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Steve Schalchlin
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:00 PM
Metropolitan Room, New York, NY
  • 2 Beverage Min.
 
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  • Ticket Price: $25.00 - $115.00
  • Door Time: 6:30 PM
  • Show Type: Singer / Songwriter
  • Restrictions: 2 Beverage Min.
STEVE SCHALCHLIN

Great music and a celebration of life, multi-award winning composer/lyricist/performer Steve Schalchlin brings his joyful showmback to the Metropolitan Room, performing songs from his hit Off-Broadway musicals "The Last Session" and "The Big Voice: God or Merman?", his celebrated song cycle, “New World Waking,” featured on his new album, "Tales from the Bonus Round”.

“Nothing short of a dramatic triumph.”


When Steve and friends played the Metropolitan Room this past October 27, it was a simple affair. A 60th birthday and album release party. No one knew what to expect. No one was prepared for what did happen.
Stephen Hanks, from BroadwayWorld was there. He wrote: “It's rare to encounter an entire cabaret offering that is so personal, sensitive, and emotionally compelling on a number of levels as to leave you feeling satisfyingly drained by the end of it.

When a show can do that without a hint of sadness, self-indulgence, or sickeningly sweet sentimentality, what you've experienced is nothing short of a dramatic triumph.

That's pretty much what singer/songwriter Steve Schalchlin (pronounced SHACK-lin) accomplished on October 27 with his new show at the Metropolitan Room.

And that is exactly what we thought, which is why we immediately asked Steve and his pals, Bill Goffi and Stephen Anthony Elkins, to come back again. .

Steve Schalchlin (SHACK-lin) is the multi-award winning songwriter who wrote the scores for two Off-Broadway critically acclaimed musicals “The Last Session” and “The Big Voice: God or Merman?” as well as the experimental “New World Waking.”

He was recently profiled in the New York Times and appeared on the BBC advocating for AIDS education. The London Original Cast Album of The Last Session, starring Darren Day, will be released in early 2014, on Jay Records.

MORE FROM STEPHEN HANKS’ REVIEW:

“While it was billed as a presentation celebrating the release of his 13-song CD, Tales From the Bonus Round, and his 60th birthday, it was so much more than that.

It was also a show about fear, fortitude, anxiety, anguish, compassion, courage, and love, all expressed in poetic and oftenlever lyrics and melodies ranging from uplifting gospel to Billy Joel-sounding mid-tempo pop to sensitive ballads, many colored with musical theater undertones.


At their core, most of the songs conveyed what Schalchlin has thought, felt and experienced since early 1993, when he was diagnosed with AIDS, launched one of the first internet diaries/blogs (in early 1996), stared death in the face on a daily basis, took an experimental AIDS drug (Crixivan), and ultimately--almost miraculously--regained his health and career. When you listen to his songs, it's not hard to believe Schalchlin when he claims that during those scary days, writing music and the "healing properties of piano vibrations" also
helped save his life. And the 17 years since are what he calls his "Bonus Round."

SPECIAL GUEST: JIM BROCHU plus other surprise guests.

Praised by critics coast to coast in such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Variety and Entertainment Weekly, GLAAD Media Award recipient Steve Schalchlin's emotionally charged songs have been sung on stages around the world, including a recent critically-acclaimed London production of “The Last Session” this past year.

PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU SEE BOTH STEVE SCHLACHLIN'S SHOW AT 7PM AND JIM BROCHU'S SHOW AT 9PM, YOU PAY ONLY $40 FOR BOTH.