Nightlife in NYC: Piaf! The Show at Florence Gould Hall

Nightlife in NYC: Piaf! The Show at Florence Gould Hall

Anne Carrere returns to New York City with her triumphant performance in Piaf! The Show on April 18-20, 2018

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Anne Carrere in Piaf! The Show / photo credit Alain Biguet / Image courtesy of FI:AF

Edith Piaf’s life and songs superbly interpreted by young French actress Anne Carrere will be reimagined in the Piaf! The Show theatrical performances at Florence Gould Hall at FI:AF in New York City on April 18-20, 2018. Carrere and her musicians bring the spirit of the City of Lights at the time between two World Wars retelling Piaf’s life story through her songs. The show, which had premiered on Piaf’s birthday centennial in April 2015, was inspired by the movie “La Vie en Rose”. Yet its live concert aspect takes the audience on a journey back in time creating an unforgettable experience. Book your tickets with a discount code TNTIX here.

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Nightlife in NYC: Jazz & Broadway Piano Night

Nightlife in NYC: Jazz & Broadway Piano Night

Intimate and secret jazz show on Saturday, April 7 and Saturday, April 28, 2018 from 7 pm staring pianist Mark Berman and friends at the iconic Don’t Tell Mama music club in the theater district

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Mark Berman / Photo credit Lena Khandros

Experience the intimate, one-of-a-kind jazz show with a New York City music scene regular Mark Berman at the piano on a rare night when he is not performing on Broadway or is on tour. The show will take place at the iconic music club Don’t Tell Mama which sits in the heart of New York’s theater district. The club is a place to get close to and experience authentic NYC with Broadway luminaries on stage and in the audience. On Saturday nights expect a surprise star appearance. Space is limited so reserve your seat here and get your two drinks at the club later. It will be an unforgettable night full of great music and surprise guests!  Read More

Dance in NYC: Anna Karenina by Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg at Lincoln Center

Dance in NYC: Anna Karenina by Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg at Lincoln Center, NY

Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg returns to New York City on April 6-8, 2018 with a ballet Anna Karenina

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Anna Karenina / Image courtesy of Ardani Artists Management, Inc.

Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg is well-known on New York City dance scene. Its performances are eagerly anticipated by the fans of Russian ballet. Boris Eifman, the founder, and creator of this ballet theater, chooses complex psychological stories as the basis for his repertoire requiring from the spectators to know the literary text or the historical intricacies and to be able to appreciate a very abstract form of expression such as dance. In the case of Anna Karenina ballet, he obviously takes the cues from Leo Tolstoy but zeroes in on its main love triangle Anna-Vronsky-Karenin leaving aside the rest of Tolstoy’s characters. The show is dramatically staged and performed by the top-class classically trained dancers of Eifman Ballet theater. The performances in New York City will be taking place at the David H. Koch Theater on April 6-8, 2018. Book your discounted tickets with a promo code TNTIX here.

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Beyond NY: Carla Bruni US Tour in February 2018

Beyond NY: Carla Bruni US Tour in February 2018

Songs from the new album French Touch performing in Alexandria, VA, Boston, MA and Los Angeles, CA

Carla Bruni new album French Touch USA tour February 2018
Carla Bruni / Image courtesy of Metropolitan Entertainment

Carla Bruni, a French singer-songwriter and a former first lady and ex-supermodel is bringing her latest collection of songs to concert halls in the US in February 2018. Her dreamy yet sultry singing style of the love chansons accompanied on guitar playing by Bruni herself is guaranteed to give a terrific music night for the concertgoers.

Carla Bruni Sarkozy (née Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi) was born in 1967 in Turin, Italy and moved to France at the age of 7. Starting with the piano in school, she discovered a guitar when she was about 11 years old. Right there at the first group lesson, she realized that this is her instrument. Singing and playing guitar became her purpose in life.

Carla Bruni USA tour February 2018

She started her music career in 1997 before successfully modeling for the top couture houses in France. Her success in songwriting began when in 1999 she sent her lyrics to Julien Clerc. The songs were later included in his album Si j’étais elle . Bruni’s first personal disc Quelqu’un m’a dit was released in 2002. That followed by No Promises in 2007. She continued to record after her marriage to Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France in 2007-2012.Carla Bruni USA tour February 2018

Bruni’s third album Comme si de rien n’état  was published in 2008 and Little French Songs in 2012. A 4-year interval between the releases did not mean that she stopped her career in light of becoming the first lady of France. Carla Bruni USA tour February 2018 But even though she finished the work on the songs and the recordings by 2011, “it wasn’t considered appropriate to release it while she was First Lady” according to 2013 expose in Vanity Fair.

The latest album French Touch, released  by Verve in October 2017, is her fifth. She regained the pace of her performing and recording music career when her husband had lost the reelection in 2012 and the family had fully relocated from the Élysées Palace to a private residence on Right Bank. The songs included in this album are all her favorites from when “I was a teenager” as she confided in the interview to NPR’s Scott Simon.

Carla Bruni USA tour February 2018 An idea for Bruni to record English language pop and country classics was David Foster’s, an acclaimed music producer and a former chairman of Verve. The collection includes the covers that she knew by heart, so the whole project felt like a smooth sailing full of distant memories and charming reveries. In the interview with The New York Times, she reveals that its “her secret passion: singing classic rock, country and jazz standards in English”.

She has been including classic rock in her latest concert programs in Paris and on tours in Europe. However, her program at the NYC appearance in 2013 has featured primarily the songs from the newly released at that time Quelqu’un m’a dit album. All were in French or Italian delivered with the mastery, elegance, and simplicity.

Carla Bruni new album French Touch USA tour February 2018
Carla Bruni / Image courtesy of Metropolitan Entertainment

The upcoming concerts in February including one in New York City at The Town Hall will give her fans a chance to enjoy an unbelievable mix of familiar classics performed in subtly sexy voice making it even more chic with a hint of French accent.

 


 

 

 

 

Concert Dates and Tickets: 

Carla Bruni USA tour February 2018 album French TouchAlexandria, VA at Birchmere Music Hall on Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Boston, MA at Berklee Performance Center on Thursday February 15, 2018

Los Angeles, CA at Orpheum Theatre on Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Theater in NYC: The Parisian Woman with Uma Thurman

Theater in NYC: The Parisian Woman with Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman debuts on Broadway in Beau Willimon’s play 

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The Parisian Woman, Limited Engagement Now on Broadway at the Hudson Theater /  By Beau Willimon, Directed by Pam McKinnon, Pictured: Uma Thurman, Josh Lucas, Marton Csokas; Photo by Matthew Murphy, 2017 / Image courtesy of BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN

Captivating performance, high pace acting, foxy intrigue – these are the characteristics that any theater production would want to hear in its regard. And “The Parisian Woman” written by Beau Willimon and directed by Pam McKinnon is scoring high on each one of them. The cast with Uma Thurman in the title role, Josh Lucas, Marton Csokas, Phillipa Soo and Blair Brown are doing an incredible job in keeping the audience in their grip. The performances at Hudson Theater will continue until March 11, 2018. Click here to book your tickets. Read More