original release of the harp seal’s struggle to survive, to the memorable songs from all 16 of their albums. Seeger died. Guthrie’s debut album, Rhino Records re- staggering decline in the world’s fisheries After the group disbanded, Orlando The Machine, which has been performing Tony Orlando (January released the full mono version of the song to damaged coral ecosystems rebuilding continued as a solo act and has been a for more than 20 years, combines high-tech 23, 2019 7:00pm) Most of us know Tony The saga of Alice’s on 180 gram vinyl. In March 2018, the themselves. He has shown the world that its regular in Las Vegas and Branson, Missouri. lighting and production values, extravagant Orlando’s “Tie a Yellow Ribbon ‘Round Restaurant, national recording Registry at the Library actions have consequences, whether it’s by He has headlined around the world and stage displays and unrivaled musicianship the Ole Oak Tree,” a song that became an the song that of Congress inducted Alice’s Restaurant choosing not to wear harp seal fur or having entertained five U.S presidents. He has won for a memorable evening that allows great anthem for retiring soldiers became the Massacree, as it is properly known, into a tuna for dinner. three American Music Awards and two anthem for registry honoring the recording for its musicians to celebrate great musicians. and was a number one People’s Choice Awards as Best Male hit for an entire year. anti- cultural, historic and aesthetic importance Skerry dives eight months of the year, Entertainer. He also has a star on the The band consists of founding member When he returns to on the American soundscape. often in extreme conditions beneath Arctic Hollywood Walk of Fame. Tahrah Cohen on drums, Ryan Ball on guitar The Lyric Theatre, ice or in predator-infested waters and has and vocals, Scott Chasolen on keyboard and he brings with him an That’s all true. It’s also true that “you lived near the bottom of the sea to tell the For his Lyric show, Tony Orlando vocals and Adam Minkoff on bass and vocals. impressive number of can get anything you want at Alice’s oceans’ stories. National Geographic recently will perform his greatest hits They are known for A to Z set list, in which hits, from “Candida,” restaurant…” published Ocean Soul, a retrospective of and talk about a career spanning they perform one Pink Floyd song for each the song that thrust Skerry’s photographs. In the book and in this decades and with no end in sight. letter of the alphabet. him into the spotlight, to presentation, Skerry takes his audience from “Knock Three Times,” the the glacial waters of the North Atlantic to National Geographic In a recent interview for the Reading top song of 1971, selling the balmy Pacific. A founding member of Live Ocean Soul Eagle, Cohen said that the band has played more than six million copies. Tony Orlando with photographer Brian Skerry the International League of Conservation Jan. 23rd 2019 | 7:00pm Jan. 17th 2019 | 7:00pm “Comfortably Numb” and “You Were Here” the He remains a popular Photographers, his work is proof that most frequently. “It’s funny with ‘Comfortably headliner in Las photographs can make a difference. His Numb,’ (from the 1979 album, The Wall),” Vegas, Reno images have helped sway policy-makers to Cohen said. “I’m never feeling like I can’t wait and Atlantic implement marine protected areas and to pass continued to play it, but every time we do play it, by the City. A well- legislation that will have a lasting impact on on page second guitar solo, my eyes are closed and I’m known the world’s oceans. 20 having the best time of my life.” record producer Skerry was named a Nikon The group has released a number of albums, and savvy ambassador in 2015 and Rolex including their 2004 Two Nights at the Keswick, National Geographic Explorer
systems, ADA compliance alterations, box Capital Campaign. Lobby and box office 1987 March 18, 1988 2001 2004-2005 September 2015 With talk of razing Friends of the Lyric entered into a contract office construction, and remodeling of the The Balcony of the theater was remodeled for The expansion of The Lyric was commenced improvements, including new exterior and Drawing inspiration from the organic and the theater, Friends with the New Life in Christ Church and restrooms and dressing room the installation of new balcony seating, an and completed, enlarging the stage by 14 interior entrances, additional Box Office geometric forms of The Lyric’s exterior, The of the Lyric, a group purchased theater elevator was installed and refurbishment of the feet, adding a backstage with flex- dressing service windows, and bar. New orchestra Lyric’s proscenium was ornamented in an Art of concerned citizens, November 12, 1993 lobby and restrooms area, a restroom, and office/storage areas. seating and sound system were installed. Nouveau style. The elegant design contains banded together 1993-1995 The Lyric Theatre was listed on the National The “Star” dressing room also underwent The Lyric’s interior stucco walls were artistry and craftsmanship of the trompe to save the historic With assistance from community grassroots Register of Historic Places renovation including shower and restroom. smoothed out and architectural elements l’oeil art technique. structure efforts and grants, The Lyric Theatre added to the walls and columns. underwent much needed repair 1996 Summer of 2014 Summer of 2016 from marquee improvements, exterior New seating installed in the orchestra section The Lyric was closed for substantial November 11, 2014 Decorative touches utilizing the trompe l’oeil Lyric including balcony parapet, doorway painting, new roofing and air-conditioning and administrative offices constructed renovation as part of the Love The Lyric Grand Reopening art technique were added throughout The transoms, and interior theatre walls. 12 13 PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR ANNUAL PAWS & CLAWS GALA
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14 For tickets and information, call The Lyric Theatre Box Office at772-286-7827 or visit www.LyricTheatre.com. All shows and times are subject to change. Continuing to provide Treasure Coast families with the wonderfully unique and magical FamilyFamily FUNFUN experience of live performing arts. ARTIST IN FAMILY RESIDENCY Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages! Step right up to The Lyric Theatre’s 2018-2019 Family SUMMER DISCOVERY PROGRAMMING CAMP SERIES Fun Series. The Lyric invites you to see adorable nutty mutts, a beauty and a beast, Chinese warriors, electrifying fiddlers, and magic and illusions beyond your wildest imaginations. It’s all at The Lyric this season and these special shows bring the magic of live performance to a new audience and can ignite a passion for theater that lasts a lifetime. Proudly Sponsored by The Bauman Family Foundation. Calling all Student Youth Performers for the 2019 Youth Arts Celebration Do you have a unique Talent? The Lyric League wants YOU – Singers, Dancers, Actors, Musicians, Comedians, Jugglers, Magicians, Poets, Tumblers and any other talents you can amaze us with! Auditions for 1st – 12th grade student performers will be held on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 and Monday, March 18, 2019 from 3pm-8pm at The Lyric Theatre. To register for an audition, contact Sue Nauss at 772-220-1942, ext 205 or email at [email protected]. Audition instructions and more information can be found at LyricTheatre. com/youth-arts-celebration. The Youth Arts Celebration, presented by The Lyric League, was established as a means to provide local emerging student artists with a performance opportunity on the historic Lyric stage. This very special event is crucial in championing the passion and love so many of our gifted youth hold for the arts. The 2019 Youth Arts Celebration will be held on Saturday, April 13, 2019. Sponsorships and ticket sales for this event raise funds to further expand The Lyric Theatre’s Arts & Education programs such as artist January 27th • 2pm & 5pm February 24th • 7pm March 19th • 4pm & 7pm master classes and residencies, the Discovery Series for Young Audiences, Family Fun Series, and The Lyric’s AWESOME! Summer Camp. Make a difference in young lives by becoming a sponsor and support Treasure Coast’s young emerging artists this dynamic talent showcase. To become a sponsor or to join The Lyric League, contact the Co-Chairs: Niki Norton at [email protected] or Janice Binger at [email protected]. Tickets and Sponsorship information are available online at LyricTheatre.com/youth-arts-celebration.
