Friday, May 28, 2021
at 2pm & 7pm

Debbie Gravitte

Tony Award Winner Debbie Gravitte (Jerome Robbin’s Broadway), one of Broadway’s biggest personalities, has found herself in demand from the Broadway Stage to the concert stage and beyond. After making her Broadway debut in the original cast of They’re Playing Our Song, she went on to appear in Perfectly Frank (Drama Desk Award Nomination), Blues in the Night, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Zorba, Chicago and Les Miserables. Debbie has been seen in the Encores series productions of The Boys from Syracuse, Tenderloin and Carnival at New York’s City Center. 

She has appeared as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Love Life at the Walnut St. Theatre, Red, Hot and Blue at the Papermill Playhouse and the West Coast Premiere of The Goodbye Girl.

Debbie has performed her nightclub act worldwide, from New York’s Rainbow and Stars, 54 Below and Birdland to London’s Pizza on the Park, and back home again to Atlantic City, where she’s had the honor of performing with Jay Leon, Harry Anderson and the legendary George Burns.

A favorite with Symphony audiences, she has sung with over 175 Orchestras around the world. She has toured with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, appeared with Lang Lang and the Chinese Philharmonic in Beijing, along with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, The National Symphony Orchestra (with Marvin Hamlish), The NY Pops with the legendary Skitch Henderson, Atlanta Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Utah Symphony, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas and San Diego Symphonies.

Overseas, Debbie has sung with the Moscow, London, Aalborg and Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, Stockholm Philharmonic, the Gotesborg and Jerusalem Symphonies, Munich Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra Massimo del Palermo and Symphonica of Brazil, Bilbao Phil, along with The Malaysian Philharmonic.

On television, Debbie co-starred on the CBS series Trial and Error, was seen on NBC’S Pursuit of Happiness, and has starred in several specials for PBS, including Live from The Kennedy Center, The Boston Pops Celebrate Bernstein, Rodgers and Hart for Great Performances, and Ira Gershwin’s 100th Birthday Celebration.

Debbie has four solo CDs to her credit, including her latest release, Big Band Broadway, along with Defying Gravity, The M-G-M Album and Part of Your World: The Music of Alan Menken. Her other recordings include Calamity Jane, Unsung Sondheim, Lucky Stiff, Miss Spectacular, Louisiana Purchase, A Broadway Christmas, as well as Mack and Mable in Concert: Live from the Drury Lane Theatre among others. Debbie has sung with the New York City Ballet in Peter Martin’s Thou Swell at Lincoln Center, appeared with Bette Midler in the Universal feature Isn’t She Great?, and can be heard as one of the voices in Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Debbie is the proud mother of three beautiful children.  www.debbiegravitte.com 

Saturday, May 29, 2021
at 2pm & 7pm

Bryce Pinkham & Scarlett Strallen:
The Great British American Love Story

Bryce Pinkham is a Grammy and Tony nominated American stage and screen actor. He is perhaps best known for originating the role of Monty Navarro in the Broadway production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. The performance earned him a Grammy Award nomination as well as a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. Pinkham played this role on Broadway for more than 700 performances, and the show was named Best Musical of 2014. Pinkham went on to star in the Broadway revival of The Heidi Chronicles as Peter Patrone, for which he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award, as well as the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance in 2015. In the fall of 2016, he returned to Broadway leading the cast of Roundabout Theater and Universal Pictures’ Holiday Inn, performing in the role originally played by Bing Crosby in the classic 1942 movie. Pinkham also originated roles in Ghost the Musical and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson on Broadway.

Recent film and television appearances include performances in the Robert DeNiro comedy The Comedian and Baz Lurman’s Netflix drama, The Get Down as well as a regular role in the PBS series Mercy Street. Previously, Pinkham appeared on The Good Wife, Person of Interest and the PBS miniseries God in America. In 2012, Pinkham was awarded the prestigious Leonore Annenberg Fellowship, which is given to “a limited number of exceptionally talented young dancers, musicians, actors and visual artists as they complete their training and begin their professional life.”

In 2012, Pinkham and fellow actor Lucas Caleb Rooney co-founded Zara Aina, a non-profit organization devoted to helping at-risk children expand their capacity for achievement through theatrical performance and storytelling. Rooney and Pinkham regularly travel to Madagascar to help empower at-risk students through theatrical story-telling techniques and performance and to provide them with much-needed medical and educational assistance. Pinkham also performs regularly with the theatre company Outside the Wire, which takes performances of Greek tragedy to American-military audiences around the world to foster discussion about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and soldier suicide. 

