NELLIE MCKAY AND BRIAN CHARLES ROONEY AT JOE'S PUB NEW YEAR'S EVE AFTER-PARTY

"Nellie McKay and friends" is the name of the New Year's Eve Afterparty at Joe's Pub. Who are the friends? Well, this just came in from Brian Charles Rooney, who was amazing alongisde McKay in Broadway's recent Threepenny Opera: "I will be performing with Nellie McKat tonight from 1am to 4am... not the whole time, but some of it :)"

Ahh, Nellie McKat, that wonderful, wonderful cat....

BRIAN CHARLES ROONEY: TURN ME ON...TURN ME UP! NY1 just did a piece on high-voiced male singers...and inexplicably omitted sopranist Brian Charles Rooney, who amazed me in The Threepenny Opera. Rooney is pretty excited about his new show, Turn Me On...Turn Me Up!--and so am I.

A Playbill article by Andrew Gans indicates that the versatile Rooney's program will include works by Kurt Weill, Wolfgang A. Mozart, The Doors, Madonna, Jefferson Airplane, Heart, and Queen.

It's scheduled for 8 pm on Monday, April 30, 2007 at the Zipper Theater (336 W. 37 Street). As the theater's website puts it: "Find yourself transported from a salon caught between Victorian England and the Weimar Republic, to a Glam Rock Discotheque of 1980s-esque proportions, to the simple, yet emotional environs of revolutionary and socio-political defiance." How could anyone resist?

As for the show's title, I think it comes from "Music Time" by Styx. Here's the great video!



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