Richard Skipper Celebrates

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/Mk8hMLICY7s Jim Hibbard’s professional career has spanned more than fifty years. He has worked in film, television, stage and nightclubs in disciplines such as dancing, singing, acting, choreographing, directing, writing, producing and post production foley work. Jim’s film work includes Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand, Gypsy w...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/yrCh8lWOSzI Originally from Indianapolis, Parker arrived in the Washington DC area in 2017 (by way of Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Montreal, Nashville, Saint Louis, and Dallas). He is a classically-trained singer and for the last 30 years has performed with orchestras and chorales in concert halls across North America - notab...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/kHsT75MTHT0 An Impromptu Interview with Mary Lahti!  Mary is a 2014 MAC Award winner for best New York Debut Show for  and was in Lois Morton' s revue show, Twentieth Century Girl that won the 2014 MAC Award for Best Revue. Mary volunteers when she can for the cabaret and theater community especially when it supports special caus...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/PRSABEVOK7Y St. Patrick's Day Leprechauns, pots of gold, and a whole lot of green! Billy Terrell Songwriter-Producer-Performer-Author Billy Terrell began his career in entertainment in Asbury Park, New Jersey in 1963 at the age of 18. He was signed by Kama Sutra Productions as a writer/artist in 1965 which was interrupted by the...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/CgRGGeGImg4 Hosted by Jason Graae, it will feature a cast of MTG performers, and a special appearance by former MTG member Teri Ralston, from the original Broadway casts of COMPANY and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. Playwright and screenwriter Duane Poole has created an original revue script that will showcase material from virtually ever...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/T2m0nVJ6fr8 LANA GORDON was born in New London, Connecticut. In 1989, she studied dance at New York City’s Alvin Ailey School. Gordon next participated in a repertory ensemble directed by Sylvia Walters for over 3 years, before joining Donald Bird’s ensemble “The/Group.” Gordon then played the role of Dionne in the European tour...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/PUshNVucPFI Legendary Producer and General Manager Albert Poland's work has spanned the dawn of Off-Broadway, the Broadway blockbusters of the 1980s and 1990s, and beyond.  He worked with them all, from an unknown Sam Shepard and David Mamet, to Edward Albee and Arthur Miller.  He was also the founder of the Judy Garland Fan Club...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/j1h42IjxOeI National Promposal Day Get ready to ask your boo to prom in a super elaborate way. We are wrapping up the week on a positive note. Of Course, there is still the weekend! We will discuss the week we've all just experienced. Richard is joined by Joe Brancato: Under the dynamic leadership of founding Artistic Director Jo...

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For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/XkUJNWbOSh8 Todd Schroeder is a brilliantly talented pianist, composer, vocal performance coach and certainly one of the hardest-working music directors in the world with the prestigious L.A Stage Alliance awarding him their Ovation Award for “Best Musical Direction” and BroadwayWorld.com named him their “Musical Director of the...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/iV8SgAnryeU Join Lee Roy Reams on a journey from his hometown of Covington, Kentucky to the bright lights of Manhattan where he encounters “Broadway’s best.” Listen as he recalls his first Broadway audition for the great Richard Rodgers that resulted in his portrayal of Will Parker in the Lincoln Center revival of Oklahoma! Ever...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/qIA-Yarq4-k Robert Montano – was raised in Hempstead, LI, close enough to Belmont Park Racetrack where he had his first career as a professional racehorse jockey. However, by age 18, Mother Nature caught up to him and outgrew his silks. Smitten by the film Saturday Night Fever, Robert traded his jockey boots for ballet slippers...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/OOTJDK-_bx8 Patrice McKinley has been a certified life coach for 12 years and is also a certified facilitator of the highly acclaimed Thinking into Results program. She has been personally trained and mentored by world-renowned success and personal development expert Bob Proctor and legendary corporate attorney Sandra Gallagher....

