Patrons Flocking to Guild Hall For Comedy, Drama, and Rock ’n’ Roll
With Labor Day weekend just around the corner, patrons are flocking to Guild Hall for an innovative series of end-of-summer performances. Only a handful of tickets remain for “New York City Ballet On and Off Stage,” an intimate look at the ballet company hosted by Jared Angle, a principal dancer, tomorrow at 8 p.m. The evening will include commentary by Mr. Angle as well as excerpts from the company’s repertory performed by him and fellow dancers. Tickets are priced from $45 to $100, $43 to $95 for members.
It’s no surprise that Saturday’s 8 p.m. program, “An Evening of New Music With ‘Hamilton’ Star Leslie Odom Jr.,” sold out well in advance. However, tickets still remain for another kind of musical experience, “The Lion,” Benjamin Scheuer’s coming-of-age story that will be presented Tuesday evening at 8. Armed with six guitars, Mr. Scheuer will lead the audience on a rock ’n’ roll journey from boyhood to manhood, as he discovers the redemptive power of music. His show won the Drama Desk award for Outstanding Solo Performance in 2015. Tickets range from $40 to $75, $38 to $70 for members.
Comedy will be king and queen on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. when four comedians, two female, two male, one of each gender married, one single, talk about relationships and share tales of love and not-love, bad dinners and good dates, broken cars and unbroken dreams. The comedians, all from late-night TV and Comedy Central, are Tony Deyo, Karen Bergreen, Leighann Lord, and Shaun Eli. The evening of laughs costs $30 to $50, $28 to $48 for members.
More comedy will be on tap next Thursday evening at 8 when Bill Boggs takes the stage with his “Talk Show Confidential: Confessions of a Talk Show Host.” The four-time Emmy Award winner has hosted shows on every network from PBS to NBC to the Food Network and the Travel Channel, among many, many others.
“Talk Show Confidential” ran for six years Off Broadway, but this year’s iteration incudes new material. “I’ve created a brand-new opening about living in East Hampton,” said Mr. Boggs, who bought a house in Springs three years ago and has been coming here since the late 1970s. “You don’t have to know who I am to dig this play. We watch television all the time, but this is the only play I know of that has to do with the reality of being on television.” Mr. Boggs’s stories about everyone from Frank Sinatra to Lou Reed can be heard for $20 to $40, $18 to $38 for members.
A break from music and comedy takes place Monday at 7 p.m. when Alec Baldwin will moderate a discussion about the U.S. Supreme Court. The Hamptons Institute program will include panelists Michael Keegan, president of People for the American Way; Adam Liptak, a lawyer and the Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, and Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at the N.Y.U. School of Law. Tickets cost $25, $23 for members. A donation of $500 will add a pre-program wine reception and a post-program dinner with the speakers at a private home.