This star-studded night of Tales and Jazz will benefit WITS: WordTheatre® in the Schools and The Pushcart Prize Fellowships.
Bellamy Young (Scandal), Grammy nominated singer Antonique Smith (Luke Cage), Mozhan Marno (The Blacklist), Bruce Vilanch (You Don’t Mess With the Zohan), Sharon Lawrence ( Me, Myself & I), Michael Nouri (American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, Flashdance) Brooke Adams (Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven), Paul Guilfoyle (CSI), will bring to life short stories penned by the late, great Brian Doyle, a multiple Pushcart Prize winning author. Composers Jonathan Sacks and Starr Parodi (Piano) and have written an original jazz score which will be performed by Pedro Segundo (Percussion), Morris Goldberg (Saxaphone, Flute, Clarinet, Piccolo), Michael Rubenstein (Trumpet), and Essiet Okon Essiet on bass, with some very special surprises” “Hey, Doyle!” is directed and produced by Cedering Fox.
“There is a story in every thing, and every being, and every moment, were we alert to catch it, were we ready with our tender nets; indeed there are a hundred, a thousand stories, uncountable stories, could they only be lured out and appreciated; and more and more now I realize that what I thought was a skill only for authors and pastors and doctors and dream-diviners is the greatest of all human skills, the one that allows us into the heart and soul and deepest layers of our companions on the brief sunlit road between great dark wildernesses.” –– Brian Doyle