IN RESIDENCY at PANGEA! Broadway’s D. Sabella is AMANDA RECKONWITH at New York’s trendy nightspot.
New York’s Grand-Dam of Cabaret – Amanda Reckonwith – returns Saturday night, September 22 at 7:00p.m. at 178 2nd Avenue (between 11th & 12th Street). $25 Music Cover (Cash at the door) / $20 food/beverage minimum per person(credit cards accepted) 7pm (Dinner seating 6:15pm). Reservation link: www.pangeanyc.com or call 212-995-0900
International sensation and Broadway legend in her ownmind, Amanda Reckonwith returns to downtown’s trendy supperclub, PANGEA, for another season of razzle-dazzle with high comedy and even higher notes!
The brilliant Mark Hartman returns to tickle Amanda’s ivories (her piano that is) and joining them that evening will be the multitalented, multihyphenated, Shana Farr.
Shana is a classically trained actress/singer and award-winning supper club/cabaret/concert performer who has played at venues such as Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), Jazz at Lincoln Center (Rose Theater), Feinsteins at The Regency, Feinsteins/54 Below, Birdland Jazz Club, Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, and The Missouri Theatre as well as London’s Crazy Coqs and The Pheasantry to name a few; and in 2022, she added Westminster Abbey to her roster.
Once a lyric soprano, Amanda Reckonwith reached international stardom on both Broadway, and Opera stages around the globe, before settling down (way down) to marry, have children, raise them, and have them eventually leave her (they all do). Now known to the world as her generation’s most beloved “Spento” soprano (aka “belter”). Amanda returns tostage, ready once again to take the musical world by storm, or force if needed!
JOIN her as she regales, assails, and decimates someof Broadway’s greatest hits. It’s an evening you’re not likely to forget… try as you might.
CONCEIVED, WRITTEN, DIRECTED AND PERFORMED BY DAVID SABELLA
ABOUT DAVID SABELLA (Amanda) maybe best known for his years on Broadway in the musical CHICAGO, and as an internationally recognized countertenor whom Luciano Pavarotti publicly declared as “Excellent, not good, excellent!” He is an award-winning singer & actor who is cited, along with colleagues David Daniels, Brian Asawa, and Mark Crayton, as one of the originators of the“American countertenor sound,” and the only one working in the popular music genres of Broadway, Pop, and Great American Songbook.
Sabella began his professional performance career asa member of the now legendary all-male opera comedy troupe “La Gran Scena,” conceived by and starring Ira Siff. La Gran Scena was to opera what Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was to ballet, spoofing all the great early and mid-century opera divas and great operatic scenes. In his time with the troupe Sabella was the inimitable “Mirella Frenzi” and sang arias/roles including Aida, Butterfly, Lakme, Semiramide, Sofie, and Adrianna Lecouvreur.
His 4+octave range also landed him opportunities in voice-over work for both Disney (“Teacher’s Pet” with Nathan Lane), and Fox Animation (“Peter Pan and the Pirates” with Tim Curry) where he played the evil villainess “Frau Brumhilde Broomhandle” and terrorized Peter and the Neverland kids with the sheer decibel of her voice, singing comic selections from Die Walkure, Carmen and Aida. (YouTube Video ofthis cartoon here -> https://youtu.be/nIWzJD1c9so)
In 1995 Sabella made history as a winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition when Maestro Pavarotti, so moved by Sabella’s performance, stopped him before the end of his audition to publicly declare “I don’t have to hear to the end. This is excellent! Not good, excellent!” The first and only time this occurred in the history of the competition. Sabella was then propelled into an international career as a countertenor, singing roles like Julio Cesare, Oberon (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Ottone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), and Prince Orlofsky (DieFledermaus), as well as appearing at both Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall as a principle soloist on numerous occasions, including PDQ Bach’s “Three Bargain-Counter Tenors.”
On Broadway, Sabella originated the starring role of “Mary Sunshine” in the 1996 revival of CHICAGO with Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking, and Joel Grey. He remained in that show for the better part of ten years, both on Broadway and on the national tour (Las Vegas), and performed with a host of luminaries including Chita Rivera, Hall Linden, Melanie Griffith, Patrick Swayze, Linda Carter and Marilu Henner, just to name a few.
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