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Copyright: January 16, 2022
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EVERYBODY RISE CELEBRATES STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Stephen Sondheim. Picture: Signature Theatre

The Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia owes much to Stephen Sondheim and his canon. They acknowledge that debt. Their first production Sweeney Todd put Signature Theatre on the map.

His death was a blow - not just to this theatre- but to the musical community at large.

This splendid tribute concert was filmed before a live audience on December 13, 2021 shortly after Sondheim’s passing on November 26 at age 91.

Everybody Rise: Signature Remembers Stephen Sondheim features 16 musical performances from 13 shows, including Company, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Saturday Night, and Merrily We Roll Along.

Kudos to Jon Kalbfeisch, who has directed every production in Signature's Sondheim history. He backs the performers with his expert tinkling of the ivories.

The concert stars a number of top flight performers who have appeared in Sondheim musicals at Signature, including Evan Casey, Natascia Diaz, Erin Driscoll, James Gardiner, Nicholas McDonough, Christopher Mueller, Katie Mariko Murray, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Nova Y. Payton, Christopher Michael Richardson, Maria Rizzo, Awa Sal Secka, Bobby Smith, Holly Twyford, John Leslie Wolfe, and Rachel Zampelli.

A musical countdown leads into Virginia Signature Theatre's uplifting salute to the legendary Stephen Sondheim. Matthew Gardiner Artistic Director introduces the program - Sondheim's musicals are an experience - not just a passing moment.

As it is explained, the gospel of Stephen Sondheim is revered and celebrated in this exceptional presentation.

As a lyricist his words are to live by - words which weren't as detached as much as emotionally engulfing. In many ways he set the standards.

Well coordinated costumes from cocktail to casual, which complemented but didn't distract or overpower the numbers. Appropriate, elegant lighting and well balanced sound.

A trio presentation by Awa Sal Secka, Tracy Lynn Olivera, and Nova Y. Payton of Broadway Baby from Follies was a perfect opening number followed by Erin Driscoll's solo turn of What More Do I Need? from Saturday Night. Nicholas McDonough took up the banner with Love, I Hear from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

John Leslie Wolfe delivered Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd. Natascia Diaz offered Loving You from Passion.

Awa Sal Secka performs at Everybody Rise: Signature Theatre Celebrates Stephen Sondheim. Photo Credit: Christopher Mueller

Sondheim could rip your heart out as is demonstrated with Christopher Michael Richardson's heart tugging rendition of Good Thing Going from Merrily We Roll Along followed by Awa Sal Secka presenting Not a Day Goes By from the same production.

Maria Rizzo changes the mood a bit with the determined Sooner or Later from Dick Tracy.

Unworthy of Your Love from Assassins is a powerful duet by Sarah Jencks and Evan Casey.

Giants in the Sky is a fast paced number from Into the Woods distinctly performed by Christopher Mueller.

Natascia Diaz and Katie Mariko Murray deliver a powerful warning in A Boy Like That from West Side Story

Changing the mood is Getting Married Today an uplifting, effervescent ditty from Company performed by Katie Mariko Murray, Tracey Lynnn Olivera and Christopher Mueller. Setting out his expectation of marriage, Bobby Smith vocalizing a bravo rendition of Marry Me a Little which completed the tribute to Company.

Holly Twyford had a poignant rendition of Send In The Clowns from A Little Night Music.

Maggie Boland then appears on stage to close out the evening stressing that Signature Theatre is the preeminent booster of Sondheim's work. She stressed that the Signature will continue to honor Sondheim in several ways including the presentation of the Sondheim Award.

Our Time from Merrily We Roll Along begins the closing segment with James Gardiner, Nicholas McDonough and Tracy Lynn Olivera. Children Will Listen/Sunday at first sung by Nova Y. Payton before being joined by the rest of the outstanding cast is a warning worth heeding.

This stream is free to enjoy through Monday, January 17, 2022.