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world from Tokyo to Las Vegas. The two The Musical, and received a 2013 Tony begin her studies with Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky Kathleen Madigan- performed at Lee Greenwood’s theater Award nomination for it. Russell Fischer, at Juilliard. During her first year there, Hotdogs and Angels in Tennessee and as the featured comedy who has the falsetto, won the role of Joe she won the pre-college division Concerto (January 25, 2019 6:00pm & 8:30pm) act at Dolly Parton’s theaters in Orlando, Pesci in the Broadway company of Jersey Competition. She also won the Philadelphia Comedian Kathleen Madigan believes that Myrtle Beach and Branson. In 2005, the Boys on his 22nd birthday. Dwayne Cooper Orchestra’s Greenfield Students Competition some pope should choose the name Hilarius two discovered that adding dogs to the act has been compared to “a modern day Sammy and performed with that orchestra when she II. She points out that there was a Pope unleashed even more comic potential and Davis Jr. meets Barry White,” and Sonny was only 12. She graduated from Juilliard Hilarius I from 467-469. Mutts Gone Nuts was born. It features Paladino is the music supervisor for Natasha, with special honor and received the school’s nine canine acrobats, dogs like Chico, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, as well as Arthur Rubinstein Prize. “How did he pass up being Hilarius the hoop-jumping Chihuahua/Corgi for the upcoming revival of Smokey II?” she asked in an interview some mix, Fritz, the jump-roping American Joe’s Café. Yang made her debut with the New York years ago. Eskimo, high-flying Frisbee dogs, Philharmonic in 2006 and performed in tight wire dogs, dancing dogs, magic Nolfi is leaving Broadway because the Doo the orchestra’s Asian tour, including a If you think Madigan has an dogs and Sammie the Talking Dog. Wop Project means that much to him. “It’s triumphant return to her hometown. She has opinion on just about everything, You’ll have a great time enjoying my priority,” he said, “We’re just maximizing appeared with the New York Philharmonic you’re right; although it turns the antics of some of the cutest and its potential and we’re on a mission to keep for the opening night of the Leonard out she was off a few years on the most talented dogs in show business the music alive. We have ideas to bring it to Bernstein Festival in 2008, at the special papacy of Hilarius I. The good and their people, too. They’ll steal your first, second and third graders and get them request of Maestro Lorin Maazel in his final news is that she’s a comic and not heart and make you laugh. A Family Fun interested in harmony singing. We did our season as music director there. an historian, so it’s all right. Comedic Series show proudly sponsored by The Bauman first show at my daughter’s school. She’s license and all that. Family Foundation. seven and they had a blast. I want to be an old In the last two years, Yang has embarked man, listening to kids singing this music and on a series of debuts, collaborations and For nearly 30 years, Madigan has been understanding where it came from, with its premieres. She made her debut with the touring 250 nights a year and squeezing African-American roots and how every group, New Zealand Symphony under Edo De in hour-long specials and performances Italians, Jews and Irish had a stake in it.” Waart and performed Rachmaninov’s Piano on every late night show. She has made 25 The Doo Wop Project Concerto No. 3 throughout New Zealand, appearances on The Tonight Show and rode Kathleen Madigan (January 28, 2019 7:00pm) The Doo Wop She appeared at the Kennedy Center with Hotdogs and Angels Tour Project starts at the beginning of the unique around with Jerry Seinfeld in his Comedians Jan. 25th 2019 the Albany Symphony, featuring works by in Cars Getting Coffee, series. She’s clearly 6:00pm & 8:30pm sound, when five guys sang tight harmonies Michael Torke written especially for Yang doing something right. Madigan has won on street corners, and takes the audience Joyce Yang (January 29, 2019 and commissioned by the Albany Symphony. the American Comedy Award for Best on a music journey through the Crests 7:00pm) Pianist Joyce Yang makes her She collaborated for the first time with the Female Comedian and the Phyllis Diller and Belmonts to Smokey Robinson and Lyric Theatre debut this season. She came Aspen Santa Fe Ballet in a new work for Mutts Gone Nuts Jan. 27th 2019 Award in the same category. She has written Madigan is widely regarded as one of the the Temptations to the Four Seasons and to international attention in 2005, when dancers and solo piano by Jorma Elo and th 2:00pm & 5:00pm and produced for Lewis Black’s Root of All funniest women doing stand-up today, but modern doo-wopified songs from Maroon 5, she won the silver medal at the 12 Van gave it its world premiere. She performed Evil for Comedy Central and done multiple many believe the gender qualification isn’t Michael Jackson and Jason Mraz. They have Cliburn International Piano Competition. with orchestras throughout the country USO tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. Those necessary. The Detroit Free Press noted that the authentic sound, the vocal chops and the She was 19, the youngest contestant at the and continued her partnership with the audiences, she said, are the best and she’d “Along with Lewis Black, Brian Regan and creativity to recreate or re-imagine some of event. The young artist has also received Alexander String Quartet. much rather have her job than theirs. Jim Gaffigan, she’s one of the funniest stand- the biggest hits in pop and rock history and an Avery Fisher Career Grant and has up comedians of her generation.” Period. they return to The Lyric Theatre to take the appeared as a soloist with the New York Yang has made several records since her At a time when many comedians are cast in audience along for the ride. Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los 2011 debut album, Collage, featuring works sitcoms as the wise-cracking best friend or Come and see for yourself and be prepared Angeles Philharmonic and the Baltimore, by Scarlatti, Liebermann, Debussy, Currier other joke machine, Madigan has no interest to laugh. Two of the founders of the Doo Wop Detroit and Pittsburgh symphony orchestras, and Schumann. The New York Times lauded in taking that on. Project are named Dominic, which is as well as with orchestras around the world. her “impressive gifts” with the release of confusing, especially as they are both In recital, she has appeared at Lincoln Center, her album, Wild Dreams, and her recording “I just want to tell jokes,” she said. “I didn’t such nice guys. Dominic Scaglione played the Kennedy Center and Chicago’s Symphony of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No, 1 with start doing open mics to become an actor Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys and Dominic Hall. Her work has been recognized for Denmark’s Odense Symphony Orchestra on a sitcom or on a television commercial. Mutts Gone Nuts Nolfi played Tommy DeVito. The two its “poetic and sensitive pianism” by the was called “hugely enjoyable and beautifully Those things never crossed my mind. For (January 27, 2019 2:00pm & 5:00pm) agree that the Doo Wop Project first saw Washington Post and its “wondrous sense of shaped,” giving a performance “that marks a few of us, working and telling jokes