Sunday Scoop Week of 1/7/24 What's Happening This Week and More

A) Beginning Performances 

In Connecticut 

1) Million Dollar Quartet

In New York

2) Brighter Than the Sun

3) The Connector

4) Fun With Panic Attacks

5) The Greatest Hits Down Route 66

6) I will dance with those oak trees as long as

7) Jonah

8) Mahinerator

9) Odd Man Out

10) Our Class

11) Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" in our own words

12) The Sweet Spot

B) Closing Soon

13) Sleep No More

C) Extended Runs

14) Make Me Gorgeous!

D) What Else is Happening This Week and More

15) AAPI Dance Festival at APAP

1013 & 1/14

16) BAM Hosts 38th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.

1/15

17) Broadway Workshop & Project Broadway Auditions for Mainstage 2024

1/14, Video Submissions Due 1/12

18) Centenary Stage Company 2024 Winter Thaw Music Festival

19) DCINY Kicks Off 2024 Season With Sir Karl Jenkins Birthday Celebration

1/15

20) Formidable Azanavour - World Tour Celebration Kicks Off

at Town Hall 1/13

21) Garment District NYC Free Education History Free Walking Tours

January 2024

22) Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes Open for Submissions

23) La Mama Experimental Theater Club & Kinding Shaw Offer New Exhibition

at La Mama Gallery 1/11 - 1/26

24) "Lempicka" Releases New Music Video "Woma Is" Performed by Eden Espinosa

25) Weena Pauly and Katie Workun Present Monster Mourning 

1/14 - 1/20

A) Beginning Performances 

In Connecticut 

1) Million Dollar Quartet

On December 4, 1956, a twist of fate brought together Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley. MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET transports you back to another time and captures the contagious spirit, freewheeling excitement, and thrilling sounds of this once-in-a-lifetime event where four of music’s best talents came together.  Experience the irresistible tale of broken promises, secrets, betrayal, and above all, a celebration of amazing music! Recommended for ages 8 and up.

ACT of Connecticut (36 Old Quarry Rd., Ridgefield, CT)

2/21 - 3/17

Opening Night 2/24

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.actofct.org/million-dollar-quartet

In New York

2) Brighter Than the Sun

BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN is an autobiographical musical that delves into the poignant relationship between a young man and his grandmother, both hailing from South Georgia. Their parallel journeys through life form the heart of this narrative, offering a simple yet profoundly evocative exploration of shattered dreams, the bonds of family, and the perpetual cycles of birth and mortality that define every human story.

At its core, the show celebrates sisterhood and female friendship, anchored by three resilient yet multifaceted women. Collin, the narrator and protagonist, finds himself looking for comfort in their separate stories and strength. The script intricately weaves the threads of lineage and identity. Collin draws inspiration from the rich tapestry of his extended family to connect his lineage and hometown to his own evolving identity. As he rediscovers his love for his roots and himself, the characters undergo similar trials and epiphanies.

The Chain Theater (312 W. 36th St.)

1/9 - 1/21

Opening Night 1/9

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit brighterthanthesun.ticketspice.com

3) The Connector

From Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (Parade) comes a timely new musical about two talented young journalists on increasingly diverging paths. Set in the late 1990s amid a rapidly changing media landscape we meet a fast-rising journalist, Ethan Dobson, and an assistant copy editor, Robin Martinez, at the revered magazine The Connector. In a world that values the next big sensation, Ethan’s writing prowess and ambition force him to confront how far he’ll go for the ultimate scoop and Robin to consider how far she’ll go to stop him.

MCC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater (511 W. 52nd St.)

1/12 - 2/18

Opening Night 2/6

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit mcctheater.org/tix/the-connector.

4) Fun With Panic Attacks

Floppy explores her life's journey with anxiety as she invites you to take off your shoes, lie down on the floor and check in to see if you are holding your breath. Psychological funhouse meets choose-how-immersive-you-want-it-to-be theatrical event. An experiential offering into what overwhelms us and what might just save us.

INTAR Theatre (500 West 52nd St.)

1/12 - 1/27

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.intartheatre.org.

