Give Our Regards Christmas toCelebration Broadway SEASON FALL 2017 Boney James Livingston Taylor Tango Buenos Aires La Boheme Seth Rudetsky Doo Wop Felix Cavaliere’s Project Rascals SUMMER 2017 The Madison Theatre Presents... JULY 15 AT 7 PM Showcasing talent from all over the Tri-State area: Singers, Dancers, Comedians, The Ultimate LIVE Novelty Acts, Musicians and Stand-Up Comedy Show more! Watch as the top 30 acts compete for the top 3 FOR Moms, BY Moms! prize winning spots! Singers • Dancers • Comedians • Novelty Acts • Musicians Thirty acts will be selected for the showcase, but only three will win! The 12th Annual Long Island comedy Festival JULY 22 AT 8 PM The 12th Annual Long Island Comedy Festival returns Paul Anthony Joey Giarratano Tina Giorgi host of the Long Island Comedy Long Island’s own; direct The Late Late Show, Comedy to the beautiful Madison Festival, New Year's Laughin' Eve from the NYC comedy scene Central, The Comic Strip NYC Theatre this summer with & The 50+ Comedy Tour an all NEW line-up of top comedians from around the country! This is LIVE Stand-Up Comedy the way it was meant to be! Don’t miss this outrageous evening of non-stop laughter & hilarious Teddy Smith Goumba Johnny Maureen Langan fun! 18 & over recommended direct from the NYC comedy scene; National headliner; Foxwoods, HBO, Comics Unleashed, Carloine’s Caroline’s NYC; headliner Mohegan Sun, Atlantic City; Radio on Broadway; International host, actor, comedian headliner 2 SUMMER 2017 A PRESENTATION LINDA FAIRSTEIN JULY 30 AT 2 PM Linda Fairstein is best known as the New York Times bestselling author of the Alex Cooper mystery series for adults. Linda worked at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office as the head of the Special Victims Unit from 1976 to 2002. (Book signing) The Ultimate LIVE Stand-Up Comedy Show FOR Moms, BY Moms! AUGUST 10 AT 8 PM Mom’s Night Out Long Island is “Girls Night Out” for Patty Rosborough Moms & girlfriends! It’s the ultimate LIVE Stand-Up Comedy Showtime, Comedy Central, Sherry Davey Show FOR Moms, BY Moms! Laughter is GOOD for you and we’ll prove it Montreal's Just for Laughs Nick Mom, "Stand-Up Comedy Festival in Stilettos", Comedy to you. Don’t miss this outrageous night of laughter & fun featuring four Central, Premium Blend National Headliners! Ages 16 and up! PRESENTED BY Long Island comedy Carie Karavas Maria Walsh Atlantic City, Foxwoods, Direct from the NYC Las Vegas, "America's comedy scene; Caroline’s on Naughtiest Mommy" Broadway, The Comedy Cellar A PRESENTATION Alexandra Silber SEPTEMBER 9 AFter Anatevka AT 8PM After playing the role of Tzeitel in the most recent Broadway revival of Fiddler on the roof and previously playing Hodel in London’s West End, Grammy Nominee Alexandra Silber has written a book about what happens after Hodel leaves Anatevka. Cabaret and Book Signing. 3 SEPTEMBER 2017 SEPTEMBER 10 AT 3 PM Radio host, Emmy award- winning writer and accompanist to the stars, Seth Rudetsky, brings his traveling one-man show, Seth’s Big w Fat Broadway Show, to The Madison o Theatre for one night only. l Rudetsky is currently the host of “Seth’s Big Fat Broadway” on Sirius/ g XM Satellite Radio’s On Broadway. Having been a pianist and performer n on dozens of Broadway shows and concerts, Rudetsky takes the audience o on a journey to mock and deconstruct o Broadway musicals – splattered with o insider insights into vocalists like M Cher, Madonna, Bea Arthur and Patti LuPone – all with a little history and trivia thrown in for fun. Part critique, part comedy, this manic 90-minute show has him lip syncing and dancing, lecturing and laughing to his personal audio and video collection. JOHN WAITE WITH ELLIS PAUL SEPTEMBER 17 AT 7PM Join us for an intimate night with this legendary singer- songwriters John Waite and Ellis Paul. John Waite career includes international chart topping hits such as “Missing You,” “Change,” “Every Step Of The Way” and more. Beside his solo career, John also enjoyed success as a member of The Babys and Bad English. Ellis Paul is an American musical storyteller, whose lyrics reaches out from the inside and assist in sharing these feelings, thoughts, and sensibilities that most individual can relate to. This brilliant poetic artist is considered to be the image of contemporary folk music. 