Directed and conceived by Signature’s Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner. The creative team includes lighting designer Jonathan Maag, sound designer Ryan Hickey, stage manager Kerry Epstein, and follow spot operators L Bruce and Jared Loeb, with production management by Kimberly J. Scott and wardrobe by Moyenda Kulemeka.

The concert was filmed by Chiet Productions with camera operators Justin Chiet, James Gardiner, Jeremy Jacoby, and Natalie Ridgley. Sound editing is by Ryan Hickey while James Gardiner eJames Gardiner, edited and color corrected the concert for video.

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ART AND ABOUT

PRINCE CHARLES commissioned seven leading artists to paint seven of the last survivors of the Holocaust, for display at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. The portraits which were commissioned in March 2020 are now finished and will stand as a lasting reminder of horrors which will one day be lost to living memory.

The portraits will go on display at Buckingham Palace from Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27 and from March at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.

Charles, patron of the National Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, said: "As the number of Holocaust survivors sadly, but inevitably, declines, my abiding hope is that this special collection will act as a further guiding light for our society, reminding us not only of history's darkest days, but of humanity's interconnectedness as we strive to create a better world for our children, grandchildren and generations as yet unborn..."

The sitters and artists are:
Helen Aronson painted by Paul Benney
Lily Ebert painted by Ishbel Myerscough
Manfred Goldberg painted by Clara Drummond
Arek Hersh painted by Massimiliano Pironti
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch painted by Peter Kuhfeld
Rachel Levy painted by Stuart Pearson Wright
Zigi Shipper painted by Jenny Saville

A SPIDER MAN COMIC BOOK SINGLE PAGE OF ARTWORK

Photo: Heritage Auctions

was gaveled down by Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas for $3.36m - called "a record smashing bid."

The record setting bid kicked off Heritage Auction's four-day comic auction in Dallas.

The Heritage Aucton on Thursday, January 13, 2022 - presented a single page of artwork by Mike Zeck printed on page 25 of Marvel Comic's Secret Wars No. 8 which contained the first appearance of Spider's black suit. That alien symbiote eventually becomes Venom.

The comic book containing the art work originally sold for 12 cents in 1962.

The previous record for an interior page of a U.S. comic book was $657,250 for an art from a 1974 issue of The Incredible Hulk that featured a promo for the first appearance of Woverine.

Also, on the same day, one of the few surviving copies of Superman's debut Action Comics No 1 sold for $3.18m, putting it among the priciest comics ever auctioned.

None of the sellers or buyers were identified, according to a release from Heritage.

PICASSO AND THE ALLURE OF THE SOUTH a celebration of Pablo Picasso’s flourishing creativity in the south of France and northern Spain. Organized by The Dalí Museum in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris,Picasso and the Allure of the South offers a fascinating new avenue for understanding Picasso’s artistic spirit through the lens of this unique geographical zone. Some of Pablo Picasso's most creative periods took place during summer sojourns in the mountain and coastal communities of the Spanish and French border, including Céret, Sorgues, Vallauris, Horta de Ebro and Cadaqués.

The exhibition presents paintings, drawings and collages – approximately half of which have never been seen in the U.S. – from the Musée national Picasso-Paris, as well as the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, New York. The Dalí Museum is the only venue worldwide to present this exhibition, which is curated by Dr. William Jeffett, The Dalí Museum’s curator of special exhibitions.

Born in Málaga, Spain, in 1881, Picasso spent his formative years in Barcelona, where he learned to speak Catalan. In the many places he lived, worked and visited throughout the Pyrenees and Mediterranean, Picasso found inspiration from the area’s landforms, rituals and customs. Picasso and the Allure of the South presents an exceptional selection of portraits, still lifes, figural studies and landscapes dating from 1909 to 1972 that reflect Picasso’s career-long rapport with the provinces of his homeland and southern France.

The exhibition is divided into four thematic sections that trace the importance of the geographic region to Picasso’s work and legacy.

The Birth of Cubism features a selection of drawings and collages that address how specific places in northern Spain and southern France – far from the major cities of Paris and Barcelona – inspired Picasso’s early experimentation and evolution of Cubism.

