NYC Life: Flowers, Music, Benefits Galore
There is so much happening around town right now, my head is swimming. The Gotham Jazz Festival will be awesome! Several of our talented Tomato pals are performing at various venues. There’s a benefit for the wonderful Amas Theatre, and one for the Hamptons Summer Songbook. Our roving photographer has captured this year’s Orchard Show at NYBG. Our Broadway Babe has curated some special treats. And you definitely do not want to miss our May 17 Renewal Summit!
5 Awesome Panels, Special Guests and More
The Alternative Medicine Treatments Panel features experts who will discuss some of the latest alternative medical treatments including holistic practices, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, regenerative medicine and psychedelic therapies. Other panels include Don’t Give Up On Love, How to Get “Unstuck”, Happy Healthy Living at Any Age, Why Women Don’t Get Funded, and special guests, Steve Schalchlin, and Mercedes Ellington. The day includes lunch, our Woman of Purpose Award, and ends with a wine reception on the terrace. GET THE DETAILS.
April 28. Gotham Jazz Festival
Our tomato pal, Judy Stewart, who dances everywhere she goes, highly recommends this event. The twenties roar again at the 6th annual GOTHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL with 100+ musicians in nearly 2 dozen of NYC’s best hot jazz & swing bands! It’s an all day blast of great music in an elegant multi-level space with beautiful dance floors. There are different ticket pricing levels, but Judy highly recommends the VIP ticket which gives you special drinks and access to the jazz VIP room. My feet are already tapping,
P.S.: Consider a tax-deductible charity donation at any level so that we can together help the jazz community thrive. This will further support the mission of the Festival and the NY Hot Jazz scholarship program.
May 7. Benefit for Hamptons Summer Songbook By the Sea
Head to our favorite NYC cabaret theater, The Triad, and raise a glass with NYC’s finest vocal interpreters before you pack your kitbag and head East for a season of melodic fun in the sun! Enjoy this spring launch party/friend-raiser/ fundraiser in Manhattan for LTV Studios in East Hampton, home of the concert series Hamptons Summer Songbook By the Sea.
Produced by Donna Rubin and LTV’s Creative Director Josh Gladstone, this concert series presents world-class talent in the intimate, funky and unique environs of a reconfigured, industrial black-box television studio – complete with state-of-the art lighting and audio. The romantic ambiance of cafe table seating, modular staging and a Baby Grand, combine for an exciting, up-front, live encounter with the American Songbook’s legendary songs and songwriters as interpreted by today’s finest performers.
LTV Studios, cabaret’s new home in the Hamptons, hosts a roster of the world’s best cabaret and Broadway artists, including Karen Akers, Mark Nadler, KT Sullivan, Christine Andreas and Marty Silvestri, Liz Larsen and Sal Viviano, Tovah Feldshuh, Steve Ross, Karen Murphy, Mark Singer and Darcy Dunn, Anna Bergman, Alex Rybeck, and more to be announced. Many of these artists will make an advance appearance at The Triad on May 7, in this musical salute to the upcoming season of Hamptons Summer Songbook By the Sea. (Performers subject to change.)
TRIAD THEATER
158 West 72nd St, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10023
$75 + 2 Drink Minimum per person
LIVE STREAM & ON-DEMAND AVAILABLE
May 11. SoHarmoniums Spring Concert
Our Tomato pal Deborah Roth is a member of the SoHarmoniums, a wonderful women’s chorus that is performing in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, AND they’re joining voices with the University Glee Club of New York City (founded in 1894)! So, this concert will deliver a rare and impressive breadth of musical genres and voicings… even more than usual.
Buy your tickers before May 1, for just $50 using code “SoHa” at checkout. On May 1st the price will be $65. GET YOUR TICKETS.
Roving at the New York Botanical Garden
Our roving photographer, Nicole Freezer Rubens writes:
After being greeted by a plethora of cherry blossoms and daffodils, I entered the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden to be greeted by high fashion. This year’s The Orchid Show: Florals in Fashion is a rowdy display of couture clothing comprised of exotic flowers and plants, created by New York’s up and coming clothing designers. It is an innovative, creative display that entertains visitors and makes them smile. The quirky constructions are colorful and are surrounded by exotic flora on display to satisfy the purists in the crowd.