was Show biz lore says you should never compete the light of day on the third floor of the color” by the San Francisco Classical Voice. her as an enormous talent.” our main goal. I didn’t have any more goals. with kids or animals, but Scott and Jane August Wilson Theatre during their run Can’t you even have a goal, reach it and Houghton of Mutts Gone Nuts didn’t take it in Jersey Boys. Dominic Nolfi confirmed Yang was born in Seoul, South Korea, It is a rare treat to have her in Stuart enjoy it? Our society is driven by Type-A to heart. The comedy duo returns to The this in an interview this year. “It really was and received her first piano lesson and you won’t want to miss it. lunatics who say you have to set more goals. Lyric with all their adorable rescue dogs for Dominic (Scaglione’s) idea,” he said. “He felt from her aunt when she was 4. Well maybe they do, but we all don’t. Have a high-energy, high-wire show for the entire there was a lack of guys our age singing She loved the instrument and a seat, grab a drink and enjoy the fact that family. Kids, parents and grandparents will traditional doo wop. We could fill that void.” over the next few years, she won you made it to the goal. Maybe that’s the love the adorable pooches and the humans Fill that void they have, and more. Nolfi national piano competitions Irish in me, talking tough.” who they allow on stage with them. has just finished a run as Crazy Mario in in her native country. At 10, the Broadway production of A Bronx Tale she entered the School of Madigan, a native of St. Louis, has Known as the “disorderly duo,” the to devote full time to the Doo Wop Project. Music at the Korea National performed around the world. She says that Houghtons have been performing together He is mega-talented, but he and the “other University of Arts and went performing for audiences in other countries as a comedy team since 1985. They were Dom” are only part of an ensemble of on to perform throughout requires tweaking of her jokes, but that it’s a known for blending physical comedy mega-talented guys. Charl Brown originated the country. She moved to challenge that makes her a better comedian. and circus artistry and they traveled the the role of Smokey Robinson in Motown: the United States in 1997 to continued on page 36 20 For tickets and information, call The Lyric Theatre Box Office at772-286-7827 or visit www.LyricTheatre.com. All shows and times are subject to change. The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization The Lyric Theatre Box Office (772) 286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.com 21 Atlantic Classical Orchestra Masterworks Series Schedule of Events At the Lyric Theatre in Downtown Stuart Masterworks I Romance & Revolution Robert Paterson | Grieg | Beethoven
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Love’s Blossom Copland | Sibelius | Schumann
Masterworks III Reflections & Impressions Rossini | Falla| Bizet
Masterworks IV Strength & Providence Ravel | Shostakovich | Mendelssohn
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In 1972, Al enrolled at the Jim Belushi and the Hot in Cleveland, and in movies including Broadway at the and originated the role of Lucy Grant in proceeds to benefit The Salvation Army of Berklee College of Music in Boston and by Board of Comedy Bridesmaids and This is 40. She has been a Movies: Celebrating Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Martin & St. Lucie County. the second semester there began playing in (January 31, 2019 6:00pm & 8:30pm) staff writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Joshua 80 years of Movie Star. In 2016, she joined Sutton Foster in a fusion quartet led by keyboardist Barry When Jim Belushi was 16, he went to the Funk is an award-winning director and Musicals Starring a limited, off-Broadway revival of Sweet Miles. When a gig tape of that band was famed Second City in Chicago to see his Second City alum. He has appeared in Key Charity, and then she starred as Mrs. Bucket later passed on to Chick Corea by a friend of brother, John, and Harold Ramis perform and Peele, Reno 911 and Steven Soderbergh’s Josh Young & Emily in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Padgett Al’s in 1974, the 19-year-old guitarist was with their group. When it was over, he said, The Informant. When he is not acting, he Padgett (February 6, 2019 7:00pm) grew up in North Carolina, but left the Al Di Meola tapped to join Corea’s fusion supergroup “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. composes and produces the original music Take one touch of Broadway musical magic. South to study at the American Musical Feb. 8th 2019 | 7:00pm Return to Forever. I want a piece of this.” When he got his own for Comedy Central’s Key and Peele. He is Add a pinch of Hollywood glamour. Take and Dramatic Academy in New York. After first laugh on that stage, he said that the artistic director for Second City Hollywood. a spoonful of real onstage chemistry and graduating from the two-year program, she Al started up his career as a solo artist. His adrenaline kicked in and he was dizzy. That Trey Stone began as a jazz pianist in clever banter. The result is Broadway at was quickly booked as Demeter on the non- 1976 debut, Land of the Midnight Sun, was was it for him; he was hooked on comedy Chicago and became musical director for the Movies, a musical journey through 80 Equity national tour of Cats. After a year, a blazing showcase of his signature chops and performing. Second City, where he remained for 15 years. years of movies and musicals. The Lyric she left the tour and started attending open and Latin-tinged compositions. Over the He records and tours with his band, Trey Theatre show, starring Broadway veterans calls in the city while balancing odd jobs, a course of six more albums with Columbia Belushi’s craft was honed by stints at Second Stone and the Ringers. Josh Young and Emily Padgett, will time-honored tradition. Records – Elegant Gypsy, Casino, Splendido City and on Saturday Night Live. From highlight some of the best of Broadway and Hotel, Electric Rendezvous, Tour De Force Second City, he learned about character For Belushi, it’s all about catching lightning Hollywood, with songs from The Wizard of You’ll have an enchanted evening. and Scenario – Al established himself as an comedy, social satire, comic rhythms and in a bottle and creating magic. Oz, West Side Story, Carousel, The Sound of influential force in contemporary music. doing eight shows a week. Saturday Night Music, Les Mis, and favorite Disney musicals. Live taught him how to work under pressure “We have no idea what we’re going to do,” In 1980 Friday Night in San Francisco, with and was the most difficult experience of he said. “We do about nine improvisational Josh Young is a frequent performer at Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin became his life. Everything since then, he says, games. We take suggestions from the the Stratford Festival, where he has Abbacadabra: The a landmark recording that surpassed the has been easy, except his wife’s driving. audience and we make stuff up on the spot. performed in The Grapes of Wrath, Evita, Ultimate ABBA four million mark in sales. The following The multi-talented artist has performed on You’re a participant in the audience. We as Che Guevara, and Kiss Me Kate. For his Tribute (February 7, 2019 6:00pm year, 1981, Di Meola was inducted into Broadway in The Pirates of Penzance and are