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Palm Beach Royal Room Cabaret to Present Tony Desare With Bucky Pizzarelli

Widely considered to be one of the top cabaret venues in the country, The Colony’s Royal Room has scheduled another audience-pleasing line-up of performers.   Tony DeSare with Bucky Pizzarelli will perform on November 7-8 as well as November 14 – 15.

The Colony Hotel – which The Palm Beach Post has hailed as “probably the best cabaret on the planet” – plans another sizzling, song-filled season at the hotel’s celebrated Royal Room, featuring some really hot headliners straight from Manhattan’s most sophisticated nightspots and Broadway – including, in fact, a Royal Room regular who was a 2008 Tony Award nominee.

“The Colony’s 2008-2009 Cabaret Season will be our biggest and best ever. Instead of having to fly up to New York City to see major cabaret stars at the Algonquin’s Oak Room, the Carlyle or Feinstein’s at the Regency, fans of the Great American Songbook now can enjoy many of the same extraordinary performers within the cozy confines of the Royal Room. I can guarantee the quality of these performers because I personally reviewed each one,” promises Roger Everingham, general manager of Palm Beach’s favorite boutique hotel, which has repeatedly earned the highly coveted “4-Diamond Rating,” from AAA.

Coming to The Colony directly from New York’s Carlyle Hotel is swinging singer/pianists Tony DeSare, an elegant, young crowd-pleaser whose singing style ranges from dreamy pop standards to boogie-woogie and R&B. Appearing with DeSare at The Colony will be the great jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli.

Reviews of Tony DeSare include The New York Times: “A lean baby Sinatra with burning brown eyes and flashing teeth…his sly performance establishes the kind of connection to a younger generation that has helped make Michael Bublé a heartthrob among upscale women in their teens and early 20s…his intonation and enunciation are impeccable.” USA Today reported, “DeSare belongs to a group of neo-traditional upstarts stretching from Harry Connick, Jr. to Michael Bublé and Jamie Cullum. But this singer/songwriter/pianist's approach is refreshingly instinctual, blending Connick's smooth virtuosity with a rugged, relaxed quality… DeSare covers old and newer pop and jazz standards without smothering or over-thinking the material. And on a few classic-style originals, he exhibits a similarly breezy charm as a tunesmith.”

During the Fall cabaret season each of the cabaret performers will do an 8 p.m. show on Friday and Saturday -- except for The Four Freshmen, which will perform Wednesday through Saturday, December 17-20.

During January through April 2009, the 8 p.m. shows will run Tuesday through Saturday, with a 10 p.m. late show on Friday and Saturday – except for Jack Jones (February 24 – March 7) who is not scheduled to perform any late shows.

For all Royal Room evening performances, the doors open at 6:45 p.m. for dinner and the show starts around 8.  To make reservations, call the hotel box-office at 561.659.8100 or send an email to robrussell@thecolonypalmbeach.com.

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Which legitimate Broadway theatre has hosted the most number of Tony Award Best Musical/Play winners?

Some notable records and facts about the Tony Awards include the following:[11]

* Harold Prince has won 21 Tony Awards, more than anyone else, including eight for directing, eight for producing, two as producer of the year's Best Musical, and three special Tony Awards.
* The most Tony Awards ever received by a musical was "The Producers" with 12 awards, including best musical.
* The most Tony Awards ever received by a non-musical was "The Coast of Utopia" with 7 awards including best play, in 2007. "The History Boys" and the original production of "Death of a Salesman" previously held the record with 6 each.
* Stephen Sondheim has won more Tony Awards than any other composer, with eight Tony Awards: Best Music and Best Lyrics for Company (1971); Best Score for Follies (1972), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd (1979), Into the Woods (1988), Passion (1994); and Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement (2008).
* Julie Harris has won the most performance Tony Awards, and has been nominated more than any other performer. She has won five awards for her roles in I Am a Camera - 1952, The Lark - 1956, Forty Carats - 1969, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln - 1973, and The Belle of Amherst - 1977. She has been nominated a total of ten times.
* Only three actresses have been nominated in two acting categories in the same year: Amanda Plummer, Dana Ivey, and Kate Burton.
* South Pacific (1950) is the only show (Play or Musical) to win Best Production (Musical), Actor (Ezio Pinza), Actress (Mary Martin), Featured Actor (Myron McCormick), Featured Actress (Juanita Hall) and Direction (Joshua Logan).
* Bob Fosse has won the most Tony Awards for choreography, eight, and one more for direction. Choreography: The Pajama Game (1955), Damn Yankees (1956), Redhead (1959), Little Me (1963), Sweet Charity (1966), Pippin (1973), Dancin' (1978), and Big Deal (1986). Direction: Pippin (1973).
* The musicals that fared most poorly on Tony night were Chicago (1976) and Steel Pier (1997), both of which received 11 nominations but won no awards. Coincidentally, both shows have scores by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Chicago competed against A Chorus Line, which dominated the musical categories with nine awards. Steel Pier saw several of its nominations lose to the revival of Chicago which, on its second outing, took home six awards. The play Indiscretions (1995), was not far behind, being nominated for nine awards and winning none.
* While several performers have won Tonys for roles that have involved cross dressing, only two have won for performing in roles in which the character is actually a member of the opposite sex: Mary Martin in the title role of Peter Pan (1955) and Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray (2003).
* Only a handful of shows have won the triple crown of design awards; Tony Awards for Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Lighting Design: Follies (1972), The Phantom of the Opera (1988), The Lion King (1998), The Producers (2001), The Light in the Piazza (2005), The Coast of Utopia (2007) and the revival of South Pacific (2008). Oliver Smith is the scenic designer with the most Tony Awards, eight: My Fair Lady (1957), West Side Story (1958), The Sound of Music (1960), Becket (1961), Camelot (1961), Hello, Dolly! (1964) and Baker Street (1965), as well as a special Tony Award (1965). Jules Fisher is the lighting designer with the most Tony Awards, eight: Pippin (1973), Ulysses in Nighttown (1974), Dancin' (1978), Grand Hotel: the Musical (1990), The Will Rogers Follies (1991), Jelly's Last Jam (1992), with Peggy Eisenhauer, Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk (1996), and Assassins (2004). He has received 19 nominations as a lighting designer and one as a producer, of Dancin'.
* The 2008 revival of South Pacific took home all four Creative Arts Tony Awards in Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design, and Best Sound Design.
* Boyd Gaines is the only performer to be nominated for all four performance awards that the performer is eligible for. He was nominated for the Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1989 for The Heidi Chronicles, Best Actor in a Musical in 1994 for She Loves Me, Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2000 for Contact, Best Actor in a Play in 2007 for Journey's End and Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2008 for Gypsy. The only one of these awards that he did not win was Best Actor in a Play for Journey's End.
* Only three musicals in history have taken home the Tony Award for Best Musical while the book, music, and lyrics where written by one person: Meredith Wilson for The Music Man, Rupert Holmes for The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Jonathan Larson for Rent. Holmes and Larson have also won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Tony Award for Best Original Score.
* The Tony Award equivalent of the Academy Award's Big Five would be the six awards :Best Musical, Best O

TONY Award winners to perform at Central Lakes College
BRAINERD — The Acting Company and Guthrie Theater will present “Romeo and Juliet” March 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Chalberg theatre at Central Lakes College.

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