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Richard Skipper Celebrates

by Richard Skipper

Richard Skipper Celebrates Artists and Their Body of WORTH. Celebrating the best in books and entertainment.

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  1. Exploring Bette Midler's Extraordinary Journey to Stardom with Kevin Winkler

    Bette Midler today is a beloved legacy star, best known for her comic witch in Disney's Hocus Pocus (1993) and its 2022 sequel. She has also gained prominence for sentimental, anthemic ballads like "Wind Beneath My Wings," her initiation of green space projects in New York City, and tussling with...

  2. Richard Skipper's Friday Wrap Up Show: Artists Making A Difference

    Danny Bacher is an award-winning singer, saxophonist, songwriter and entertainer in the fullest sense of the term. He’s not only a master of the demanding soprano sax, but combines his virtuosity on the instrument with a talent for comedy and narrative storytelling. He’s a smooth and cool...

  3. Acclaimed composer and performer Jim Wilson shares celeb stories

    Jim Wilson about his memoir Tuned In: Memoirs of a Piano Man: Behind the Scenes with Music Legends and Finding the Artist Within. “In Tuned In, I write about some of my favorite memories of singing Beatles songs with Paul McCartney, limo rides with Elton John, road trips with Carole King, and...

  4. Richard Skipper Celebrates The Snow Moon with Cyprian Diaz, Erron Gralore, ...

    The Snow Moon is the name given to the full moon in February. It is named after the heavy snowfall that occurs in the Northern Hemisphere during this time of year. In astrology, the Snow Moon is the full moon in Virgo, which is the final full moon of winter. It's also the first micro-moon of the...

  5. Unveiling La Raisha Dionne's Center Journey with Richard Skipper

    Join us for an hour of sparkling fascination and contagious joy as LaRaisha DiEvelyn Dionne, the 2023 Mama’s Next Big Act winner, takes us on an electrifying journey through their vibrant life. Daughter of O’Bryan, one of Soul Train’s pioneer artists, and raised in a creative family, she’s a...

  6. Richard Skipper's Friday Wrap Up Show! Goodbye 2023!!

    In this episode, we say goodbye to 2023 and I'm bringing along five amazing artists to help me do just that! Saloon Singer Christopher Collette is a fresh face on the New York cabaret and nightclub scene. His most recent show, “Come Fly with Me: Songs of Travel, Trips, Tours & Treks” was an...

  7. Setting Goals for 2024 with Dr. Judi Bloom and Richard Skipper

    Happy New Year! Have you set your artistic goals for 2024? Join Dr. Judi Bloom and Richard Skipper as they hep you with Creativity, with a dose of therapy! We will also be joined y three artists who trly do set oals and achieve them! Dr Judi Bloom is a practical, interactive, solution-focused...

  8. Richard Skipper Celebrates Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story’

    Marieete Hartley and Jerry Sroka's screenplay tells the slightly fictionalized details of their later-in-life romance and marriage. Directed and executive produced by Don Scardino, executive produced by Hartley and Sroka, co-executive produced Matthew Bennett, produced by Jeff Hardwick and Tim...

  9. Experience Time Travel: Richard Skipper's Friday Wrap Up Show Revealed

    Patti Bottino Bravo: https://www.pattibottinobravo.com/ Born in the Bronx, NY of Puerto Rican descent, actor and singer Adrian Christian first came to public attention on the New York stage and in small roles in TV and film. While singing in nightclubs, an early recording drew an audience but...

  10. Richard Sipper's Friday Wrap Up Show! Goodbye 2023!!

    In this episode, we say goodbye to 2023 and I'm bringing along five amazing artists to help me do just that! Saloon Singer Christopher Collette is a fresh face on the New York cabaret and nightclub scene. His most recent show, “Come Fly with Me: Songs of Travel, Trips, Tours & Treks” was an...