Pinkham is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Boston College.

Scarlett Strallen has starred in productions on Broadway, London’s West End, and is a frequent soloist on the concert stage. She is currently starring on Broadway as Gwendolyn in Travesties and has appeared in the title role of Mary Poppins, a role she also played in the West End and as Sibella Hallward in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.

Additional theater credits include Mabel in Pirates of Penzance at Barrington Stage Company, Lady Macduff in Macbeth at the Armory in New York, Cunegonde in Candide at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Cassie in A Chorus Line at The London Palladium, Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain at Chichester Festival Theatre and The Palace Theatre London (Olivier Award Nomination for Best Actress in a Musical), Amalia in She Loves Me at the Chocolate Factory, and Clara in Passion at Donmar Warehouse. Prior to this she played Marian in The Music Man at Chichester Festival Theatre and at the Royal Shakespeare Company playing Anne Page in Merry Wives of Windsor. Her performance of Josephine at Regents Park Open Air Theatre in HMS Pinafore won her an Olivier nomination. Other productions at Regents Park include Cymbeline and Twelfth Night, Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium), and original casts of Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward), The Witches of Eastwick (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) and Peggy Sue Got Married (Shaftesbury). In 2014, Scarlett received the Whatsonstage Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for A Chorus Line at the London Palladium and Candide at the Menier.

A frequent soloist with orchestras around the world, Scarlett made her German debut at the Philharmonie in Berlin with the John Wilson Orchestra in A Celebration of the MGM Film Musicals. Recent concerts include Disney on Broadway at the Royal Albert Hall, I Love Musicals arena tour of Sweden with Peter Joback, Cole Porter in Hollywood UK tour with the John Wilson Orchestra, a broadcast on Sky television from the Royal Albert Hall in London and Bernstein Stage and Screen at the BBC Proms with the John Wilson Orchestra which was broadcast on BBC television.

Scarlett has recorded with Simon Keenleyside Something’s Gotta Give for Chandos conducted by David Charles Abel. Film and television credits include: Kevin Spacey's movie Beyond the Sea, the title role in the BBC production of Mary Poppins celebrating HM Queen Elizabeth’s 80th birthday

Thursday, July 1, 2021
at 2pm & 7pm

Arbender Robinson

Come see a cabaret of this Broadway performer crooning songs and telling stories of their experiences on the Great White Way....

Broadway:  In Transit, Shuffle Along (revival), Les Miserables (revival), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Disney's The Lion King, Book Of Mormon, Hair, Ragtime (revival), Disney's The Little Mermaid, Hairspray. T.V.: Nurse Jackie, Tony Awards, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning. 

He made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award winning production of Hairspray; where he covered the role of Seaweed. In the original cast of Disney’s The Little Mermaid he covered the role of Prince Eric. He also served as the Dance Captain and Swing for the Broadway revival of Hair and was seen in the Broadway revival of Ragtime. His Broadway credits continue with Disney’s The Lion King, Broadway’s 6th longest running and all time highest grossing show. Since then he was in the original cast of Beautiful The Carole King Musical and the 2014 of Les Miserables and is the cover for Marius. He is also the first African American to ever play Marius on Broadway. Arbender starred in the 2016 hit music Shuffle Along alongside many Broadway Legends including Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter, Brandon Victor Dixon and Joshua Henry. The show was Directed by Tony Award Winner George C Wolfe and Choreographed by Savionne Glover.

Prior to moving to NYC, Arbender was a featured Vocalist with Royal Caribbean Cruises as well as an actor and vocalist for numerous Disney productions at Walt Disney World. He spent 4 years as a studio session Vocalist for the Disney Organization and can be heard in various parades and attractions worldwide. Arbender also performed extensively in Regional Theater in the US as well as numerous shows abroad including: Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Five Guys Named Moe, Sweeney Todd, Jesus Christ Superstar, Aida, Ragtime, Secret Garden, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Songs for a New World, Parade, Miss Saigon and Into the Woods.