5) The Greatest Hits Down Route 66

It’s the summer of ‘99. The Franco family is taking the Great American Road Trip and getting to know each other along that legendary highway, whether they like it or not.

Accompanied by live music drawn from Carl Sandburg’s American Songbag, an eclectic 1920s anthology of American folk songs, the parents are challenged at every turn by their unpredictable children and soon find themselves detouring into their own childhood memories. History lessons are peppered in as the family careens around America’s iconic landmarks and cultural relics, framed by the familiar music of a bygone era.

59E59’s Theater A (59 E 59th St.)

1/13 - 2/18

Opening Night 1/23

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit  59e59.org/shows/show-detail/the-greatest-hits-down-route-66.

6) I will dance with those oak trees as long as

Inspired by the epic story of Gilgamesh, the poetry of contemporary Kurdish poet Kajal Ahmad, and documentary accounts from Kurdish women, I will dance with those oak trees as long as is a 2-woman object, puppet, and physical theater show about 3 Kurdish women, Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and Ninsun: who work in a carpet store in Halabja, Iraq in February of 1988, just one month before the chemical weapons attack on Kurdish peoples by Saddam Hassein's regime. Featuring an evocative musical score that complements the movements on stage, this piece is a multisensory experience that will stay with you long after the final curtain falls.

The Tank (312 W. 36th St.)

1/13 - 1/15

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.cp4p-international.org

7) Jonah

What’s your fantasy? Ana knows that everybody has one—her especially, and she’d do anything to make it come true. And when she meets Jonah, a sweet and caring student at her boarding school, everything she’s ever wanted is finally falling into place. Except Jonah, like everything else in this moving world-premiere play from Rachel Bonds, is not all that he seems. A singularly haunting and heart-racing coming-of-age tale that will keep you guessing until its final twisting moments, Jonah is about the true cost of survival, and the lengths some will travel to feel just a little less alone in the world.

Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre 

(111 West 46th St.)

1/11 - 3/10

Opening Night 2/1

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit roundabouttheatre.org

8) Mahinerator

Hrak! Tunely froth thine earliparts what for bespeaks Yours Trustly! In Mahinerator, an ambitious bureaucrat, two-time Obie winner Steve Mellor, speaking in a quasi-English pseudolect, tells his greatliest life story; a story of the banalation of the evilwise, of vacuumic compressulated ecocide.

The Tank (312 West 36th St.)

1/10 - 1/21

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.thetanknyc.org/20th-anniversary-season

9) Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out is an immersive experience in complete darkness in which the audience hears, smells, tastes, and feels the story of Alberto, a blind jazz musician traveling home from New York to Buenos Aires after decades of self-exile.

The story is set on the flight back to Buenos Aires, with the audience entering the space as passengers on that flight. As Alberto tells his life stories to his seatmates, we start re-imagining his journey as he perceives it: in complete darkness. We experience his life as a young man in the 1960s in Argentina, and then his life journey in New York City. His girlfriend follows him there but she is ultimately drawn back to Argentina and its troubled politics. We take in these moments in a way most of us have never experienced a story: our ears, noses, skin, and palates are engaged in an immersive journey of love, prejudice, and fears that were left behind.

Because the audience members – “passengers” – are in complete darkness through the entire duration of the flight, the action is experienced by way of auditory stimulation, tactile objects, tasty treats, and enriched smells. Passengers will even feel the weather occurring around them.

HERE Arts Center (145 Sixth Ave.)

1/9 - 1/16

For information or to purchase tickets, visit PitchblackExperience.com/OddManOutLive.

Photo by Denis Lavnik

10) Our Class

Our Class is based on real events, and follows 10 classmates — five Jewish and five Catholic — as they grow up as playmates, friends and neighbors, then turn on one another with life and death consequences. Inspired by real life events surrounding a horrific 1941 pogrom in the small village of Jedwabne, Poland, the play is about friendship, antisemitism and betrayal, and follows their lives from childhood through eight decades in a contemporary new production, directed by Igor Golyak.

