AMANDA GREEN & JIM CARUSO AT THE WESTBANK CAFE

Award-winning songwriter/performer Amanda Green joins forces with the equally lauded singer/comedian, Jim Caruso, for four Mondays at THE WEST BANK CAFE/LAURIE BEECHMAN THEATER (407 West 42nd Street, NYC - 212-695-6909). At the piano will be musical director and jazz great, Billy Stritch. Performances will be October 21st, 28th, November 11th & 18th at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $20. Green and Caruso will perform together and separately in an evening of musical comedy and musical tragedy, featuring songs by Green, Mercer, Manilow and Mahler.

Ms. Green is a New York songwriter whose witty and imaginative lyrics have garnered her two MAC Awards, Back Stage Magazine's Bistro Award and the Abe Olman Award from The Songwriter's Hall of Fame. Her score for the musical, "Up the Week Without a Paddle" (music by Curtis Moore) was nominated for an LA Drama Critics Circle Award and won the Garland Award. Her revue, "Put A Little Love in Your Mouth: Amanda Green's Tongue-in-Cheek Songs," was performed Off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theater, as well as Joe's Pub, and co-starred Broadway and TV personalities Mario Cantone, Billy Stritch, Jonathan Dokuchitz and Mary Testa. A live CD of the show will be released shortly on the LML Music label. Amanda and many others have performed her songs in concerts at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Tavern on the Green, on Broadway in "Nothing Like a Dame" and at The Manhattan Theater Club. Amanda also writes for Playboy Magazine.

Mr. Caruso has won a total of four MAC Awards and two Back Stage Bistro Awards for his successful runs at Arci's Place, the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room, The Russian Tea Room and Caroline's. He and his vocal trio, Wiseguys, traveled the world with Liza Minnelli, performed for President Clinton's first State Dinner at the White House, and sang in concert at Carnegie Hall. Caruso co-hosted "Broadway On Broadway" in Times Square for 75,000 people, and hosted the 2000 MAC Awards at Town Hall. As an actor, he was recently seen in the Showtime Television film "Personal Assistant," was a regular on the variety sit-com "Cafœ DuArt," and will be seen in the upcoming film, "Games People Play." His debut recording, "Caruso Live and In Person," was released on the LML label last year, and within two weeks, went to number one on both album and singles charts at Outvoice.com. Jim has written about the high life for InStyle Magazine and the lowlife for Theatermania.com.

 

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