What Are You Doing for New Year's Eve? Dive Into 2011 Feeling 100% Happy!
Submitted by greg on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 14:39
Join Beth for a very special New Year's Eve performance of "100% Happy 88% of the Time" with Mitch Kaplan on keyboards, & special guests Denise Fraser on percussion, and Kristin Mooney & Claire Holley with Eric Heywood (The Pretenders) on the pedal steel guitar playing their own angelic music at 9:30.
Then they'll join Beth & Mitch for a pedal steel and angelic choir-enhanced version of the show at 10:30
Beth will perform a shamanic invocation at midnight, then dancing!
Doors open at 9:00pm at
Mbar, 1253 N. Vine St.
Music, champagne, show & dancing all for only $50. First 6 parties of 5-6 get the extra-comfy booths. GET TICKETS NOW!
"Uplifting!" LA Times
SINGERS ANONYMOUS: A new workshop for singers, non-singers and people-always-told-me-I-couldn't-singers to let their inner voice out
Submitted by Beth Lapides on Wed, 09/08/2010 - 17:38
Free your voice - the rest will follow!
SINGERS ANONYMOUS is a simple three-step program for vocal liberation, led by me, my producing partner - the awesome Greg Miller, and my musical collaborator - the amazing Mitch Kaplan.
SATURDAYS, SEPT. 25, OCT. 2, 9 (1-3pm)
Mbar, 1253 N. Vine St. LA 90038
Putting the muse in music!
Submitted by Beth Lapides on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 08:19
Last year at this time I was performing a workshop version of "100% Happy 88% of the Time" at the Writer's Boot Camp in Santa Monica and a gentelman named Clifford Bell came to see it. I'd met Clifford at MBar late one Sunday afternoon a month or so before that, in the transition between our teaching Comedian's Way class and his teching a show he was producing that night.
"I always knew we would meet, and something magical would happen" he said. "You are Un-Cabaret and I am Cabarabia. It's like matter and anti-matter colliding!" Magic, fate, anti- matter? I liked him immediately. Big twinkle in the eye.
He loved the show but thought it would be sooooo much more wonderful if it were musicalized.
Less Thinking! More Singing! (Cabarabia Meets Un-Cabaret at The Sunday Salon)
Submitted by greg on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 13:08
Please join us for the maiden voyage of THE SUNDAY SALON, a new collaboration between comedy guru Beth Lapides ("Un-Cabaret") and brilliant cabaret impressario Clifford Bell ("Cabarabia").
Sunday, May 16, 4PM at MBar, 1253 N. Vine St. That's right. 4PM on Sunday. That moment when your Sunday Sadness kicks in?
Come taste the wine... Or beverage of your choice.
Come hear the band... We promise, Beth won't bring her cymbals!
No cover! Invitation only! The bar is open!
Musical direction by the magically gifted Mitch Kaplan. Sandra Bernhard's collaborator for more than twenty years, his music has been recorded by Chaka Kahn, Thelma Houston, and Sister Sledge, to name a few!
Special musical guests this Sunday: Kelly Mantle ("The Confusion Of My Illusion!"), A.J. Teshin ("The Kurt Weill Project") and Raspin Stuwart ("We Do What We Do").
RSVP: 323-769-6447 or e-mail.
