C: Is for Carols

Missing those holiday carols Broadway star and vocal magician, James Barbour, will repeat last season’s holiday sold-out success with this season’s Holiday Concert 2009 which will be presented in both New York and Los Angeles. The New York Concerts will begin on Friday, December 11th at Bill’s 1890 Restaurant & Café (57 East 54th Street – between Park & Madison)
and continue through Saturday, December 19th. The evening will feature a musically inspired reading of “The Night Before Christmas.” Clement Clarke Moore’s wrote this classical holiday poem for his nine children in 1822 while they lived at 57 East 54th Street, the building which now houses the Café. The Los Angeles schedule will present one concert only on Monday, December 21st at The Colony Theatre (555 N. Third St. - Burbank, CA). Both concerts will feature special guest appearances by Broadway and Hollywood luminaries; to be announced in the coming weeks. Mr. Brbour most recently ignited Broadway audiences to thundering standing ovations for his emotionally blistering portrayal of Sydney Carton in “A TALE OF TWO CITIES” at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, a performance he has repeated for Public Television set to begin airing in late November of this year. He has starred on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast as The Beast, Carousel as Billy Bigelow, Urinetown as Officer Lockstock and as Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre as well as several othrs. He appeared in the Broadway production of Cyrano and the national tour of The Secret Garden. His voice can be heard on the upcoming international recording of A Tale of Two Cities, the PS Classics recording of Assassins, the Sony Classical cast recording of Jane Eyre, The Gift on Geffen Records, the upcoming release of Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula, as well as on the live CD recording of his self-produced stage show Broadway in Concert (for which he won an LA WEEKLY Garland Award). His television credits range from the pilots of “The District,” “Just Shoot Me” and “Flashpoint” to appearances on “Sex and the City,” “Ed,” “That’s Life,” “Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein” (PBS), “Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice” (CBS), the PBS mini-series “American Experience: John & Abigail Adams” (playing Thomas Jefferson) and the upcoming film version of A Tale of Two Cities for public television. Film credits include Alchemy (Tribeca Film Festival and ABC Family) starring opposite Tom Cavanagh and Sarah Chalke; Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights, Waiting for Lefty, The Tell-Tale Heart and Twinkle Toes with Sally Kirkland. As an author and producer, James is responsible for creating three concert series, James Barbour: The Holiday Concert and Love Songs (both at New York City’s famed Sardi’s Restaurant) and Back From Broadway/Broadway in Concert (the latter in conjunction with Steinway Concert Artist Hershey Felder). Mr. Barbour is considered one of the most sought-after performers on Broadway today. He is on the A-list of actors asked to develop new works for the industry’s leading writers and composers including Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Frank Wildhorn, and Christopher Durang to name a few. He is currently developing a new musical concert called The Romantics. Mr. Barbour has worked tirelessly in support of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and is on the Artists’ Committee of The Actors Fund.




THE HOLIDAY CONCERT playing schedule is as follows:
NEW YORK EVENINGS
Friday, December 11th 7:30pm
Saturday, December 12th 7:30pm
Monday, December 14th 7:30pm
Tuesday, December 15th 7:30pm
Wednesday, December 16th 7:30pm
Thursday, December 17th 7:30pm
Friday, December 18th 7:30pm
Saturday, December 19th 7:30pm

NEW YORK MATINEES
Saturday, December 19th 3:00pm
NEW YORK CONCERT TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED AT:
www.SmartTix.com
212-868-4444
$60 (Premium Seating), $45 (Gold Seats), $25 (Silver Seats)
(Plus $25 food & drink minimum per person)



LOS ANGELES EVEVNING
Monday, December 21st at 7:00pm

LOS ANGELES CONCERT TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED AT:
www.ColonyTheatre.org
818-558-7000 (Ext. 15)

$40
(includes a reception after the show at the theatre)


ABOUT JAMES BARBOUR

JAMES BARBOUR was nominated for the Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Awards for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in the Broadway musical version of A Tale of Two Cities, and won the Sarasota Magazine Best Actor Award for the Asolo Rep pre-Broadway production.