From Cubism to Realism examines Picasso’s shift to a more playful approach to Cubist idioms and considers how the environment of the south profoundly impacted his landscapes, still lifes and portrayals of café habitués.

In the third section, Corridas de Sud – Bullfighting, the exhibition maps Picasso’s fascination with the corrida from a very young age.

The exhibition concludes with Surrealism and Beyond, when Picasso’s painting in the 1930s turned to a deep engagement with Surrealism.

Among the masterworks in the exhibition that have never before been on display in the U.S. are the canvasses Portrait de Madame Rosenberg and her Daughter (1918), a tour de force of naturalism and a return to order associated with classicism, tradition and Mediterranean culture; Woman at the Sideboard (1936); and The Kiss (1969), in which a balding and bearded figure, an avatar of the artist, is locked in a kiss with a dark-haired woman.

On view exclusively at The Dalí Museum January 29-May 22, 2022 at The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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SWEET CHARITY

LA ART SHOW Opening Night Premiere Party benefiting St. Jude, takes place Wednesday, January 19, 2022 in the South Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

International model and actress Kala Gerber serves as host.

"St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will return for a seventh year as the exclusive Charity Partner of the LA Art Show in 2022. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The LA Art Show donates 15 percent of proceeds from ticket sales to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Your ticket purchase will support St. Jude in its lifesaving mission: Finding cures. Saving children."

Taking place January 19, 2022 - January 23, 2022, The LA Art Show: At the forefront of the contemporary art movement: 200,000 square feet - 120 galleries - 23 countries - 20,000 works of art.

SPREADING THE WORD

THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE has announced that their upcoming co-production of Mike Lew’s Teenage Dick, originally planned to be performed February 1-27, 2022, "we have proactively made the decision to move it to digital streaming, which will be made available exclusively at pasadenaplayhouse.org this February. Streaming dates and details are to be announced."

We are proud to have joined Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Huntington Theatre Company to create this extraordinary and powerful production and are fortunate to have professionally recorded the show a few weeks ago during the in-person run in Boston.

By streaming the production, we are still honoring our commitments to pay the artists and crew who have worked so hard to make this show happen during these challenging times. We are also thrilled to be able to bring this show to audiences beyond Pasadena, making Teenage Dick more accessible to more people.

We currently plan to return to in-person performances with our much-anticipated run of Ann (March 22 to April 24) written by and starring Holland Taylor and will continue to assess the COVID-19 landscape in our community until then."

CINDY WILLIAMS best known as Shirley Feeney from the classic sitcom Laverne & Shirley, will perform her solo show Me, Myself & Shirley on a national tour across 19 cities which kicks off January 20-22, 2022 in Palm Springs, CA at the Annenberg Theater.

During Me, Myself & Shirley, Williams will chronicle the stories, the secrets, the embarrassing moments, and the highs and lows of her life in Hollywood. Her career includes working with Academy Award-winning directors Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, George Cukor, Roger Corman and Jack Nicholson and in several films including two nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: American Graffiti and The Conversation. Her friends and co-stars include Penny Marshall, Ron Howard, Harrison Ford, Henry Winkler, Richard Dreyfus, Gene Hackman, Dame Maggie Smith, Gene Kelly, Andy Kaufman and Robert Duval.

Me, Myself & Shirley creative team includes lighting design by Jose Santiago, video logistics by Josieu Jean, video designs by Declan Duggan & Zak Hudson, Justin Duggan as production associate, and production supervision by Charles H. Duggan.

BLACK NO MORE a new musical inspired by George S. Schuyler’s Afrofuturist novel. With book by Academy Award winner John Ridley; Lyrics by two-time Grammy Award winner Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter; Music by Tariq Trotter, Anthony Tidd, James Poyser and Tony Award winner Daryl Waters.

Directed by The New Group's founding Artistic Director Scott Elliott.

Choreography by two-time Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones.

Set during the Harlem Renaissance,Black No More is the story of Max Disher (Brandon Victor Dixon), who’s eager to try the mysterious machine invented by Dr. Junius Crookman (Tariq Trotter) that guarantees to “solve the American race problem" - by turning Black people white.

