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Clifford Bell, Hillary Rollins and Lampkin Music Group present:

“Love Don’t Need a Reason: A Benefit for Marsha Malamet” on Tuesday, May 29th at Catalina’s Jazz Club.

Hosted by Award winning writer/actor/personality, Bruce Vilanch

VIP Tickets are $75.00. General Admission: $50.00. Ticket Link: Click Here

At press time, Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter, Melissa Manchester; Golden Globe/MAC Award winner, Amanda McBroom; Award Award singer/songwriter, Michele Brourman; Actress/ singer, Mary Jo Mundy; Singer, Ken Stacy, Singer, Kimaya Seward; Award winning singer/musical director/pianist, Todd Schroeder, Former Harlette and Hairspray Star, Charlo Crossley; Pop Producer Greg Wells; Actress/singer, Patricia Whiteman; Songwriter, Alan Roy Scott; Songwriter, Matthew Levine and Award winning producer/songwriter and Marsha’s producer, Stephan Oberhoff have all signed on to perform. More to be announced.

Directed by Clifford Bell.

This special show will showcase an array of performances, video and written testimonials and comments on the Life and Music of Marsha Malamet.

Explanation: This benefit is to help pay for all medical needs and some living expenses, due to the fact that what Marsha suffers from (we still don’t know exactly) is not covered by insurance. Whether it is an autoimmune disorder, or a metabolic disease, treatments are expensive. In 2015 she was diagnosed with early stage Parkinson’s, then a year later, Lyme Disease. She has spent a lot of money to see different doctors, who’s treatments have not been successful.

Now she is under the care of a new doctor who treated Kris Kristofferson successfully who was challenged by something similar. Right now, she has a 24/7 caregiver, and is mostly disable, using a wheelchair and walker.

The unfortunate thing is that she lost the muscle strength and coordination, and can’t play the piano, sing, or write. The performers honoring Marsha with their appearance are all friends of her’s, having known her or written with her.

Malamet Biography: At the age of 21, Marsha made her solo recording debut, “Coney Island Winter,” on Decca Records. It was engineered by Brooks Arthur. She performed at top venues in New York supporting the CD, including Lincoln Center, and her songs have been featured on Broadway: first, in Peter Allen’s “Up in One,” and then “The Boy from Oz,” based on Peter’s life.

Marsha’s songs have been recorded by the best in the business, artists include Barbra Streisand, Faith Hill, Luther Vandross, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Meatloaf, the late Barbara Cook, Judy Collins and Sheena Easton. Marsha’s top ten international hit single, “I Am Blessed,” sung by the UK’s pop group, Eternal, moved the Pope to invite them to perform the song at the Vatican.

Her song “Love Don’t Need A Reason,” co-written with the late Peter Allen and Michael Callen, has become an iconic theme for the Aids/HIV epidemic, recorded by over 35 performers and gay choruses worldwide.

Marsha was Grammy nominated for her songwriting involvement on the original Broadway cast CD “The Boy from Oz,” starring Hugh Jackman.

Marsha’s music takes root in people’s hearts and minds.

VIP Tickets are $75.00. General Admission is $50.00. Two Drink Minimum.

Tickets can be purchased by online @: Click Here

Catalina Jazz Club. 6725 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California. 90028.

To hear Marsha’s music or to purchase, please visit:  Click Here

www.MarshaMalamet.com

For interviews and other information, please email Ralph at: Lampkinmusic@gmail.com

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Bruce Vilanch would be the first to admit he’s had a strange career. With that in mind, we decided to look over his Wikipedia page with Vilanch himself to see if we could make any sense of it. “A lot of the stuff on here is wrong,” Vilanch said from his home in L.A., where he’s caring for a sick pug (“It’s a pug kind of town—there’s no air to breath anyway”). “I’m not 64, in fact I’m 65, and I’m collecting Obamacare like crazy.” The Hairspray star, Hollywood Square, and Academy Awards head writer also bills himself as Lindsay Lohan‘s sobriety coach and the latest success on Christian Mingle (“just got set up with a guy who used to be Pope!”). Vilanch regaled us with the following thoughts and anecdotes “from behind, before, and squatting over the footlights.”