  11. Discover the Secret Jazz Masterpiece of San Francisco's Legendary Crooner

    While cancer has silenced Russ Lorenson's voice, San Francisco's Favorite Crooner is on the path to recreating his musical magic, culminating in the eagerly anticipated release of his never-before- heard live album, 'Standard Time: Live in New York,' available now on the airwaves on December 1…

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  12. The Secret to Unlocking Creativity from Musical Theatre Characters

    We celebrate a book that book marries art and science with a new and exciting collaboration between one of the world’s leading creativity scholars and an internationally renowned musical theatre composer. This book will help readers tap into their creativity and unleash their own creative…

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  13. Richard Skipper Celebrates THE SEASON: STRAIGHT UP

    For Immediate Release: THE SEASON: STRAIGHT UP WITH A TWIST! A benefit for St Jude Children’s Research Hospital SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 rd - 7:00 SHOW at DON’T TELL MAMA, 343 W 46 th St, NYC $30 Cover Charge - includes 1 raffle ticket (add’l raffle tickets - $10 each, 3/$25) $20 Minimum (must include…

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  14. Richard Skipper Celebrates Josefina López (Writer/Director/Producer

    Josefina López (Writer/Director/Producer/Performer/Author/Activist/Shaman) is best known for authoring the play and co-authoring the 2002 SUNDANCE AWARD WINNING film Real Women Have Curves. López started her writing career at 17 and has had over 130 productions produced of her many plays…

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  15. Richard Skipper Celebrates the release of HERE’S TO THE LADIES

    Eddie Shapiro grew up singing music from every cast album he could get his hands on. He is the author of Here’s to the Ladies: Conversations with More of the Great Women of Musical Theater, Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater, A Wonderful Guy: Conversations...

  16. Richard Skipper Celebrates National Jukebox Day!

    The day before gathering around the turkey, gather around the nearest jukebox to celebrate National Jukebox Day! As Americans flock to their hometowns for Thanksgiving, many will head out to neighborhood bars and restaurants. They will catch up with friends and family and celebrate by playing…

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  17. Unveiling the Secret Behind Dana Aber's Captivating One-Woman Musical

    Dana Aber (she/her) is an award-winning theatre performer, producer, collaborator, and creator, with a 20 year career spanning across the country and across the seas. She has been seen in NYC Off-Broadway, at The Dixon Place, NYFringe Festival, NYMF, Apollo Theatre, and FDCAC/Classical Theatre of...

  18. Richard Skipper Celebrates The Hunter's Moon

    Richard Skipper Celebrates The Hunter's Moon is a YouTube video. The video discusses the name "Hunter's Moon," which is thought to have originated in the 1700s when hunters prepared for winter. Huntersmoon Hall is also a place. Other videos by Richard Skipper include: Special FULL MOON AFTERNOON...

  19. Richard Skipper Celebrates James Beaman: Lived Experience

    After a 20 year absence from the cabaret stage, Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Bistro Award winner James Beaman returns, older, wiser, with a song in his heart and his filter decidedly off. Celebrating 33 years in show biz, including a decade as one of cabaret's finest female impersonators,...

  20. Richard Skipper Celebrates The Big Time with Douglas J. Cohen

    https://douglasjcohen.com “Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be,” says political figure and diplomat Eleanor Roosevelt When the young composer-lyricist Douglas Cohen first secured the musical rights to the novel No Way to Treat a Lady by William Goldman—the acclaimed author…

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  21. Richard Skipper Celebrates the release of Something Borrowed Something Blue

    “Her voice is the voice of the fountain of youth and her musical spirit lets you drink -- from her voice, from her dance, from her spirit. And Jenny Burton becomes Isis incarnate.” ~Laurence Holder, Routes Magazine Jenny Burton had a long and varied career as a superb vocalist working…

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  22. Richard Skipper Celebrates Halloween with Charles Rosenay!!!

    Halloween! Halloween or Hallowe'en is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints, martyrs, and…

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  23. Richard Skipper's Friday the 13th Wrap Up! Are you Superstitious?

    t's Friday the 13th and we all know what that means — unlucky occurrences like tripping over your shoelaces, knocking over glasses, and waking up after your alarm are just a few of the possible horrors the superstitious among us believe are likely to happen on this infamously bad luck ridden day....

  24. Happy Publicists Day!

    National Publicist Day™ is celebrated annually around the world on October 30th. Founded in 2015, it is a day of appreciation and recognition of public relations professionals. I'm joined by publicist Risa Hoag. Risa has more than 35 years of experience in public relations and marketing. Prior to...

  25. Richard Skipper Celebrates Eileen Fulton

    Eileen Fulton (born Margaret Elizabeth McLarty; September 13, 1933) is an American actress. She is known for her television role as Lisa on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, which she played almost continuously for 50 years (with two notable interruptions) from May 18, 1960, until the show's...

