#InTheLoop | Flushing Town Hall Celebrates Pride Month with Music, Music + More Music
June is Pride Month, and Flushing Town Hall is making celebrants proud with three concerts featuring award-winning musicians.
Mark Nadler, an internationally acclaimed singer, pianist, tap-dancer, and comedian, kicks off the fun with Gay As They Say on Thursday, June 10, at 7 pm. At times hilarious, this tuneful show explores the theory that Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Larry Hart, and Billy Strayhorn meant what some speculators argue they meant when they wrote provocative, gay-sounding lyrics.
Next up is Marieann Meringolo’s Here’s to the Ladies! A Salute to Great Ladies of Song on Thursday, June 17, at 7 pm. Multi-award-winning vocalist Meringolo and her pianist Doyle Newmyer will celebrate such female icons as Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Joni Mitchell, and Peggy Lee.
Obie-winning Darius de Haas offers Billy Strayhorn: Something to Live For on Thursday, June 24, at 7 pm. Broadway veteran de Haas, who starred in “Rent,” “Shuffle Along,” and “Kiss Of The Spiderwoman,” does such Strayhorn classics at “Take The A Train,” “Lush Life,” “Day Dream,” and of course “Something To Live For.”
Strayhorn was one of Duke Ellington’s greatest collaborators. He was also an openly gay African American man at a time when homosexuality was taboo, especially in the Jazz world.
Each show costs $5 with service charges. Each one includes a live, post-show Q&A, too.
Top image: Darius de Hass; bottom image: Mark Nadler
