Richard Skipper Celebrates

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/ajOtGiERx6k DAVID SABELLA, award-winning singer and actor, celebrates the release of his new CD “Time Heals” at Pangea with his show, “Pandemic Relief.” The album “Time Heals” was recorded live during two previous performances of “Pandemic Relief,” and features musical favorites from Broadway and the Great American Songbook, re-...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: http://youtu.be/k5ZPFhlUb4g In today’s complex and challenging world, we often find ourselves facing problems for which there seem to be no answers. In this practical and inspirational book, songwriter and author David Friedman explores the idea that there are ALWAYS answers, and they often come in ways we don’t expect, if only we are willing to...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/fWARdxlDAiM Tony Waag (tap dancer, director, producer, choreographer, teacher & speaker) Tony Waag founded the American Tap Dance Foundation a non-profit New York City based tap dance organization in 2001 with a mission of establishing and legitimizing Tap Dance as a vital component of American Dance through creation, present...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/4u1Fk93JKM4 Hailed as “a star performer,” Bart Shatto has made his mark on Broadway, TV, Concert, and beyond. A member of the original Broadway casts of Tony-nominated "Hands on a Hardbody” and "The Civil War,” he has also been seen on Broadway in “War Paint,” the iconic role of Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables” and as originating...

For Video Editon, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/2ICFKnhAfJ4 The making and impact of West Side Story has so far been recounted only in vestiges. In the pages of this book, the backstage tale comes to life along with insight on what has made the film a favorite across six decades: its brilliant use of dance as staged by erstwhile co-director Jerome Robbins; a meaningful story, a...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/BsFCkds8WUQ Ken has designed nearly 100 Broadway productions including Act One, Chaplin, Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway, The Scottsboro Boys, Sondheim on Sondheim, [Title of Show], The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe starring Lily Tomlin, Footloose, Candide (1997), Annie (1997), Annie Warbucks, Inherit the Win...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/uwdYHy9AcqQ As a student at Richland High School, now Pine-Richland High School (Gibsonia, PA; North of Pittsburgh), Calhoun was interested in both athletics and performance, playing football and studying tap dance. He danced in the ensemble at The Kenley Players in Ohio in the late 1970s where he met Tommy Tune. Tune later hired...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/pu6gDjQh-VI Dr. Judi Bloom is a practical, interactive, solution-focused therapist specializing in relationships and in navigating through major life transitions. For 26 years she has treated patients of every background and helped them work through a wide variety of personal challenges. Performer, producer, activist, community l...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/2wWsuaG6F3M The hour went by so fast that I didn't have time to thank you for the thoughtful and thought provoking interview. There were a couple of questions I could have answered better if I had been more awake and the coffee had kicked in. Thanks again for celebrating me.  sharon mcnight,  sharonmcnight.com   Multi award winni...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/KqVoNdhPlOU Lisa Howard was last seen on Broadway as Tammy in the new musical Escape To Margaritaville. Before that, she was a Drama Desk Nominee for her starring role of Jenny Steinberg in the musical comedy It Shouda Been You directed by David Hyde Pierce. Other Broadway roles include Diva 1 in Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, M...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/PkcDY0Paz1E Known in the cabaret and performance community as being a versatile singer who can move smoothly from one vocal genre to the next, Dawn Derow grew up in Eastham, MA and graduated from the Boston Conservatory with a Bachelor's Degree in Music: Vocal Performance & Opera Emphasis. She has performed around the world a...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/OmqZl5vX_3U Randy Skinner (Conceiver/Director/Choreographer). Broadway shows include 42nd Street (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Astaire nominations), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Dames at Sea (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Astaire nominations), Ain’t Broadway Grand (Tony, Outer Critics nom...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/MMK4BRpH_zc www. JordiCaballero.com Jordi Caballero is an actor, dancer-choreographer, musician and producer with a knack for crossing boundaries in the entertainment industry. As Jordi explains, "To me it doesn't matter what entertainment medium is used. My goal is to tell a story - be it through the eyes of a character, a movem...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/svHf6iV9xsM Dear Richard, I can’t thank you enough for having me on your show! It was such a wonderful chat…you remind me of a young Mike Douglas! He used to be a frequent guest at my nightclub! Thanks again for a great experience! Best, Rob Russell   Rob Russell was born and raised in Babylon, New York. He studied musical theate...

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For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/v5P8_6hD-W4 OMG! It’s Harvey Korman’s Son is a funny, heartwarming tale of what it was like to grow up in Hollywood with his famous cross-dressing comedian Dad, while trying to overcome his learning disability. Humor was his Dad’s weapon of choice to help his son deal with celebrities, charities and straddling a double life betw...

For Video Edition, Please Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/c7Z5Y8ShqDc Michael Anastasio: https://www.amazon.com/Gay-Boys-Life-Surviving-America/dp/B099HX1SPZ Born in Louisville, KY on September 4, Michael Anastasio lived there until 1975 when he relocated to Indianapolis for nearly four years, then on to Chicago for another four, then nearly three years in San Francisco, Boston for another ten, a...

For Video Edition, Please Click Here and Subscribe: https://youtu.be/yXzbuUE8Duc Band of Gold is the exciting story of singer and actress Freda Payne. While she is best known for her 1970 Number One hit "Band of Gold", and her 1971 Grammy nominated album, Contact, her story is an inspiring adventure, lived alongside the "who's who" of the show business world including Duke Ellington, Bob Hope, Fra...

  This episode explores how Al Hirschfeld viewed a new season. What did he draw, and what does it tell us about that season? For more than sixty years, Hirschfeld showed us the people and the productions we should look for as the season unfolded. It is not surprising that he often showed us what stage productions were about to open. Beginning in 1931 he gathered actors in new shows and created uni...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/ZHxIHUnatmM The show in which the Arts and Therapy come together to try and make sense of it all! Hosted by Dr. Judi Bloom and Richard Skipper Dr. Judi Bloom is a practical, interactive, solution-focused therapist specializing in relationships and in navigating through major life transitions. Carole Monferdini's career highlight...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/TdXaB8vhEqs For two decades, Tommy Tune was the maestro presiding over a string of glittering Broadway musicals that took the tradition of complete musical staging by a director-choreographer into a new era defined by spectacle and technology. He was last in a grand lineage led by Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, and Mi...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/RRe3aT2kTfQ Renée Taylor was born in the Bronx, New York to Frieda (née Silverstein) and Charles Wexler. She grew up in South Beach Florida where eventually, after years of success, she was given the key to the city. She worked as a comedian in the early 1960s at the New York City nightclub BonSoir where her opening act was a th...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/J9mewZUufXk PUNCILITIS and Other Diseases…Curable of Course by Punicillin (The Three Tomatoes Book Publishing, October 2021) is the brainchild of two clever, creative, and very accomplished octogenarians who came together to create their first book. Emmy® and Ace Award-winning TV producer Alyce Finell’s witty and clever puns, com...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/GIRI4D9bTNo Just concluded my conversation with Richard Skipper as the subject of his Celebrates series.(11/7/21) So much fun to do, and Richard has the knack of asking insightful questions leading to forgotten yet cherished moments of my life. Bravo! Matthew Ward, NYC   Matthew Martin Ward has played in the Broadway orchestras o...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/EZ-hf40zqlU During a thirty-year tenure at ICM, Douglas represented books, plays and musicals by Tennessee Williams,Arthur Miller, and many literary giants. He represented memoirs by Shelley Winters, Lana Turner, Maurice Evans, Eva Le Gallienne, Eartha Kitt, Lillian Gish, Peter Marshall, Hermione Gingold, Michael Crawford, Rose M...