BAM Fisher Space (321 Ashland Pl., Brooklyn)

1/12 - 2/4

Opening Night 1/18

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.ourclassplay.com

11) Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" in our own words

Pushkin ‘EUGENE ONEGIN’ In Our Own Words is a simultaneously raucous and sobering journey through the past and future of a major cultural touchstone. In Krymov Lab NYC’s production, four immigrant Russians desperately try to communicate the value of an untranslatable classic to a New York audience. Why should we be made to care about the trials of a shallow Byronic hero, a too-deep teenage girl, and a less-than-successful birthday party? In the face of wartime atrocity, is there still a place in today’s world for Dostoevsky, for Tchaikovsky, for Pushkin? Can beauty and intellect survive such horrors? And should it?

BRIC (57 Rockwell Pl, Brooklyn)

1/10 - 1/28

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.universe.com/events/under-the-radar-presents-pushkins-eugene-onegin-in-our-own-words-tickets-CB1YMZ

12) The Sweet Spot

Jerry and Vita are an independent, passionate couple with 50 years of marriage under their belts. The type of couple who knows each other so well they can finish each other’s complaints.

An opportunity to move to an assisted living community arrives sooner than expected and they must quickly make a life-changing decision. We follow the pair over three intimate, banter-filled mornings as they grapple, negotiate, and reminisce to determine what decision they can live with.

59E59’s Theater C (59 E 59th St.)

1/11 - 1/27

Opening Night 1/13

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit 59e59.org/shows/show-detail/the-sweet-spot.

B) Closing Soon

13) Sleep No More

Sleep No More is a the site-specific, immersive experience that introduced an entirely new art form to -- and forever changed -- New York’s theatrical landscape,

McKittrick Hotel (530 W. 27th St.)

Closing 1/28

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.mckittrickhotel.com

C) Extended Run

14) Make Me Gorgeous!

Make Me Gorgeous! is the fabulous and incredible true story of Kenneth Marlowe, an oft-overlooked trailblazer in LGBTQ+ history. Described as one of mid-Century America’s gayest and most openly homosexual personalities, Marlowe took on many roles in life. Kenneth was a private hairdresser to the stars; the madam of a notorious gay prostitution ring in Hollywood; an author; a hustler; a female impersonator; a private in the U.S. Army; a call boy; a Christian missionary; a mortuary cosmetologist; a newspaper columnist … and for the final decade of an incredibly lived life, Marlowe was a woman, having transitioned to become Kate Marlowe.

Playhouse 46 At St. Luke’s (308 W. 46th St.)

Now closing 1/28

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit gorgeousplay.com

D) What Else is Happening This Week and More

15) Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

and Asian American Arts Alliance (A4)

Present AAPI Dance Festival at APAP

Saturday & Sunday, January 13 & 14 2024

The Ailey Studios

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) are pleased to present an evening of thrilling AAPI dance with performances from the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Shannon Yu 余香儒 (2023 Jadin Wong Fellow), and Ishita Mili (2023 Jadin Wong Artist of Exceptional Merit). Performances are Saturday, January 13 at 3:15 pm and Sunday, January 14 at 1:15pm at The Ailey Studios, 405 W 55th St., New York, NY. Tickets are $25 and are available at https://www.aaartsalliance.org/events/aapi-dance-festival-at-apap-day-1 for the first day of performances and https://www.aaartsalliance.org/events/aapi-dance-festival-at-apap-day-2 for the second.

January 13 Program:

3:15 pm – “Strange Animals” by Khambatta Dance Company

Like a road trip through a natural vista, Khambatta Dance Company’s “Strange Animals,” presents a playful landscape of quirky animal behaviors’ reflecting on human parallels.

Choreography: Cyrus Khambatta

Dancers: Nathan Cook, Marte Osiris Madera, Kaitlyn Nguyen, Leah Russell, Mary Sigward and Emily Walters

Music: Subconscious, Takenobu – Reversing and Exposition

3:30 pm – “Good Island” by Keerati Jinakunwiphat

“Good Island” is a place where Lord of the Flies meets Where the Wild Things Are. Together, these powerful beings explore different degrees of rambunctiousness, sensitivity, competitiveness, and unity.

