May 2009 TONY BENNETT Like some cabaret hopefuls, a fellow originally named Anthony Dominick Benedetto began as a singing waiter in New York, earning $15 per week. Many nightclubs, concert halls, scores of records and over a dozen Grammy Awards later, Tony Bennett’s still going strong, starting May at the New Orleans Jazz Festival and […]
We are most excited about hotel mogul Steve Wynn’s new project. It’s called ShowStoppers and it’s BIG! With a talented cast of 34 singers and dancers, backed by an on-stage, 30-piece orchestra, the 90-minute production opened in the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas in mid-December. ShowStoppers is composed of many quintessential musical theater numbers from […]
orn to Italian immigrants and growing up on the Lower East Side of New York known as Little Italy, Joe Battaglia has lived the quintessential Italian-American story.