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SOUND BITES ELEVEN – a fundraiser for TheaterNow

May 6th, 2024 at 7PM

Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center: 129 West 67th Street, NYC

Tickets for SoundBites Eleven

 

Join us at 54 Below for a hilariously chilling evening featuring songs and comedic highlights from Shining In Misery: A King-Size Parody! In an unforgettable celebration of the works of Stephen King and the sold-out critically-acclaimed run of the show, with music by Andrew Abrams (But I’m a Cheerleader, the Musical), Book by Colleen DuVall (White Zombie) and Book and lyrics by Mark-Eugene Garcia (Eight Tales of PedroStandbyJaime Lozano’s Songs By An Immigrant), experience the songs: “Greener Mile,” “Squint Through The Shining,” “Number One Fan,” (and many more) and learn the terrifying origins of Annie Wilkes, and Jack, Wendy, and Danny Torrance. Don’t let this “shining” opportunity fade into “the mist.”Directed by Donald Garverick (Off- Broadway: The Office!- a Musical Parody and 90210-The Musical). Music direction by Evan Lange (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 regional premiere).

 

Find the RoadFind The Road: A John M. Cook Anthology
Friday, May 10th and Monday, May 20th, 2024: 7:00pm ET
 

Featuring: Josephine Sanges, Kristoffer Lowe, David Baida & Sierra Rein

$25.00 cover charge and a $20 Minimum (Must Include 2 drinks) per person
$20.00 cover charge and a $20 Minimum (Must Include 2 drinks) per person for MAC Members

Cash Only
Food Menu Available
Approximate running time: 65 minutes
Seating from 6:15pm

 
FRIDAY MAY 24 @ 7 PM (Doors: 6:15)
BLUE WAVE CABARET 2024!
 
The “New York Can Save Our Democracy” Fundraising Show! All Proceeds Will Go To New York State Democratic Congressional Candidates To Help Flip Congress. This show is Dedicated to the Memory of Sarah Rice.
 
Starring: Meg Flather, Rosemary Loar, Julie Reyburn, Dawn Derow, Sandra Bargman, Margot Sergent, Sierra Rein, Karen Oberlin, Lisa Mullane Viggiano, Janice Hall, Rembert Block, Lane Bradbury, Mary Sue Daniels, Blair Alexis Blair Brown.
 
Music Director: Tracy Stark
 
Don’t Tell Mama NYC
343 West 46th Street (Between 8th & 9th Ave)
Cover: $30 • Minimum $20 (2 Drinks) Per Person • Cash Only • Food Menu Available
 
Reservations: Tickets

James Beaman: Lived Experience

Saturday, June 1, 2024 at  7PM / $25 | $4 Fees

Triad Theater

158 West 72nd Street
New York, NY 10023

ENCORE PERFORMANCE! 

After a 20-year absence from the cabaret stage, MAC & Bistro Award winner JAMES BEAMAN returns: older, wiser, with a song in his heart and his filter decidedly off.

Celebrating 33 years in show biz, including a decade as one of cabaret’s finest female impersonators, Jamie brings his unique and tartly critical point of view on the cultural zeitgeist.

Reunited with his longtime Music Director, MAC & Bistro Award winner DAVID MAIOCCO, Beaman’s set list includes tunes by Sondheim, Coward, Kander & Ebb, Hamlisch, Gilbert & Sullivan, and many surprises, with multi-award winning MATT SCHARFGLASS on bass, and DAVID SILLIMAN on drums.

Broadway dancer, former Rockette, director and choreographer ANN COOLEY stages two numbers for this dazzling cabaret experience.

Approx Running Time: 75 Minutes
Tickets via Triad Theater


Sierra is a 2024 Grammy Nominee
as part of the album
“Sondheim Unplugged: {the nyc sessions} Volume III.”
On this album, she sings the duet “One More Kiss” with Sweeney Todd’s original Johanna, Sarah Rice, and sings with vocal group Marquee Five on the final track, “Sunday” from Sunday in the Park with George. The 2024 Grammy Awards The 2024 Grammy Awards will air live on Sunday, Feb. 4, on CBS and Paramount+ at 8-11:30 p.m. ET/5-8:30 p.m. PT.
View announcement on Playbill.com

 


View on IMDB

 

“The Maples” short film (in festivals)

“The Maples”
Written by Randall C Willis
Produced and Directed by Taylor Coriell
Cast: Mick Bleyer and Sierra Rein
Executive Producers: Mick Bleyer, Sierra Rein, Randall C Willis
Director of Photography: James McKenzie
1st AD/CCO: Toni Ostini
PA: Blake Zolfo
Key Grip: Jon Paul

Music: Dan Pardo
Hair/Makeup: Deepti Sheladia
Editor: Stephanie Jones

 

 

 


 

New: “Fleishman” nominated for 7 Emmy Awards!