This Wikipedia entry says you have Hitchcock’s hair—what?
No no, not hair: My wobbles, I have Hitchcock’s wobbles, his chins. He was pretty much hairless in the ’50s when he was on television every week. It’s more that I have his profile. I’ve got more chins than a San Francisco phonebook.

What can we expect at the Nikko on Thursday night?
I’ll be doing stories about my dark career in show business, writing 23 Academy Award shows, Hollywood Squares, et cetera. There won’t be any Sondheim, that I promise.

What was it like, in your first acting role, to work with Diana Ross? 
Bizarre, because I thought I was rehearsing with her stand in, this skinny kid, and then she would come out of the trailer with the eyelashes and the wig, and glamour, glamour, glamour. I was like oh my, that’s Diana Ross. I told her this, and she told me yes, it’s all done with mirrors.

When you appeared on RuPaul‘s Drag Race 3 dressed as Santa, what were some of the items contestants asked for when they sat on your lap?
Big ticket items. And hey, I also worked with RuPaul back in his “Sashay! Shantay!” days, before Drag Race, when he had his talk show on VH1. And, there may be more RuPaul in my future.

How did you identify with your character Missy, the gay porn director from Going Down in LA-LA Land?
I didn’t want to play it like Boogie Nights: the role I played was an homage to Chi Chi LaRue, my neighbor across the street, a great friend of mine and a hysterical character. If I were directing porno everything would be IMAX. Not 3D, though, it makes everything look closer to you, but it’s all smaller! It should be bigger.

Fine, tell us about the Oscars already!
Well, I’ve been writing since 1989, and it’s the greatest show on earth, isn’t it? It’s like the Superbowl— and some years you fumble. But it’s the kind of show that tries to reinvent itself every year, because it has to say something every year. They take it dead seriously, the Academy. At the core of it is the idea of serious people in a serious profession, and in it, everybody is equal to everybody else, the guy who does sound as well as the best actor: everyone has to be treated with equal reverence. So of course, I write jokes. One of my favorite moments was when Whoopi [Goldberg] was hosting the show, and two people had been nominated for playing Queen Elizabeth, and Whoopi came out in white face and said “I’m the African Queen!” Only a Hollywood crowd really gets that one.

You’re responsible for the Star Wars Holiday Special, right?
Right, and George Lucas won’t even speak of it, he’s disowned it. I don’t think there’ll be another one of those.

You’ve done lots of charity work—what makes you most proud?
All the AIDS work I’ve done, especially at the very beginning, because it was something we had to do. When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn’t doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one’s going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That’s a great maxim to the gay community and we took it to heart, we took care of our own. I would trade off other disease fundraisers, raising for other causes that would raise for ours, and that’s how I learned all the major diseases and got into “big charity.” As I’m fond of saying, though, if the Holocaust led to the creation of Israel, then maybe AIDS has led us to where we are now.

Vilanch performs tomorrow (Thursday, 7/18) at 8pm at Feinstein’s at the Nikko.

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America’s Favorite Mom, Florence Henderson premiered her concert “All The Lives of Me” two years ago and has been touring throughout the country. Part theatrical, part concert, Florence takes the audience on a journey through all her lives: daughter, mother, musical theater star, TV star and product spokesperson. Whether she’s sharing stories about her friend and mentor, Richard Rodgers, her friend and co-star, Robert Reed or her dad, her show lets audiences into the lives of this “very lovely lady”.

Musical numbers includes songs from her stage roles: “Fanny”, “South Pacific” and others and
includes a no-holds barred Q&A segment.