When asked to describe the vocal ability of Arbender, one critic said “clear, effective, killer range of death...and that is a good thing. Look out Billy Porter, Arbender has arrived.” As a teaching artist, Arbender has worked with many organizations around the country and has a very unique teaching style that's accessible to all ages and talent levels. He also works significantly at bringing arts awareness to programs all over the country as well as serving as a huge advocate for Autism awareness and research.

Arbender also mentions a few things to keep his mom happy: “I am a huge advocate for education, the thirst for knowledge, and believing in the power of your dreams. Dream big because sometimes these things can come true. I studied theater, music, dance, and management at Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. I have lived and or worked professionally in more states than I can ever recall and I now consider NYC and The Great White Way my home.”

Friday, July 2, 2021
at 2pm & 7pm

Eric Santagata

Come see a cabaret of this Broadway performer crooning songs and telling stories of their experiences on the Great White Way....

Eric Santagata is an accomplished creator, performer and educator who has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London, on national tours and at regional theaters across the country. Most recently, Mr. Santagata finished his first year as the Patricia A. Corbett Distinguished Chair of Musical Theatre at the renowned University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. As a performer, his Broadway credits include Prince Of Broadway, Chaplin, Bullets Over Broadway, The Apple Tree, and Happiness at Lincoln Center. He served as Associate Director to Tony Award-winning director/writer James Lapine on the Broadway revival of Falsettos, and is a long time Associate Director/Choreographer to 5 time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman. He was an original creative team member on the Broadway and West End productions of The Scottsboro Boys, as well as The Beast in the Jungle and Dot for the Vineyard Theatre. Santagata has been a guest artist at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, The OpenJar Institute, and London’s Mousetrap Theatre Organization. He is a board member of Westport Country Playhouse’s Resident Conservatory – the Broadway Method Academy, as well as a pastry chef for the Jean-Georges Organization.

Thursday, July 8, 2021
at 2pm & 7pm

Anne Runolfsson and Tess Adams:
The Story Goes On

Come see a cabaret of these Broadway performers crooning songs from musicals including Les Mis, Wicked, Phantom, Baby, Night Music and Follies and telling stories of their experiences on the Great White Way...

Mother-daughter duo Anne Runolfsson and Tess Adams, both veterans of the Broadway stage (Les Mis, Phantom of the Opera, Victor/Victoria, and many more!), perform favorites with expert precision in a very entertaining performance!

Saturday, July 10, 2021
at 2pm

Ruby Lewis: Starlet

Come see a cabaret of this Broadway performer crooning songs and telling stories of their experiences on the Great White Way...

Ruby Lewis has made headlines in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and across the country as a versatile singer, actress and dancer. She starred as Indigo in Cirque du Soleil’s premiere Broadway show Paramour, which led to features on Nightline, Build Series and two Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades. Most recently, Ruby played the title role in Marilyn! The New Musical at the Paris Theater in Las Vegas, backed by the Marilyn Monroe Estate. Prior to Marilyn, Ruby had become known for the role of Daisy in the critically-acclaimed production of BAZ as a member of the Los Angeles-based company “For the Record.” National Tours: Gypsy, Grease, Jersey Boys, We Will Rock You. Television: Girl Meets World, Masters of Sex, Heart of Dixie, Desperate Housewives, Entertainment Tonight, among others. She performs her own one-woman show A Golden Hour across the country. Stay up to date: www.rubylewis.com Instagram: @rubylewla.

Thursday, July 15, 2021
at 7pm

CoCo Smith: Coco Entertains

Come see a cabaret of this Broadway performer crooning songs and telling stories of their experiences on the Great White Way....

Coco’s Cabaret discusses their place in the world navigating through growing into a Black woman and the womanhood experience, but also how they accepted theirself in the fact that they are genderqueer. This is an eclectic musical experience in which Coco Smith honors and thanks the female artists who have greatly influenced their artistic journey of self. You’ll be taken on a musical trip of their life through songs once performed or created by artists such as Audra McDonald, Judy Garland, Nancy Wilson, Kimbra, Alice Smith and more. Credits include Broadway’s The Book of Mormon (as well as Australia and national tour), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Mary Nevin), RESPECT: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin (Symphony Soloist), and can soon be seen as Carrie Pipperidge  at Sacramento’s famous Music Circus.

Friday, July 16. 2021
at 7pm

Major Attaway

Come see a cabaret of this Broadway performer crooning songs and telling stories of their experiences on the Great White Way....

