NAKED BOYS SINGING! Celebrates 11th Anniversary 7/24
by BWW News Desk

NAKED BOYS SINGING!, the fifteen-song celebration of the male form will hit yet another milestone: it will begin its twelfth year on Saturday July 24th. The Naked Boys are appearing on New World Stages – Stage 4, located at 340 West 50th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues. Naked Boys plays Fridays at 10pm and Saturday evenings at 8pm.

Still drawing both equally gay and straight crowds, NAKED BOYS has become a New York mainstay, while the London production, which opened to critical acclaim in the West End, begins its second year. Other productions are currently running in Las Vegas, which just announced its one-year anniversary, and the annual Provincetown summer production, with more opening within the next year, including anticipated productions in Korea and New Zealand.

Naked Boys Singing! is produced by Jamie Cesa, Carl D. White, Hugh Hayes, and Tom Smedes. It is directed and was conceived by Robert Schrock, and choreographed by Jeffry Denman. Schrock and a team of 12 writers — Stephen Bates, Marie Cain, Perry Hart, Shelly Markham, Jim Morgan, David Pevsner, Rayme Sciaroni, Mark Savage, Ben Schaechter, Trance Thompson, Mark Winkler and two-time Emmy Award winning Bruce Vilanch — have written a bouncy (pun intended) and fabulous musical revue that reminds us that clothes alone do not make the man. The show opened Off-Broadway at The Actors’ Playhouse in July 1999. The film version was released in 2008 by TLA Releasing and remains one of their top sellers on DVD.

Ticket prices are $69.50, which includes $1.50 facility fee. Tickets for Naked Boys Singing! are available through Telecharge.com at 212-239-6200 or at the New World Stages Box Office. For Group Sales, call 212-302-4848, ext 18.

The show runs at a lean, hard 70 minutes, without an intermission.

For more information, visit http://www.NakedBoysSinging.com

Theater News
Florence Henderson, Bruce Vilanch Set for An Evening With Friends at Guild Hall
By: Dan Bacalzo · Jul 19, 2010 · Long Island

Stage and screen star Florence Henderson will team up with two-time Emmy Award winner and Oscar writer Bruce Vilanch for An Evening With Friends, at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Saturday, July 24, at 8pm.

In the piece, Henderson takes the audience on a journey through all her lives: daughter, mother, musical theater star, TV star and product spokesperson. Musical numbers includes songs from her stage roles in Fanny, South Pacific, and others and includes a no-holds barred Q&A segment.

In addition to Vilanch writing special material for the show, he previously wrote many of the Brady Bunch Variety Hour TV shows which debuted a few years after the sitcom was cancelled.

For more information, visit www.guildhall.org.

Image by Sharon Graphics via Flickr

Bruce Vilanch And His Competitors (Emmy Nominations)

Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Special
82nd Annual Academy Awards · ABC
Bill Maher “…But I’m Not Wrong” · HBO
The Kennedy Center Honors · CBS
63rd Annual Tony Awards · CBS
Wanda Sykes: I’ma Be Me · HBO

Read more: Breaking News – Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards: Creative Arts Nominations | TheFutonCritic.com http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2010/07/08/academy-of-television-arts-and-sciences-2010-primetime-emmy-awards-creative-arts-nominations/20100708atas02/#ixzz0te2UAtCh

Two-Time Emmy Winner Bruce Vilanch Returns to Host Fire Island Dance Festival Featuring Ailey, Momix, Cunningham, Travis Wall and More

The Fire Island Dance Festival returns to Fire Island Pines for a trio of first rate outdoor performances/parties on Saturday, July 17 and Sunday, July 18, 2010. This year’s festival will feature offerings from eleven internationally renowned dance companies and artists including premier dances by “So You Think You Can Dance” finalist/choreographer Travis Wall (July 17 only) and Stephen Petronio Company. Returning to emcee the event for a second year is two-time Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch.

Fire Island Pines, NY, July 09, 2010 –(PR.com)– Lauded by The New York Times, Out Magazine, (CBS News on) LOGO and The Village Voice, the Fire Island Dance Festival returns to Fire Island Pines for a trio of first rate outdoor performances / parties on Saturday, July 17 and Sunday, July 18, 2010. Now in its 16th year, Fire Island Dance Festival is the premier cultural event on Fire Island and is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS (DRA), a program of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. Returning to emcee the event for a second year will be two time Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch.

Performing outdoors against a stunning backdrop of the Great South Bay, FIDF 16 will feature an eclectic program of classical and contemporary ballet, and modern dance performed by eleven emerging and world renowned dance companies and artists. This year’s festival will prove to be yet another unforgettable event with performances by: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre principal Marcelo Gomes, Joffrey Ballet Chicago principals Fabrice Calmels and Erica Lynette Edwards, Camille A. Brown, Gallim Dance, Mark Stuart Dance Theatre and San Francisco Ballet principals Yuan Yuan Tan and Damian Smith performing choreography by Christopher Wheeldon. FIDF 16 will also showcase a pièce d’occasion by Shea Sullivan, mark premiere dances by Travis Wall (July 17 only) and Stephen Petronio Company and feature a “Legacy Tour” performance by Merce Cunningham Dance Company. MOMIX will present a special performance as part of an exclusive festival kick-off party for Leadership Supporters only on Friday July 16.

Dancegoers are offered a choice of show times. The opening performance is on Saturday, July 17th at 5:00 p.m. (party at 4:00 p.m.). The sunset performance is on Saturday, July 17th at 7:00 p.m. (party following). And the closing performance is on Sunday, July 18th at 5:00 p.m. (party following). Leadership Supporters are included in the special kick-off party on Friday evening July 16th at the Lepage Pavilion at Whyte Hall.

To charge tickets by phone, call 212.840.0770 x268 – Monday through Friday and in person on weekends in the Fire Island Pines harbor or order online on the Dancers Responding to AIDS website.

Corporate Sponsors for Fire Island Dance Festival 16 include: The New York Times, Continental Airlines, GRW Advertising, Absolut Vodka, Steel Gym, NEXT Magazine, PEEQ Media, BV Wines, and Movmnt Magazine.

Founded in 1991, by former Paul Taylor dancers Denise Roberts Hurlin and Hernando Cortez, Dancers Responding to AIDS (DRA) is a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organization. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre & dance communities, BC/EFA raises funds for AIDS-related causes and other critical illnesses across the United States. Since its founding in 1988, BC/EFA has raised over $175 million.

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Contact Information
Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS
Bobby McGuire
212-840-0770
mcguire@broadwaycares.org
www.dradance.org