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A LESSON IN BELTING, DIVAS, AND HOSTILE OPINIONS Class is in session at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYU, on Monday November 6, 2006 at 8PM Written and hosted by Seth Rudetsky, noted conductor, musician, Sirius Satellite radio host, author, and self proclaimed showbiz know-it-all, This hilarious and subversively informative musical extravaganza benefiting Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) will teach both novice theatergoers and entertainment insiders everything they ever wanted to know about Broadway… but were afraid (or too jaded) to ask. Featuring Norm Lewis (Les Miserables), Laura Benanti (The Wedding Singer), Manoel Feliciano (Sweeney Todd), Pamela Meyers (Into the Woods), and Charles Busch (Tale of the Allergist’s Wife) with a full singing and dancing ensemble, and a 25 piece orchestra! By the end of this one session course on showbiz you'll have the answers to such age old questions as:
Tickets $65, $40 and $20 can be purchased through TICKET CENTRAL – 212.279.4200 www.ticketcentral.com. A special $150 VIP Benefactor level ticket that includes a pre show reception with the performers can be purchased through the BC/EFA office, click here to order online, or 212-840-0770 x-268 Seth Rudetsky (voted NY's 'Funniest Gay Male' at Stand-Up NY) has played piano in the pits of fifteen Broadway shows including RAGTIME, PHANTOM and THE PRODUCERS. He's been the Artistic Producer/Musical Director for the annual Actor's Fund Concerts including CHESS with Josh Groban, FUNNY GIRL with Idina Menzel and DREAMGIRLS with Audra MacDonald. On television, he's been seen as Susan Lucci's Las Vegas choreographer on ALL MY CHILDREN, the coach on MTV's MADE and was nominated for three Emmy's when he was a comedy writer on THE ROSIE O'DONNELL SHOW. He's the host of the weekly benefit talk show SETH'S BROADWAY CHATTERBOX where he's interview such stars as Megan Mullally and Matthew Broderick and he wrote and starred Off Broadway in the critically acclaimed RHAPSODY IN SETH at the Actor's Playhouse. Currently, he is the Broadway host every day on SIRIUS Satellite Radio and wrote the recently published book, THE Q GUIDE TO BROADWAY.
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