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MUSICAL DUO IN MUSICAL TOAST TO BIRTHDAYS AT THE DUPLEX

2005 Back Stage Bistro Award Winner for Outstanding Vocalist and 2005 MAC Award Winner for Best Male Vocalist Brandon Cutrell and Captain Louie Musical Director Ray Fellman will celebrate their October birthdays when they host their second annual birthday party, RAY AND BRANDON'S BIRTHDAY BASH at THE DUPLEX CABARET THEATRE (61 Christopher Street, NYC - 1-212-255-5438 - http://www.theduplex.com/ ) on Sunday, October 9th at 9:30 pm.

The show will feature music never before performed by Brandon and Ray, as well as songs from Brandon's critically-acclaimed show No Reservations. Brandon and Ray will also perform songs often requested of them at their weekly open-mic party, Mostly Sondheim.

Special guests will include Shoshana Bean (Hairspray and Wicked), Nick Cearley, Scott Coulter, Karen Mason (Mamma Mia, Sunset Boulevard, Jerome Robbins Broadway, Play Me A Country Song, and Torch Song Trilogy), Kate Pazakis, Anne Runolfsson (The Phantom of the Opera, Victor/Victoria, James Joyce's The Dead, Cyrano, Les Miserables, and Aspects of Love), Gabrielle Stravelli and John Wasiniak (The Phantom of the Opera).

There is a $15 cover, as well as a 2-drink minimum.

MAC AWARD and BISTRO AWARD winner Brandon Cutrell made his entrance on the New York cabaret stage in 2001's It's an Art: The Music of Stephen Schwartz. Other New York credits: Broadway Unplugged at Town Hall, Pippin (with Ben Vereen and Rosie O'Donnell), Rags: In Concert, Dead Divas, New Mondays, Arise!, Mad About The Boy, Liz Swados' Waiting For Lefty, and David Friedman's King Island Christmas. Nationally, Brandon has performed with Theatre of the Stars, Goodspeed Musicals, the Human Race Theatre and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Brandon's solo cabaret debut, entitled, was honored by TheaterMania as the best debut show of 2002 and by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC), which honored Brandon in 2003 with the MAC Award for Best Male Debut. Brandon's most recent show, No Reservations, enjoyed a four month run in New York and received the praise of Stephen Holden in The New York Times. No Reservations also earned Brandon his second MAC Award, the 2005 MAC Award for Outstanding Male Vocalist. Every Friday night from 11pm to 4am at The Duplex in New York, Brandon is the host of Mostly Sondheim, an open-mic, musical theatre party.

Ray Fellman currently is Musical Director for the new Stephen Schwartz Off Broadway-bound musical, Captain Louie. Other Musical Director credits include The Tutor by Wood/Gerle (59 E. 59th), Reluctant Pilgrim (The Barrow Group), Blood Drive: A Musical Triptych by Sheinkin/Derfner (Workshop at the O'Neill Theater Center), and Amahl and the Night Visitors (National Tour directed by David Aiken). Ray served as Musical Director for several Brown County Playhouse productions, including Forever Plaid, Tintypes, Side by Side by Sondheim and Nunsense. At Indiana University, Ray was the Musical Director for Anything Goes, Cabaret, and Guys and Dolls. Ray has been seen behind the piano at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre in New Mondays (with Bill Russell and Emily Skinner), No Reservations (starring Brandon Cutrell with special guests Karen Mason and Shoshanna Bean), Broadway Downtown (with Kristy Cates) and We Miss Nancy: A Tribute to Nancy La Mott (with Liz McCartney). He has also served as accompanist for Utah Festival Opera Company, The Opera Company of Brooklyn, Mid America Productions at Carnegie Hall (with John Rutter) and A Yuletide Celebration with the Indianapolis Symphony starring Judy Kaye. Equally at home on the opera stage, Fellman has performed the roles of Marcello, Figaro, Silvio, Mandryka and Rigoletto for such opera companies as Glimmerglass Opera, New Orleans Opera, Chautauqua Opera and Florida Grand Opera, where he recently returned to sing the Ballad Singer in Mark Lamos' production of Britten's Paul Bunyan. Ray has degrees in piano and voice from the Indiana University School of Music and was a Richard F. Gold Career Grant recipient in 2001.

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