Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce that Richard Kind will host this year’s 29th Annual Summer Gala, A Starry Night, which will be streamed online on baystreet.org and other live stream platforms on Wednesday, July 22, at 8 p.m., with a red carpet preshow beginning at 7:30 p.m. The broadcast will include a telethon, testimonials from actors and contributors as to the important role of Bay Street, and special performances from many luminary figures of the performing arts. Proceeds from the evening will support Bay Street’s educational and theatrical programs; in addition, ten percent of all proceeds will support the JBJ Soul Kitchen Food Bank in Wainscott, which has provided meals for thousands of food-insecure families across Long Island since it launched on May 11 of this year.

This year’s gala, titled A Starry Night, will be a celebration of the Broadway musicals of the 1970s, and will pay comedic homage to the celebrity telethon specials popular at the time. “For the past two years, Bay Street has celebrated Broadway by the decade in our summer Gala, and this year we’re thrilled to explore the vibrant and innovative musicals of the 1970s,” says Bay Street Artistic Director Scott Schwartz. “Since this year the event will be broadcast online, we thought: how better to celebrate the 1970s than through a loving and satirical take on the telethons of that era? With amazing performances from leading artists of then and now, songs from beloved musicals by some of the greatest writers of all time, and a playful script full of surprises, Bay Street Theater is excited to share its 29^th Anniversary Gala with our local audience and musical theater lovers everywhere!”

Please join us for a comprehensive look at the making of Tisch Drama’s New Studio On Broadway Physical Acting Ensemble’s production The Clouds by Aristophanes, as featured on New York 1 and Playbill. This free two-day comprehensive workshop is open to the public and will be broken down into a series of sessions exploring the creative and technical aspects of producing the fully remote production. The workshop will cover:

Rehearsing
Choreography
Stage Management
Production Management
Music Composition and Creation
Design and Virtual Backgrounds (painting, animating, green screen projection, keying)
Video Editing and IT support
Experiments in Broadcasting (Zoom, OBS and Vimeo’s Livestream—among others)
…and more!

A Zoom webinar link and additional supplemental materials will be provided to registrants prior to the workshop.

The Clouds was designed, rehearsed, and broadcast during the New York City shutdown due to COVID-19. Originally set to have six performances from May 5–9, the company had to pivot into a fully remote, virtual production process.

Presenters will include: Orlando Pabotoy (Director), members of the Ensemble (who also edited and composed), Caroline Ragland (Stage Manager), Nikki Amico and Ellie Handel (Assistant Directors), Brídín Clements and Hilary Tanabe (Production Administrators), Designers Wesley Cornwall (Scenic), Camilla Dely (Costume), Charlotte Seelig (Lighting), Gregory Chan (Technologist), John Kemp (Director of Audio and Media at Tisch Drama), music composition and arrangements.

Once participants register, they will be given access to view a recording of The Clouds. It is recommended that participants watch the digital production in advance of attending the workshop. Additional supplemental materials will also be provided prior to the workshop.

Coachella Valley Repertory inaugurates their first Luminary Match-up with Millicent Martin and Teri Ralston on Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 6:00 pm (Pacific). In the style of Actors on Actors, Millicent Martin and Teri Ralston will interview each other. Get an insider’s glimpse into their lives, friendship and careers.

This dynamic duo has had long and storied careers. Millicent Martin is an English actress, singer and comedian, best known for her weekly BBC Television satire show “That Was The Week That Was”. Teri Ralston is best known for her role in the hit TV series Frasier and The Wonderful World of Disney. Many CVRep theatre-goers may remember Teri Ralston from her appearance in the sold-out performance of Ballroom.

MILLICENT MARTIN — Milly is best known in the classic FRASIER as Gertrude, Daphne’s dreadful mother. She never thought she would find another classic TV show with a fantastic cast. And along came GRACE & FRANKIE with Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen & Sam Waterston. Now in its SEVENTH season. Netflix’s LONGEST RUNNING SERIES. TV: guest star on 2 BROKE GIRLS, MODERN FAMILY & BONES & CASTLE, HOT IN CLEVELAND with friend BETTY WHITE, CHUCK, WILL & GRACE, DAYS of OUR LIVES ,BBC’s THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS (TW3), which resembles HBO’s John Oliver LAST WEEK TONIGHT, FROM A BIRD’S EYE VIEW, L.A. LAW, Disney’s HALLOWEENTOWN, The Suite Life of ZACH & CODY, JONAS. STAGE: 5 Royal Command Performances in London. David Lee’s GIGI, 42nd STREET, SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM of which she was one of its creators as well as starred in the UK, Broadway and Los Angeles introducing to theater audiences the bawdy song “I NEVER DO ANYTHING TWICE” (singing it in a recent production with friend Terri Ralston at The Pasadena Playhouse) Millie came to Broadway in 1955 with Julie Andrews in THE BOY FRIEND. FILM highlights: ALFIE opposite Michael Caine, STOP THE WORLD, NOTHING BUT THE BEST w/ Alan Bates, MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT w/Joan Plowright. GIRL ON A BOAT with Norman Wisdom. A 2 time TONY nominee for SIDE BY SIDE and KING OF HEARTS Millie recently received a LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT and celebrates her 72nd year in show business. Further info: www.MillicentMartin.com

TERI RALSTON — Born in Colorado, moving to California at age 12, and spending her formative years after college in New York, then returning to California, Broadway veteran Teri Ralston recently—and happily—once again moved back to New York, an event inspiring the title of her new CD, I’VE GOTTA GET BACK TO NEW YORK. Teri Ralston began her professional career with the rock musical Your Own Thing, followed by Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Later that year she was cast in Company, beginning a long, fruitful relationship with Stephen Sondheim and Hal Prince, including A Little Night Music. She appeared in Side By Side By Sondheim…once with Peggy Lee (a production she also directed); three different productions of Follies, Yvonne in Sunday in the Park with George, and starred in the new Sondheim revue Moving On at the Laguna Playhouse. Teri has also found much satisfaction in her directing career. She has performed in summer stock around the country. Recent summer stock includes: Gypsy (Rose), Carousel (Nettie), Oklahoma! (Aunt Eller), Damn Yankees (Meg), Pirates of Penzance (Ruth), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Doatsie Mae), The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess), The Music Man (Mrs. Paroo), The Wizard of Oz (Glinda), Beauty and the Beast (Wardrobe), Cabaret (Frauline Schneider), and Into the Woods (Stepmother). She is featured on seven original cast albums and three CDs recorded in London.

Register for this event at cvrep.org.

THE LINE is a new play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen created in the award-winning documentary style that brought you The Exonerated, Aftermath, and Coal Country. Crafted from firsthand interviews with New York City medical first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic, THE LINE cuts through the media and political noise to reveal the lived experiences of frontline medical workers in New York and their battle to save lives in a system built to serve the bottom line.

“In spring 2020, we conducted anonymous interviews with NYC frontline medical workers battling the COVID-19 virus,” said THE LINE creators Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. “Through these interviews, we began to see care as a radical response to institutionalized violence and the systems that perpetuate it. Created from quarantine in ‘rapid response’ to this national emergency, THE LINE presents a fundamental redefinition of what it means to protect and serve, examining the fault lines in our system through the words of the brave people who show up every day to care for us all.”

The company of THE LINE features Santino Fontana (David), Arjun Gupta (Vikram), John Ortiz (Oscar), Alison Pill (Jennifer), Nicholas Pinnock (Dwight), Jamey Sheridan (Ed), and Lorraine Toussaint (Sharon). THE LINE features original music composition by Aimee Mann, and Janelle Caso will serve as production stage manager.