Production meetings, band rehearsals, sound checks, publicity shots, camera runthroughs; I just hit the ground in New York and I’m already running.
Thursday night, I begin a three-night stand at the gorgeous Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side, with the incredible Anika Noni Rose as my guest! April 28, 29 & 30 (Thursday through Saturday) at 8 pm.
Add in my ENORMOUS eight-piece Caucasian Brass Band and you might think it couldn’t get better. But you’re wrong! Because the whole show only costs $35 a ticket. That is correct, one-quarter of the price of an orchestra ticket for a Broadway musical, and you get two Tony Award winners and a big band and several extremely complicated chords, not to mention a generous helping of mixed meters and high belting.
But that’s still not all! The really cool part? You might get to be on television! These concerts are being taped for PBS, and we need audiences packed full of raucous, joyful JRB freaks so that when the camera pans the house, it doesn’t look like a Yizkor service in Wyoming.
This is what it looked like last year when Anika and I played a sold-out run at Birdland: