Richard Skipper Celebrates

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: http://youtu.be/n1eIVTxTtY4 Eddie Korbich is currently appearing on Broadway in The Music Man. He has also appeared on Broadway in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, A Christmas Story, The Little Mermaid, The Drowsy Chaperone (Drama Desk nomination), After the Night and the Music, Wicked, Seussical, Carousel, Singin’...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/0IJIGbcSQFE Although holding onto people, places and things is a human trait, it doesn’t mean it’s good for us. It keeps us stuck and attracts more negativity into our lives. In LET THAT GO! Kassíra McKee leaves no stone unturned. By presenting examples of her own and others’ personal experiences, she clearly identifies the reaso...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/o4eV9qN2SEI Karen Morrow, beloved stage and television personality, first stepped onto the New York stage as the female lead 'Jeannie' in I Had a Ball co-starring Buddy Hackett and Richard Kiley. Her last performance on Broadway was playing the dual role of ‘The Princess Puffer’/‘Miss Angela Prysock’ in the original Tony® Award-w...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/0hu9wbebKOg National Potato Day is August 19, so if you like spuds, this one’s for you! Never celebrated this tasty tot before? Good news, we have the lowdown on how to do things up right with facts and links to turn you from couch potato to party animal. Potatoes have been a popular food for centuries so it’s about time we recog...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/enRebjK97Uk ALAN PAUL is one of the founding members of internationally acclaimed, 10 x GRAMMY AWARD winning vocal group, THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER. This year, 2022, the group is celebrating their 50th Anniversary with a worldwide tour and a new album FIFTY, being released by Craft/Concord in October. Alan was born and raised in New...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/2wqCy5X48Rg LaVon Fisher-Wilson's Broadway credits include: The Color Purple (Sophia, three Gossips, Church Soloist), Chicago the Musical (Mama Morton), Lysistrata Jones (Heteira), and Disney’s Newsies (Medda Larkin). Her off-Broadway credits include Emmet Otters Jugband Christmas (Mrs. Mink), Three Mo Tenors, Super You the Music...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/DjeqKdR7TnQ Although holding onto people, places and things is a human trait, it doesn't mean it's good for us. It keeps us stuck and attracts more negativity into our lives. In LET THAT GO! Kassíra McKee leaves no stone unturned. By presenting examples of her own and others' personal experiences, she clearly identifies the reaso...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/TQxoz9lHk08 For those who value the quality of sound, vinyl records are here to stay. As we wrap up the week, I will be joined by 5 friends who will share their favorite vinyl record experiences! National Vinyl Record Day on August 12 is your chance to go old school. Spin music lovers all around the world have disagreements on a...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/FEa7aN3EGoo Patricia Ann Carroll (May 5, 1927 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress and comedian. She was known for voicing Ursula in The Little Mermaid as well as having a long acting career, including appearances in CBS's The Danny Thomas Show, ABC's Laverne & Shirley, and NBC's ER. Carroll was an Emmy, Drama Desk, and...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/PSgUudEb3SY Brad Oscar was nominated for the 2001 Tony Award for his role as Nazi playwright "Franz Liebkind" in The Producers. He has appeared in several productions at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC. In 2005, he played "The Devil" (Mr. Applegate) in Damn Yankees, and in October 2006 he played "Master of Ceremonies" in Cabare...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/ydPysrh8JcI Gary Flannery is a professional performer who toured the world as Shirley MacLaine’s partner; was a Principal Dancer on many TV Shows and Hollywood movies; and was a lead dancer on Broadway in Pippin and Dancin', and in the movie All That Jazz (Bob Fosse called Gary “The Bull” for the sheer non-stop energy). Gary has...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/p09XctTNxhQ KURT PETERSON began his Broadway career when Leonard Bernstein and Richard Rodgers chose him to play Tony in the revival of West Side Story at Lincoln Center. He then starred opposite Angela Lansbury in Dear World and created the role of Young Ben in Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. Off-Broadway, Kurt starred in Dames at S...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/1gXmmJR6ppk The Magic of Believing: An Excerpt from Broadway World, by Stephen Mosher Aug. 6, 2019 The musical autobiography that Mr. Skipper presented was a true celebration of a gifted entertainer and a resilient human being – and it was an absolute delight. The standing-room-only audience was a veritable who’s who of cabaret l...