Major Attaway is a 20+ year veteran entertainer, began his career in the Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX area. In 2016 Attaway made his Broadway debut in Disney’s Aladdin. He both stood by for and played the incredible roles of the Genie, Babkak, and The Sultan. In 2017 took over the Tony Award winning Genie role for three years. He also debuted in Mack and Mabel as Fatty Arbuckle at NY City Center Encores in 2020. Attaway is an accomplished Voice Actor and Twitch Streamer. He has lent his voice talents to numerous projects, including One Piece, Snack World, Bread Barbershop, Smite, Fairy Tail, Battleborn, Borderlands 3, Dragon Ball Z Kai. In his Twitch Channel IPlayedMajor live streams games he voices characters in as well as with and against fans! Major can also be seen in an upcoming HBO series as well as in The Netflix original series Orange is the New Black. He is currently working on revamping his Disney based Cabaret show called The Genies Jukebox and Biohacking his way to owning every day with NuCalm.

Saturday, July 24, 2021
at 2pm &7pm

Stephanie Gibson

Come see a cabaret of this Broadway performer crooning songs and telling stories of their experiences on the Great White Way....

Stephanie Gibson is a Broadway, Television, and Film actress and writer residing in New York City. She was seen on SyFys new hit show, Happy! in the recurring role of Pixley. Some other favorite television and film credits include Person of Interest, Up All Night, The Union and You Must Be Joking, among others.

Steph has been seen in multiple Broadway shows, best known for playing step sister Gabrielle in Cinderella opposite Fran Drescher and Carly Rae Jepson, and Cherry Sunday in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She has also been seen around the county in multiple National Touring and Regional productions, most recently seen playing Maggie in Baltimore Center Stage’s production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by Judith Ivey.

She has written and performed two original one woman comedy shows in NYC, Glitter, Goblets and Gatos, and Glitter, Goblets and Gatos, Too:Electric Boogaloo at Feinsteins/54 below. She also co-writes and co-stars in her own original webseries, Dates, Mates and Clean Slates alongside Julie Lubeck. www.youtube.com/datesmates.

Steph is a graduate of the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.

Thursday, August 26, 2021
at 7pm

Marty Thomas
It’s a Standard to Me

featuring musical direction by Yasuhiko Fukuoka

Come see a cabaret of this Broadway performer crooning songs and telling stories of their experiences on the Great White Way...

Marty Thomas is a recording artist and an actor who made his Broadway debut at age 11 as Colin in THE SECRET GARDEN. He had a very successful career as a child and teen performer in live performance, commercials and theater - a highlight being named a 1992 Ed McMahons Junior Vocalist Star Search Champion beating a then-unknown Britney Spears. Upon finishing business school he returned to New York to continue chasing the dream. He toured the world with his Billboard Magazine charting dance single “Resurrect Me (Lift Me Up)” on Westend Records. He appeared on Broadway in WICKED and XANADU, and was named Mr. Broadway 2008. He has appeared off-Broadway in MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING, PAGEANT and A LOSS OF ROSES. He was featured in the film BIG GAY MUSICAL, played Damon’ on TWO BROKE GIRLS (CBS), and Charlie on GRACE & FRANKIE (Netflix). He toured internationally with many theatrical productions as well as the famed QUEEN ESTHER MARROW & THE HARLEM GOSPEL SINGERS and the internet sensation Post Modern Jukebox. Marty is a renowned performer, backup vocalist, director and producer in the New York cabaret and concert scene. He has sung with the likes of Billy Porter, Grace Jones, Patti Labelle, Jennifer Holliday, Stephanie Mills, Debbie Gibson, Martha Wash, Barry Manilow, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash and many more. His show MARTY THOMAS PRESENTS DIVA has toured nationally and performed weekly in New York residence for more than 8 years. Marty produces and directs the Miss New York Scholarship Competition, and trains women for the Miss America Scholarship Competition year-round. He is an outspoken feminist and human rights enthusiast who has produced events and performed in events to raise thousands of dollars for charities throughout his career. Some of his favorite charities include Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The Actors Fund, New Alternatives, The Ali Forney Center, The African Children's Choir, and the Phyllis Newmans Women's Health Initiative. His latest album, Slow Dancing with a Boy was released to Broadway Records on December 6, 2019, hitting number 19 on the iTunes pop charts upon its release.  Follow on Instagram @martythomaslovesyou, twitter @martythomasbway and read more at www.martythomas.com.

