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David James Boyd
David James Boyd (born May 27, 1975) is an African American writer, composer and lyricist perhaps best known for composing the original music and lyrics for the off-Broadway play '' My Big Gay Italian Wedding''. Boyd's Broadway career started as an actor in multiple Broadway shows including '' Miss Saigon'' and ''Kiss of the Spider Woman''. In 2012, Boyd created and starred in the dance/electronic musical ''The Groove Factory''. Written along with co-librettist Chad Kessler, the musical opened to sold-out audiences at the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival. In addition to theatre work, Boyd has co-produced music for artists Taylor Dayne, Judy Torres, Kim Sozzi, Ari Gold, Jason Dottley, Levi Kreis Levi Kreis (born November 4, 1981) is an American actor and singer from Oliver Springs, Tennessee. In 2010, he won a Tony Award for playing Jerry Lee Lewis in '' Million Dollar Quartet''. Career Music Kreis's debut album, ''One of the Ones'', ..., and Inaya Day among others. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Big Gay Italian Wedding
''My Big Gay Italian Wedding'' is a play written by Anthony J. Wilkinson that premiered off-Broadway in 2003, at the Actor's Playhouse in New York City. In September 2009, an updated version co-starring Scott Evans and with choreography by J. Austin Eyer played a benefit performance at the St. George Theatre in Staten Island. The play then opened with a new cast that included Reichen Lehmkuhl in May 2010 at the St. Luke's Theatre on West 46th Street, in Manhattan, for an open-ended run that concluded in August 2015. The show originated in 2003 as a non-union Off-Broadway show and in 2010 became a full union production, extending fourteen times in the same location. During the run, the show hosted some major celebrities in efforts to help raise money and awareness for marriage equality and the Trevor Project. In 2010 the show was published by Samuel French for licensing purposes. Aside from New York City, the show has already played in over thirty cities in the United States. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Saigon
''Miss Saigon'' is a stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera '' Madame Butterfly'', and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and ''Madame Butterfly''s story of marriage between an American lieutenant and a geisha is replaced by a romance between a United States Marine and a seventeen-year-old South Vietnamese bargirl. The musical premièred at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 20 September 1989, closing after 4,092 performances on 30 October 1999. It opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre on April 11, 1991 with a record advance of over $39 million, and was later staged in many other cities and embarked on tours. Prior to the opening of the 2014 London revival, it was said that ''Miss Saigon'' had set a wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss Of The Spider Woman (musical)
''Kiss of the Spider Woman'' is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with the book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel '' El Beso de la Mujer Araña''. Directed by Harold Prince, the musical had runs in the West End (1992) and Broadway (1993) and won the 1993 Tony Award for Best Musical. Despite a decidedly mixed review by Frank Rich, the musical ran on Broadway for 904 performances. Plot Luis Alberto Molina, a gay window dresser, is in a prison in Argentina, serving his third year of an eight-year-sentence for corrupting a minor. He lives in a fantasy world to flee the prison life, the torture, fear and humiliation. His fantasies turn mostly around movies, particularly around a vampy diva, Aurora. He loves her in all roles, but one scares him: This role is the spider woman, who kills with her kiss. One day, a new man is brought into his cell: Valentin Arregui Paz, a Marxist revolutionary, already in a bad state of health after torture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Musical Theatre Festival
The New York Musical Festival (NYMF) was an annual three-week summer festival that operated from 2004 to 2019. It presented more than 30 new musicals a year in New York City's midtown theater district. More than half were chosen by leading theater artists and producers through an open-submission, double-blind evaluation process; the remaining shows were invited to participate by the Festival's artist staff. The festival premiered over 447 musicals, which featured the work of over 8,000 artists and were attended by more than 300,000 people. More than 100 NYMF shows went on to further productions. By NYMF's county, alumni productions have been produced in all 50 US states and in 27 countries, and have been seen by roughly four million people. Over 20 NYMF shows have had cast albums recorded. History In addition to full productions, NYMF presented a wide range of special events, readings and concerts of new music, educational seminars, explorations of musicals in TV and film, and u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Dayne
Taylor Dayne (born Leslie Wunderman; March 7, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She rose to fame in 1987 after her debut single " Tell It to My Heart". Dayne achieved six additional U.S. top-10 singles, including " Love Will Lead You Back", With Every Beat of My Heart, "Prove Your Love", and " I'll Always Love You". Dayne has received two Grammy Award nominations, and has won an American Music Award, and multiple New York Music Awards. She has also received New York Hall of Fame honors and was ranked number 18 on ''Rolling Stones list of the best female dance artists of all time. In December 2016, ''Billboard'' magazine ranked her the 28th most successful dance artist of all time. Singing and acting career Early success Taylor Dayne, whose birth name is Leslie Wunderman, was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, and lived briefly in another borough, The Bronx, until her family moved to Long Island when she was two years old. She began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Torres