Choreography: Keerati Jinakunwiphat

Dancers: Jamaal Bowman, Quaba Ernest, Juan Carlos Franquiz II, Amari Frazier, Paul Giarratano, Leo Hishikawa, and Kevin Pajarillaga

Music: “Gangsta (Acapella)” by Tune-Yards, “Bad Things” by the Cults, and “I’m In It” by Kanye West arranged by Zach Berns

4:00 pm – “Here We Root” by Jiemin Yang

“Here We Root” is a contemporary dance inspired by Asian immigrants’ stories, focusing on the Chinese diaspora in Queens, New York. It invites audiences to experience, reflect, and celebrate Asian immigrant identities and stories through movements, text, theatre, and original music.

Choreography: Jiemin Yang in collaboration with the dancers

Dancers: Kathy Chen, Shan Y. Chuang, Maya Lam, Angie Lu, Tsubasa Nishioka, Mayu Yamashita

Music: James Acampora, Darren Huang, Danting Qiao

Narrator: Chun Cho

Costume: Hao-Yun Emily Hsieh

Script: Jiemin Yang

Script Consultant: Dennis Yueh–Yeh Li

VO Sound Engineer: Niko Vaude/Vaudeville Music studios

Special thanks to all interviewees who participated in the research of this project.

This project is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Deep thanks to individual donors who supported the development of this project.

4:30 pm – Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will showcase 4 seminal dances from the iconic Asian American choreographer in the Company’s standard touring production, Song of the Phoenix:

Way of Fire - A dance inspired by the fire within the warrior.

Raindrops - Nai-Ni Chen’s memory of her childhood of playing in the rain with her friends in Keelung, Taiwan.

Mirage - Excerpt from the first dance Nai-Ni Chen created after she visited the Silk Road and experienced the diversity of cultures along the journey.

Festival - Originally commissioned by the Lincoln Center Institute. Depicting a temple festival that Nai-Ni Chen experienced as a child, the choreographer transports the audience to a magical place of sound, motion and color.

Dancers: Candace Jarvis, Rio Kikuchi, YuChen Tseng, Ke'ala O'Conner, Sarah Botero, Esteban Santamaria Caleb Baker, Alexzandar Larson

January 14 Program:

1:15 pm – “Xs III” by Shannon Yu 余香儒/ SHA Creative Outlet

If you see every connection as a straight line, then the crossing of connections becomes X, and the multiplying of crossing connections leads to Xs. All the connections of sticky spider threads are pulling; straight, straight, queer queer queer, break. And reconnect.

Choreography: Shannon Yu 余香儒

Dancers: Shannon Yu 余香儒, Sarah Zucchero

Sound: Arabelle Luke aka AirLoom Beats

Lighting Design: Matt Morris

1:45 pm – “(no)man” by IMGE Dance

(no)man is a dance rollercoaster traveling through ideas of home and identity while juxtaposing cross cultural movement as a reflection of power & privilege. Weaving together their signature fusion movement, rhythmic footwork and world music, IMGE questions who is included and excluded in this borrowed space and time.

Choreography: Ishita Mili

Dancers: Lex Bolisay (She/Her), Hanna Gosztyla (She/They), Maddie Jacobs (She/Her), Liam Lynch (He/Him), Andrei Miasco (He/Him), Ishita Mili (She/They), Shivani Lamba (She/Her), Sangeetha Santhebennur (She/Her)

Music: Srijon on the Beat, Yemi Alade, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Ibeyi, Oliver Koletzki, RRobin, Les Mamans Du Congo

Stage Manager: Subha Samanta (She/Her)

2:15 pm – Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will showcase 5 iconic dances in a new production for 6 dancers:

Incense - Inspired by the faithful who burns incense to pray to the gods.

Peacock Dance - From the Dai Minority of the Yunnan Province

Movable Figures - A choreographic gem that Nai-Ni Chen created when she was inspired by the shadow puppets of Southeast Asia.

Whirlwind - Excerpt from the second dance she made after visiting the Silk Road

Shadowforce Duet - A work developed in the pandemic focusing on the connection between people even under isolation and lockdown.

Way of Fire - A dance inspired by the fire within the warrior.

