Posted by Tommy Garrett on Mar 21, 2010 - 8:11:33 PM
—Jim Caruso recently made his Broadway debut alongside Liza Minnelli in the smash hit “Liza’s At The Palace!” The show was honored with a 2009 Tony Award for Best Special Event and the recording is a Grammy nominee. For his nightclub work, Caruso has won six MAC Awards and two BackStage Magazine Bistro Awards for sold-out shows at Birdland, Arci’s Place, The Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel and The Russian Tea Room. His series of weekly podcasts called “Here! On Broadway” was honored with a Summit Award. Please visit Jim-Caruso.com or CastPartyNYC.com for more information.
—Jim Caruso recently made his Broadway debut alongside Liza Minnelli in the smash hit “Liza’s At The Palace!” The show was honored with a 2009 Tony Award for Best Special Event and the recording is a Grammy nominee. For his nightclub work, Caruso has won six MAC Awards and two BackStage Magazine Bistro Awards for sold-out shows at Birdland, Arci’s Place, The Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel and The Russian Tea Room. His series of weekly podcasts called “Here! On Broadway” was honored with a Summit Award. Please visit Jim-Caruso.com or CastPartyNYC.com for more information.
Billy Stritch is one of the premier singer-pianists on the New York and national jazz and cabaret scene. His most recent nightclub act “Billy Stritch sings the Mel Tormé Songbook” earned rave reviews from the New York music critics. Stritch has appeared in cabaret venues across the nation as well as concert performances at the London Palladium, NHK Hall in Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro's Municipale Auditorium. In New York, he has performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and completed 688 performances as Oscar the rehearsal pianist in the 2001 Broadway revival of 42nd Street. He is the winner of the Nashville Music City News Award, a BMI Song of the Year Award and four awards from the Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets. As a songwriter and arranger, Reba McEntire and Linda Davis recorded his Grammy Award winning composition “Does He Love You.” He has arranged for many top performers including Liza Minnelli, having written the arrangements for Minnelli On Minnelli, Liza's Christmas at Town Hall, and was musical supervisor and pianist for the Tony Award-winning, “Liza’s At The Palace.”
WHAT/WHO: Billy Stritch is one of the premier singer-pianists on the New York and national jazz and cabaret scene. "Broadway mainstay Jim Caruso’s always-packed showcase for the theater-world A-list,” says New York Magazine. Well now the popular New York open mic is headed to Los Angeles for its West Coast premiere at the Magic Castle's Cabaret at the Castle. Jim Caruso's Cast Party is a wildly popular weekly soiree that has brought Broadway glitz and urbane wit to the legendary Birdland in New York City every Monday night for the past seven years. It's a cool cabaret night-out enlivened by a hilariously impromptu variety show. Showbiz superstars such as Michael Feinstein, Elaine Stritch and Liza Minnelli have hit the stage alongside up-and-comers, serving up jaw-dropping music and general razzle-dazzle. Cast Party is the ultimate spot to mix and mingle with talented show folk and their fans. The buoyant, sharp and charming Caruso guides the entire affair like a bubbly cruise director, musical genius Billy Stritch holds court at the ivories, and the audience is invited to participate in the festivities so bring your music (in the right key)! WHEN: Thursday, April 1 - Doors 6 p.m. - Show 8 p.m.WHERE: The Inner Circle at the Magic Castle, 7001 Franklin Ave., Hollywood, Calif. 90028TICKETS: $20 for non-members, Call 323-851-3313 x434 for more information
The Magic Castle is the world's most famous private club for magicians and magic enthusiasts and home to The Academy of Magical Arts, Inc.
WHAT/WHO: Billy Stritch is one of the premier singer-pianists on the New York and national jazz and cabaret scene. "Broadway mainstay Jim Caruso’s always-packed showcase for the theater-world A-list,” says New York Magazine. Well now the popular New York open mic is headed to Los Angeles for its West Coast premiere at the Magic Castle's Cabaret at the Castle. Jim Caruso's Cast Party is a wildly popular weekly soiree that has brought Broadway glitz and urbane wit to the legendary Birdland in New York City every Monday night for the past seven years. It's a cool cabaret night-out enlivened by a hilariously impromptu variety show. Showbiz superstars such as Michael Feinstein, Elaine Stritch and Liza Minnelli have hit the stage alongside up-and-comers, serving up jaw-dropping music and general razzle-dazzle. Cast Party is the ultimate spot to mix and mingle with talented show folk and their fans. The buoyant, sharp and charming Caruso guides the entire affair like a bubbly cruise director, musical genius Billy Stritch holds court at the ivories, and the audience is invited to participate in the festivities so bring your music (in the right key)! WHEN: Thursday, April 1 - Doors 6 p.m. - Show 8 p.m.WHERE: The Inner Circle at the Magic Castle, 7001 Franklin Ave., Hollywood, Calif. 90028TICKETS: $20 for non-members, Call 323-851-3313 x434 for more information
The Magic Castle is the world's most famous private club for magicians and magic enthusiasts and home to The Academy of Magical Arts, Inc.
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