The complete cast features Leanne Antonio, Rhaamell Burke-Missouri, Elijah A. Carter, Jennifer Damiano, Brandon Victor Dixon, Ryan Fitzgerald, Gaelen Gilliland, Polanco Jones Jr., Zachary Daniel Jones, Tamika Lawrence, Sarah Meahl, Howard McGillan, Mary Page Nance, Oneika Phillips, Nicholas Ranauro, Malaiyka Reid, Mars Rucker, Angela M. Sauers, Tracy Shayne, Theo Stockman, Ephraim Sykes, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Akron Watson, Nyla Watson, Edward Watts and Lillias White.

Previews begin January 18, in advance of an Official Opening Night now set for Tuesday, February 15, a schedule update due to Covid-19. A strictly limited engagement will play through February 27, 2022 at The Pershing Square Signature Center (The Irene Diamond Stage, with Opening Night on Tuesday, February 15, 2022.

BALLET ICONS GALA takes place January 20-21, 2022 at Dubai Opera in Dubai, UAE.

An evening of exquisite performances awaits you at The Ballet Icons Gala, the star-studded cultural event celebrating Sergei Diaghilev’s 150th Anniversary, the creator of Ballets Russes and one of the most legendary figures in the history of ballet.

This year, it will see performances by international ballet stars and multi-awarded principals from the Bolshoi, Mariinsky, Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, and others.

The Ballet Icons Gala is a rare opportunity to experience the magic of dance through some of the world’s iconic ballet stars in one performance.

HIGH SCHOOL PLAY: A NOSTALGIA FEST by Vichet Chum.

Directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene.

The cast includes Alley’s Resident Acting Company members Melissa Pritchett and Todd Waite. Rounding out the cast are Ricardo Dávila, Sabrina Koss, Mai Le, Kiaya Scott, Jarred Tettey, and Daniel Velasco.

It’s senior year in Carrollton, Texas, and Riverside High School's competitive theatre troupe is climbing back to the top from last year's unprecedented loss. Dara is trying to rally his teammates, while new kid Paul disrupts Dara's complete understanding of himself and his small-town suburban life. When coaches Dirkson and Blow make a bold choice for the one-act play competition and the community takes issue, friends and rivals duke it out and find themselves in this uniquely Texan and thoroughly universal coming of age comedy by Texan playwright Vichet Chum, directed by Houston native Tiffany Nichole Greene. Developed in the 2020 Alley All New Festival.

January 21 – February 13, 2022 at The Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas.

OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

2022 CREATIVE CAPITAL AWARDS were announced on on January 12 in New York City.

The awards total $2.5 million in artist support. The grants will fund the creation of innovative new artists’ projects by 59 individual artists working in the performing arts, visual arts, film, technology, literature, and socially engaged and multidisciplinary practices. Each project will receive varying amounts up to $50,000 in direct funding, supplemented by career development and networking services to foster thriving artistic careers.

The recipients are:

Germane Barnes
Black Quantum Futurism
(Rasheedah Phillips, Camae Ayewa)
Maura Brewer
Dakota Camacho
Crystal Z Campbell
Etienne Charles
Alexandra Chreiteh
Ilana Coleman & Jamie Gonçalves
Xavier Cortada
Mónica de la Torre
Du Yun
Jerome Ellis
Alia Farid
Teresita Fernández, Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz, & Ada Ferrer
Deborah Goffe
Clement Hil Goldberg
Graham Haynes
Jasmine Hearn
Randall Horton & Devin B Waldman
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
Brandon Kazen-Maddox
Lucy Kim
Tan Lin
Marina Magalhães
Ramón Miranda Beltrán & Madeline Jiménez Santil
Christopher K. Morgan
Cyrus Moussavi
Cheswayo Mphanza
Mimi Onuoha
Karthik Pandian
Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
The Revolution School
(Jennifer Moon, Jessie Closson,Clara Philbrick, Devin Alejandro-Wilder)
Sarah Rosalena
Viva Ruiz
Suneil Sanzgiri
Jacques Schwarz-Bart
Paola Segura Cornelio
Nyugen Smith
Mikaal Sulaiman
Steven Kazuo Takasugi
Sam Tam Ham
Steven Tamayo
Justin Randolph Thompson
Marcos Varela
Edisa Weeks
Pioneer Winter
Pinar Yoldas
Zhalarina

Creative Capital is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to fund artists in the creation of groundbreaking new work in the visual arts.