4 SEPTEMBER 2017 OCTOBER 2017 low ng Mooo OCTOBER 1 AT 3PM That shining globe in the night sky has inspired writers and musicians since time began, and the Lunar lyrics and melodies from the Great American Songbook always make us smile. The Madison Theatre’s 20-piece ‘house band’ returns to help launch our season into orbit with a swingin’ harvest moon celebration, featuring music of Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller,Tommy Dorsey, and Frank Sinatra, plus 100th birthday tributes to Dean Martin & Ella Fitzgerald. Presents The Live Stage Performance of Featuring: Samuel Bowen Jessica Fishenfeld Jose Heredia Mason Jarboe Tyler Putnam William Remmers Jessica Sandidge ... again love l in Fa Directed by Adrienne Boris OCTOBER 7TH AT 7PM & OCTOBER 8TH AT 3PM La Boheme the passionate, timeless, and indelible story of love among young Musical Direction by artistsLa in Paris, can stake its claim as theBoheme world’s most popular opera. It has a Scott Jackson Wiley marvelous ability to make a powerful first impression and to reveal unsuspected treasures after dozens of hearings. Though it depicts joys and sorrows of love and SPONSORED BY loss, its true meaning reveals the deep emotional significance hiding in the trivial things that make up everyday life. 5 OCTOBER 2017 Comedy with ning of Eve An onty M ris with Ch rael Is OCTOBER 14 AT 7PM evin BE APART OF THIS LIVE STAND-UP COMEDY SPECIAL TAPING! K Chris Monty is one of New York’s busier comedians. Along with being a regular at New York’s best comedy clubs, Chris is a terrific actor and has be seen in the comedy film Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 and on the HBO series Vinyl, as well as the Netflix series Orange Is The New Black and the Amazon Prime series Red Oaks. He just recently filmed an episode ofKevin Can Wait. A PRESENTATION NELSON DEMILLE OCTOBER 13 AT 7:30 PM The Cuban Affair is the newest novel by Nelson DeMille, the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of Plum Island and Night Fall. The book is filled with not only blistering adventure, but fascinating facts about Cuba, including a dark, shocking secret to that could freeze the Cuban Thaw. DeMille will speak to his extensive research as well as egards his first-hand experiences from his visit, which included an interview with the acting US ur R Ambassador. Give O OCTOBER 15 AT 3PM Performing a journey through dance and music of the “Spirit of Argentina” Tango Buenos Aires has become one of Argentina’s Tango great cultural exports, known throughout the Americas, Europe and the Far East as the most authentic Buenos and uncompromising representative of the Tango. Aires The S PIRIT of Argentina 6 OCTOBER 2017 OCTOBER 2017 OCTOBER 21 AT 8PM 4-time GRAMMY nominee and multi- platinum selling sax-man Boney James continues his artistic evolution with the dynamic futuresoul. Fusing his love for vintage soul music with his mastery of modern production, Boney has created another genre- ty bending work following on the heels of his n 2014 GRAMMY nominated album The Beat. o M His 15th CD, futuresoul contains 10 original is th songs produced and written or co-written by hr wi James. Released by Concord Records May 4, el 2015, futuresoul features vocalist and Mint C in Isra Condition frontman Stokley on “Either Way,” a Kev collaboration enabled by Twitter. Says James, “Like my recent duet with Raheem DeVaughn, I was able to meet Stokley on Twitter and send him the music for this track. He wrote the brilliant lyric and sent me a finished vocal all via email!” boney Signature Sponsored by: Spano Abstract • Breslin Sponsor Reality • Farm Country Kitchen • A PRESENTATION Hampton Inn & Suites • Westbury Jeep • Rettner Realty • Tax Lien Advisors • The Smooth Jazz Cruises • Cancos Tile • Mid Island Collision • Budd-Morgan james of Rockville Centre In Association With Alan Stein. gards to A ur Re S ve O A Gi L OCTOBER 22 AT 3PM U “Give Our Regards to Broadway” T celebrates the great Broadway musicals E from the golden age, concentrating on 1940’s, like Oklahoma, Kiss Me Kate, Carousel, and much more! Featuring T music by Bock and Harnick, Cole O Porter, Rogers and Hart, Rogers and Hammerstein, and many more. T Featuring Broadway singers with the Molloy College/CAP21 B.F.A. H musical theatre program and the E South Shore Symphony orchestra. You A Salute to the will surely reminisce as they take you Golden Age 1 through the Great American Songbook and Broadway’s best. 9 4 Narrated by Angelo Fraboni 0 Musical Direction by Aaron Gandy S Sponsored by Ron and Cris Carman 7 OCTOBER 2017 Fun Festival OCTOBER 28 FROM 11 – 4PM Our annual Halloween Family Fun Fest is back and better than ever! Join us for exciting day full of family activities for everyone to enjoy, from pumpkin picking and decorating, to mask making, costume contests, cupcake decorating, the RVC Lions Club Duck Pluck, face painting, balloon creations, magicians, a haunted house, food trucks, live entertainment, games, guest appearances and so much more!! Thank you to our sponsors: Rockville Centre Guild for the Arts Sue and Marty Bevilacqua John and Judy Mead Joan Hope MacNaughton Rockville Centre Lanes Leggz.