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Thursday, September 21st - Music ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 1 Room 2
The Muppets All-Star
Comedy Gala The United Nations of
Comedy Live From Gramercy Park Rocío Márquez presents
Your favorite Muppets host a night of stand-
up comedy with Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy, The
Swedish Chef, Gonzo and more, and regular human
beings like Jim Breuer, Steve Patterson, Adam
Hills, and more. Do we need to say anything else?
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Featuring the funniest comics to ever take the
stage at the world’s largest and most prestigious
comedy event, Just For Laughs, the Montreal
International Comedy Festival. Eddie Izzard, “the
Lost Python,” hosts a night of international comedy
featuring top comedians from five continents
including American Colin Quinn, France’s Gad
Elmaleh (in a break-out set in English!), South
African superstar Trevor Noah and more!
Rites and Geographies for
Federico García Lorca
Live From Gramercy Park is a concert series
featuring evenings of eclectic entertainment.
Curated and hosted by Emmy-winning composer/
performer Lance Horne, it celebrates the best of
New York City’s cultural landscape in the tradition
of The Players—the historic private club for
members of the entertainment industry where the
series is presented. From Amy G’s unique mashup
of Carol Burnett and Buster Keaton to Brendan
McLean’s musical storytelling with ukulele, you’ll
love City Of Beasts—the introductory episode.
Here, we follow Bridget Barkan as this
shapeshifting songstress effortlessly surfs through
jazz, soul, R&B, folk, electronic and musical theater.
Then the brother-sister team Emma & The Hungry
Truth prove an aural cocktail reminiscent of Kate
Bush, with their primal rhythms and epic harmonies.
Then, accompanied by solo bass and dressed
in a negligee, Alvin Ailey dancer and Broadway
performer Karine Plantadit appears, where she
reflects on the "art form of loving.” You’ll also
be introduced to critically acclaimed cabaret
artist Molly Pope, who has been hailed for her
unusual “shredding alto” voice, which she calls
her own “brass band.” You’ll also meet the
American electric-acoustic composer-performer
Sxip Shirey, who describes what he does as
“telling stories with sound.” Top it off with
Broadway sensations Robin De Jesus, Elizabeth
Davis and Daphne Rubin-Vega—and mime
Bill Bowers, who does it all without words.
Wednesday, September 20th – Comedy
The album of folk songs recorded by La
Argentinita and Lorca is exceedingly well known.
As folk songs go, they are truly popular. Rocío
Márquez and her musicians have not attempted
to take on that repertoire, or at least not merely
that. Rather, it is about dramatizing in the sense
of internalizing, expanding their work, as well as
distilling it, being able to use their findings as a
tool to apply to popular music, to our personal
musical backgrounds, to that global ionosphere
of world sounds that today is our tradition.
#streamthearts #streamarts
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