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2022 AMERICAN IMAGE AWARDS HONOREE SLATE has been announced.

The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) a has announced outstanding individuals and companies to be honored for their leadership, excellence, and extraordinary achievements in all sectors of the apparel and footwear industry, including design, manufacturing, and retail. They will be honored at AAFA’s American Image Awards being held on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at The Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Honorees include Chip Bergh – Person of the Year; Gap Inc. – Company of the Year; Prabal Gurung – Designer of the Year; ThirdLove – Fashion Maverick; and The Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Fashion Initiative – Eco-Steward of the Year.

The event will be emceed by Segun Oduolowu of People TV and will benefit the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Foundation for a sixth year of philanthropic partnership.

SOUTHWEST SHAKESPEARE has named founder of the Harlem Shakespeare Festival Debra Ann Byrd as company’s new Artistic Director.

Byrd started the new position January 1, 2022.

As the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Take Wing And Soar Productions and the Harlem Shakespeare Festival, Byrd guided the company’s growth from its birth as the passionate dream of one determined woman, into a viable support organization serving classical artists of color and theater arts groups throughout New York.

Byrd has been named Writer-in-Residence at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Artist-in-Residence Fellow at the Folger Institute, an A’Lelia Bundles Community Scholar at Columbia University, a Virtual Artist-in-Residence at The Center at West Park, and Artist-in-Residence at Southwest Shakespeare Company. She is also the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Sidney Berger Award.

For 28 years the Southwest Shakespeare Company (SSC) has been the standard-bearer for classical theatre in Arizona.The Southwest Shakespeare Company is currently performing at the Mesa Arts Center and Taliesin West in Arizona.

FINAL OVATION

MARILYN BERGMAN award winning lyricist died Saturday, January 8, 2022 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 93.

Marilyn and her husband Alan wrote music and lyrics for numerous celebrated television, film, and stage productions. The Bergmans were honored with three Academy Awards, three Emmy Awards, the Grammy Award for Song of the Year, and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Marilyn became the first woman elected to ASCAP's Board of Directors in 1985, per ASCAP, and went on to be elected President and Chairman of the Board in 1994.

The Kennedy Center commissioned the Bergmans to write a song cycle in 2001, they chose to collaborate with the composer Cy Coleman. The resulting work, Portraits in Jazz: A Gallery of Songs was performed on May 17, 2002. The Bergmans wrote the lyrics to Billy Goldenberg's television musical Queen of the Stardust Ballroom which won the couple their third Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Achievement in Special Musical Material, it was later the couple's second Broadway show. Ballroom opened in 1978. Their first was Something More! mounted in 1964, composed by Sammy Fain.

She is survived her husband Alan and their daughter Julie.

MICHAEL BRENNAN directed the music in a Vegas aquatic spectacular La Reve was found dead Wednesday morning, January 13, 2022, in his hotel room in Satellite Beach, Florida, where he had been vacationing. He was 47.

Brennan was the music director for Le Reve at Wynn Las Vegas for 10 years. Other productions he worked on, both in Las Vegas and on tour. He has been Music Director for Jerry Springer the Musical which was directed by John Rando - Victor/Victoria directed by Mark Hoebee, Mamma Mia!, Avenue Q, and Associate Music Director for Disney’s The Lion King, Assistant Music director for Cinderella which was directed by Gabriel Barre.

A composer and arranger for theatre and film, his score for the animated short, Nieta, was screened at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. He created the score for The Dai Show, a world premiere aquatic spectacular written and directed by Franco Dragone.

