Richard Skipper Celebrates

For the video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/Ao0epMvyjYo George Dvorsky won the Berkshire Theatre Critics Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Daddy Warbucks in ANNIE at the Mac-Haydn Theatre in Chatham NY last summer. On Broadway, George appeared in the title role of The Scarlet Pimpernel and as Henry Spofford in the revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. His...

For the video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/feRJwvTn3io One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on this fascinating mu...

For video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/xByXJP5-UYE Pianist /Arranger / Conductor Tom LaMark is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music with a degree in arranging and composition. After playing his first professional “gig” at age 13, Tom has made the music business his sole livelihood. While still in high school and into college, Tom worked at a summer resort in New Hampsh...

For the video version with clips, go here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/Q_2KjlOFMSs Sparky Marcus is a former actor. He was born in Hollywood. He was well known for playing the role of the precocious child but also worked extensively as a voice actor for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1980s. He started acting at five playing Shelby on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (1973–1975). He also appeared on T...

For the video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/4tvvZ9NCoQ0 SAMMY GOLDSTEIN is a MAC Award-winning New York singer & piano entertainer who has performed in nightclubs and concerts throughout the United States and Europe, for numerous cruise lines around the world, and for celebrity clients that include Barbara Walters, Marvin Hamlisch, and David Geffen. He has also appeared a...

To view the video, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/S7LsrUcXNhM Robert Neal Marshall graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in film. Early projects took him to Berlin, Germany for Regina Ziegler Productions. In the mid 1980‘s Marshall worked in the West End of London as Assistant to late producer Richard Armitage on several hit shows, including ME AND MY G...

For video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/tWSpCCg7wRA It was in 1964, John Strangi, age eleven, was to visit New York City for the first time. His Father, Albert, would treat him to an entire week in the Big Apple, taking him to the New York Worlds Fair. He was to fall in love with the City instantly and swore to himself that he would one day make New York City his home. Its ma...

For the video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/cHSIT8NIOGc We all know the power of music. Or do we? "88 MORE Ways Music Can Change Your Life" is the follow up to "88+ Ways Music" and takes you on a powerful journey, through the eyes of people who have seen music alter the future course of people’s lives. From music’s ability to heal an injured brain to its ability to unite a tr...

For the video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/VOJp8mHFxrQ Who is John Davidson? Well....it has been quite a journey as this wholesome all-American boy has grown into a crazy old liberal! It was John’s performances in the major showrooms of Las Vegas that established him as one of America’s foremost entertainers. American audiences probably know him best as the TV host of The Ho...

To view the video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/1fqamwzLdIM Sara Louise Lazarus, director, recently received the “Best Show” award from BroadwayWorld for Carried Away: Jeff Harnar sings Comden and Green at Birdland. She also has a MAC Award as Best Director and two Bistro Awards, the most recent in 2018 for her direction of the original musical revue It Helps To Sing About It...

For the video version, go here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/DVVTApZPYp8 https://smile.amazon.com/Growing-Up-Disneyland-Ron-DeFore/dp/1643166077 "Growing up in Disneyland" is part biography about Ron's father, Broadway, movie, and TV star, Don DeFore, and his own autobiography. Don DeFore earned a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame and was a household name in the 1950s and 60s. He co-sta...

For video version, go here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/2oJ8b7u3n_E This is the show in which therapy and entertainment come together to show artists how to not only cope in the age of COVID but also how to keep creating. Dr. Bloom and Skipper are joined by Gary Alan, Juri Koll, and Gretchen Reinhagen.    Gary Alan began his career as a professional comedian in South Florida before moving to Lo...

For video, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/Dvzd9ofyz-U https://smile.amazon.com/Odd-Woman-Out-Exposure-Stories/dp/1735268925 Trying to crawl inside the television set to get her parents' attention, she got blocked by all the tubes and wires. So she had to go the long way around to get herself onscreen. In a series of essays and stories, Chartoff explores her ambition, artistry and love...

For video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/N0GG9h0rSpM Heather Frank is a cabaret artist in Washington, DC and a member of the DC Cabaret Network board. Her most recent show, “Love in the Time of Coloring,” explores romance and desire in the age of smartphones, microaggressions and coloring books for grownups. Cabaret Scenes called it “…a charming, entertaining, and thought-prov...