as good as the audience’s performance as Che he won the Broadway Al Di Meola (February 8, 2019 Guitar Player’s Gallery of Greats after five & 8:30pm) Mamma Mia! Whenever 7:00pm) Al Di Meola’s celebrated career has his band opened for the Rolling Stones at suggestions. When we World Toronto Award for Best Actor in Abbacadabra, the Ultimate ABBA Tribute, consecutive wins as Best Jazz Guitarist in Soldier Field in Chicago. For eight years, he have a good audience, a Musical. He also played Marius in spanned four decades and earned him critical the magazine’s Readers Poll and winning comes to The Lyric Theatre, the show sells accolades, three gold albums and more starred in the sitcom According to Jim. it’s a great show a tour of Les Miserables. He played out, and why not? ABBA was one of the best album and acoustic guitarist for a total and we capture the role of Judas in the 2011-2012 than six million in record sales worldwide. of a record eleven wins. biggest groups of the 1970s, with hits like A bona fide guitar hero - winning more The comic is touring with a group of pals some magic revival of Jesus Christ Superstar and “Mamma Mia,” “Dancing Queen,” “The that includes Megan Grano, Larry Joe that people will he was nominated for a Tony. He awards than any guitarist living or dead - A pioneer of blending world music and jazz, Winner Takes it All” and “Take a Chance and prolific composer, he has amassed over Campbell, Joshua Funk and Trey Stone. remember for a also won a Theatre World Award on Me.” Abbacadabra covers 20 of the the guitar great continues to explore the Belushi created the show several years ago long time.” for an outstanding Broadway debut. 30 albums as a leader while collaborating rich influence of flamenco, tango, Middle pop group’s mega-hits and manager Jack on more than a dozen or so others with and has been touring the country with it in In 2015, he starred in the musical Greenberg, who signed ABBA to its first U.S. Eastern, Brazilian and African music with between other projects. Amazing Grace as John Newton, a the likes of Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, his World Sinfonia, an ambitious pan- recording contract in 1974, says that watching Lenny White, John McLaughlin, Paco de role he originated. He can be heard Abbacadabra for the first time was a revelation. global group that he formed in 1991. Their “I’m having a ball,” he said. “Every on the cast recording. Lucia and violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. While exhilarating world music fusion has released his dazzling technique on both acoustic performance is different and unique. Plus “I know ABBA inside and out and when I 2000’s The Grande Passion, 2007’s Live in these improvisational actors on stage with and electric guitars has afforded him regal Jim Belushi and Emily Padgett is known for her work first saw Abbacadabra perform, I couldn’t London, 2011’s Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody me are geniuses. They crack me up every the Board of Comedy on Broadway. In 2007, she made her status, the depth of Di Meola’s writing and the 2012 DVD, Morocco Fantasia. His st believe it. It was like watching the real deal.” Jan. 31 2019 along with the soulfulness and the lyricism night. I’m just chasing the magic. Everyone, 6:00pm & 8:30pm Broadway debut in Grease as a member album, 2015’s Elysium, finds the guitar great Greenberg put his money where his mouth of his expression on guitar have won him including the audience, is fully engaged of the ensemble and as a swing, is and now manages Abbacadabra. blending the lush tones of his nylon string and participating, and when there’s success understudying Sandy, Patty legions of fans worldwide beyond the guitar Conde Hermanos acoustic prototype model aficionado set. in the scenes, there’s nothing like it. It and Cha-Cha. In The group came to life in 2004. Gary and a ’71 Les Paul electric in a collection feels safe when you’re up there with an 2008, she joined of songs that are at once invigorating Raffanelli, an ABBA fan who looks a lot Growing up in Bergenfield, NJ with the ensemble as your safety net. What’s great the cast of like ABBA founder Benny Andersson, and alluring. In 2015, he was honored as about this show is that it reunites me with Legally Blonde music of Elvis Presley, The Ventures and the 22nd recipient of the Montreal Jazz brought together a team of vocalists and The Beatles, Di Meola naturally gravitated Larry Joe Campbell (from According to as Cece/ musicians to recreate the sounds and sights Festival’s Miles Davis Award, created to Jim). He’s the best partner I’ve ever District to guitar as a youngster and by his early honor a great international jazz musician for of an ABBA show. That meant figuring teens was already an accomplished player. “I had in my career. The problem with Attorney. out the unique recording techniques ABBA the entire body of his or her work and for improv is that it’s life or death. You After used to practice the guitar eight to ten hours that musician’s influence in regenerating the used on vocals and deconstructing them a day,” he told Down Beat. “And I was trying either come off the stage going Legally so Abbacadabra could create the authentic jazz idiom. At age 63, this guitar hero seems ‘I’m going back to being an Blonde to find myself, or find the kind of music that inspired to begin a new chapter in his career ABBA sound. The group’s first show was at suited where I was going with the guitar.” apprentice printer because I’m closed, she the El Dorado Resort and Casino in Reno, with the release of OPUS in February 2017. terrible or you come off going, was offered but they were soon playing to sold out His earliest role models in jazz included ‘I am God. I am a gift to all.’ the role of crowds around the country and on cruise During a 40-plus year career marked by And that’s the best part!” Sandy in the guitarists Tal Farlow and Kenny Burrell. hugely influential recordings and worldwide lines such as Princess and Royal Caribbean. But when he discovered Larry Coryell, national tour Fittingly, in 2007, they began performing tours, Di Meola has regenerated the jazz In addition to Campbell, company of whom Al would later dub “The Godfather idiom three times over while dedicating in Europe, where ABBA first came to fame. of Fusion,” he was taken with the guitarist’s the cast includes Megan Grease. That led They are known for attention to detail, from himself to his art. Grano, a Second City to her work as unprecedented blending of jazz, blues and the sound to the clothing. Listening to them rock into one seamless vocabulary on the alum who has appeared in Sherrie Christian is taking a step back in time, when everyone continued on page 40 36 The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization The Lyric Theatre Box Office (772) 286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.com 37 THE LYRIC THEATRE’S 2018-19 FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
Inspiring Young Minds through the ARTS
The Nutcracker An annual tradition, our friends at Florida Arts & Dance Company and Russian Ballet Orlando return with The Nutcracker. The quintessential Christmas ballet, set to Tchaikovsky’s thrilling music, is based on the story “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice” by E.T.A. Hoffman. This sparking fairy tale, with such beloved scenes as “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” has delighted children for generations.