Dancers: Candace Jarvis, Rio Kikuchi, YuChen Tseng, Ke'ala O'Conner, Sarah Botero, Esteban Santamaria Caleb Baker, Alexzandar Larson

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16) The 38th Annual Tribute to 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House 
30 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn, NY

Jan 15, 2024, at 10:30am EST

FREE (BAM lobby will open at 8am; seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis)

BAM will host the 38th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 15, 2024, at 10:30am EST in the Howard Gilman Opera House (Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave.). Celebrating this year, on what would have been Dr. King's 95th birthday, Brooklyn honors his radical spirit with music, performances, and an invigorating call to action from this year's keynote speaker—poet, lawyer, and Freedom Reads founder Reginald Dwayne Betts.

This annual co-presentation by BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is the largest such gathering in New York City, where artists, activists, civic leaders, and the community gather to celebrate Dr. King and the tenacious individuals who continue his relentless pursuit of equality and justice and to support one another as we carry on the fight for a better world. 

In-Person Ticketing and Live Stream: Tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-seated basis starting at 8am in the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House lobby. The Tribute will be available to digital audiences everywhere as a live stream via BAM.org. For further information, please call BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100x1 or visit BAM.org.

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17) Broadway Workshop

Auditions for Mainstage Productions

Sunday  1/14 in NYC

Video Submissions Due Friday 1/12

Broadway Workshop and Project Broadway come together each year to create the most incredible youth theater available anywhere. They work with Broadway designers to build productions students and parents will be "wowed" by and give students a professional rehearsal and performance experience.

MAINSTAGE 2024

HEAD OVER HEELS

(open to students ages 13-20) 

Rehearsals take place on weekends and begin on March 2, 2024

Performances May 3-5, 2024

JUNIOR MAINSTAGE 2024

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST JR. 

(open to students ages 8-14)

Rehearsals take place on weekends and begin in March 2, 2024

Performances May 10-12, 2024

All performances will take place at the Off-Broadway Theater venue - Baruch Performing Arts Center – 55 Lexington Ave.

LIVE AUDITIONS will take place on Sunday January 14th from 10AM-4PM at Ripley Grier Studios - 520 8th Ave - 16th Floor. See link below to register for an audition.

VIRTUAL SUBMISSIONS will be accepted through Friday January 12th, if you are unable to attend in-person auditions! See link below to learn more and to submit an audition.

There is no fee to audition. This is a tuition based program, full and partial scholarships are available through Project Broadway.

For more information go to broadwayworkshop.com/onstage

To register for auditions go to campscui.active.com/orgs/BroadwayWorkshop

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18) TICKETS ON-SALE NOW 

FOR CENTENARY STAGE COMPANY’S 

2024 WINTER THAW MUSIC FESTIVAL

Start the New Year with Centenary Stage Company’s Winter Thaw Music Festival. This year, the music festival will feature concert performances by Jumaane Smith on January 13, Reverie Road on January 20, Rosaway on January 27, and Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba on Februrary 3. All performances will begin at 8:00 pm in The Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center on the campus of Centenary University at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ. Ticket prices are $25 for adults and $15 for students of any age & children under 12. For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at (908) 979-0900.

All Winter Thaw Music Festival performances will take place in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center located on the campus of Centenary University at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ. Ticket prices for each performance are $25.00 for adults and $15.00 for students and children under 12.

For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at (908) 979-0900. The Centenary Stage Company box office is open Monday through Friday from 1:00-5:00 pm and two hours prior to performances. The box office is located in the Lackland Performing Arts Center on the campus of Centenary University at 715 Grand Ave. Hackettstown, NJ. Centenary Stage Company can also be found across social media platforms; Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter. Like and follow to receive the latest in CSC news and special offers. 

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19) To Sir With Love: 

Distinguished Concerts International
Kicks off 2024 Season with 

80th Birthday Celebration 

for Sir Karl Jenkins at Carnegie Hall

On Monday, January 15, 2024, Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) will present The Best of Sir Karl Jenkins, DCINY’s 2024 season kick-off performance celebrating the renowned Welsh composer’s 80th Birthday. The concert will be conducted by DCINY’s own Artistic Director, Dr. Jonathan Griffith, and will feature singers from around the world for a once-in-a-lifetime performance opportunity. The monumental event will bring this new collection of Sir Karl’s most beloved pieces to life on stage in the Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall. Longtime WQXR host, Jeff Spurgeon, will serve as emcee. 

