GREAT WHITE WAY SERIES WITH DANIELS, CATES, ALVIN
THE WEST BANK CAFE/LAURIE BEECHMAN THEATER (407 West 42nd Street,
NYC - 212-695-6909 -
http://www.westbankcafe.com/theater/schedule
) is pleased to announce an exciting new series: Voices from the Great
White Way. Beginning in April, the club will be celebrating some of
the most thrilling voices from Broadway in our intimate theatre located
in the heart of New York's Theatre District. The schedule is as follows:
Monday, April 9: Nikki Renee Daniels (Les Miserables); Monday, April
23: Kristy Cates (Wicked); Monday, April 30: Farah Alvin (Nine). All
performances at 7:00 pm.
Nikki Renee Daniels Broadway credits include Les Miserables,
Lestat, Nine, Aida, Little Shop of Horrors and The Look of Love.
At the New York City Opera she performed in Porgy and Bess (Clara).
Regional credits include Anything Goes (Hope) at Williamstown Theatre
Festival; Beauty and the Beast (Belle) at North Shore Music Theatre
and Sacramento Music Circus; Dorian (Celia Vane) at the Denver Center
and Ragtime (Sarah) at North Shore Music Theatre. Nikki has performed
as a soloist with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the
University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music.
Kristy Cates is best known for playing the role of
Elphaba in the smash hit musical, Wicked. She made her Broadway
debut as a member of the original Broadway cast (as, among other
things, "the woman with the parasol" in the Emerald City). Kristy
was the original understudy to Idina Menzel, and filled in for an
injured Stephanie Block for several weeks in Toronto, the first
stop of the Wicked National Tour. Recently, Kristy returned to New
York, following a nearly twelve month run as Elphaba in the Chicago
production of the mega-hit. Other New York credits include Princess
Ida and her acclaimed portrayal of Ruth Wallis in the off-Broadway
production of Boobs! The Musical. Kristy has also appeared at the
St. Louis MUNY, The Lucille Lortel White Barn Theatre, North Bay
Opera, The Playhouse on the Green and The Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Conference. As a singer, she's appeared at a number of nightlife
hotspots, including Don't Tell Mama, The Duplex Cabaret Theatre,
The Producer's Club, Joe's Pub, XL, The Triad and Therapy. She was
also honored to sing the National Anthem for the Chicago Bears,
Bulls and White Sox. In January of 2007, Kristy was proud to present
a series of sold out solo concerts at Metropolis Performing Arts
Center in Arlington Heights, IL. Kristy is a proud graduate of the
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music where she was the first recipient
of the Laurie Beechman Scholarship Award.
Singer/Songwriter Farah Alvin has been making a name
for herself in New York Theater for over ten years. On Broadway,
Farah has appeared in the Tony Award-winning revival of Nine, The
Look of Love: The Music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Saturday
Night Fever, Grease! (also National Tour) and Madison Square Garden's
A Christmas Carol. Last year, Farah starred as Marcy Fitzwilliams
in the off-Broadway cult hit I Love You Because. Other off-Broadway
credits include Kuni-leml at the Jewish Repertory Theatre, as well
as Cam Jansen and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie for TheatreworksUSA.
Recently, she starred as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance at Goodspeed
Opera House. She has appeared as a soloist with the symphony orchestras
of Indianapolis, Seattle, Detroit and the National symphonies of
The United States and Canada. Farah can also be heard on the original
cast recording of I Love You Because, the concept recording of Frank
Wildhorn's Jekyll and Hyde and Varesse Sarabande's Burt Bacharach
Album, among others. In addition to her theater work, Farah is also
an accomplished singer/songwriter. Her songs blend the worlds of
folk, jazz, pop and blues with deeply expressive and ironically
humorous lyrics. She has been performing with her band, The Farah
Alvin Orchestra, around New York for three years.
There is a $20 cover charge for each performance,
as well as a $15 food/beverage minimum.
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