LTV Studios and producer Josh Gladstone welcome the beloved art form of cabaret back to East Hampton by hosting a brand new concert series entitled “American Songbook … Then & Now.”
This five-part series celebrates the classic cabaret stylings of the great American Songbook as performed and interpreted by some of the region’s finest artists. Gladstone, brought onboard earlier this year by LTV Executive Director Michael Clark to produce performing arts at LTV, has presented theatrical events and musical concerts in the area for many years (including for over two decades at Guild Hall, where cabaret flourished).
Gladstone has invited a roster of topnotch talent to inaugurate this dynamic new series in LTV’s intimate, black-box Studio Three Theater. Programs launch on Tuesday, July 11, with award-winner Mark Nadler, who opens the Tuesday evening soirees with his tour-de-force one man show “Cole Porter After Dark,” hailed by the Bistro Awards as “An exhilarating evening. This is one of Nadler’s best shows ever.”
The five part series continues on Tuesday nights peppered across July and August, featuring cabaret performers including Broadway’s Sal Viviano performing his “Standards of Love” show; beloved local musicians Peter Martin Weiss & Jane Hastay joined by vocalist Darcey in a “Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald”; Anna Bergman with Alex Rybeck, musical director, in the romantic evening “If I Loved You”; and Broadway’s leading lady Christine Andreas joined by her husband, the composer Marty Silvestri, at the piano, in their charming two-hander “Two for the Road.”
VIP tickets for each show are $75 and include front-row café table seating, with general admission at $45. Tickets can be purchased by visiting tveh.org/american-songbook-series. LTV Studios is at 75 Industrial Road in Wainscott. The full schedule, subject to change, is as follows:
Tuesday, July 11 – 7:30 p.m.
“Cole Porter After Dark” starring Mark Nadler. Nadler is a New York City-based cabaret performer, actor, and comedic pianist. He has been described as “one of New York’s most acclaimed singer/pianists” and a “virtuoso” of classical piano.
Tuesday, July 18 – 7:30 p.m.
“Two for the Road” starring Christine Andreas with Mary Silvestri at the Piano. Andreas stars with her husband Silvestri on the piano in a show which chronicles the years they traveled from state to state, and country to country, concertizing and picking up pieces of the culture in each of their destinations.
Tuesday, August 1 – 7:30 p.m.
“A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, 1st Lady of Song” starring Jane Hastay and Peter Martin Weiss featuring vocalist Darcey. Hastay and Martin Weiss with Darcey present a swinging evening of piano, bass and vocal jazz celebrating the legend, influence and style of America’s First Lady of Song, the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald.
Tuesday, August 15 – 7:30 p.m.
“If I Loved You: Falling In & Out of Love” starring Anna Bergman with Alex Rybeck, musical director. Bergman stars in an international musical journey of courtship, romance, heartbreak, and love rekindled while featuring such songwriters as George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter and others.
Tuesday, August 29 – 7:30 p.m.
“Sal Viviano: The Standards of Love.” Join Viviano, a veteran of Broadway, television and film, in an evening of some of the greatest songs of the 20th century, written by the prolific and celebrated songwriters from Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood, and popularized by some of the most iconic singers ever recorded.
Staff Writer on Jul 1, 2023