Champagne Brunch with Eddie Shapiro and Rita Neidich

Eddie Shapiro - Here’s to the Ladies
A fascinating look at the careers of some of Broadway's greatest female performers in their own words in Here's to the Ladies.  Journalist Eddie Shapiro sits down for intimate, career-encompassing conversations with some of Broadway's most prolific and fascinating leading women. Full of detailed stories and reflections, his conversations with such luminaries as Barbara Cook, Kelli O'Hara, Heather Headley, Faith Prince, Stephanie J. Block, Tonya Pinkins, and a host of others dig deep into each actor's career. Together, these chapters tell the story of what it means to be a leading lady on Broadway over the past fifty years.

Rita Neidich - Broadway cabaret performer
During brunch, experience the incredible talents of performer, Rita Neidich, in her one-woman cabaret, Far from Our Home: Broadway’s Jewish Heroines and I.  The show discusses the parallels of Jewish heroines in musical theater with Neidich’s own experience as a Jewish refugee immigrant from Ukraine.  Material spans well-known favorite Jewish leading lady songs from Fiddler on the Roof, Funny Girl, Rags, It Shoulda Been You, and more.

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