NEWS & UPCOMING PROJECTS:

Deep Flight Productions Returns With Margaret Curry's Solo Cabaret Show:

Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 7 PM

570 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10036
Inside YOTEL, Fourth Floor
https://thegreenroom42.venuetix.com/

Tickets: Live https://bit.ly/47L2GZR & Livestream https://bit.ly/3XyEHZj
$22 - $52 / food and beverages available (no minimum)

Margaret Curry brings her 2024 Bistro Award-Winning show to The Green Room 42! Curry explores and delights in the universe between the present and the future, the bad and the good, the hope and what's-to-come. Curry tells her story (and some of ours) through compositions by Johnny Mercer, Yip Harburg, Chaka Khan, Roy Orbison and Jimmy Webb. Curry and her stellar musicians, musical director/arranger Gregory Toroian on piano, Skip Ward on bass and David Silliman on drums, celebrate "the space in-between" with music, lyrics, and distinctive rhythms. Directed by Lina Koutrakos. Produced by Deep Flight Productions.

Photos: Caroline White, Conor Weiss. Graphics: Frank Dain/ArtBart Design

Video Filmed by Michael Lee Stever. Live recording and mix: JP Perreaux. Video Editing and Audio Mastering by Roger Lian.

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Skip Ward - Bass David Silliman - Drums

Director - Lina Koutrakos

THE SONGWRITERS Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer, Patrick Simmons, David “Hawk” Wolinski, Irving Berlin, E. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen, Jimmy Webb, Roy Orbison, Joe Melson, William Bolcom, David Lee (Dave) Frishberg, Michele Brourman, Susan Werner, Ronald Isley, Rupert Isley, O’Kelly Isley, Isaac Hayes, Harry Elston, Philemon Hou, Natasha Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois, Wayne Rodrigues

Photos from May 4th, 2024 Performance at the Laurie Beechman by Alec Addalia

EPK with additional photos, reviews and more: https://margaretcurry.com/epk

Previously performed at Laurie Beechman Theatre on November 30, 2023, April 6 and May 4, 2024, The SPACE In-Between is "...a mix of songs and sensational stories told in between them...Curry displayed a fine comic flair...the entire evening was conceived with genuine intelligence." ~ Bart Greenberg, Cabaret Scenes
https://cabaretscenes.org/2023/12/18/margaret-curry-the-space-in-between/

"This is someone who really knows how to tell her stories in song with effortless style. Her well-scripted patter allowed each song to come from the heart and what better statement is that?" ~ Ron Fassler, Theater Pizzazz
https://www.theaterpizzazz.com/margaret-curry-and-the-space-in-between/

THE SPACE IN-BETWEEN CREATIVE TEAM

GREGORY TOROIAN Gregory Toroian is a musical director, arranger, jazz pianist, singer-songwriter, and educator. He has been featured in Cabaret Scenes magazine and was the 2020 Bistro Award winner for Outstanding Collaboration with Sue Matsuki, with whom he also won the MAC award for Best Duo Production. In addition to working with such artists as Tony Bennett, Jon Hendricks, Cab Calloway, Donna Summer, Melissa Errico, Marilyn Maye, Karen Mason, and Jane Olivor, he has appeared in almost every jazz club and cabaret (major and minor) in New York. He has toured with principal dancers from the New York City Ballet and has made numerous radio and television appearances including the Today Show and Maury Povich. His recording work as a pianist, arranger, and producer, includes CDs of Leslee Warren, Suzanna Ross, Sue Matsuki, and Nancy Stearns. Gregory’s vocal arrangements have been featured on a series of albums in the US and Japan, by the vocal group String of Pearls. As an educator, Gregory coaches singers both privately and in a variety of group workshops (Jazz, Phrasing, Piano/Bass/Drums, Rhythm, Vocal Harmony, and more).

SKIP WARD Grammy Award Winning Bassist, Guitarist, Ukulele-ist (is that a word), Lap Steel, Tuba, Penny Whistle and Teacher... can also get around on piano, and sings background vox. Skip is a classically-trained jazz musician with a penchant for rock n' roll. And fusion, blues and bluegrass. He plays four, five and six string electric and acoustic fretted and fretless basses, and has a special love for the upright. He has studied with Anthony Knight of the Cleveland Orchestra and Frank DiLaberto of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as well as the great Jaco Pastorius. Artists he has played/recorded with include: Steve Martin, Rosanne Cash, John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), Phoebe Snow, Marc Cohn, Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper, Cassandra Wilson, Melissa Manchester, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Akron Symphony and many, many more. You may have seen him on David Letterman, SNL or the The Ellen Degeneres Show. You'll hear Skip on many soundtracks, and he has been on national tour with a number of major theatrical productions. He also has lots of experience writing (he's a member of BMI) and playing advertising jingles, and plays regularly in Ireland.

