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Bits and Pieces 07.13.23

Tue, 07/11/2023 - 08:35
A live podcast with Bobbi Brown, the cosmetics mogul, will be recorded at The Church in Sag Harbor.
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Jazz and Cabaret
The Piano Masters series at LTV Studios in Wainscott, produced with Hamptons Jazz Fest, will continue at 6 p.m. on Monday with a performance by Luciano Minetti. Mr. Minetti has shared the stage with Eddie Palmieri, Arianna Neikrug, and Kenny Davis, among others, and performed at Blue Note, Birdland, Smalls, and at the Cuban International Jazz Festival in Havana. Tickets are $10; doors will open at 5:30.

The music will continue Tuesday evening when the "American Songbook" series features "Two for the Road," starring Christine Andreas, a vocalist, with Martin Silvestri on the piano. Ms. Andreas has appeared in revivals of "Oklahoma!" and "My Fair Lady," and in the original production of "The Scarlet Pimpernel." Tickets for the 7:30 show are $45, $75 for preferred seating.

Also at LTV, a four-session podcasting workshop for beginners will start on Wednesday at 6 p.m. The cost is $120. More information and registration are at ltveh.org.

Broadway Star
The Music Mondays series at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will continue Monday with an 8 p.m. performance by Julie Benko. Ms. Benko, who plays Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl" on Broadway every Thursday evening, will originate her first Broadway role this fall in the new musical "Harmony," by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman.

The New York Times called her "the bright-eyed, dulcet-voiced soprano who went from standby to star" in "Funny Girl." In addition to her extensive theater credits, she has headlined sold-out shows at Birdland, 54 Below, and other venues around the country.

Tickets start at $59.99.

A Jazz Legacy
Mike Lawrence was a gifted trumpeter who died of cancer at the age of 37. As part of Hamptons Jazz Fest, the Mike Lawrence Legacy Band, a sextet led by Chris Rogers on trumpet and Sam Dillon on tenor saxophone, will perform on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center. 

The band, which also includes Clifford Carter on keyboards, Steve Johns on drums, Brian Glassman on bass, and Theo Rogers on guitar, will perform original compositions that Lawrence played in New York City jazz clubs from 1977 to 1982.

Tickets are $35, $30 for members, $15 for students.

Bobbi Brown Live
The Church in Sag Harbor will host a live podcast recording of "She Pivots," featuring Bobbi Brown, the entrepreneur and cosmetics mogul, and Emily Tisch Sussman, the podcast's host and a contributing editor to Maria Claire magazine, on Saturday at 4 p.m.

A sought-after makeup artist, Ms. Brown hit it big with her eponymous cosmetics line in 1991, and has recently launched a new brand, Jones Road Beauty. 

The podcast series focuses on powerful women who share stories of how life's changes can lead to success.

Tickets are $20, $18 for members.

Sticks and Stones
Eddie Brill, a comedian who worked for 17 years as both the audience warm-up and stand-up talent coordinator for "Late Show With David Letterman," is next up at the Sticks and Stones Comedy Club at the Southampton Cultural Center, with two shows on Tuesday evening, at 7 and 9:30.

Mr. Brill has taped more than 100 television shows in six different countries, including 10 appearances on "Late Show" and an Emmy-nominated episode of the FX series "Louie."

Dan Madonia, whose observational humor has been featured at SXSW, the Great American Comedy Festival, and at the Woodstock Comedy Festival, will open for Mr. Brill.

Tickets are $35, $50 for reserved seating.

Honoring Resistance
A performance of "To Paint the Earth," an award-winning musical by Richard Rodgers, will be presented on Sunday afternoon at 4 at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons.

The musical honors the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which is said to have been the largest act of civilian defiance during World War II. The show illuminates the relationships, humor, faith, and determination that led the Jewish underground to force Nazi tanks to retreat.

The show has words by Daniel F. Levin, music by Jonathan Portera, and direction by Yoni Oppenheim, the co-founder and artistic director of 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company. It features a cast of 12 and four musicians.

Tickets are $60, $54 for members.
 

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