Like all fresh flowers, whose lifespan is limited, this show closes on Monday April, 22nd. I highly recommend a last minute visit to this haven in the Bronx to be inspired and tickled pink by what humans can do with Mother Nature’s beautiful creations.
~Nicole Freezer Rubens is the author of poetry/photo book, “The Long Pause and the Short Breath.” Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/nfrconsult/
Broadway Babe’s Picks: Sondheim, Jule Stein, Do Re Mi and More
Our Broadway Babe, Randie Levine Miller has some truly nostalgic finds—with some going back to the 1950s, including the legendary early TV producer Max Liebman Presents with some faces you will recognize before they were icons; composer Jule Styne at the piano, sharing some great anecdotes; excerpts from the 1960s Broadway show, “Do Re Mi”; and an extraordinary benefit concert for Carnegie Hall that pays tribute to Stephen Sondheim. WATCH NOW.
May 9 & 10. Tanya Moberly At Don’t Tell Mama
Singer, producer and director Tanya Moberly will celebrate the release of her double CD over two nights. A popular entertainer who has been singing in NYC for nearly 30 years, Tanya has met and befriended quite a few songwriters along the way, and she fashioned their music into two separate shows. The double CD recording includes 45 songs, with music by Julie Gold, David Hajdu, Tracy Stark, Mary Liz McNamara and many other known and unknown talents.
Make your reservations at https://shows.donttellmamanyc.com/
More info at: TanyaMoberly.com
May 12. Celia Berk the Laurie Beechman Theater
Celebrate Mother’s Day with one of our favorite songstress’s, award-winning vocalist Celia Berk who will reprise A DREAM AND A SONG: The Musical Stories of Elizabeth Sullivan, who will join her as a special guest. Plus guitarist Sean Driscoll, violinist Seoyeon Im and pianist/music director Jon Weber. Jeff Harnar directs.
Shaped by a life on the Oklahoma prairie — and deeply informed by her spirituality — Elizabeth Sullivan writes about family, love and loss, and the creative impulse. Her music has been performed in iconic venues including Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Recital Halls, the National Arts Club and The Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room. The 93-year-old matriarch of the Sullivan family – which includes singers KT, Stacy, Heather and Tim Sullivan – recently published her memoirs, “STAGES: From Lightening Creek to Carnegie Hall.”
Tickets are on sale now at: http://tinyurl.com/Celia-BerkSingsESullivan.
May 13. Amas Musical Theatre Benefit Concert
Our Broadway Babe, Randie Levine Miller is on the benefit concert committee for Amas Musical Theatre celebration of its 55th Year, as well as honoring: five time Tony Award-nominee Patricia Birch, Tony Award-winner Len Cariou, and Corporate Honoree Butler Tibbetts.
It will be an unforgettable and a fun event! All proceeds from the evening are to benefit Amas Education and Theatre Programs. We hope you can join us for this milestone celebration! The event takes place at 6pm at the beautiful Baruch Performing Arts, located at East 25th Street and Lexington Avenue, followed by a cocktail party at 9pm.
Click HERE for tickets! Or visit www.amasmusical.org or call 212-563-2565
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Cheryl Benton, aka the “head tomato” is founder and publisher of The Three Tomatoes, a digital lifestyle magazine for “women who aren’t kids”. Having lived and worked for many years in New York City, the land of size zero twenty-somethings, she was truly starting to feel like an invisible woman. She created The Three Tomatoes just for the fun of it as the antidote for invisibility and sent it to 60 friends. Today she has thousands of friends and is chief cheerleader for smart, savvy women who want to live their lives fully at every age and every stage. She is the author of the novel, "Can You See Us Now?" and co-author of a humorous books of quips, "Martini Wisdom." Because she's lived a long time, her full bio won't fit here. If you want the "blah, blah, blah", read more. www.thethreetomatoes.com/about-the-head-tomato
