CAST PARTY RETURNS!! NEW TIME - NEW LOCATION

On Monday, May 10th at 9:00 pm, NYC'S favorite weekly showbiz bash returns! The new headquarters for Jim Caruso's CAST PARTY will be Steven Minichiello's PINK ROOM AT CLUB BLACK (605 West 55 Street (between 11th & 12th), NYC - 212-582-8282). THE PINK ROOM is the VIP lounge for Club Black, and has been the scene for private parties given by Beyonce, Prince and Armani and others. Opening night will be a swell soiree - with free pink champagne for everyone during the first two hours! Please notice that the Party will start at 9:00 pm. Joining Caruso will be Billy Stritch at the piano and Steve Doyle on bass. No cover! No minimum!

Club Black is a huge nightclub with a gigantic dance floor - ala Studio 54. The Pink Room is on the third floor, with it's own entrance (605 West 55 Street) in back of the main club. The host, Steven Minichiello, is "working his pinkness off" to create a gorgeous room in which the Cast Partiers can celebrate - with a new baby grand, new sound system, beautiful lighting and superb staff.

Performer and host Jim Caruso accidentally began the CAST PARTY phenomenon on a fateful Monday night in December, 2002. What started as a gathering of friends around a piano became the event for New York performers and theater-lovers, winning a 2004 Nightlife Award and being honored by New York Magazine in the "Best Of" issue. The move to Steven Minichiello’s Pink Room at Club Black marks an exciting new chapter in the CAST PARTY saga, but the structure of the evening will remain the same. The doors open at 9:00 pm, and Caruso begins taking names on his clipboard. Those listed take their turns being called to the stage to entertain their peers, friends and fans until the wee hours. The CAST PARTY crowd celebrates show openings, show closings, and CD releases, but it remains above all else, an opportunity for the pros and the not-yet-discovered talents to relax and enjoy great music with friends.

Jim Caruso has won four MAC Awards and two BackStage Magazine Bistro Awards for his shows in Manhattan nightclubs and concert halls. He guest-hosted "Broadway on Broadway 2000" in Times Square for 100,000 theater fans, hosted the 2000 MAC Awards at Town Hall, and co-hosted the 2003 Drama Desk Awards webcast. His debut recording, Caruso Live and In Person (LML Music), was number one on both the album and singles charts at Outvoice.com. Caruso was founding member of the award-winning jazz vocal and comedy trio, Wiseguys, which performed in concert at Carnegie Hall twice, and at President Clinton’s first State Dinner at the White House. As a writer, Jim was consulting editor and writer for the largest selling InTheater Magazine in history, and he contributes regularly to Theatermania.

Caruso will be joined on stage by Billy Stritch (piano) and Steve Doyle (bass). An award-winning composer, arranger, vocalist and jazz pianist of extraordinary range and sophistication, Billy Stritch specializes in fresh and personal arrangements of Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Cy Coleman, Rodgers & Hart and the Gershwins. With the jazz vocal trio Montgomery, Plant & Stritch, he appeared with Mel Torme at Carnegie Hall. He has arranged for and performed with Liza Minnelli around the world, and recently spent two years performing as Oscar in the Broadway company of 42nd Street. As a composer, Stritch and Nashville composer Sandy Knox penned the 1994 Grammy Award-winning country song, "Does He Love You?," recorded by Reba McIntyre and Linda Davis, which has sold over four million copies nationwide. Bassist Steve Doyle was a semifinalist in the 1997 Theloneous Monk International Jazz Bass Competition. Steve made New York his home in 1991, and has since been composing and working professionally on the Manhattan jazz scene, appearing solo, with his band "Transmittance," and his duo, the Miles Griffith/Steve Doyle Duo.

Meantime, Jim Caruso's CAST PARTY is now a weekly web radio show, heard on BroadwayWorld.com at http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=810 . The web-radio show is a combination of live recordings from Cast Party, as well as in-studio interviews with Broadway and cabaret personalities who provide their private collection of performance recordings. Listeners can tune in every Tuesday and Friday night at 8:00 pm exclusively on BroadwayWorld.com.

 

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