For more information on DCINY’s unforgettable 2024 season opener with Sir Karl Jenkins, click here.

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20) FORMIDABLE! AZNAVOUR
STARRING BY THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED 
JULES GRISON
 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 13^TH AT 7:30PM  
 AT THE TOWN HALL

THE PRODUCTION WAS GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT BY CHALRES AZNAVOUR HIMSELF IN ORDER TO REACH A YOUNGER GENERATION - AND IS PART OF THE WORLD TOUR CELEBRATING THE ICONIC TROUBADOR’S  UPCOMING 100^th BIRTHDAY

2024: the year of Aznavour. In celebration of the upcoming 100^th birthday of the legendary French-Armenian singer, songwriter, and actor Charles Aznavour, the Nice, France based production company Directo Productions, today announced that it will present Formidable! Aznavour in a one night only performance (that will kickoff the 2024 world tour) on Saturday, January 13^th at 7:30PM at Town Hall, 123 West 43^rd Street. Conceived and directed by Gil Marsalla (with the express approval of Mr. Aznavour just a couple years before his passing) and starring internationally acclaimed Jules Grison (Romeo and Juliet), Formidable! Aznavour is a musical celebration of the life and music of the legendary Chansonnier. After performing n N.Y.C. at The Town Hall, the tour begins its European leg – with performances in Lisbon, Pégomas, and Orly. Tickets are $55 - $72 and can be purchased online through Ticketmaster.

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21) Garment District NYC 

Educational History Free Walking Tours

for January 2024

Tuesday, Jan 09th

Thursday, Jan 18th

Tuesday, Jan 30th

Meet at the NE Corner of 7th Av. and W 39th Street at 10:30am Look for a Giant Yellow Button! (Should you arrive early, that vendor under the button has great coffee and buns, much less expensive than DuncanStar!)

There will also be a free virtual tour Tues Dec 19th at 7:pm the link is in the website below.

The tour is also available for groups on a private custom basis.

For more information or to book a private tour, go to Mike's NYC Tours

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22) Online Applications Open 

for the 2024 Gloria Barron Prize 

for Young Heroes

The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes, celebrating inspiring, public-spirited young people ages 8 to 18 from across the U.S. and Canada, announces the launch of its 2024 awards. The online application system is now open with submissions due by April 15^th.  The 2024 winners will be announced in September.

 

The Barron Prize, established in 2001 by author T. A. Barron, annually honors 25 outstanding young leaders who have made a significant positive difference to their communities, humanity, and the environment. Fifteen top winners each receive $10,000 to support their service work or higher education.
 

The judging panel for the Barron Prize is looking for young people who have initiated and led an extraordinary service activity and who demonstrate heroic qualities such as courage, compassion, dedication, and a positive spirit.

Over the past two decades, the Barron Prize has honored more than 500 young heroes. They have helped the hungry and the homeless, invented life-saving technologies, protected our oceans and endangered species, and addressed climate change, among myriad other initiatives. They have raised more than $28 million for their causes and have inspired countless people by their example.

Learn more and apply online at www.barronprize.org. The annual application deadline is April 15.

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23) La MaMa Experimental Theater Club and Kinding Sindaw

Offer a New Exhibition

In Honor of the Ancestors:

Indigenous Living Traditions from the Philippines in Diaspora

January 11-26, 2024

at La MaMa Galleria

La MaMa Experimental Theater Club and Kinding Sindaw announce a new exhibition, In Honor of the Ancestors: Indigenous Living Traditions from the Philippines in Diaspora, running Thursday, January 11 - Sunday, January 26, 2024 from 1pm - 7pm, at La MaMa Galleria, 47 Great Jones Street, NYC, 10012. Attendance is available with a suggested donation of $5-$20, with tickets available here. For more information, please visit https://www.lamama.org/shows/kinding-sindaw-in-honor-of-the-ancestors-2024.