“Fleishman is in Trouble” with Sierra Rein co-starring as Cherry. Starring Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg with script adapted from her own novel by writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “Fleishman is in Trouble” premiered as a limited series on FX/Hulu on November 17, 2022

 

 

September 17, 2022 – Interview: Riveting Riffs Magazine:

“These are heady days for actress and singer Sierra Rein, she has now returned to what she enjoys doing most in life, performing on stage and in front of a camera, after two years of much of the arts world being put on an involuntary pause due to COVID. She has two podcasts on the go, a short film in post-production, appears in two episodes of a series to be broadcast and streamed on FX on Hulu this fall and she has several exciting music gigs coming up. Believe or not that is just barely scratching the surface.” (Read the full Interview here)


Now available: “Sondheim Unplugged: {the nyc sessions} Volume III”, featuring Sierra in a duet with Sarah Rice, original Johanna from Broadway’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”
Also for purchase on Amazon, iTunes and Broadway Records:
“Sondheim Unplugged: {the nyc sessions} Volume I”
and “Sondheim Unplugged: {the nyc sessions} Volume II”
including Sierra as lead vocals with Marquee Five on “Another Hundred People”

 

“One More Kiss. How pretty. I just love this song. And it’s nice to hear it in such clean, pretty voices. This cut is sublime. (Sierra Rein, Sarah Rice)”

and…

“Sunday. Please be the last song. I can’t handle more tears. I know this performance. It’s Marquee Five. They have perfected this performance. This has to be the last song, they couldn’t possibly end the album any other way. OH, THESE HARMONIES! Kill me, now. Album highlight. (Marquee Five)”

– Stephen Mosher, BroadwayWorld.com

Read the full review on BroadwayWorld.com.

 

 

 

Sondheim Unplugged the NYC sessions: Volume III cover

 

 

Sierra is Co-Producer and editor of the Horror Movie Survival Guide Podcast, hosted by Teri Gamble and Julia Marchese.

 


Catch her as a regular guest (past and future) talking about movie musicals – particularly Gene Kelly MGM ones – on the Life’s But a Song podcast.


From the June 26, 2022 performance of “Sondheim Unplugged” at Feinstein’s/54 Below, NY, with pianist John Fischer and Host Phil Geoffrey Bond: “I Know Things Now You Know” (Into the Woods/Merrily We Roll Along)

 

“There’s Always a Woman” duet with Ramona Mallory (cut from Anyone Can Whistle)

“No One is Alone” with Marquee Five (Into the Woods)

 

 

Sierra recorded character dialogue and singing vocals for Bite-Sized Broadway: A Mini-Musical Podcast.

Season 1 Premiered October 5, 2020:

Bite-Sized Broadway: A Mini-Musical Podcast consists of 50-minute episodes each featuring a 10-to-20-minute “mini-musical” presented as a fully produced radio play complete with top-of-the-line digital orchestrations and captivating sound effects. Each musical is followed by a discussion with its writers about their piece and their careers. In order to support these gifted writers, we have cast top Broadway and theatre industry talent to help get eyes and ears on these writers and help them launch a fruitful career in the theatre. We hope this program will also encourage other more well-known writers to keep creating short-form musical masterpieces, exercising their creativity and inspiring new and young writers to do the same!

Visit www.indieworkstheatre.com
Ongoing Projects:

Sierra attends informal and educational readthrus of musical theater works in New York City. Past roles have included:

Miss Shingle – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Old Deuteronomy – Cats
Dee Dee Allen – The Prom

Vicki Nichols – The Full Monty
Woman 2 – Songs For a New World
Princess Puffer – The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Rosie – Mamma Mia
Irene Roth – Crazy for You
Joanne – Company
Baker’s Wife – Into The Woods
Emma Goldman – Ragtime
Golde – Fiddler On the Roof
Violet – 9 to 5
Mother Burnside/ Mrs. Upson – Mame
Mrs Potts – Beauty and the Beast
Miss Hannigan – Annie
Tessie Tura – Gypsy
Acid Queen – The Who’s Tommy
Simon Zealotes – Jesus Christ Superstar