  26. Richard Skipper Celebrates Patrice McKinley

    Patrice McKinley has been a certified life coach for 12 years and is also a certified facilitator of the highly acclaimed Thinking into Results program. She has been personally trained and mentored by world-renowned success and personal development expert Bob Proctor and legendary corporate...

  27. Richard Skipper Celebrates Greg Schreiner!

    Greg Schreiner owns a comprehensive collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia, encompassing furniture items from Marilyn’s final home, autographs, cancelled bank checks, including a check to Eunice Murray dated August 4, 1962, film scripts, documents and original costume sketches. In 2006, items...

  28. Richard Skipper Celebrates Penguin Rep's Gene & Gilda with Jordan Kai Burnett

    My biggest motivation has always been love.-Gilda Radner Penguin Rep Theatre, under the leadership of founding artistic director Joe Brancato and executive director Andrew M. Horn, presents the world premiere of Gene & Gilda by Cary Gitter, directed by Mr. Brancato, from August 4 through August…

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  29. Escape the Rat Race: Transform Your Career with Proactive Business Strategies

    Actionable Tips, Tricks, and Templates Including...How To Get Representation, Approach Casting, Auditioning, Creating Your Own Work, and Working Smarter and Not Harder To Achieve Career Success! REVIEWS: "Actors only work in this business when they're fully informed. Buy this book. Read it twice....

  30. Richard Skipper Celebrates Broadway Decoded with Thomas S. Hischak

    Theodore Roosevelt began each morning by reading as much as possible. “Books are almost as individual as friends,” he wrote in his autobiography.“I am a part of everything that I have read.” Today, Tuesday, September 6, 2022, is National Read a Book Day, a day that encourages all book lovers to...

  31. Celebrating the Career and Body of WORTH of Songwriter Tom Jones

    Harry Truman famously said that not all readers are leaders but all leaders are readers — they have to be. THE FANTASTICKS, with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, opened Off-Broadway in May of 1960 and closed forty-two years later, becoming the longest-running production…

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  32. Richard Skipper's Friday Wrap Up Day: Serendipity Day!

    Serendipity Day encourages people to look for and notice those unexpected good things that are always out there, if people would just have the eyes to see them. Mary Ellen Ciganovich: https://askmaryellen.com/ Bobbi Kotula: . https://www.bobbikotula.com Peggy Miley:...

  33. Unveiling the Language of the Universe: Decoding Signs and Symbols for Connectio

    Join me and my psychic friend of the show Danielle @DsEnlightenedEdits, as we talk about The Language of the Universe and how its always speaking to You! Be sure to be there Live on Monday August 21st, 2023 at 7pm ET to ask your Questions Live (& maybe even get a mini Reading on air). If you'd…

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  34. Unlocking the Secrets to Exceptional Conversation Skills

    Accomplished and versatile, Deborah Jean Templin has performed on stage, screen and television. Her most recent appearance was as the inspired, but vocally flawed, wannabe opera diva, Florence Foster Jenkins, in Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir. She has performed in the critically acclaimed York...

  35. Discover the Untold Secrets of the Happy August 2023 Blue Moon

    The Blue Moon in August 2023 will occur on Wednesday, August 30th at 9:36 PM EDT. It will be the second full moon of the month and will appear opposite the sun. This Blue Moon is also a supermoon, making it a Super Blue Moon. It will be the biggest and brightest moon of the year. The Blue Moon...

  36. Richard Skipper's Friday Wrap Up Show: Kiss and Make Up Day!

    Richard! Thank you so much for having me again on your wonderful Friday Wrap Up Show. You are always prepared, entertaining, thoughtful and keep things flowing. You're an amazing host and really do your best to help focus on your guests in the best way possible. I love how you mix things up…

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  37. Richard Skipper Celebrates Marquee Five in "8-Track Throwback

    About “8-Track Throwback: The Remix”: Returning to the Laurie Beechman stage for the first time since 2019, Marquee Five’s tribute to the 8-Track era has exploded with new favorites alongside tried-and-true hits from Van Morrison, Dolly Parton, Stevie Wonder, and others. “8-Track Throwback: The...

  38. Richard Skipper's Unforgettable Tribute to Tom Jones in Provincetown

    Tom Jones wrote the book and lyrics, and Harvey Schmidt wrote the music for The Fantasticks, which closed January 13, 2002, almost 42 years after its opening on May 3, 1960. It is the longest running production in the history of the American theatre. To mark the 60th anniversary of its founding,...