Judy Torres (born June 13, 1968 in The Bronx, New York City) is an American freestyle music artist and dance-pop singer. Early life and career Growing up in the Bronx, Torres was the oldest of five siblings. She attended St. Thomas Aquinas, and the all girls only Aquinas High School. Torres scored club hits with songs such as "Please Stay Tonight," "Come into My Arms," "Love Story," "I Love You, Will You Love Me," and her first single "No Reason to Cry." A love-themed freestyle written by Mickey Garcia, "No Reason to Cry" peaked at #30 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Charts. Her debut album, ''Love Story'', which was released in 1989 on Profile Records, is a freestyle collection, which included Ken Cedar-penned "Weakness of the Body", which was originally recorded by a teenage Mariah Carey. Her second album, ''My Soul'', was released in 1992 and received good reviews by critics and fans alike. The album features such hits as attitudinal song "Every Little Lie," which tells a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Sozzi
Kim Sozzi is an American dance-pop singer from Long Island, New York. Career Kim Sozzi's career began in 1999 when she signed a contract on Columbia Records for her first major album, ''Life Goes On''. Her first single from the album was "Til I Cry You Out Of Me", followed by "Letting Go" which was on the soundtrack for the TV show ''Dawson's Creek''. Both singles were successful, but the album was shelved and never released. Another single, "Feelin' Me", was a popular dance track. As part of the group MYNT, Kim Sozzi released the single "How Did You Know" followed by an album, ''Still Not Sorry'', which featured Kim Sozzi on vocals on some tracks. Kim Sozzi later left the group to pursue her solo career. Kim Sozzi signed with Ultra Records and released a new single, "Alone", a cover of the Heart song, and another single "Break Up" which achieved some success in the US and the UK. In 2008, she released "Like a Star". "Feel Your Love" was released at the end of 2008, becoming Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ari Gold (musician)
Ari Gold (February 11, 1974 – February 14, 2021) was an American pop singer and songwriter. He was openly gay,Event: 'Ari Gold – Untitled: The Making of a Gay Pop Star' @ Laboratory Theater HotFestival.org. and regularly addressed being both and gay. He starred in an autobiographical theater production ''Ari Gold– Untitled: The Making of a Gay Pop Star''. Early life Gold was born and raised in |
Jason Dottley
Jason Dottley (born December 30, 1980) is an American actor, singer, writer, director and producer. He appeared in the 2008 television series '' Sordid Lives: The Series'' in the role of actor Ty Williamson. Early life Dottley was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 30, 1980. He is the grandson of Chicago Bear Hall of Fame Member and Offensive Rookie of the Year in the NFL John "Kayo" Dottley. Dottley grew up in Mississippi, attending McLeod Elementary School and Florence High School in the Jackson area. Career In 2003, he made his professional acting debut in a production of Terrence McNally's ''The Lisbon Traviata'' at the Actor's Lab in Hollywood, California. In 2005, Dottley joined producer Alice West, at Marvel Studios Victoria Alonso, and Del Shores to form Eclectic Entertainment which was slated to produce several films and revivals of Shores' successful plays according to a story in the Advocate. In 2008, he began a role as Ty Williamson in '' Sordid Lives: Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levi Kreis
Levi Kreis (born November 4, 1981) is an American actor and singer from Oliver Springs, Tennessee. In 2010, he won a Tony Award for playing Jerry Lee Lewis in ''Million Dollar Quartet''. Career Music Kreis's debut album, ''One of the Ones'', was released on November 17, 2005 and was accompanied by an appearance on a special Sirius XM's edition of ''The Apprentice''. Four hopefuls were chosen from thousands of submissions. The two teams had a challenge to write, record, produce and package an artist for ''XM Cafe''; Kreis and his team won the challenge. He followed his debut album with ''The Gospel According to Levi'', confronting religion and its unhealthy views on sexuality, specifically as it relates to the LGBT community and conversion therapy (Kreis did six years with Exodus International). In 2009, Kreis won the OutMusic Award for his song "Stained Glass Window", a song inspired by the Del Shores play '' Southern Baptist Sissies''. In addition to Kreis's early musical activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inaya Day
Inaya Day (born Inaya Davis, January 17, 1977) is an American singer, best known for her vocal work on house music tracks such as " Horny '98" by Mousse T, and her cover version of "Nasty Girl" by Prince protégées Vanity 6. Biography Early career Day started singing in church in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the prestigious High School of Music and the Performing Arts,"Inaya Day Biography" , ''LocalProductions.com'' found a "About Inaya Day" , ''InayaDay.com''. and went on to study musical theater at the University of Bridgeport. She also appeared on [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tainted Dreams
''Tainted Dreams'' is a soap opera that premiered on YouTube on December 30, 2013 and later moved exclusively to Amazon and Amazon Prime. The series debuted on Popstar! TV and the Popstar! App on September 23, 2019. Created by Sonia Blangiardo, it is a "soap-within-a-soap" which follows the backstage drama of the fictional soap opera ''Painted Dreams''. ''Tainted Dreams'' was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches Drama Series in 2014, and one for Outstanding Digital Daytime Drama Series in 2017. Kelley Menighan Hensley, Michael Lowry, Natalia Livingston, and Anthony Wilkinson were also nominated for Daytime Emmys in 2017 for their performances. Cast * Alicia Minshew as Angelica Caruso * Michael Lowry as Jordan Bradford * Walt Willey as Gregory Ashford * Kelley Menighan Hensley as Veronica Ashford * Terri Ivens as Kassandra Bently * Austin Peck as Max Hillstone * Grant Aleksander as Adam Clark * Natalia Livingston as Liza Park * Ilene Kristen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
