By Andrew Gans REMINDERS Betty Buckley in Concert: July 7 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, NM Liz Callaway in Concert July 14 at the Bradston County Hotel's Nancy LaMott Room in White Lake, NY Barbara Cook in Concert: Now through Aug. 26 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York, NY (Mostly Sondheim) Maureen McGovern in Concert: Aug. 7 at the Salt Lake City Jazz Festival in Salt Lake City, UT Bernadette Peters in Concert: Aug. 30-Sept. 1 at the Morton H. Meyerson Hall in Dallas, TX Well, that’s all for now. Happy diva-watching! —By Andrew Gans
05 Jul 2002
Sept. 20 and 21 in Brisbane, Australia
Sept. 28 at the Haugh Performing Arts Center in Glendora, CA
Oct. 3-6 at the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, TX
Oct. 22-Nov. 9 at Feinstein's at the Regency in New York, NY
Nov. 16 at the Performing Arts Center of SUNY-Purchase in Purchase, NY
Dec. 6 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC
July 15 at the Hilton Garden Inn inStaten Island, NY
August 2 in "Stephen Schwartz and Friends" in Bethlehem, PA
August 16 & 17 at the Stackner Cabaret Theatre in Milwaukee, WI
September 30 in the Merrily We Roll Along Broadway Reunion Concert in NYC
July 5 at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts in Long Island
August 14-18 at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre in Washington, DC
Oct. 19 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA
Nov. 2 at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts in Brooklyn, NY
Nov. 17 at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ
Sept. 1-2 MDA Jerry Lewis Telethon in Los Angeles, CA
Sept. 20 - 22 Grand Rapids Symphony at DeVos Hall in Grand Rapids, MI
Sept 26-29 North Carolina Symphony, Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh, NC
Oct. 30-Nov. 3 American Music Therapy Association Conference in Atlanta, GA
Nov. 2 at the Rialto Center in Atlanta, GA
Nov. 9 at the Landmark Theater in Port Washington, NY
Nov. 19-Dec. 1 at the Plush Room in San Francisco, CA
Dec. 6 at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA
Dec. 8 at Poway Center for the Performing Arts in Poway, CA
Dec. 9 Laurie Strauss Leukemia Benefit, Carnegie Hall in New York, NY
Dec. 14 Boca Pops Big Band Series in Boca Raton, FL
Sept. 28 at the Weidner Center in Green Bay, WI
Oct. 5 Sundome Center in Sun City West, AZ
Oct. 24 at the Hilbert Circle Theatre in Indianapolis, IN
Oct. 26 at the Kleinhans Auditorium in Buffalo, NY
DIVA TALK: Saluting Dolores Gray, Into the Woods on Disc, a Cabaret Cavalcade and DIVA news
IN OTHER DIVA NEWS OF THE WEEK Three-time Tony winner Audra McDonald will perform in concert with the BBC Symphony on Sept. 14. McDonald will take part in a Richard Rodgers salute on this Last Night of the Proms. Leonard Slatkin will conduct the evening, which will be held at London's Royal Albert Hall . . . Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore will co-host the 4th annual Broadway Barks event in Shubert Alley on Saturday, July 13. Pet advocates Moore and Peters will be joined by a plethora of Broadway performers, who will appear in a special Adopt-a-thon for New York City animal shelters and rescue groups. Attendees can expect to see such stage luminaries as Gary Beach, Gavin Creel, John Cullum, Stephen DeRosa, Julie Haggerty, Harriet Harris, Neil Patrick Harris, Marilu Henner, Buck Henry, Shuler Hensley, Spencer Kayden, Richard Kind, Marc Kudisch, Andrea Martin, Howard McGillin, John McMartin, Phyllis Newman, Kerry O'Malley, Nancy Opel, Brad Oscar, Rhea Perlman, Louise Pitre, Alicia Silverstone and Patrick Wilson. The "cause for paws," which begins at 3:30 PM, will include celebrity presentations of pets from animal shelters around the city from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. The afternoon will also feature an auction of celebrity-signed memorabilia to benefit the various New York City shelters and organizations. For more information about Broadway Barks 4!, call (212) 840-0770, ext. 477, or visit www.officialbroadwaybarks.org . . . Liz Callaway, who has starred on Broadway in Baby, Merrily We Roll Along, Miss Saigon and Cats, will take part in another evening of "Stephen Schwartz and Friends" in Bethlehem, PA, on Aug. 2. Featuring the music of the award-winning composer of Pippin, Godspell, The Baker's Wife and Children of Eden, the show will be part of the Bethlehem Musikfest at the Zoellner Performing Arts Center; call (610) 861-0678 for more information.
