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“8-Track Throwback” CD Release Party and Concert! Join Adam West Hemming, Vanessa Parvin, Mick Bleyer, Sierra Rein and Julie Reyburn as Marquee Five debuts its first CD for **one night only**! Featuring songs from their new CD, “8-Track Throwback” (including hits by Carole King, Leonard Cohen, Stevie Wonder, Simon & Garfunkel) as well as favorites from past and future shows! This will also be a thank-you celebration to all of our Kickstarter.com backers and Producers. November 7th, 2011 – 7:00pmApproximate running time: 60 minutes Laurie Beechman Theater at the West Bank Cafe407 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY212.695.6909 Returning asContinue reading“8-Track Throwback” CD Release Party and Concert November 7th!

Video highlights from “City of Angels”, taken during the beginning of the run. I am featured towards the end as Angel City 4 (dressed as a hooker along with Vanessa Parvin), wooing Stone out of his wallet.

All photos credit: Goodspeed MusicalsEast Haddam, CT 06423860-873-8664 ©2011Diane Sobolewski.  More pictures can be found via the Goodspeed Musicals Facebook Page! “Everybody’s Gotta Be Somewhere” – The Cast of City of Angels “Stay With Me” Jimmy Powers (Jeffrey David Sears) with the Angel City 4 (Vanessa Parvin, Adam West Hemming, Mick Bleyer and Sierra Rein in City of Angels “Brunch” – The cast of City of Angels.

Watch myself, Adam West Hemming, Vanessa Parvin, Mick Bleyer (as the “Angel City 4”) and Jeff Sears (as “Jimmy Powers”) sing two excerpts from “City of Angels”, currently playing at Goodspeed Musicals – goodspeed.org. Dan Pardo on piano.

“Angel City 4” and “Jimmy Powers” on WFSB “Better Connecticut” Show this Friday From Goodspeed Musicals’ current production of “City of Angels,” the “Angel City 4” (Mick Bleyer, Adam West Hemming, Vanessa Parvin and Sierra Rein) and “Jimmy Powers” (Jeffrey Sears) will perform for CBS Afiliate WFSB, out of Metro Hartford, which serves CT, MA, and parts of NY. We will be interviewed and will perform two songs from the show! According to the website, the “Better Connecticut” show broadcasts from 3:00-4:00 pm EST each weekday, and I’m assuming our morning shoot will be broadcast that afternoon, 3pm on FridayContinue reading“Angel City 4” and “Jimmy Powers” on WFSB “Better Connecticut” Show this Friday

August 23, 2011Sierra has been cast as The Angel City 4 alto, Margie the Madame, and the Donna/Oolie understudy for “City of Angels” at Goodspeed Musicals. Visit Goodspeed on Facebook and Twitter. *UPDATE*: Sierra performed two shows as Donna/Oolie on October 22nd, as Nancy Anderson went back to NYC to accept her Noel Coward award!

Big news!  I will leave August 22nd to head up to rehearse and then perform as Angel City 4 Alto and understudy the role of Donna/Oolie in Goodspeed Theatre’s production of “City of Angels” in Connecticut. Previews start September 23rd and it runs through November 27th (but may extend).Purchase tickets now and head to their website to read more about the show (I didn’t realize it was written by one of the writers that brought us M*A*S*H)! 

“Megabucks: A New Musical” will be presented as a staged reading on Monday, June 27th, 2pm at the Manhattan Theatre Club (311 West 43rd St, Studio 2). Book and lyrics by Margaret Everitt and music by Everitt and Clifton J. Noble, Jr., “this Broadway ‘commedia dell’arte’ take places on West 23rd Street with a small collection of New Yorkers longing to win Megabucks.” I’ll be playing Zinka, the costume-jewelrie’d Ukrainian gadabout. ps. This is not the “big” news I was alluding to in the previous podcast episode…

“Move Over” sung by Sierra Rein as part of Marquee Five’s show “8-Track Throwback”Don’t Tell Mama, NYC // October, 2010. Band members: Piano: Mark Janas, Guitar: John Benthal, Bass: Matt Scharfglass. www.MarqueeFive.com Hailed as “a breath of fresh air in the cabaret world” (BroadwayWorld.com) with “superb blend in song” (NiteLifeExchange.com), the group won the 2010 MAC Award for their debut show “We Can Make It: The Songs of Kander and Ebb” at the Metropolitan Room. They followed this in Fall, 2010 at Don’t Tell Mama with “8-Track Throwback,” a show Cabaret Scenes called “top-notch spectacular.” Now in the running forContinue reading“Move Over” from “8-Track Throwback” with Marquee Five, Don’t Tell Mama, NYC