For the video version, go here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/q7FRvcxtpTE JEFF HARNAR is an award-winning cabaret, concert and recording artist.  His Carnegie Hall appearances include both the Cole Porter and Noel Coward Centennial Galas.  Jeff was a featured artist at Carnegie’s Well Recital Hall in “A Talent to Amuse,” hosted by Noel Coward biographer Sheridan Morley. Jeff’s PBS televised conce...

For the video version, click here: https://youtu.be/g5jPUIkZnf4 Michael Lavine (Music Director) has worked as a musical director, pianist, vocal coach and singer all over the world. He musically directed a concert of the works of Stephen Schwartz, featuring Stephen himself, Ben Vereen, Paul Shaffer, Alice Ripley, Daisy Eagan, Constantine Maroulis, and more, and produced and musically directed REDI...

For the video version, click here: https://youtu.be/0rSQFNrWCS8 JAMES ANTHONY is a gifted Psychic Medium, Channeler, Claircognizant, Clairvoyant, Psychographer and Intuitive, whose abilities were present since childhood. He has been sharing spirit with clients, for over 30 years. He is able to bridge the gap between our plane of existence by communicating with Spirit and that can include but are n...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/LEIP78333s4 Tamara Jenkins spent the last 30 years as a professional actress in New York City before moving to the Chicago area. Her acting credits include: BROADWAY/TOURS ‘Velma’ in Chicago, ‘Cosette’ in Les Miserables, ‘Demeter’ in Cats, the ‘Eliza’ cover in the Richard Chamberlain revival of My Fair Lady, and ‘Elyse Schulman’ in...

For the video version of this interview, go here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/hOHCXAjl6vI STANLEY LIVINGSTON, can already boast a career of sixty-five years in the entertainment industry - including a phenomenal twelve-year run as "CHIP DOUGLAS" on one of television's most popular and durable series, MY THREE SONS. The series is television's second-longest running situation comedy and has been...

For the video interview, go here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/MfwReL5AU9I Nina Hennessey was born in Denver, CO. After graduating from Barnard College and a stint at Radio City Music Hall (where she met Ray Marchica) and the 1st National Tour of ANNIE, she moved to Broadway..... WOMAN OF THE YEAR, SNOOPY, DREAMGIRLS, LES MISERABLES, CATS, CHESS in CONCERT, THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS in...

For the video version, click here: https://youtu.be/V3JPS0g65EA Steve March-Tormé is the first born son of the multi-talented Mel Tormé. His stepfather was the actor/comedian Hal March, who was the host of NBC-TV’s The $64,000 Question Show and subsequently starred in Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn on Broadway. Steve is an international touring and recording artist and has wowed audiences in eve...

For the video version, click here: https://youtu.be/AEWQ3m9PVSg LEE LESSACK’s graceful Lyric baritone vocals and sophisticated, yet endearing persona have made him a shining star on the international concert scene. Billboard Magazine calls his singing “cabaret romanticism of a high order”. Touring extensively in the United States and Europe to sold-out performances and releasing eight albums, Less...

For video version of the show, click here: https://youtu.be/J8beTnEqlrw TOM VIOLA is the Executive Director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA), one of the nation’s leading industry-based not-for-profit fundraising and grant-making organizations. Since its founding in 1988, BC/EFA has raised over $300 million for essential services for people living with HIV/AIDS and other critical healt...

For the video edition, click here: https://youtu.be/ZAmS5hQ4T14 Julie Garnyé is an actress, singer, voiceover artist, writer, producer,director and chocolatier. She was most recently seen as an original cast member of the first national tour of the Broadway hit COME FROM AWAY and in Frozen Live at the Hyperion Theatre at the Disneyland Resort in Southern California. During Mark Povinelli's over 20...

To watch the video of this interview, go here: https://youtu.be/AHespMZxBw4 Susan “Dr. Sue” Horowitz, Ph. D. is an Entertaining Speaker, Author of Books “Queens of Comedy”; Musicals “SssWitch”; Comedies, Songs, Plays, and Poetry, Blogger, Professor, Singer/Comedian. Web: www. DrSue.com , YouTube: www. YouTube.com/drsuecomedian E-mail: drsue@drsue.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-dr-sue-horowi...