Singing Along with the NYC Gay Men’s Chorus, Part II
NYCGMC - photo by Haq Qureshi
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
The audience sing-along segment of the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus’ (NYCGMC) December holiday concert, joining the 150 singers in seasonal caroling, has always been one the most popular parts of its end-of-year effort. Consequently, the Chorus scheduled a full evening of singing along, last March, Read more
FIP Ventures Discloses $17,000,000 Purchase Price for Pines Properties
(l-r) Weissman, Blesso, Kirtzman - photos courtesy of Edelman Public Relations
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
Following up on our January story, “FIP Ventures Will Buy Pines Harbor Properties,” in these pages, on March 25, FIP Ventures LLC disclosed that the official purchase price it is paying for Pines commercial properties and establishments is $17,000,000, described by publicist Marisa Picker, of Edelman Public Relations, as financially “the largest transaction Read more
Baña Takes Us Lustily “Cruising the Black Sea” at Downtown Russian & Turkish Baths
Billy & Brian - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On March 19, on Fulton Street in downtown Manhattan, Baña Pool Party hosts Dave Hickey and P.J. took us “Cruising the Black Sea,” for five hours late at night/early in the morning, at Wall Street Bath & Spa 88, “Russian & Turkish Baths since 1892,” for a rather different evening than some of our ancestors, out for a night at the “schwitz,” might have enjoyed there.
Some 200 men, many raring to go for the Black Party the next night, took advantage of the steam room, sauna, hot tubs, Olympic-size Read more
Collegiate Chorale Concert Raises the Question, Is Gordon & Korie’s “Grapes of Wrath” the Great American Opera?
cast photos - submitted by Ricky Ian Gordon
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
Composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Michael Korie’s complete, three-act, four-hour opera “The Grapes of Wrath,” after John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel of life and strife during the Great Depression, was given a world premiere by the Minnesota Opera on February 10, 2007, subsequent performances by the Pittsburgh Opera, and further hearings in Utah and Texas, but has not yet reached New York. On March 22, at Carnegie Hall, the Collegiate Chorale, assisted by a strong slate of Broadway and opera performers, rectified this situation somewhat by presenting the world premiere of “The Grapes of Wrath: Concert Opera Version in Two Acts,” and giving us an approximately two-and-a-half-hour taste Read more
Emperor Tony Monteleone & Empress Anne Tique Pose with Broadway Bares Dancers to Promote Night of 1000 Gowns
Emperor Tony Monteleone and Empress Anne Tique with Tom Viola and sexy Broadway Bares dancers Kyle DesChamps, Charlie Williams, and Adam Hart - photo by Joseph R. Saporito
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On March 19, in Times Square, New York Emperor XVIII Tony Monteleone and Empress XXIII Anne Tique, who will step down from their thrones, after their year’s reign, on March 27 at the Imperial Court of New York’s (ICNY) 24th annual Night of a Thousand Gowns (NOATG), at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, on Broadway at 46th Street, posed with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola and sexy Broadway Bares dancers Kyle DesChamps from “Billy Elliot,” Charlie Williams from “Memphis,” and Adam Hart from “Mamma Mia!” who will be appearing at the ball. The gala event will raise funds for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and God’s Love We Deliver, which brings meals to homebound people with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other serious illnesses. Read more
GUY FRIDAY: Cloudy, With A Chance…
Joey Adami
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By Joey Adami
In this great big galaxy we call New York, sometimes, and with the right amount of luck, the stars align. There you are, casually slipping your Chi-Latte, when you lock eyes. A casual grin leads into a breathless hello. This afternoon-delight puts you back on your heels, with not only his number, but also a possible unexpected romance.
My world-wind romance came on the back of a dreadful week: first, being laid off as my career came to a halt, and second, being over thirty and having another birthday. This much-needed spark of chemistry filled an empty timecard with just enough pillow talk.
His name? Chance.
I never really took note of the night sky and of what happens above our heads. For me, I make my own luck and have always relied on instinct rather than chance. Call me wildly independent, but that happens when your heart gets broken for the first time and a few relationship battle scars add up. Read more
Arts Florissants Field Rarified, Fascinating Purcell-Shakespeare “Fairy Queen”
Claire Debono, with crystal ball, & Alice Haig - photo by Pierre Grosbois
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
A delightful collision of Henry Purcell’s rarified florid music; William Shakespeare’s comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream;” and classic dance is taking place this week, in the Howard Gilman Opera House at Brooklyn Read more
Baroque-a-Nova at BAM
cast - photo (c) Jack Vartoogian
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by Sherri Rase
BAM Harvey Theatre in Brooklyn hosted a delightful late afternoon double bill on Sunday, March 21 of two Baroque operas that were just right for early Spring delectation. Read more
Sara Henry, David Clenny & Company Field a Fine “Lucia” for Haitian Relief
(front row: left to right) Gregg Lauterbach, Antonio Giuliano, guest Elaine Malbin, David Clenny & Sara Henry, (second row: left to right) Eduardo Medrano, Dorian Balis & Sarah Beaty, with “Lucia di Lammermoor” chorus – photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On March 21, at Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan, on West 100th Street, the West Side Opera Society, under Artistic Director David Clenny, gave a concert performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor,” Read more
Brooding, Bloodshed & Bel Canto Mark First Met “Hamlet,” by Thomas, in 113 Years
Simon Keenlyside as Hamlet - photo by Marty Sohl, Metropolitan Opera
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
People make major messes, bloody and otherwise, in the new Metropolitan Opera production of Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet” (1868), the French grand opera, which bears passing resemblance to William Shakespeare’s play of the same name and which returned to the Met repertory this month for the first time since New Year’s Day 1897. Read more
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