Reunited in 2021, The award-winning Elena Bennett & Fred Barton have been making music and winning hearts around the renascent Gotham music scene, performing their uniquely varied and seemingly limitless song selections from the Golden Ages of Broadway, Hollywood, Radio, and beyond.
Reunited in 2021, The award-winning Elena Bennett & Fred Barton have been making music and winning hearts around the renascent Gotham music scene, performing their uniquely varied and seemingly limitless song selections from the Golden Ages of Broadway, Hollywood, Radio, and beyond.
Fred Barton appears every Thursday night, 7:30 PM to 12:30AM, hosting the open-mic Piano Bar at the Townhouse Bar, East 58th Street inside 2nd Avenue.
Fred sweeps through a vast repertoire of Broadway’s Golden Age and timeless standards from the 20s to the Big Band era and beyond. Dust off your best songs and perform for a warm and appreciative audience – or sing along as we gather around the piano for Broadway’s best – like the old days.
Come celebrate the long-awaited return of Fred Barton’s Broadway Band to Feinstein’s/54 Below and New York nightlife, with surprise top-drawer guest singers, in a new evening of the best Broadway gems and rarities. Fred presents performers who know how to stop shows, and the songs that let them do it, arranged for the band in his trademark explosive style which has made him the orchestrator of choice for the New York Pops and orchestras around the country.
A MUSICAL PARODY OF THE HOTTEST TICKET IN TOWN • PITTSBURGH PREMIERE. Don’t miss this “convulsively funny” (NY Times) parody from the comic mastermind behind the long-running hit Forbidden Broadway. After tearing it up in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Spamilton: An American Parody will stage a singing, dancing, comedy revolution in Pittsburgh for a limited time only. The Huffington Post raves “you don’t have to see Hamilton to have side-splitting fun at Spamilton.”
First performance in 15 years of “Miss Gulch Returns!” is coming to the Austin Cabaret Theatre on May 16.
Jesse Luttrell: Showstopper! with the Fred Barton Broadway Band. New York’s hottest young entertainer dazzles in a contemporary celebration of Golden Age American entertainment from the spirit of Broadway to the glitz of Las Vegas.
From the brilliant mind of Tony Award winning writer Gerard Alessandrini comes a brand-new revue: Forbidden Broadway Salutes Carol Channing! More than any other star spoofed by Forbidden Broadway, Carol Channing was poked, prodded and punctured by Forbidden’s merry troupe of vengeful young singers. And Carol loved every minute of it!