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/pYcjOdVI66I On Broadway, Sam received a Tony, Outer Critic’s Circle and Drama Desk nominations for his work in Cy Coleman’s THE LIFE, a Drama League Award and Drama Desk nomination for his role in Tommy Tune’s GREASE, and appeared in Mel Brooks’, THE PRODUCERS, as well as JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, CABARET, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TE...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/FT504-m1lcc Today, It is Time to March Forth! Because March 4 is associated with marching forth, it is the perfect date to motivate oneself to achieve goals. It's Benjamin Harrison Day. The grandson of William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison followed in the family footsteps and served a...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/SLB1rNqz85g Dear Ricahrd; What a wonderful time! I enjoyed every minute of it and thought you were terrific at asking questions that helped the audience get a well rounded picture of who I am and what I do.  Thanks a million! Big Hugs; Steve (TOQ) Steve Hayes is an actor/comedian and host of the hit YouTube show: “STEVE HAYES: Ti...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/Ap7xJQGyx6g Rita Gardner is a renowned singer, teacher, and actress of stage and screen with a long career spanning many years of exciting projects Gardner made her stage debut Off-Broadway in Jerry Herman's musical review Nightcap before her breakout turn as Luisa in the original cast of The Fantasticks in 1960. Gardner made her...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:https://youtu.be/ge_ED0TzkVg n 1981, two-time Academy Award-winning film star Elizabeth Taylor made her anticipated Broadway debut in a revival of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Martin Beck Theatre (now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre).  It was the Broadway debut for them both and ran eighteen months all over the world. On March 31st, Ann wil...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/wRnKC_O2iBk The Let That Go! Show with Kassira McKee and Richard Skipper Saturday February 26th 5PM For Pete's Sake Day! For Pete's Sake, Kassira and I are meeting this week on Saturday night instead of Sunday night and we will be joined by Teresa Cook and the topic will be The Evolution of Change. Evolutionary change is incremen...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/OnJb_r2138Y Richard Skipper's Friday Wrap Up February 25th 5PM Let's All Eat Right Day Quiet Day Boost Your Self Esteem Month Bake For Family Fun Month National Skip The Straw Day Joined by Glen Charlow, Deborah Stone, Glenn Rosenblum, Ron Spivak, and Karen Mason. Richard's Friday Wrap-Up You Never Know Who Might Show Up And Wha...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/XZEW6ku_A-w Join the thousands of teachers and students around the globe celebrating the use of digital technology in education for Digital Learning Day on February 22nd. Ava Cherry is a singer and model. She collaborated with English musician David Bowie between 1972 and 1975; the two met in New York City when she was a nightclu...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/6VoVZ53bobE Two time Tony winner Judy Kaye recently returned to the role of Madame Morrible after creating the role of Queen Elizabeth II in the new musical DIANA on Broadway. Previously she played the Dowager Empress in ANASTASIA. Her other appearances on Broadway and on tour include Madame Morrible in WICKED, the Fairy Godmoth...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/tY-8dsaJfOs Richard crafted such a welcoming and thought-provoking atmosphere for our hour together on Richard Skipper Celebrates! The times we are living in and the chapter I am in as an artist can cause a lot of anxiety and doubt- but not today! Forever grateful, Richard!! Looking forward to our next chat, and I thank you so mu...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/_lzRDwvhsmI National Love Your Pet Day A day to embrace one special trait that makes us human: our love of our pets! We will also be discussing Reasons We Hold On. It’s like snatching a security blanket from a kid. Or ripping a band-aid off of an open wound. You can’t quite do it. Ditto with letting go of the past. That’s the dil...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/9ehCS_3CQZk Michael Townsend Wright began doing puppet shows in his yard for the neighborhood children at the age of three and has been performing ever since. He sang at schools, churches and VFWs as a child as well as acting in local theater groups. He toured the country with Dr. Edison's Medicine Show and has worked in theater,...