NewsPHOTO CALL: Norbert Leo Butz, Corbin Bleu, Mandy Gonzalez, Melissa Errico and More Present Not Since High SchoolSeth Rudetsky celebrated the launch of his new entertainment network, Seth TV, by hosting and music-directing a benefit June 18 at XL.
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Matthew Blank
June 21, 2012
The 7:30 evening was entitled Not Since High School.
Performing artists included Andrea Martin ("SCTV" and Tony Award winner), Corbin Bleu (Godspell), Norbert Leo Butz (two-time Tony winner), Melissa Errico (Amour and the upcoming Passion), Mandy Gonzales (In The Heights, Wicked), Christopher Jackson (In The Heights, Memphis), Susan Blackwell ([title of show]) and Lisa Lampanelli ("Celebrity Apprentice").
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Norbert Leo Butz, Corbin Bleu, Mandy Gonzalez, Melissa Errico and More Present Not Since High School
Norbert Leo Butz, Corbin Bleu, Mandy Gonzalez, Melissa Errico and More Present Not Since High School
Seth Rudetsky celebrated the launch of his new entertainment network, Seth TV, by hosting and music-directing a benefit June 18 at XL. Read the Playbill.com story.
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Mandy Gonzalez recreating her High School role of Maria Von Trapp with “I Have Confidence”
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…and then segueing seamlessly into the end of “Defying Gravity!”
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Lisa Lampanelli singing “Friendship” with Seth Rudetsky
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Lisa Lampanelli discussing her teen performance of Reno Sweeney and the fact she was told by the director to lose twenty pounds in two weeks!
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Lisa Lampanelli singing (and pointing) “You’re The Top”
The concert, according to press notes, "showcases performers singing the classic roles they played (while wearing braces and/or breaking out), including Harold Hill, Reno Sweeney, Bloody Mary, Evita, Adelaide and many other bad choices for children."
Proceeds benefit the Chesapeake Bay Academy, a school for children with learning issues. Rudetsky's new network went live June 18 at www.SethTV.com.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.
