54 Below Podcast

54 Below

This theatrical interview show, recorded live at 54 Below in New York City, takes you on and off the stage of Broadway's nightclub. The podcast features clips from 54Below's cabaret performances and exclusive interviews with Broadway actors, comedians, directors, set designers, musicians and more.

  • 12 minutes 21 seconds
    Ep.27 - Donna McKechnie

    McKechnie, best known the world over for creating the role of Cassie in A Chorus Line, is also famous for her Broadway appearances in State Fair, On the Town, Company, Promises, Promises and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Hear Tony-winner Donna McKechnie talk about her brand new show: a musical déjà vu celebrating the scintillating 70′s in New York City via the music of Jim Croce, Peter Allen, Marvin Hamlisch, Billy Strayhorn, and Stephen Sondheim, with arrangements and music direction by John McDaniel.

    More information and tickets at 54below.com

    22 December 2012, 6:32 pm
  • 13 minutes 18 seconds
    Ep. 26 - Maurice Hines

    Broadway veteran and Tony nominee talks about his original show Tap’in Through Life . Hear Hines recall memories from early childhood, when he and his younger brother Gregory were childhood tap-dancing sensations, appearing in New York, Las Vegas, and Europe, and on television, and a remarkable thirty-five appearances on The Tonight Show. A smash in 1978′s Broadway sensation Eubie!, Maurice’s critically-acclaimed appearances on the Great White Way include Sophisticated Ladies and Uptown… It’s Hot, which he also conceived, directed and choreographed.  

    Maurice Hines is at 54Below from Dec. 26-29th.  More information and tickets at 54Below.com

    20 December 2012, 2:29 am
  • 14 minutes 14 seconds
    Ep.25 - Liz Callaway

    A chat with Tony Nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer

    and recording artist Liz Callaway.  She made her Broadway debut

    in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, received a Tony

    Award nomination for her performance in Baby, and for five

    years, won acclaim as Grizabella in Cats. Liz also starred in

    the original casts of Miss Saigon, The Look of Love and The

    Spitfire Grill, and provided the singing voice for numerous

    animated features including the Oscar-nominated Anastasia.

    With a busy concert career that takes her throughout the

    world, New York audiences are fortunate indeed to have her

    in residence this Fall for seven very special performances only.

     

    Tickets and more info at 54below.com

    7 November 2012, 10:31 pm
  • 14 minutes 57 seconds
    Ep.24 - Melissa Errico

    Melissa Errico has been wowing audiences since she was  plucked out of Yale to star in the first national touring  company of Les Miserables. Since then, Broadway has  embraced her in My Fair Lady (Eliza, 1993 revival), High SocietyAmour (Tony nomination) and, most recently, Irving Berlin’s  White Christmas. Kennedy Center audiences applauded her  performance as Dot opposite Raul Esparza’s George in Sunday  in the Park with George. She'll talk about her three critically-heralded CDs, Blue Like ThatLullabies  and Wildflowers and A Legrand Affair (produced by Phil  Ramone).  

    Melissa is at 54Below from Oct.30-Nov.3

    For more information and tickets visit 54below.com

    21 October 2012, 12:42 pm
  • 16 minutes 12 seconds
    Ep.23 - Sherie Rene Scott

    Before Sherie Rene Scott became one of Broadway's favorite leading ladies, she sang with four giant turtles on stage at Radio City Music Hall, worked as a backup singer, and sold shoes on Park Avenue (and loved it).  

    Known for her work in numerous theatrical productions including  EVERYDAY RAPTURE, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN ,  THE  LITTLE MERMAID, TOMMY, RENT, THE LAST FIVE YEARS, and DEBBIE DOES DALLAS,  Sherie Rene Scott premiers her new work, Piece of Meat, in collaboration with Todd Almond at 54Below Oct. 16-27.  

    For more information and tickets visit 54Below.com

    8 October 2012, 6:29 pm
  • 6 minutes 53 seconds
    Ep.22 - Andrea Martin

    Scott Wittman talks to Emmy and Tony-winning actress and comedian, Andrea Martin, best known for films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and in stage in productions such as My Favorite Year, Fiddler on the Roof, Candide, Young Frankenstein, Exit the King, and in the television series, SCTV. She is joined by Sirius XM host, actor, writer, performer and her accompanying pianist, Seth Rudetsky.

    Andrea Martins performs at 54Below Oct 9-11.  Visit 54Below.com for information and tickets

    2 October 2012, 6:15 pm
  • 10 minutes
    Ep.21 - Tony DeSare

    A conversation with jazz singer, songwriter and pianist, Tony DeSare who will be at the club October 2-13th.  Visit 54below.com for tickets and more information. 

    28 September 2012, 6:00 pm
  • 17 minutes 58 seconds
    Ep. 20 - Christine Andreas

    A conversation with Christine Andreas who first captured the hearts of Broadway theatregoers as Eliza Doolittle in the 20th anniversary production of My Fair Lady

    for which she won the Theatre World Award. She went on tostar in Oklahoma and On Your Toes (receiving Tonynominations for each), The Scarlet Pimpernel and, just lastseason, La Cage Aus Folles. From 2006-7, she received ravereviews in the national tour of The Light in the Piazza. ThisOctober, join Christine for a whole new evening of music asshe appears on our stage for two very special performancesonly on October 1st and 8th.  Visits 54Below for tickets and more information.

    28 September 2012, 5:57 pm
  • 11 minutes 18 seconds
    Ep.19 - Barbara Carroll

    The 87-year old jazz legend, Barbara Carroll, remembers her days on "swing street" the jazz hub of New York City on 52nd street through the early 1950s. Carroll recounts stories of playing with Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and a once little-known singer known by the name of Anthony Benedetto.

    Barbara Carroll performs at 54Below on Sunday afternoons through Nov. 11th.  Visit 54Below.com for more information and tickets.

    20 September 2012, 6:59 pm
  • 11 minutes 1 second
    Ep.18 - Jason Robert Brown

    Jason Robert Brown, Tony award-winning lyricist, composer and performer sits down with 54Below Programming Director, Phil Geoffrey Bond, to talk about his short run at 54Below, through September 15th, that will include hits from The Last Five Years, Songs for a New World, and the upcoming musicals The Bridges of Madison County and Honeymoon in Vegas for which he was composer and lyricist.  Hailed as "one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephan Sondheim," hear about Brown's journey from New York piano bars, to Broadway.

    13 September 2012, 3:29 pm
  • 14 minutes 17 seconds
    Ep.17 - Ann Hampton Callaway

    Ann Hampton Callaway is a Platinum Award winning singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger and songwriter whose songs are featured on six of Barbra Streisand's recent CD's.  She s best known for her Tony-nominated performance in the hit Broadway musical Swing! And for her jazz-cabaret singing as a solo performer and with her sister, Liz Callaway, in the award-winning show Sibling Revelry. 

    Tonight she speaks with Richard Frankel about her 54Below show, the "Streisand Songbook" (September 25-29th) a tribute to iconic singer and performer, Barbara Streisand, as well as her life growing up in Chicago, her dutiful “greatness training” as a young, aspiring performer, and the formative influence of her family including sister and co-star, Liz Callaway. 

    10 September 2012, 2:21 pm
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