Creativity, Imagination, Dance • All Ages Friday, December 14th, 2018 I 10:15am & 11:45am
George Washington Carver & Friends One of the most remarkable scientists of all-time, George Washington Carver, led an incredible and interesting life. See him come to life and meet some of the other incredible scientists and groundbreakers from Black History – including Madame CJ Walker, Jackie Robinson, and more! George Washington Carver and Friends gives students a fast-paced and accessible introduction to many influential black Americans who have shaped our nation over the last 150 years. Black History, History and Social Studies, STEM • Grades Pre K - 5 Monday, February 4th, 2019 I 10:15am & 11:45am
Once Upon a Time... Cinderella and Jack & the Beanstalk Lenny and Mabel are two Elizabethan traveling actors who are very excited to share two beloved fairy tales, Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk. Through their high-energy and hysterical performance, the characters of Cinderella, her wicked step-sister, the Prince, Jack and the Giant (along with many others!) are brought to life onstage.
Literature and Literacy • Grades Pre K - 5 Monday, March 4th, 2019 I 10:15am & 11:45am
2018-2019 Arts & Education at The Lyric is Proudly Sponsored by Elisabeth Lahti
For more information about this Series, Ticketing or Scholarship Fund contact Sue Nauss, Arts & Education Coordinator, at 772-220-1942 x205 or at [email protected]
Discovery Series Scholarship Fund sponsored by U.S. Sugar. Educators of Martin County Title 1 Schools are eligible to apply for the Scholarship, please visit www.lyrictheatre.com/discovery-series for the application and requirements. 38 For tickets and information, call The Lyric Theatre Box Office at772-286-7827 or visit www.LyricTheatre.com. All shows and times are subject to change. continued from page 37
Ricky Skaggs and in 1985. For the last two decades, he has take a blue-collar, hard-nosed approach to was also in The Money Pit with Tom Hanks Sorkin, American Beauty writer Alan Bell and accompanying documentary, Basic Black. continued to make his mark in the world touring in the U.S. and internationally. “You and Heartburn with Meryl Streep and Jack his own plays. He also served as emcee and Both are still aired regularly and can be Kentucky Thunder of country music, releasing the popular have to see us live,” said Ryan Lacey, who Nicholson. He appeared in several other his skill as a stand-up comic grew. He had found in the Epix on demand menu. (February 9, 2019 4:00pm & 7:00pm) album Mosaic with the Grammy-winning joined the lineup in 2003, “We still and most movies, on the sitcom Night Court, and on found his voice and left West Bank to pursue It will be a toe-tapping good time when 15- songwriter and producer Gordon Kennedy. likely always will, tour most of the year and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He stand-up full time. In the midst of his rigorous touring time Grammy Award-winner Ricky Skaggs The song “Return to Sender,” from that that’s how we hone our craft.” had his own show, What a Country, named schedule and television appearance, the and his band, Kentucky Thunder, returns. album, was nominated for two Grammys after his well-known tag line. In 1996, Black’s friend Lizz Winstead comic has written three best-selling books, Skaggs, whose music spans the country in the gospel genre. In 2010, Skaggs was The band’s latest album, Go Climb a Tree, tapped him to create a weekly segment for a Nothing’s Sacred, Me of Little Faith and I’m music spectrum from bluegrass to gospel inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of brings Twigger, Murphy and Wehmeyer In 1992, Smirnoff bought a theater in show she was producing on Comedy Central Dreaming of a Black Christmas. He is also a to mainstream, is a multi-talented musician Fame and received the Cliffie Stone Pioneer together as songwriters. The album has a Branson, Missouri and performed there until called The Daily Show. The segment was a prolific playwright, having written more who plays the mandolin, fiddle, mandocaster Award from the Academy of Country Music. little bit of everything, from party drinking 2015, where he entertained more than four three-minute rant about whatever was on his than 40 plays, including One Slight Hitch, and banjo. For his Lyric show, he and the songs like “The Beer Song” to patriotic million people. He appeared on Broadway mind at the moment. It evolved into “Back that was presented at Garry Marshall’s band will perform songs from his long and Kentucky Thunder, eight-time winners of anthems like “Green White and Orange” to in a one-man show, As Long as We Both Shall in Black” and was one of the most popular Falcon Theatre in Los Angeles. He has illustrious career, including “Sis Draper,” the IBMA’s Instrumental Group of the beautiful folk songs like “Monday Morning Laugh, and gives advice in a column for segments on the show. His relationship with also gone back to his theatrical training, “Return to Sender” and “Road to Spencer.” Year, features Paul Brewster on tenor vocals Girl.” There are funs songs like “Shine On” AARP Magazine. Comedy Central led to four specials for the appearing in Barry Levinson’s Man of the and rhythm guitar, Scott Mulvahill on bass and a raucous pirate tune, “Shanghai Kelly.” Comedy Central Presents series. He co-created Year with Robin Williams and in Paul Feig’s Skaggs was born in Kentucky and began and bass vocals, Russ Carson on banjo, Jake For Murphy, the album had a very specific Advice? What kind of advice? Last Laugh with Lewis Black and presided Unaccompanied Minors. playing the mandolin when he was 6. When Workman on lead guitar, Mike Barnett on purpose. “With all the craziness and division over Lewis Black: The Root of All Evil. In bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe came to fiddle and Dennis Parker on baritone vocal in the world, we wanted to make an album Here’s where the Renaissance man part 2001, he was named Best Male Stand-Up at Black is a supporter of Martha, Kentucky to perform, the audience and guitar. about contemplative escapism,” he said. “Go comes in. Smirnoff was fascinated