For Video Edition, Please Click Here and Subscribe: https://youtu.be/q40VLNI1Rns Michael grew up in Ohio where he did musicals and danced with his sister around Cleveland and Lorain, his home town. He attended the Boston conservatory of Music and spent summers in summer stock at the Milwaukee Melody Top doing 16 different shows choreographed by Tommy Tune, such as Sweet Charity with Gretchen Wyler...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/IbNnEKk-S24 Adrienne Aurichio is the Director of Bill Eppridge’s photographic archive and the editor of Becoming Barbra published in 2018. Adrienne spent twenty years as a picture editor at magazines, and book publishers. She and Bill met in 1986 while they were both working at Sports Illustrated. He had previously been a staff p...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/69YNNK8oNgk Prime-Time Emmy-nominated actress Lee Purcell recently completed a starring role in the upcoming feature film CAROL OF THE BELLS for director Joey Travolta and his Inclusion Films, scheduled to be released late 2019. Lee is the recipient of two Prime-Time Emmy nominations, her first being for LONG ROAD HOME starring o...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/m79ArEJpd70 Christine Andreas’ shows in NY at 54 Below: Love Is Good, beMused, And So It Goes…, Cafe Society, and most recently PIAF - No Regrets had the NY Times accusing her of “ …electrifying her audiences, transforming them with pure alchemy and delicately killing with the sheer beauty of her voice… ” On Broadway, this multip...

For Video Edition, Please Click Here and Subscribe: https://youtu.be/0W-s75LaXK0 Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Charlotte Crossley better known as Charlo got her start singing in the choir at Metropolitan Community Church at the tender age of seven. She continued music education in elementary school learning the piano and clarinet and continued until she graduated from South Shore H...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/3Ie_C-ipr-s Every girl's (and some guys!) go-to makeup item and the power of a set of stained lips is celebrated on National Lipstick Day on July 29. Splurge on the high-end crimson lipstick you’ve been eyeing this July 29, National Lipstick Day! Lipstick has likely been around for thousands of years, made out of an insane array...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/agam6y-sWwo Donna Pescow was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from New York's prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA). Shortly after graduation, she was cast as Annette in the iconic film Saturday Night Fever that launched her career. For her performance, Ms. Pescow was named Best Supporting Actre...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/wpw48ITN_gU For millions of people, Peggy Dillard-Toone is instantly recognizable. As a leading model in the world of fashion, she has been featured on the covers of international fashion and glamour magazines, like Cosmopolitan, Essence, Ebony and Mademoiselle, becoming the second African-American woman to appear on the cover of...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/wpw48ITN_gU Carole Cook is a veteran of stage, film and television. On Broadway, Carole created the roles of Blanche Daly in the hit play ROMANTIC COMEDY and Maggie Jones in the legendary Tony Award winning musical 42ND STREET. Additionally, Carole was the second actress in the world to take on the lead role in HELLO DOLLY, follo...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/DpcO3itP6GE National Hammock Day is celebrated every year on July 22 to commemorate the universal symbol for relaxation. Developed by the Mayans of Central and South America for sleeping or resting, a hammock is a sling made of fabric, rope or netting, which is suspended between two points such as posts or trees. Most often, hamm...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/wrvdt0M51Zg Maria Corsaro returned to her first love, singing, several years ago which led to a duo show at The Laurie Beechman Theater, her solo debut show at Don’t Tell Mama and various other performances at many of NYC and CT cabaret rooms. Her recent focus has been returning to her love of jazz and the music of legendary jaz...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/BoQXAbvWjWo A Sprinkling of Stardust over the Outhouse is the long-awaited follow-up to Paul Brogan's highly successful first book, Was That a Name I Dropped? released in 2011. Paul came out as gay when he was ten in the early 1960s and faced a number of obstacles for doing so. He approached them without losing sight of who he wa...