Friday, August 27, 2021
at 7pm

Vishal Vaidya

Come see a cabaret of this Broadway performer crooning songs and telling stories of their experiences on the Great White Way...

Vishal Vaidya has been seen on Broadway and National Tours of Groundhog Day as Larry Matthew Warchus, in New York theatre in Einstein's Dreams, 1776, A Muslim in the Midst, among others. Regionally, he has performed in Crazy For You, How to Succeed…, The Secret Garden, ...Spelling Bee, A Christmas Carol, and Frog and Toad Frog Adventure Theater.

Saturday, August 28, 2021
at 2pm & 7pm

Elizabeth Ward Land
Still Within the Sound of My Voice: The Songs of Linda Ronstadt

Come see a cabaret of this Broadway performer crooning songs and telling stories of their experiences on the Great White Way...

Elizabeth Ward Land’s varied show business career encompasses musicals, plays, concerts, voice-overs, commercials, film and television.

On Broadway, she appeared in the original casts of Amazing Grace (Mrs. Catlett), Scandalous (Louella Parsons), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Marie, all three versions), and in Memphis, Passion, City of Angels and as a featured soloist in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber starring Michael Crawford at Radio City Music Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London.

Off-Broadway credits include Southern Comfort (The Public Theatre), Curvy Widow (Westside), The Green Heart (Manhattan Theatre Club), Hello Again (Lincoln Center) and Chess. Liz starred in the National Tour of The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Edna) opposite Hector Elizondo, as well as National Tours of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (The Baroness), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Les Miserables, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and as Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain.

Regional Theatre: Pioneer Theatre Company as Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; MacHaydn Theatre as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard; Geva Theatre as M’Lynn in Steel Magnolias; TheatreWorks as Marmee in Little Women; Heidi in Curvy Widow (George Street Playhouse); Asolo Repertory as Lela Rogers in Backwards in High Heels; Sacramento Music Circus as Charlotte in A Little Night Music, Betty Blake in The Will Rogers Follies, Elsa in The Sound of Music, Gloria Thorpe in Damn Yankees; Barrington Stage in Southern Comfort; at Musical Theatre West as Anna in The King and I, Lucy in The Thing About Men and Lilli Vanessi in Kiss Me, Kate; as Keely opposite David Naughton in Pete ‘n’ Keely at the Alpine Theatre Project; as Helen Dubin in Boulevard of Broken Dreams at Coconut Grove Playhouse; Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet at Goodspeed Opera House; The Evil Queen in Snow White for Disneyland; and as Connee Boswell in The Boswell Sisters at The Old Globe in San Diego. She starred as Mother Superior in the Pre-Broadway tryout of Sister Act at Pasadena Playhouse and the Alliance.

Film and Television: Young Adult (directed by Jason Reitman), Boy Meets Girl (directed by Eric Schaeffer), The Gathering (directed by Emily Elizabeth Thomas), Good Daughters, The Good Fight, Elementary, High Maintenance, Madam Secretary, Boardwalk Empire, The Big O, The Blacklist, Blank My Life, Law & Order: SVU, One Life to Live, Crumbs, The Amanda Show, 10-8, All My Children, and twice on the Today show as part of their Everyone Has a Story series.

Concerts: Still Within the Sound of My Voice: The Songs of Linda Ronstadt – sold out shows at The Green Room 42, NYC; 54 Below - Broadway Does Country and Meryl Sings; at SOPAC in Let It Sing!; Solo show at The Wilson Center, Long Beach Cabaret Series, The Best of Reprise; The Leading Ladies: An Evening of R&H (Coto Candlelight Series), Lerner and Loewe (Long Beach Pops), Hollywood Revisited, Salon Series: A Tribute to Cole Porter with Michael Feinstein (Mark Taper Forum). Elizabeth was honored to be chosen as Barbra Streisand’s Stand-in for her 2006 Concert Tour.

Voiceovers: Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Reservoir Dogs, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Infinite Wars: The TV Series Alien Abductions: True Confessions, Adam’s Rib and American Appetites for L.A. Theatre Works; and Disney’s Enchanted.

Elizabeth received her Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of the Pacific and a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of California at Davis. Liz is married to actor Ken Land. She plays the piano, oboe, percussion, guitar, and a little ukulele.