Richard Skipper Celebrates

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/cWYaL-fvFYU Linda Purl New York theater credits include Broadway productions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Getting and Spending and the Off-Broadway production of The Baby Dance. Among regional productions have been Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Hedda Gabler, The Real Thing, The Glass Menagerie, The Little Foxes...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/ZKLTr7-5T7U Dramatist and theatre artist Deborah Grace Winer is a leading expert and author on Broadway musicals and the American Songbook. The Wall Street Journal recently named her book on pioneer woman songwriter Dorothy Fields (On the Sunny Side of the Street: The life and lyrics of Dorothy Fields, Macmillan) one of the Five...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/Y6-S06y557w Meg Bussert is an award winning musical stage actor, Associate Professor, Mom, Grandmom, and Arts Advocate. In the 80’s and 90’s, Meg was a busy leading lady on Broadway and the Regions in a slew of revivals and new shows: The Music Man, Camelot, Brigadoon, H.M.S Pinafore, The New Moon, Firefly, Damn Yankees. the East...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/HsXh5HMsFvw JULIE HALSTON was awarded the 2020 Isabelle Stevenson TONY Award for her advocacy with The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. Last seen co-starring in Tootsie on Broadway, she also received the Richard Seff Award for her performance in You Can't Take It With You. Other Broadway credits: Hairspray, Gypsy, Anything Goes and...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/DK1N_rORoFE 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. In this episode, we celebrate The Skylight...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/RMR6hmioETE First created in 2015, Superheroes in Love started as an autobiographical story of how the couple met, fell in love, and are real-life superheroes. Since the pandemic, their show has evolved online into a residency in their living room or wherever they are, ever-evolving into a full hour variety show, often including...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/Ri8XL4xqLSo ,www.jamesbeaman.com  James Beaman has been working professionally as an actor for 34 years. His work has spanned the worlds of cabaret, female impersonation, classical theatre, Broadway musicals, independent film and episodic television. He has starred opposite such stars as Richard Chamberlain, Gary Beach, Sally Str...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/LW-JAVnn6ok  www.michaelcolby.com MICHAEL COLBY is the librettist/lyricist of such musicals as CHARLOTTE SWEET (Drama Desk Award nomination), TALES OF TINSELTOWN (Jay Records) NORTH ATLANTIC (Show Business Award), SLAY IT WITH MUSIC (off-Broadway & London), and THEY CHOSE ME!, (originated at TADA!). Upcoming: LUDLOW LADD (Dec...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/A8gVGocnIU4 Richard Maltby, Jr. & David Shire (2021 Oscar Hammerstein Award Recipients) have been writing together since 1958, making theirs the longest-running collaboration in musical theater history. They’ve written the scores for more than a dozen musicals, including Broadway’s Baby (Best Musical and Score Tony nomination...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/VTx9qkYOuZ8 Billy Gilman burst onto the national stage in 2000 releasing the hit single “One Voice.” His debut album was certified double platinum in the United States, and he was included in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the youngest singer to ever reach #1 on the Billboard Top Country Album charts. He has sold te...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: http://youtu.be/SWd0WAMrETA About The Author Producer, philanthropist, and activist Norman Lear has the distinction of being among the first seven television pioneers inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. He won his first two Emmy® Awards in 1971 (for All in the Family’s premiere season) and his most recent one in 2020, for Live in F...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/uIzOkvICWWw Mary Jo Catlett has been part of the main voice cast on SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) since its premiere, playing SpongeBob's teacher, Mrs. Puff. She is an unmistakably happy and hearty veteran character actress and comedienne who has found success in all three mediums (stage, film and television) with her trademark fl...

For Video Edtition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/Bi3h3HdGKv8 Michael Ernest Renzi (April 28, 1941 – September 28, 2021) was an American composer, music director, pianist, and jazz musician. We celebrate his rich legacy with a few of those who worked with him and knew him best. Nicolas King was among the guests to appear. An immensely talented musician, Renzi was influenced in...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/ABpQmmDcSfU AVERY SOMMERS is an award-winning actress, singer, and director whose voice has been described as a “powerhouse” by The New York Times. Avery appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, and Chicago. She delighted audiences in the national tour of Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Her portrayal of Matr...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/H4ea2L75biY ABOUT MERRY WITCHMAS Ginger the Halloween witch has a big Christmas wish–a visit from Santa Claus. But Santa doesn’t believe in witches–until Ginger’s letter to him magically appears on his desk! Ginger spends a lot of her time creating spells, and flying through the night on her broom. But she is different from the o...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/29hNwWcfbd In the 1980’s, Ritch Shydner made numerous appearances on TV, including “Late Night with David Letterman” and “The Tonight Show” with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. He also did an HBO half-hour special, “One Night Stand.” He played Al Bundy’s coworker on “Married with Children”, and made guest appearances on many oth...

For Video Edtion, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/lzIsVyYT3H0 Equally known as a comedienne and a dramatic actress, Kathleen Nolan’s range of artistry has enabled her to sing, dance and act for most of her life in the theatre, movies and television without ever becoming a typecast and remaining remarkably versatile. It all began on the ‘Goldenrod’, a Mississippi River Showboat th...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/NeX6n_c16cE Briana Cash is an award-winning singer-songwriter and philanthropist. Her music has been licensed on multiple TV networks, films and in shopping malls and airports globally. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Guild of Music Supervisors, The Society of Composers and Lyricists, The Alliance for Women Film Composers, The Acad...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/2sHp877nwTw Dr. Judi Bloom is a practical, interactive, solution-focused therapist specializing in relationships and in navigating through major life transitions. www.drjudibloom.com Antonia Kasper is a producer, writer, actress, and director. She is a Tulane University Theatre/English Graduate and has had several years as a Stan...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/XDCWQMtU1_8 DAVIS GAINES performed the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera over 2,000 times, during his run on Broadway, in Los Angeles, (where he remains LA’s longest-running Phantom), and in San Francisco, (where he received the Bay Area Critics’ Award for Best Actor). Subsequently, he was chosen by Hal...

For Video Editon, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/Dy09XBW-PmA Angela Bacari returns to the New York stage for the first time in almost 40 years on October 12, 2021 at Don't Tell Mama! Angela Bacari has spent years gracing stages from New York City to Las Vegas as an accomplished vocalist. She is known for the song, “Baby I'm’ Yours.” Some of her many television appearances includ...

For Video Edtion, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/Qu8hpSBWzik Jamie Lee Farrar is a 34 year old burn survivor who just happens to been born with Cerebral Palsy. She holds a BSW in Social Work and is a crosswalk safety advocate. She was born 'pre maturely". Her first memoir, "Roll On" details the last 5 years of her life from the day of the accident (Jan 3rd ,2013 until her gradua...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/fhidKvftVpI Ron Aprea grew up in Astoria, NY and clearly remembers seeing Pete Fountain playing the clarinet on television. Inspired to play, Ron went to his elementary school band director, Mr. Cahill, and asked to play what he thought was Pete’s instrument, a saxophone. So that’s what the school gave him. That little mistake ha...

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/Qopj7go7--Q Last year, Richard Skipper had the pleasure of celebrating Sarah Dash! Sarah reached out to Richard to do a follow up and they were excitedly planning the follow up. Sadly and unexpectedly, Sarah passed away on Monday, September 20th, 2021 Richard is honoring Sarah's request and as planned, Richard will be joined by s...

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