He is also the Resident Composer for Helpful Bear productions, an animation production house with clients such as Disney Animation, Titan Books, and Stephen King.

His musical Citizen Ruth, with lyricist Mark Leydorf, won Best Musical at the New York International Fringe Festival. Citizen Ruth had its world premiere off-Broadway in June 2016, directed by two-time Tony nominee Dan Knechtges.

DWAYNE HICKMAN actor, former CBS executive and former Las Vegas hotel executive died from complications of Parkinson’s disease on Sunday, January 9, 2021 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87.

For four seasons starting in 1959, Hickman headlined his own series as the titular teen of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, the groundbreaking series that revolved around teens, rather than their parents, based on the short stories by humorist Max Shulman.

Following that show he struggled and moved to Las Vegas becoming entertainment director for Howard Hughes’s Landmark Hotel. He called it the low point in his career.

In the 1970s, Hickman returned to TV as a network executive with CBS, supervising the development of hits such as Maude and M*A*S*H, and directed half-hour comedies such as Designing Women; Charles in Charge and Sister, Sister.

He is survived by his third wife, Joan Roberts, and two sons, John Hickman and Albert Hickman.

JOYCE OSTIN a photographer and daughter-in-law of legendary music executive Mo Ostin, died December 29, 2021 at her Pacific Palisades home after a battle with cancer. She was 64.

In 2001, she published Hollywood Moms, a best-selling coffee-table book with a foreword by Carrie Fisher that featured photographs of Goldie Hawn and daughter Kate Hudson; Dyan Cannon and daughter Jennifer Grant; Jennifer Lopez and her mom, Guadalupe; and Rosie O’Donnell and her daughter, Chelsea.

In 2007 Hollywood Dads followed, with an introduction by Paul Reiser and photos of Robin Williams, Michael J. Fox, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Willis and other fathers with their kids.

She married Michael Ostin, who followed in his father’s footsteps to become a top executive at Warner Bros. Records and DreamWorks Records.

In addition to her father-in-law and husband, survivors include her daughters Anika (and her husband, Max), Leyla and Annabelle (and her husband, Dylan) and her granddaughter, Phoebe.

BOB SAGET television star who appeared on Broadway died in his Ritz Carleton Orlando, Florida hotel room on Sunday, January 9, 2022 while on a stand up comedy tour. He was 65.

Known for his starring role on Full House the actor/stand up comic appeared on The Great White Way in the Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperone for a limited four-month engagement. He played "Man in Chair" while Jonathan Crombie, who normally played the character on Broadway, was with the national tour of the musical. On January 4, 2008, Saget's caricature was unveiled at Sardi's Restaurant.

Also on Broadway, in 2015 he replaced Marc Kudisch as 'Pastor Greg' in Hand to God.

Saget married Sherri Kramer in 1982. They had three daughters, Aubrey, Lara Melanie and Jennifer Belle. The couple divorced in 1997. In 2018, Saget married Kelly Rizzo, host of Eat Travel Rock TV.

TERRY TEACHOUT theatre critic who contributed to the Wall Street Journal for 20 years died died January 13, 2022 at a friend’s home in Smithtown, N.Y. He was 65.

He also wrote a blog for ArtsJournal and was known for his biographies of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, George Balanchine and H.L. Mencken.

He began his career writing reviews for the Kansas City Star.

His wife, Hilary Dyson Teachout, died in 2020 after a double-lung transplant. He is survived by a brother, David Teachout and companion Cheril Mulligan,

SONNY TURNER former lead singer of of the Platters died at his home in Los Angeles on January 13, 2022. He was 81 and had been battling throat cancer.

He is credited with breathing new life into The Platters with three hit singles I Love You 1000 Times in 1966, With This Ring in 1967 and Washed Ashore in 1968.

He left the Platters in 1970 to pursue a solo career.

He sang on the soundtracks of several feature films including The Nutty Professor II starring Eddie Murphy; Hearts in Atlanta Anthony Hopkins and Prince of the City starring Robert DeNiro.

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