Songbook Sundays
at
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s
Club
hosted by Deborah Grace Winer
continues February 5
with
BEWITCHED, BOTHERED AND RODGERS
AND HART
featuring Emily Skinner,
Kenita Miller
Jarvis B. Manning, Jr.,
and tenor saxophone legend
Houston Person
New American Songbook program
continues
Sunday, February 5th at 5 PM and
7:30 PM at Dizzy’s Club
(NEW YORK, NY:
Songbook Sundays, created
and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer celebrating
the American Songbook will continue at Jazz at
Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s with BEWITCHED,
BOTHERED AND RODGERS AND HART on
Sunday, February
5th at
5 PM and 7:30 PM at Dizzy’s Club. Bewitched,
Bothered and Rodgers and Hart kicks
off February and a new year of Jazz at Lincoln
Center’s American Songbook shows at Dizzy’s
Club. This
Songbook Sundays heats up the winter chill, with
the sexy wit and jazzy romance of Richard
Rodgers and Larry Hart’s
partnership and songs sparkling, smart and
sublime. Starring
Tony award nominated vocalists Emily Skinner and Kenita
Miller, with young Broadway rising star Jarvis B.
Manning, Jr. Hosted
and curated by leading American Songbook expert Deborah
Grace Winer, the set highlights Rodgers and
Hart’s
greatest—like My
Romance, Manhattan, I
Wish I Were in Love Again, Where
or When, Bewitched and
more.
Add a few breezy stories, it’s
a fizzy, joyful Dizzy’s
Club Sunday blowout to gather in the glow and
bust those winter blues.
Music director Ted Rosenthal leads
a multi-generational band of jazz
all-stars—featuring the legendary Houston
Person on tenor saxophone (Etta Jones, Ron
Carter, Bill Charlap), 16 year-old rising star
Ruby Farmer on bass (Monterey Jazz Festival:
Next Generation Women in Jazz Combo) and Zach
Adleman on drums (Ted Nash, Newport Jazz
Festival with Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy’s Club).
Ms. Winer said: “We’re
thrilled that our new Songbook Sundays shows
have immediately become so wildly popular, and
that we can begin 2023 with a whole new year of
these shows ahead, bringing musicians, vocalists
and audiences together at Dizzy’s in pure joy,
fun and music. We’ve
created a community here that is a bright safe
haven for the soul.
”
Winer will interweave breezy chat and stories
about Rodgers and Hart and the songs we will be
hearing.
"Songbook Sundays’ season begins its second
year, after premiering last spring with “Got
Gershwin” salutes to Cole Porter, Duke Ellington
and Irving Berlin. It will continue with a
celebration of Lerner and Loewe (March 26). All
shows are at 5pm and 7:30pm, and feature top
vocal talent from Broadway, cabaret and jazz,
with a diverse mix of young artists and veteran
stars. Energy, fun, great music—welcoming new Songbook
Sundays audiences from all over the world as
well as a fresh new offering for JALC’s
home audience.
In the spirit of swing, the mission of Jazz at
Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and
expand the global community for jazz through
performance, education and advocacy. Dizzy’s
Club offers live jazz performances with
panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline and
Central Park.
To reach Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P.
Rose Hall, enter at Columbus Circle at 60th Street
and Broadway, take the Jazz elevators to the 5th floor
for Dizzy’s Club as well as The Rose Theater and
The Appel Room.
Tickets for Songbook
Sundays are
$45/55, with student tickets available at $25. There
is a $21 food/drink minimum. Jazz.org/dizzys
BIOS:
Deborah Grace Winer (Curator,
Host) is a leading expert on the classic
American Songbook, and writer and creator of
theatrical revues and concerts. Along with
previous projects with Jazz at Lincoln Center,
collaborations include Feinstein’s/54 Below,
Birdland, and a decade as Artistic Director of
the 92Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists™ concert
series, presiding over 50 original shows and
steering the venerable series back to audience
and critical acclaim. She collaborates with
top-tier artists from Broadway and the music
world, and works with leading institutions.
Author and dramatist, among her four books is On
the Sunny Side of the Street: The Life and
Lyrics of Dorothy Fields (Macmillan),
recently named by the Wall Street Journal one
of the Five Best books on American Songwriters.
Her articles have appeared in The New York
Times, and her plays, off-Broadway and
regionally. She has been featured on
PBS’ American Masters, and NPR’s “Fresh
Air” and “Morning Edition.”
Emily Skinner (vocalist)
is a Tony award nominee who has garnered
critical acclaim in her many Broadway
performances including Side
Show, Billy
Elliot, Jekyll
and Hyde, The
Dead, The
Full Monty, Prince
of Broadway and The
Cher Show; she
will be appearing in the upcoming Kander and Ebb New
York, New York. She
has guested with The Boston Pops among many
other symphonies, plays concert and club
engagements around the country, and appears on
myriad recordings.
Kenita R. Miller (vocalist)
recently earned a Tony award nomination for her
performance as Lady in Red in the acclaimed
Broadway revival of For
Colored Girls… Other
Broadway appearances include Come
from Away. Once
on this Island, The Color Purple, Xanadu; off
Broadway— Playwrights Horizons’ Bella:
An American Tall Tale, Langston in Harlem and Working—winning
Drama Desk Awards for each of the latter two.
Jarvis B. Manning, Jr. (vocalist)
can currently be seen on Broadway in Some Like
it Hot, where he has also appeared in one of the
leading roles. Other
Broadway appearances include Ain’t
Too Proud and Motown
the Musical. He
recently gained critical acclaim in the lauded
production of Ain’t
Misbehavin’ at
Barrington Stage, for which he won a Berkshire
Theatre Critics Award.
Ted Rosenthal (Music
Director) has
performed worldwide as piano soloist, with his
trio, and with many jazz greats including Gerry
Mulligan, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, and James
Moody. Winner of the Thelonious Monk
International Competition, Rosenthal has
released 15 critically acclaimed CDs as a
leader. His latest, Rhapsody
in Gershwin,
reached #1 on iTunes and Amazon. HIs jazz
opera, “Dear
Erich,” was commissioned and premiered by New
York City Opera in 2019. He
is on the faculties of Juilliard and Manhattan
School of Music.
Music/Cabaret Listings Info
SONGBOOK SUNDAYS, created
and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer celebrating
the American Songbook, continues on Sunday, February
5th at
5 & 730 PM with Bewitched,
Bothered and Rodgers and Hart at
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club, 60th
Street & Broadway, NYC. The
all Rodgers
and Hart evening features Emily Skinner, Kenita
Miller and Jarvis B. Manning, Jr. with saxophone
legend Houston Person. Tickets
$45/55 and $25 for students. There is a $21
food/drink minimum. Jazz.org/dizzys