Through multiple constellations of photography and video, scenography and sacred heirlooms, the exhibition tells the story of Kinding Sindaw by celebrating the lives of its hereditary and creative forebears from both Mindanao and downtown New York. Artists whose work appears in the exhibition: the late Bai Labi Hadji Amina, Sultan Mamintal Dirampaten, Corky Lee, June Maeda, Sultan Mohammad Giwan Mastura, and Ellen Stewart.

Drawing on techniques from Theater of the Oppressed, visitors will be invited to take off their shoes and participate as 'spect-actors' within an immersive installation conceived as a community space for live performance and ceremony, lectures, discussions, and workshops: including beginners' classes led by master kulintang gong musicians, introductory exercises to pangalay movement healing, and betel-nut rituals, offering immersive transformational wellness and healing experiences.

Back home, oral traditions passed down from the ancestors weave inseparably through everyday life as kinding (dance), sindaw ( to spark a light), silat (martial arts), bayok (chanting) and panaroon (extemporaneous poetry). To preserve this aliveness, Kinding Sindaw will unleash its archives through the lens of salsilah, which to the Muslims of Mindanao can refer both to a clan’s 'genealogy' as well as the recited litany of its names. From the Arabic for 'chain' or 'connection', salsilah expands understandings of archival practice by encompassing the oral, performative, and ritual dimensions of provenance and collective memory.

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24) “LEMPICKA”

THE SWEEPING NEW MUSICAL

ABOUT THE ICONIC PAINTER TAMARA DE LEMPICKA

RELEASES NEW MUSIC VIDEO OF

“WOMAN IS”

 

PERFORMED BY

LEADING LADY

EDEN ESPINOSA

 

WATCH HERE

 

THE SONG IS FEATURED ON

THE FORTHCOMING ORIGINAL

BROADWAY CAST RECORDING

OF LEMPICKA FROM SONY

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY

 

PERFORMANCES BEGIN ON MARCH 19, 2024

OPENING NIGHT SET FOR APRIL 14, 2024

AT THE LONGACRE THEATRE

Lempicka, the sweeping new musical portrait celebrating the gripping true story of renowned artist Tamara de Lempicka, released a new music video of “Woman Is” performed by Eden Espinosa. Featured on the forthcoming Original Broadway Cast Recording of Lempicka from Sony Music Masterworks, “Woman Is” includes lyrics by Carson Kreitzer and music by Matt Gould, and is the already wildly popular Act One Finale from the highly anticipated new musical.

 

Performances of Lempicka will begin on March 19, 2024, at the Longacre Theatre (220 W 48^th St), with Opening Night taking place on April 14, 2024.

 

To watch the “Woman Is” music video, click here.

Starring Ms. Espinosa and directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin, Lempicka features book, lyrics, and original concept by Carson Kreitzer, book and music by Matt Gould, and choreography by Raja Feather Kelly. 

 

Spanning decades of political and personal turmoil and told through a thrilling, pop-infused score, Lempicka boldly explores the contradictions of a world in crisis, a woman ahead of her era, and an artist whose time has finally come.

For more information, visit www.lempickamusical.com

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Photo by Steve Zavitz

25) Weena Pauly and Katie Workum

present

Monster Mourning

featuring dance from Pauly and Workum

and live music from composer Annie Hart

January 14-20, 2024

Monster Mourning will be presented at Kestrels, 200 Sixth Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 on Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 3pm, followed by a reception. There will be additional performances on Friday, January 19 and Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 7:30pm. Sliding scale tickets start at $15 and can be purchased online at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kestrels/1073618#.

With kinetic dancing, stories and songs, Weena and Katie traverse the long tethers of time through shaken-up fantasy worlds, characters built from their lacking and over-ing, and through the filtered groundwater of their kinship of the last 25 years. As they tend to their home of friendship, they concoct forgotten tales of vaguely euro-lineages and fables into a disjointed present. They navigate connection steeped in inherited competitions and codes of femaleness. They time-travel their own ages and bodies through their love language of hair-braiding and awkward clog dancing. With wit and pathos Weena and Katie seek to understand and pierce through the expected complacencies of modern adult, female corporeality. Monster Mourning includes live music by the multi-talented musician and composer Annie Hart. In addition to original record music She plays live and manipulates sound on a multitude of instruments including a vibraphone, keyboard, melodica, various homemade instruments.  

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