DAVID SILLIMAN Drummer and percussionist David Silliman's middle name should be versatility. Whether accompanying song stylists such as Mariah Carey, Cassandra Wilson, and Blossom Dearie or playing with Colombian Harpist Edmar Castaneda, David's exciting rhythmic energies add color and mood to any musical performance. He's also comfortable playing in the pit of a Broadway show or with the New Jersey Symphony. With over 20 years of experience, David's first studies were in the Classical field, studying snare drum, xylophone and timpani. Later studies exposed him to Jazz, Latin Jazz, Brazilian and Funk music. Hearing music with a drummer and a percussionist made a strong impression on his playing. Trying to recreate that sound and "feel" with just one person has become a lifetime passion. David's unique setup allow him to move seamlessly from the Cajon, to Drum Set and all the percussive "toys" in-between, creating the rhythmic sound and energy of two or three percussionists. Highlights of David's past work: concert tours with Al DiMeola, Cassandra Wilson, and Leslie Uggams. He’s performed with Aretha Franklin and is featured in the VH1 Divas 2001 concert.

LINA KOUTRAKOS Award-winning and accomplished singer/songwriter/teacher/director based in New York City. As a singer, she has been repeatedly rave reviewed from The New York Times to Billboard Magazine in both rock and roll and cabaret and has been awarded Cabarets most prestigious awards for "Best Female Vocalist" and "Entertainer of the Year," repeatedly. For 3 decades Koutrakos has been a New York City musical fixture - as both soloist and as a director and performance coach. Her directorial nods include being a 4-time winner for "Best Director" from the MAC Association and she is a lifetime Backstage Bistro Award-Winner for "Best Director," as well. Koutrakos was on staff as a Master Teacher for years at both the Eugene O'Neill Cabaret Symposium and The Yale Cabaret Conference. She was the first Master Teacher with The St Louis Cabaret Conference and co-founded NYC's Summer in the City yearly workshop on weekends. She has since gone on to start her own performance workshop "Performance Connection," which umbrellas many ongoing and specialty workshops and seminars now both online and in person. The Advance Performance Workshop in NYC has produced many award-winning performers and shows over the last 2 decades. Her singing and being the founder of the Midwest Cabaret Conference in Chicago for 10 years won her the "Gold Coast" Award with the Chicago Cabaret Professionals in 2019. She spearheads a now annual advanced performance workshop on the island of Mykonos. From performance workshops with full bands to one-on-one clients across the U.S., to her own award-winning original material and one woman shows, it's no wonder Koutrakos is referred to as a "Walking Master Class" by Billboard Magazine as both singer and director.

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Photo credit: Danny Bristoll

Margaret was just honored with Outstanding Vocalist Bistro Award for THE SPACE IN-BETWEEN show. The Bistros have a wonderful and long legacy of supporting and recognizing performers. A gala for all Bistro Award honorees was held on April 1, 2024!

The BISTRO AWARD was established by Bob Harrington in 1985 in his “Bistro Bits” column in the trade weekly Back Stage, then under the editorship of Sherry Eaker. Some of the Bistro’s special honorees have included Ronny Whyte (2023); Jimmy Webb (2022), Petula Clark (2021); Richard Maltby and David Shire (2020); Judy Collins (2019); André De Shields (2018); Darlene Love (2017); Jon Hendricks (2016); Ben Vereen (2014); Melissa Manchester and Dee Dee Bridgewater (2012); Dionne Warwick and Carol Channing (2011); Mitzi Gaynor and Elaine Stritch (2010); Charles Aznavour and Liza Minnelli (2009); Marilyn Maye (2008); Betty Buckley (2007); Steve Ross (2006); as well as Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth, Bobby Short, Eartha Kitt, Barbara Cook, and many others. More info here.

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Margaret is also co-writing-producing-directing-acting in a dark comedic series in development with producing partners Burke Adams and Lindy Rogers, On the Nose Productions.