#Karen Akers

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Happy Birthday 🎁

Karen Akers

October 13th 1945

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Tony Awards Flashback

Michael Jeter and Brent Barrett perform "We'll Take a Glass Together" from Grand Hotel the Musical at the 44th Annual Tony Awards broadcast by CBS on June 3, 1990, from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. 

Grand Hotel featured a terrific cast, with the leads introduced at the beginning of this number. Jeter’s exuberant performance won him the award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He gave one of the very best acceptance speeches ever, which is also seen here. Wait for it!

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A tall woman with a distinctive red bob walked past. Now, I only saw her from the back at first, but I could swear it was Karen Akers. Well, she turned around, and wouldn't you know it? Karen Akers.

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Tonight on Everything Old Is New Again Radio Show at 9PM on The Penthouse at www.thepenthouse.fm More Gabrielle Stravelli plus a rare live recording of Gabrielle at our 2014 Holiday Concert. I’ll spin 4 renditions of "Everybody Loves A Lover”. Music from Doris Day, Bryan Eng, Karen Akers, Roger Kellaway, Jacqui Naylor, David Benoit, Scott Dreier, Jane Monheit, Lyn Stanley, Ken Peplowski, Nicki Parrott, John Dokes, Amber Weekes, The Shirelles & More!

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Purple Rose WIP

There's something about roles in The Purple Rose of Cairo that fascinates me.

Cecelia (Mia Farrow) lives in a small New Jersey town, a clumsy, daydreaming waitress; a meek, downtrodden wife. Her husband is a layabout that shows no effort to try to gain employment, drinking and looking at other girls, and making excuses at every suggestion that he might do something about their situation. Cecelia is thoroughly forced into the role of the breadwinner, trying to make ends meet while her not so loving husband does as he pleases. It's no wonder that she seeks solace in the form of movies, drinking in the enchanting lifestyles of the characters on the silver screen. Perhaps she even goes as far as imagining herself as part of that lifestyle, something rich and fanciful and full of life that her drab little town lacks.

Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels) is a character - in a literal sense! He is featured as a "minor character" in the Jewel Theater's latest showing The Purple Rose of Cairo, a joyful bound of energy snatched from a pyramid in Egypt to join the high life of rich society and eventually marry fellow character Kitty Haynes (Karen Akers). That is his role, scripted from the film writers and portrayed by Gil Shepherd (also Jeff Daniels), to be repeated with every rewind of the reel.

Gil Shepherd is an actor from Hollywood, a suave, charming man who has changed his name to fit in with the Hollywood Image. His career is just beginning, and he has high hopes for his future in the silver screen to take big name roles and forge ahead in fame, riches, and glory that few can obtain in the Depression era.

Each of these roles summarily fall to pieces when Tom Baxter breaks character in the middle of the film to address Cecelia in the audience during her fifth watch, much to the bewilderment of all present: characters, audience, and even the second audience - the viewers of Cecelia's story. To make the matter more amazing, Tom goes as far as to step off of the black-and-white screen, flushing with color as he plucks Cecelia from the seats and whisks her away from the ensuing chaos. There is a naive eagerness about Tom that is so true to form as he convinces Cecelia to hide him somewhere, vowing to never return in the face of this new possibility of living life as real people do.

Yet despite stepping out from the movie screen, a movie is all Tom knows. He speaks of his father, who "died before the movie began," and when he wraps Cecelia in a loving embrace to kiss her passionately, he falters upon realizing that there's "no fade-out" for the pair to presumably make love. Still, he returns eagerly to excitement, hungry for the human experience he could not experience as a character in a singular movie.

Cecelia, no matter her starry-eyed puppy love for the character, expresses her doubts on numerous occasions. She knows Tom Baxter belongs in the movie, not in the real world. Even though she does not return to the Jewel until much later, she knows things simply aren't right.

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Birdland Presents The Return of Karen Akers - Acclaimed Broadway and Concert Artist in "About Time"

BIRDLAND JAZZ CLUB will present award-winning vocalist Karen Akers, who returns to the venue with the special evening “About Time,” on Monday, April 24 at 7:00 PM. Returning to Birdland after two sold-out performances last year, Akers once again takes a look back at some of the songs that first brought her attention in cabaret as well as on Broadway, television, and recordings: works by Craig…

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January 6 Prayer Request

Terry and Francie Akers (Friends of Karen Skaggs)- Terry has been diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic cancer.

Lorraine Stotridge- Health, still in hospital. 

Amanda Valentine- Surgery today. 

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“Be on Your Own” is the eighteenth song in the 1982 Broaday musical Nine. With music and lyrics by Maury Yeston (Titanic), the book by Arthur Kopit (Phantom) was based on the 1963 film 8½. The show was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won five, including Best Musical. This song is performed by Karen Akers (Grand Hotel), who was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Theater World Award for her role as Luisa Contini.

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Happy Birthday 🎁

Karen Akers

October 13th 1945

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2017:23 — The Purple Rose of Cairo

(1985 - Woody Allen) ***

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Suranne Jones as Karen in Gone (dir. Laurence Akers)

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"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

Grand Hotel Reunion

February 27, 2024 | 54 Below | Evening | Cabaret | Reunion | 1H 40M

I was not around thirty-five years ago when Grand Hotel was on Broadway, and my knowledge of the show is pretty rudimentary, but I love going to reunions. This one was such a fun and buoyant night for the audience and the performers especially. Not all of the original cast was present, of course. Michael Jeter has since passed away, as have others, but everyone in the show was either on Broadway in that original show at some point, or on the national tour. There's just something so joyous about seeing actors in their seventies and eighties having such a blast in their original roles from over three decades ago, complete with some fun little choreography. Karen Akers was exquisite as the repressed lesbian yearning for her beloved mistress, and you know what a sucker I am for that. She's six feet tall and 78. I love that for me.

I implore everyone to watch Michael Jeter perform one of the most astounding displays of choreography I have ever seen. How did his body do that? Watch this clip and you'll just beam.

Verdict: Why I Love the Theatre

A Note on Ratings

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Don't miss this! Everything Old Is New Again Radio Show is on WBAI 99.5 FM New York & streaming at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/ NOW! We're spinning lots of Gabrielle Stravelli. I mean lots! Our Album "Pick" is new from Bryan Eng. Spotlighting Karen Akers, 4 renditions of "Everybody Loves A Lover" and the latest releases from #EverythingOldIsNewAgainRadioShow #45thYear #PopStandards #GreatAmericanSongbook #Jazz #Showtunes #Cabaret #broadway It's gonna be fun!

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Hey~ tagged by @charlieaffair . Thank you!

Rules: We’re snooping on your playlist. Put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then choose 10 victims.

1- This Is How I Disappear - My Chemical Romance

2- Neptune - Sleeping At Last

3- Pompeii - Bastille

4- L’Aigle Noir - Karen Akers

5- I Found - Amber Run

6- CLAUSTROPHOBIA - 3OH!3

7- Things We Lost In The Fire - Bastille

8- Wires - The Neighbourhood

9- Icarus - Machrou’ Leila

10- The Darker The Weather // The Better The Man - MISSIO

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