By Margaret Nickens 7/10/12 11:22am

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Broadway’s Best Celebrate the Late Bradshaw Smith, Executive Producer of the Influential Broadway Beat

Speaking at yesterday’s memorial for the award-winning cabaret singer, producer and videographer Bradshaw Smith, actor and ventriloquist Todd Stockman announced to the somber crowd, “I have a surprise for you.” Bending down, he pulled a fire-haired puppet from a small black bag, a puppet he hasn’t performed with for 15 years. “Are Bradshaw and John in heaven?” the puppet asked Mr. Stockman, referring to Mr. Smith’s partner John Scoullar, who passed in March 2011. “Because I can smell the marijuana all the way down here.”

Mr. Smith, who died in January from a sudden stroke, began his career as a cabaret artist, winning the 1987 MAC Award for Best Male Vocalist and the 1985 Backstage Bistro Award. In 1885, Mr. Smith went behind the camera and began the cable television show, Cabaret Beat, which eventually morphed into Broadway Beat. The show featured over 1,000 Broadway and cabaret performances, interviews with artists, opening and award ceremonies and other theatre events. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 4/12/12 5:39pm

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Joel Grey Celebrates His 80th at the McKittrick

Last night, Joel Grey celebrated his eightieth birthday at the Manderley bar at the McKittrick Hotel–the home of Sleep No More. Performers from that show presented Mr. Grey with a cake while wearing bedazzled Venetian masks, after which he performed “Wilkommen,” the song he’d made famous as the sinister Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret.

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