by the the American Comedy Awards. a host of charitable wouldn’t let him leave until “Little Ricky” Climb a Tree certainly isn’t about dropping nature of happiness and of relationships. organizations Skaggs, 6, came on stage with his mandolin. Ricky Skaggs has spent “a life full of music.” out of the conversation; it’s just about taking In 2006, he got a master’s degree from Black’s television exposure led to a including A year later, he appeared on television with a short hiatus to recharge the batteries before the University of Pennsylvania in positive record deal with Stand Up! Records. the Cystic Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. He was you take on the world again.” psychology and he is an adjunct professor at His first CD was released in 2000 and still a teen when he began his professional Missouri Sate University, where he teaches a he has followed with eight more. He bluegrass career, joining Ralph Stanley’s The group has added Pete Purvis on (February course on happiness and laughter. He is also has been nominated for four Grammy continued on band, the Clinch Mountain Boys. Skaggs Gaelic Storm uilleann pipes, tin whistle, deger pipes and 10, 2019 7:00pm) Gaelic Storm is a painter and after the attacks of September Awards and won twice, in 2007 for page 44 never looked back. highland pipes and Katie Grennan on fiddle. 11, he designed a mural that hung Best Comedy Album for The Carnegie highly innovative, featuring fast-paced Purvis joined the group in 2005 and he said instrumentals and lyrical genius that has anonymously near Ground Zero until it was Hall Performance and in 2011 for Stark Not content with the status quo, the that Katie Grennan is the “purple squirrel” solidified them as one of the foremost Celtic removed because of storm damage. The Raving Black. musician pushed the limits of the bluegrass of the band, or perfect new addition. “With rock groups in the world. Perhaps best mural was a tribute to the country that took genre with progressive bands such as the addition of Katie, the band has never known for their appearance in the 1997 hit in a family of Ukrainian Jews and allowed a Black has filmed two specials for HBO, Country Gentlemen and J.D. Crowe and the sounded better,” he said. “We’re gelling on film Titanic, now more than 20 years later, boy who spoke no English to become a star. Black on Broadway and Red, White and New South. By the late 1970s, he had turned a whole new level and the idea of sharing the band that brings together traditional Smirnoff became a citizen on July 4, 1986. Screwed. The latter was nominated for an his focus to mainstream country music and these new songs with our fans is exciting.” Celtic music, country, rock and folk is still Emmy in 2007. For two seasons he had joined Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band. In 1981, enthralling audiences with their story- What a country! a regular feature on Inside the NFL he released his debut album, Waitin’ for For Gaelic Storm, it’s always been about the telling, instrumentals, devotion to tradition and he has participated in the Sun to Shine, which topped the country fans. “The fans are the ones that have given and the passion they bring to their art. Comic Relief. In 2009, charts with two Number One hits. In 1997, us this life,” Patrick Murphy said. “We’re he filmed his first he returned to his bluegrass roots with here for them.” The band began at O’Brien’s Irish Pub in feature-length Bluegrass Rules! A series of Grammy Award- Lewis Black (February 16, 2019 Santa Monica by friends Patrick Murphy, concert film, winning albums with his band, Kentucky 7:00pm) He’s a Renaissance man and an Steve Twigger, Steve Wehmeyer and Brian Stark Raving Thunder, followed. American original. Colicky as a baby, Lewis Black, and at Walsh. The combination of Scottish, Irish Black, stand-up comedian, actor and author, and pop music was a hit and the band the end of its In addition to his 15 Grammy Awards, Yakov Smirnoff seemed destined from his birth to be angry has performed more than 3,000 shows run in theaters, Skaggs has won eight Country Music Happily Ever and easily irritated by the life around him. and recorded 10 albums. They’ve always premium Association Awards, including the The irascible Mr. Black is widely considered considered themselves a “touring band” and Laughter (February 13, 2019 channel prestigious Entertainer of the Year Award 7:00pm) When Yakov Maumovich Pokhis one of the best and most popular performers Epix emigrated to the United Stated from the working today, and he performs more than picked it Soviet Union, he took jobs bartending at 200 shows a year around the world. His up, along Gaelic Storm passion for the absurdities of life gives voice Feb. 10th 2019 | 7:00pm resorts in the Catskills. When he decided to with the do stand-up comedy, he took his American to his audiences’ frustrations and it’s been name from the vodka popular at the resort. said that he yells so that they don’t have to. Yakov Smirnoff returns with comedy about the very messy business of being human. Black fell in love with the theater as a teen and he pursued a career in theater at the Smirnoff is a bit of a Renaissance man. University of North Carolina and the Yale He got his start in stand-up in the late Drama School. While at North Carolina, 1970s and was a roommate of comedian he started doing stand-up while studying Andrew Dice Clay. He began to work in drama. He eventually came to New York and films, appearing in Moscow on the Hudson. became playwright-in-residence at the West In addition to a small role, he helped Robin Bank Café’s Downstairs Theatre Bar. There he oversaw the development of more than Lewis Black Williams with his Russian dialogue. He Feb. 16th 2019 | 7:00pm 1000 plays, including early works by Aaron continued on page 00 40 For tickets and information, call The Lyric Theatre Box Office at772-286-7827 or visit www.LyricTheatre.com. All shows and times are subject to change. The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization The Lyric Theatre Box Office (772) 286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.com 41 AUDITIONS!
