All New Blackout at Bay Street August 22 & 23 at Bay Street Theater
Sag Harbor, NY - August 16, 2014 - Bay Street Theater is pleased to announce BLACKOUT at Bay Street, a late night immersive cabaret. Doors will open immediately after the Mainstage show, My Life Is A Musical, at approximately 10:30 pm, with the cabaret performances beginning at 11 pm. The final BLACKOUT weekend this summer is Friday and Saturday, August 22 and 23 with a CABARET EVENING featuring performers from My Life Is A Musical. BLACKOUT is complimentary for those who attend the 8 pm Mainstage production of My Life Is A Musical on August 22 and 23, and just $15 for those only attending the cabaret performance at 11 pm.
BLACKOUT at Bay Street is a new performance event launching this summer offering cutting edge performances in the Bay Street lobby that will be transformed into an immersive cabaret. The audience can sip specialty cocktails while they watch performances that happen all around them. Bay Street will be the place to be for after-hours entertainment in Sag Harbor.
The CABARET EVENING is a very funny and personal set of songs featuring performers from My Life is a Musical singing their own musical theater and rock songs.
The cast members that will be performing are Wendi Bergamini (The Sound of Music Live!, Evita), Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark), Adam Daveline (Unlock’d, Siti Sati), Danyel Fulton (Hair, The Wiz), Kathleen Elizabeth Monteleone (Hands on a Hardbody, Legally-Blonde: The Musical), Justin Matthew Sargent (Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Rock of Ages), and Brian Sills (The Lion King, Baby on Board).
Wendi Bergamini is thrilled to be joining this fabulous company at Bay Street Theater for the world premiere of MLIAM! Her Broadway credits include Evita; Promises, Promises (Miss Olson); South Pacific. Her National Tours include The Light in the Piazza (Franca,1st National), Guys & Dolls, Evita (25th Anniversary tour), Cats (Jellylorum). Her Regional credits include Secondhand Lions (Ghita), Finian’s Rainbow (Westport Country Playhouse), The Baker’s Wife (Goodspeed Opera House), Titanic (CLO South Bay Cities), The Grapes of Wrath (The Western Stage). Her NY credits include The Baker’s Wife (York Theatre), Naughty Marietta (Musicals Tonight!), Iolanthe (NYGASP). Her television and film credits include The Sound of Music Live! She also performed worldwide aboard the famous QE2.
Robert Cuccioli has appeared on Broadway in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Jekyll & Hyde (Tony nomination, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award and Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award), Les Miserables. He has also appeared Off-Broadway in Bikeman, Temporary Help, Enter The Guardsman, And The World Goes ‘Round (Outer Critics Circle Award), Gigi, The Rothschilds, Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris and Dietrich & Chevalier. Equally respected for his work in the Classics and Contemporary Plays as well as Musicals, Robert has performed at such notable Regional Theatres as The Guthrie (Antony & Cleopatra), Paper Mill Playhouse (1776, Oklahoma, Lend Me A Tenor, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Sound Of Music), The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ (Amadeus, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Carnival, Othello), The Shakespeare Theatre of DC ( Hamlet, Lorenzzaccio 2006 Helen Hayes Award Nomination), the McCarter Theatre (Fiction, The School for Scandal), George Street Playhouse (The Seafarer, A Moon To Dance By with Jane Alexander) and most recently at the historic Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC (1776). He has also appeared on Television shows including White Collar, Sliders, Baywatch, The Guiding Light. His Film credits include Woody Allen’s Celebrity, and the independent film The Stranger. Robert is featured on the original cast recordings of Jekyll & Hyde (Atlantic), And The World Goes ‘Round (RCA Victor), Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris (Ghostlight), The New Picasso (Black Forest Productions) and released his debut solo album The Look Of Love in October 2012.
Adam Daveline is thrilled to be a part of My Life is a Musical. Some of his Off-Broadway and New York Credits include Unlock'd (Prospect Theater Company) Siti Sati (Tera Nova). Some notable Regional credits include Mr. Robert Martin in Jane Austin's Emma directed by Jeff Calhoun and Lord Amiens in As You like it at the Old Globe Theater directed by Adrian Nobel. Adam operates his own film production company (A.A. Bar Productions) and has written/produced/directed/and acted in many short films, and is currently working on a new web series entitled Molly Mo. Adam proudly received his BFA in Musical Theater from Brigham Young University and his MFA in Classical Acting the The Old Globe/University of San Diego.
Danyel Fulton graduated from The City College of NY with a B.A. in Theater. Selected NYC credits include Ammut and Others (Jasper in Deadland, Prospect Theater Company), Marie (Dark Hollow Woyzeck, Fringe ’12), Aisha (A Time To Love, National Black Theater), Dorothy (The Wiz, The Harlem Repertory Theater), Charlayne (Aint Misbehavin, HRT), Lil Bit (How I Learned to Drive, Aaron Davis Hall). National/International Tour includes Dionne (HAIR, Big League Theatricals), Audelco nominations for Outstanding Female Performance in The Wiz in 2009, Aint’Misbehavin in 2008, A Time To Love in 2012.
Kathleen Elizabeth Monteleone recently played Heather Stovall in Broadway's Hands on Hardbody, a role she originated in the musical's premiere at La Jolla Playhouse. Other credits include Dede Halcyon-Day in Tales of the City (American Conservatory Theater), the national tour of Legally Blonde: The Musical (Elle Woods); Sophie in Departure Lounge (SPF) and Amber in Hairspray (Paper Mill Playhouse). Screen credits include NBC’s Grease: You’re the One That I Want (Spiritual Sandy) and the film 27 Dresses. She is also a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College.
Justin Matthew Sargent has appeared on Broadway in Spiderman - Turn Off The Dark (Peter Parker), Rock of Ages (Drew), Bonnie & Clyde (Ensemble, Clyde cover), National Tour of Rock Of Ages (Drew) Regional credits include Pippin, Jesus Christ Superstar and High School Musical. His television credits include Royal Pains, Delocated. He received his BFA in Musical Theatre at the University of Central Florida.
Brian Sills New York credits include The Machine (Park Avenue Armory & Donmar Warehouse, UK), Lucky & Tough Times (Playroom Theater), Himself And Nora (NYMF). National Tour of The Lion King (original cast). Regional credits include The Heidi Chronicles (Asolo Repertory Theater), Assassins (Milwaukee Repertory), Amadeus (Clarence Brown Theater), Around The World In 80 Days (Cleveland Play House), Cabaret, The SantaLand Diaries (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Unlock’d (Ravinia Festival), three seasons at the Tony Award winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater where credits include The Taming of the Shrew, Cymbeline (Joseph Jefferson Award nomination), The Three Musketeers, The Two Noble Kinsmen and How Can You Run With A Shell On Your Back?. His film credits include Baby On Board, Nothing Like The Holidays, Rocky Marciano.
For more information about BLACKOUT at Bay Street and other programming, log on to baystreet.org or call the Box Office at 631-725-9500.
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by Lenny Stucker/lennystucker.com