Richard Skipper Celebrates NOW THAT I HAVE EVERYTHING w/Celia Berk 10/12/22

Published: Oct. 12, 2022, 9:30 p.m.

b'For Video Edition, Please Click Here and Subscribe:\\xa0https://youtu.be/2Rtzh2Fo-Bg\\n\\nFall 2022 marks the release of her widely anticipated third album, NOW THAT I HAVE EVERYTHING. Arranger/pianist Tedd Firth brings a Nat King Cole Trio feel to the recording, which explores the ways we try \\u2013 successfully and unsuccessfully \\u2013 to connect our heart to someone else\\u2019s. In his Liner Notes, author and journalist Will Friedwald writes, \\u201cCelia Berk makes us realize, in a way few singers can, that love is, in fact, never ever the same.\\u201d Co-Produced by Tony and Grammy Award-winning sound designer Scott Lehrer, it features the kinds of hidden gems by great songwriters that are Celia\\u2019s trademark. Many of those songs were featured in COMES LOVE, a 2019 show Celia created with pianist Sean Gough. Also in 2022, Celia debuted her new cabaret show, ON MY WAY TO YOU: Improbable Stories That Inspired An Unlikely Path, directed by Mark Nadler with music direction by Tedd Firth. Marilyn Lester of Theater Pizzazz called it \\u201cAn enchanting show, executed with abundant smarts, humor and grace, and terrific choices of music known and unknown.\\u201d Celia\\u2019s album MANHATTAN SERENADE received the 2017 LaMott Friedman Award. It was arranged and conducted by Alex Rybeck and co-produced by Scott Lehrer, the team behind her debut album YOU CAN\\u2019T RUSH SPRING. Lyricist David Zippel (whose \\u201cThe Broadway Song\\u201d written with Cy Coleman received its first commercial recording) wrote in the album notes, \\u201cA tribute to her hometown, this collection is anything but renditions of the obvious New York songs. MANHATTAN SERENADE is curated: a connoisseur\\u2019s compilation of one exquisite, undiscovered musical gem after another.\\u201d'