  39. Richard Skipper's Friday Wrap Up Show! Be Someone Day!!

    Steven Maglio heard a recording of Frank Sinatra singing MY KIND OF TOWN, and to pass the time on his new daily trek, he would sing the song to himself over and over. After a few days, he decided he needed another song and began to explore the only Sinatra album his parents owned at the time, A…

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  40. Richard Skipper's Friday Wrap Up Show:Happy Bastille Day!

    Ton Aprea and Angela DeNiroNJ Edwards was born in Baltimore. Growing up in the suburb of Pikesville, Nancy’s passion for storytelling was expressed as an actor in drama circles. At 20, she left home for Hollywood, California. After achieving a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television Production…

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  41. Richard Skipper Celebrates Ron Lytle

    The Original San Francisco Cast Album of 'Oh My Godmother' was released in 2008. His holiday musical THE MAN WHO SAVED CHRISTMAS, debuted in 2006 and was deemed an "instant holiday classic" by the press. It was released for national productions for the 2009 season and has been produced throughout...

  42. Richard Skipper Celebrates Nancy Soule

    Recent release “Work at Sea, See the World,” from Newman Springs Publishing author Nancy Soulé, contains tips and tricks to what working and living on a cruise ship is like. Drawing from her own experiences from working at sea for over ten years, Nancy is able to provide a unique and personal...

  43. Richard Skipper Celebrates Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine

    For the bulk of his career, Alan Shayne relied on the creativity of others. Alan Shayne (born November 21, 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts) was President of Warner Brothers Television for ten years, where he shepherded such hit shows as Alice, The Dukes of Hazard, Night Court, Scarecrow and Mrs....

  44. Richard Skipper Celebrates Susan Silver

    Susan Silver wrote two Top Ten Movies of the Week, feature films and pilots for her own sit-coms. She has appeared on TV talk shows such as Fox Good Day NY (5) , The Today Show (3), is a frequent radio guest on Boomer issues for the Growing Bolder radio program, Bill Bennett Show and others. She...

  45. Richard Skipper Celebrates Mimi Hines on her 90th Birthday!

    Like the Sondheim song says, this trooper is, at age 90, "still here." She was born in Canada in 1933 and grew up with a marvelous knack for making faces and getting laughs. The then-19-year-old met the much older Phil Ford in Alaska while both were playing different clubs in 1952. She was a…

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  46. Richard Skipper Celebrates A Man of Much Importance

    From his first plays in the early 1960s to his death in 2020, playwright Terrence McNally has been a force in American theater. Beginning in the Off-Off Broadway movement, McNally’s writing continually reflected a changing culture, from opposition to the Vietnam War through the emergence of AIDS...

  47. Richard Skipper Celebrates Julian Schlossberg AND Steve Guttenberg

    Julian Schlossberg (Producer).Theatre: Bullets Over Broadway, Relatively Speaking, Sly Fox, Mornings At Seven, My Life On A Diet, Fortune’s Fool, Terms of Endearment, After the Night and the Music, Adult Entertainment, The Unexpected Man, Tommy Tune, Madame Melville, Taller Than a Dwarf, Power...

  48. Richard Skipper Celebrates All The Leaves are Brown with Scott G. Shea

    Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as “California Dreamin’,” the iconic folk music single that catapulted the Mamas & the Papas into rock and roll history. In All the Leaves Are Brown, author Scott Shea details how John Phillips, Denny Doherty,...

  49. Creative Chat with Dr. Judi Bloom and Richard Skipper : Celebrating Returns!

    In the late 80s and early 90s. Jenny Burton had four national number one R&B/Dance hits -- "One More Shot," rose to Billboard's number five slot and led to Burton's first major-label solo deal. Atlantic Records released her first LP, "In Black & White," which included the hit single, “I Remember...

  50. Richard Skipper Celebrates Tom Jones and the reImagined The Fantasticks

    Tom Jones wrote the book and lyrics, and Harvey Schmidt wrote the music for The Fantasticks, which closed January 13, 2002, almost 42 years after its opening on May 3, 1960. It is the longest running production in the history of the American theatre. To mark the 60th anniversary of its founding,...

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Richard Skipper Celebrates Artists and Their Body of WORTH. Celebrating the best in books and entertainment.

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