The Winter Season continued Monday with a fantastic concert starring composer/lyricist Georgia Stitt and her extremely talented friends (pictured right, L-R: Julia Murney, Keith Byron Kirk, Matt Morrison, Georgia and Jen Bender). Birdland was packed to the gills with some of the hottest Broadway types, including Georgia's hubby Jason Robert Brown, Kate Shindle, Shoshana Bean, Aaron Ramey, composers Steve Marzullo, Amanda Green, Tom Kitt, David Kirshenbaum, Marcy Heisler, Sam Davis, and Scott Alan, cellist Peter Sachon, producer Joel Fram, hostess-with-the-mostess Jamie deRoy, BroadwayWorld’s Craig Brockman, TheaterMania’s Michael Portantiere, attorney to the stars Mark Sendroff, and casting guy Michael Cassara.

The music continued at Cast Party, with special guest performers like Steve Ross, Erich Bergen, Toxic Audio's Rene Ruiz, Grammy-winner Victoria Shaw, and Broadway's Beauty AND The Beast, Brooke Tansley and Steve Blanchard (see photo below)! You can check out Photo Coverage: Georgia Stitt & Friends at Birdland (BroadwayWorld.com) and Theater News - Feature: Birds of a Feather - Birdland is Alive for more great photos, and to see what you missed if you weren’t there!

This coming Monday, maestro Billy Stritch will be out of town doing a gig with Karen Mason. I’m happy to tell you, however, that Tedd Firth will be at the Bosendorfer, along with our own bass-guy, Steve Doyle! Come in and celebrate the New Year with us! You never know who will show up, and as WHERE Magazine says, "The stars shine bright at Cast Party…the shindig where celebs mingle with the hoi polloi and entertain each other at the baby grand." There’s never a cover…just that $10 food/drink minimum!

And now, since it's New Year's Eve and all, let's send the holidays out on this beautiful, heartfelt note.

TheaterMania and I are thrilled to present Amanda Green & Tom Kitt & Friends on Monday, January 24th and 31st at 7pm. Mandy and Tom will be performing their outrageous, sweet, smart and funny songs, along with Brooks Ashmanskas, Mario Cantone, Jenn Colella, Gavin Creel, Jerry Dixon, Matt McGrath, Julia Murney, Greg Naughton, Alice Ripley, Amy Spanger and the Tom Kitt Band. The writing duo is currently adapting High Fidelity for the Broadway stage as a musical, and will premiere several songs from the musical during the concert. There will be a $20 cover and $10 food/drink minimum. Call Birdland (212.581.3080) now…this will be SRO! Don’t forget that Singing Astaire, the critically acclaimed review brought to you by the Our Sinatra folks, is running at Birdland every Saturday and Sunday through January 9th. Starring Hilary Kole, Eric Comstock and Christopher Gines, this show is a swinging tribute to my hero, Fred Astaire. See it!

On Cast Party - the Radio Show, watch for an entire show dedicated to the music of Amanda Green and Tom Kitt (right)…just to whet your whistle for their Birdland extravaganza!

This week you can hear a repeat performance of our holiday show with special guests Michael Feinstein and Georgia Stitt!

Michael will tell us all about his show, "Holiday Heart Songs," currently playing at his gorgeous club, Feinstein’s At The Regency, and we’ll play his all-time favorite holiday song. Any guesses? Georgia Stitt chats about her upcoming show at Birdland, working on Disney/ABC-TV’s "Once Upon A Mattress," with Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett, and her life as Mrs. Jason Robert Brown! You’ll love all of her songs I’ll play for you, performed by Susan Egan, Sean McCourt, Randy Redd, Andrea Burns, Donna Lynne Champlin, Julia Murney, Jessica Molaskey and Jason Robert Brown. Click on BroadwayWorld.com and join the fun!

Click here for the Cast Party radio show on BroadwayWorld.com! Produced by Brian Wilson at SoHa Media.

Newsletter created by Kate Botello for Love Bomb Media