It’s the long-term friendship between Florence and funnyman Bruce Vilanch that sparked this concert evening. In addition to Bruce writing special material for Florence’s one woman show, Bruce wrote many of the Brady Bunch Variety Hour TV shows which debuted a few years after the sitcom was cancelled. It was the first of many Brady re- incarnations over the years.

Says Bruce: “I wrote the Brady Bunch variety hour, which was writing for a wholesome mom and wholesome dad. He (Reed) was a closet leather queen living with his mother! If I’d known that 30 years later people were going to be interested in this (expletive) I would have paid closer attention, It was 1977 and we were all chemically altered.” So why does Bruce think that 30 years later, there is still so much interest in The Brady’s, the variety shows and Florence’s concerts? “I think “The Brady Bunch Movie” had a lot to do with it. When they brought back the movie, Nickelodeon discovered there were these variety hours that had never been aired.

Both artists are very recognizable. Florence as Mrs. Brady and the Wesson Oil and Polident spokesperson. Everyone knows Bruce from Hollywood Squares with Whoopi Goldberg. He has written classic Oscar Award shows, including the Jack Palance / Billy Crystal bit. He recently wrote his 10 th Oscar Awards for Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

In addition, he has written the TV Land awards, People Choice Awards and many others as well as concert acts for Diana Ross and Michael Feinstein. He has also written most of Bette Midlers touring concert shows and one woman Broadway shows. He starred on Broadway in “Hairspray” and in Comedy Clubs across the nation.

An Evening with Friends is at 8 PM at Guild Hall. Tickets are $65 and $45, as well as a special VIP $85 ticket which includes include a Post-Performance Meet & Greet Reception with Florence and Bruce. www.guildhall.org for more information

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America’s Favorite Mom, Florence Henderson premiered her concert “All The Lives of Me” two years ago and has been touring throughout the country. Part theatrical, part concert, Florence takes the audience on a journey through all her lives: daughter, mother, musical theater star, TV star and product spokesperson. Whether she’s sharing stories about her friend and mentor, Richard Rodgers, her friend and co-star, Robert Reed or her dad, her show lets audiences into the lives of this “very lovely lady”.

Musical numbers includes songs from her stage roles: “Fanny”, “South Pacific” and others and includes a no-holds barred Q&A segment.

It’s the long-term friendship between Florence and funnyman Bruce Vilanch that sparked this concert evening. In addition to Bruce writing special material for Florence’s one woman show, Bruce wrote many of the Brady Bunch Variety Hour TV shows which debuted a few years after the sitcom was cancelled. It was the first of many Brady re- incarnations over the years.

Says Bruce: “I wrote the Brady Bunch variety hour, which was writing for a wholesome mom and wholesome dad. He (Reed) was a closet leather queen living with his mother! If I’d known that 30 years later people were going to be interested in this (expletive) I would have paid closer attention, It was 1977 and we were all chemically altered.” So why does Bruce think that 30 years later, there is still so much interest in The Brady’s, the variety shows and Florence’s concerts? “I think “The Brady Bunch Movie” had a lot to do with it. When they brought back the movie, Nickelodeon discovered there were these variety hours that had never been aired.

Both artists are very recognizable. Florence as Mrs. Brady and the Wesson Oil and Polident spokesperson. Everyone knows Bruce from Hollywood Squares with Whoopi Goldberg. He has written classic Oscar Award shows, including the Jack Palance / Billy Crystal bit. He recently wrote his 10 th Oscar Awards for Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

In addition, he has written the TV Land awards, People Choice Awards and many others as well as concert acts for Diana Ross and Michael Feinstein. He has also written most of Bette Midlers touring concert shows and one woman Broadway shows. He starred on Broadway in “Hairspray” and in Comedy Clubs across the nation.

An Evening with Friends is at 8 PM at Guild Hall. Tickets are $65 and $45, as well as a special VIP $85 ticket which includes include a Post-Performance Meet & Greet Reception with Florence and Bruce. www.guildhall.org for more information

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