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Fibrosis Foundation and Autism Speaks. He For Allman, it was a good time for reflection the greatest slide guitarist of all time,” he The Bee Gees were started in not seen this one. His goal is to surprise Philharmonic debut in 2016, the day before his was honored by the Brady Center for his and inspiration. “It felt good to take time said. “It’s an honor to be named after him, 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin and amaze his audience while changing 31st birthday, Anthony Tommasini of The New commitment to ending gun violence and off,” he said. “I needed to step back and make and I accept it, but it’s kind of heavy. And its and Maurice Gibb. They reality one city at a time. Quite simply, York Times wrote, “He must be invited back.” has toured with the USO. He works with up for lost time with the people that are heavy when you’re a musician and your dad’s had early success and then you won’t believe your eyes. A Family theater students at the University of North close to me.” in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But at went their separate ways; it Fun Series show proudly sponsored by Aaron has been a staple of the New York Carolina, continuing a lifetime commitment a certain point, you have to remember that wasn’t until the early 1970s, The Bauman Family Foundation. jazz scene since 2007 and has collaborated to education and the arts. Allman did return to his music for one very you’re not trying to surpass them.” when they reunited that with living masters ranging from from special day. On December 8, 2017, on what their songs “Lonely Days,” NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson to In his spare time, Black plays golf, even would have been his father’s 70th birthday, Betts’ debut EP is out this year, Sketches of and “How Can You Mend 20th century classical titan Philip Glass, though golf hates him. Devon Allman and some special friends American Music, containing five original a Broken Heart” charted and while establishing himself as one of the celebrated his father’s music at the iconic songs that reflects a career steeped in rock, landed them on television shows Live from Nashville: preeminent interpreters of the Great Fillmore in San Francisco, a venue that was country and blues. The album was recorded including The Ed Sullivan Show Country Legends American Songbook in his own trio and with so important to the elder Allman’s career. in Nashville and Los Angeles and features and Johnny Carson’s Tonight (February 25, 2019 7:00pm) Get out the vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant. His role Artists like Robert Randolph, Luther and Stoll Vaughan, co-writer on “Taking Time,” Show. In the mid-1970s, at the those two-stepping boots! Direct from as pianist and musical director for vocalist The Devon Allman Cody Dickenson, G Love, members of along with Steve Cropper (Booker T. & the suggestion of Eric Clapton, the Music City, Live from Nashville: Country Cécile McLorin Salvant, the most arresting Project with special Phish, Samantha Fish and Jimmy Hall took M.G.s) and Marc Ford (Black Crowes). group moved to Miami and Legends, take the audience through 75 and authentic jazz vocalist to emerge in guest Duane Betts part in the celebration. “It was a magical started recording fewer ballads years of the best country music. Country three decades, has enhanced his profile well (February 20, 2019 7:00pm) Following in evening,” Allman said. “It was like a family Allman also has a new record for 2018, and more dance-oriented singers and dancers will entertain with beyond the jazz world. your father’s footsteps can be a challenge, gathering. There was so much great music, Full Speed Ahead. A staunch proponent music. Then came Saturday fast-fingered fiddling, fancy footwork but when Devon Allman comes to The Lyric so many musicians who had such respect of authentic Southern blues, this work is Night Fever. Producer Robert and fine vocals that bring to life the Diehl grew up in a musical family. His Theatre, the singer, songwriter and guitarist for my father, all of whom felt a personal steeped in a classic American tradition, with Stigwood asked the Bee Gees music of everyone from Patsy Cline grandfather was pianist and trombonist brings his own musicianship and style connection to both the man and his music. the type of music associated with Tom Petty, to write the songs for and Hank Williams to George Jones, Arthur Baskerville and Diehl began studying along with his father’s legacy. Allman lost When my manager told me we could do Jackson Browne and others from the Laurel the movie. The rest, as Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, to classical music when he was 7. He attended his father, Gregg Allman, in May 2017 and the concert at the Fillmore, a place that Canyon music scene of the 1970s. they say, is history. The Aaron Diehl Trio Garth, Reba and Shania and on to the the prestigious National Music Camp at Feb. 26th 2019 | 7:00pm he took time off to reflect on his loss and obviously had such profound ties to my dad’s soundtrack and the film “youngsters:” Luke, Carrie and Blake. Interlochen, Michigan, where he discovered how to best honor his father. The younger career, I couldn’t have been happier.” Allman also has his own new record label, were both phenomenal jazz and the music of Oscar Peterson and Allman had been performing for 12 years, Create Records. The first release, slated for successes. The album Live from Nashville: Country Legends Art Tatum. After his performance at the playing 250 dates a year and he took several That event helped to rekindle Allman’s late in 2018, will feature a new band, The was the highest-selling album in history takes you on a chronological journey Ellington competition, where he was named months to “rack up time with my kid,” visit enthusiasm for several new projects for 2018 Slays, with Allman and Cody Dickinson of to that time and is among the best-selling of the best of Nashville in spectacular Outstanding Soloist, he toured with the relatives and heal as he began the next phase and beyond. In March, his new six-piece the North Mississippi Allstars. The label soundtrack albums ever. The Bee Gees fashion. The production is fully costumed Wynton Marsalis Septet on their European of his career. band, The Devon Allman Project, launched will continue to seek out new talent and won five Grammy Awards for the album, and choreographed in a production that tour. He returned to study at Juilliard. a world tour with special guest Duane offer artists a chance to develop their talent production and individual performances. will keep your toes tapping, your adrenalin Betts, the son of Allman Brothers and creativity. The Bee Gees wrote every one of the songs, pumping and your memories coming fast Before his Philharmonic debut, where he co-founder Dickie Betts. The as they did for their entire career. and furiously. The cast, Natasha Neely, played Gershwin’s Concerto in F, Diehl was two have known each other From his days with Devon Allman’s Lisa Redding Saint, Adam Calvett and interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. He since they were boys and Honeytribe through chart-topping Stayin’ Alive sells out every time it comes to Jimmy Miller, and the band bring to life spoke about his love for the work. “It is a had always spoken about collaborations with Jack Bruce, Javier Vargas The Lyric, so get your tickets early. They’ll songs like “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “Ring of classical concerto,” he said. “What makes it so going on tour together. and the royal Southern Brotherhood, to his make you feel like dancing. Fire,” “Make the World Go Away,” “Hello unique, though, is Gershwin’s embrace and The timing was right. three solo albums, Devon Allman has carved Darlin’,” “Stand By Your Man,” “Rhinestone use of rhythms, syncopations and folk material Betts will open the out a career that would make any dad proud. Cowboy,” “The Gambler,” “Friends in Low that are native to America. He’s got blues in show, Allman will do Places,” “The Dance/I Hope You Dance,” there… The Charleston is all over this piece. his thing, and they’ll come “Who’s Your Daddy,” “The House That He has hints of what we call Harlem stride, together on stage for an encore. The Magic of Bill Built Me,” and 20 more hits. You’ll be made famous by James P. Johnson, Willie Blagg, Live! (February 24, dancing in the aisles! ‘The Lion’ Smith and Fats Waller, who wrote Duane Betts’ grew up Stayin’ Alive - A 2019 7:00pm) Bill Blagg’s life has been ‘Honeysuckle Rose.’ You have this boom-chick traveling on the road Tribute to the Bee magical. The illusionist brings his show, The troupe has played to sold-out venues figure in the left hand. It’s almost like ragtime, with the Allman The Magic of Bill Blagg, Live! to life in a around the country and audiences have but it’s a more advanced version, if you will. (February 22, 2019 6:00pm & Brothers Band and Gees magical journey that began when his great loved the show. At the Westchester You have the syncopation in the right hand. 8:30pm) Did disco make the Bee Gees or did was named after a grandfather gave him a professional magic Broadway Theater, audiences said that “The In fact, I take it a step further from what the Bee Gees make disco? The dance craze man who Rolling book. He went on to build magic props for singers were so gifted, talented, personable Gershwin wrote, and I make it into a full- defined a decade and the Rock and Roll Stone has ranked his father and developed his own shows from and energetic. It was one of the best shows blown stride sort of style.” Hall of Fame band defined disco. Stayin’ as high as #2 on its a lifetime of magic. we’ve ever seen and we were sorry to see the Alive-A Tribute to the Bee Gees recreates that list of 100 Greatest show end!” Diehl has released several albums, the most era with an evening of disco classics from Guitarists of All Bill Blagg’s specialty is one-of-a-kind recent for Mack Avenue Records. His first on “Night Fever” to “You Should Be Dancing,” Time. “Duane Allman illusions that leave audiences gasping. He Boot scoot over to The Lyric. You’ll have a the label, 2013’s The Bespoke Man’s Narrative, to “Jive Taking.” There are also the ballads, was an amazing has the world’s only rideable hover board legendary time. reached No. 1 on the JazzWeek Jazz Chart. like “Words,” “I Started a Joke,” and “To guitarist, probably and is known for teleporting across the KCRW praised it as “an album you can listen Love Somebody.” With Mitch Seekins, Todd theater and squishing his 6’ body into 6”. to again and again, honest music that invites Sharmin and Tony Mattini, Stayin’ Alive, Oh, yes. He takes that body and passes it you back in to discover new wonders with known as the number one Bee Gees tribute through the blades of an industrial fan. each listening.” The Devon Allman Project with band, uses a big screen, video clips and Aaron Diehl Trio special guest Duane Betts dazzling photography to bring to life the (February 26, 2019 7:00pm) When jazz Feb. 20th 2019 | 7:00pm The illusionist is constantly changing his Diehl was the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival music that had everyone dancing. pianist Aaron Diehl made his New York shows and even if you’ve seen one, you’ve Commission Artist, one of the youngest continued on page 48
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artists to receive the honor. He has won rock and soul that built its career around numerous other awards, including the 2011 dramatic live performances. Cole Porter Fellowship from the American Pianists Association and the 2012 Prix du Now, Glabicki is exploring new sounds Jazz Classique from the Academie du Jazz. and opening new doors with a solo career. In an effort to nurture young jazz artists, he He has started touring with Dirk Miller, was named the first artistic director of the Rusted Root’s guitar player and explains Catskill Jazz Factory. Broadway World said that although he has his roots with Rusted “Aaron Diehl is an aficionado of the early Root, this show is very different. Live, NOW tradition of jazz piano.” both Glabicki and Miller play acoustic and electric guitar and Glabicki often adds Diehl’s eclectic recent projects include rhythm with a kick drum that creates a fuller serving as music director for the Jazz at sound than you find with a traditional duo. Lincoln Center New Orleans Songbook Michael Glabicki of Rusted Root Glabicki sees his solo career and new music ine with Dirk Miller Serving W concert series, performing the New York Feb. 28th 2019 | 7:00pm as extensions of his creative talent, and premiere of Philip Glass’ complete Etudes while the show features many Rusted Root at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, hits, it also provides a look into his mind collaborating with Spanish flamenco She is the writer and series editor of her through stories and songs that have not yet guitarist Dani Se Moron in Flamenco meets own publishing company, Earth in Focus, been released. Jazz and touring the United States and and has produced 24 coffee table books Europe with Grammy-nominated jazz singer on conservation issues. Her work has The evolution of the separate tour comes, Cecile McLorin Slavant. been published in prestigious scientific in part, from audience reaction to his music. publications including Science and Nature, as As a songwriter, Glabicki has invited the This is a rare opportunity to hear a rising well as in popular magazines like National audience to participate in the creation of star of jazz. Don’t miss it. Geographic. She is a Sony Artisan and a Rusted Root’s music and frequently tests new songs on the road to get audience National Geographic Explorer Mentor, 10439 SE Federal Highway, Hobe Sound, Florida 33455 Partial proceeds to benefit St. Paul African reaction. He is always creating and found mentoring two young women starting 772-932-7904 Methodist Episcopal Church. that some of his songs meshed more with their careers. Outdoor Magazine named her Mon-Sat 7:30am - 7:30pm his solo sound. He explained what a song one of the world’s top 40 most influential Sun 7:30am - 2:30pm outdoor photographers. She is a founder of tells him. the International League of Conservation National Geographic Photographers. “A song is an organism that has a history and has different meanings to many different Live Standing at the Mittermeier met her partner, underwater people,” he said. “Those people attach Water’s Edge with photographer Paul Nicklen, in the National themselves to the organism and because of photographer Cristina Geographic cafeteria, and in 2015, they that, it’s a ritual, a way to jointly go places.” co-founded SeaLegacy, with a mission to Mittermeier (February 27, create healthy and abundant oceans for us Glabicki plans his solo tours around the 2019 7:00pm) Photographer and marine and the planet. One billion people live on Rusted Root schedule and when he is not biologist Cristina Mittermeier grew up our changing coastlines and the two are is touring with the band or with Miller, he has in the mountains of central Mexico. She dedicated to preserving the balance between started a studio, Red Cloud, in Pittsburgh. It never imagined that her life’s work would the coastlines and the humans who love began as a place for him to write and record take her to the water’s edge and beyond. A them. You’ll be enthralled by the stories and new songs and has grown into a full-scale presentation by a university recruiter sent images from the front lines of exploration studio where local musicians can rent space her on a path to ocean careers and she has and the efforts to save the oceans. to work on their own albums. spent 25 years as a writer and photographer, focusing on the balance between human In an interview with the online magazine well-being and healthy ecosystems. She Relix in January 2018, Glabicki talked about brings her passion to The Lyric with what the duo means to him and about some National Geographic Live to talk about her Michael Glabicki of of his new work. “The duo is a great avenue conservation work and how people and Rusted Root with that I have around new songs for and I am coastlines can co-exist. Dirk Miller (February 28, 2019 deciding whether they need a new band 7:00pm) The music scene on Pittsburgh’s around them or if they work with Rusted Mittermeier spent the first 10-15 years South Side in the 1990’s included a house Root,” he said. The song ‘Man not Machine’; as a photographer on land, focusing on band that played a weekly gig at Jack’s is a song about the collective cellular dance indigenous people in the rainforests of the Back Room. The front man was singer/ that has been happening at my shows for the Amazon. Her goal was always to use her songwriter Michael Glabicki and the band last few years. Something new and exciting photography to inspire conservation groups was called Rusted Root. The multi-platinum has been happening, so I wanted to write a with the images she preserved. band, which had its first platinum album song about it and breathe some life into it- in 1994 with When I Woke, evolved around like a funky steroid.” Mittermeier first became a biochemical Glabicki’s distinct sound and grew into engineer in marine sciences and then an a genre-defying band of multicultural advocate for the ocean and biodiversity.
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