NEW YORK IN SONG TV Presentation
Features Stars from Cabaret & Broadway

More than 30 of New York's leading cabaret singers, musicians and songwriters perform in NEW YORK IN SONG, a 90-minute CUNY-TV 75 television program featuring great songs and obscure songs about New York to raise funds to provide college scholarships for children of victims of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks.

NEW YORK IN SONG debuts Friday March 8, 2002 at 8:00 pm and repeats Saturday March 9th at 9:00 pm, Sunday March 10th at 9:00 pm and on the six-month anniversary of the terrorist attack, Monday March 11th at 11:00 pm. An additional cable-cast will be Friday March 15th at Midnight.

The program presents a star-studded list of cabaret and Broadway music theatre performers: Barbara Carroll, the Queen of New York Cabaret who regularly enchants audiences at the Carlyle Hotel, plays "Autumn in New York" with Jay Leonhart on bass; Christine Ebersole, who won a 2000 Tony for her role in the revival of "42nd Street," sings "Lullaby of Broadway"; Karen Mason, currently on Broadway in the ABBA musical "Mamma Mia," sings Kander & Ebb's "New York, New York"; and Malcolm Gets (of TV's "Caroline in the City") plays and sings Sondheim's "So Many People."

Actress-Singer Kitty Carlisle Hart hosts NEW YORK IN SONG, which highlights the creative work of songwriters inspired by the city. Lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green perform their classic song, "New York, New York ... A Helluva Town." Composer Charles Strouse plays and sings with Christine Andreas his anthem "N.Y.C." from the musical "Annie," and songwriter Julie Gold plays her evocative "Goodnight New York" sung by Heather Mac Rae. Mary Cleere Haran delivers dazzling renditions of "42nd Street" and "Crazy Rhythm" with Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, piano/vocals, and Linc Milliman on bass. Tovah Feldshuh, acting the role of a street kid, presents Gerard Kenny's offbeat song "New York, New York ... So Good They Named it Twice."

The cream of the city's cabaret performers -- David Staller, Phillip Officer, Larry Woodard, Mark Nadler, Eric Comstock, Billy Stritch, Liz Callaway, KT Sullivan, Craig Rubano, Jeff Harnar and Sidney Myer add luster to the benefit performance along with musical directors Dick Gallagher, Christopher Denny, David Lewis, Alex Rybeck, Paul Trueblood, David Maiocco and bass player, Mary Ann McSweeney.

Viewers who make a tax-deductible contribution of $75 or more to the "CSFA - Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund" c/o of CUNY-TV, 365 Fifth Avenue Suite 1400, New York, NY 10016, will receive a VHS copy of the 90-minute program. The Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America is based in Minneapolis and is the nation's largest nonprofit administrator of private scholarship programs.

The entire artistic, technical and creative staff has donated its talents to produce the program, as have all the singers, musicians and composers. Michael A. Kerker, head of the music theatre program of ASCAP (the American Society of Composers and Publishers), and Donald Smith, executive director of the Mabel Mercer Foundation and producer of the annual Cabaret Convention at Town Hall in New York City, were creative advisor and consultant respectively.

The program features evocative photographs of New York City by Gerald & Marc Hoberman from their 2001 book NEW YORK.

NEW YORK IN SONG was produced and directed by Ruth Leon and Howard Weinberg for CUNY-TV. The editor was Brandon Uhlig of CUNY-TV. The executive producer of NEW YORK IN SONG is Leonard Fleischer. The Executive Director of CUNY-TV is Robert Isaacson.

NEW YORK IN SONG is made possible by Verizon, the Eleanor and Howard Morgan Family Foundation, Jill Framer Cohen, the Jack and Mimi Amsterdam Foundation, Janet Bramwell Norman, Theodore C. Rogers, and Martin E. Segal.

 

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