Hi. I'm Teal Wicks, and I am here at Playbill to give you a sneak peek
at Broadway on the Bowery.
Abingond Theatre’s Broadway on the Bowery.
It is basically just a fabulous evening of music
and performance, bringing Broadway, but bringing you downtown.
So you get this kind of nice little downtown edge and the space,
Duane Park is just this this fabulous gem of of a performance space.
That was the first time I stepped into it.
I felt like I was being transported to Paris in the 1920s.
It has this gorgeous.
It feels like a speakeasy almost.
When you walk in, it's very unassuming.
And then it's this gorgeous, gorgeous space,
and it's just set up for really fabulous performances.
I'm very, very lucky that I get to sing and I get to do an evening of music,
and I'm able to incorporate some of the artists
that work at Duane Park a lot that you burlesque shows and aerial shows.
So I have a few special guests that are joining me that are going to put
their burlesque Duane Park sort of performance twist on it.
So very cool.
Music is very important to me.
I listen to music pretty much all the time.
It gets me through everything.
I love music and I have this sort of rich, huge library of songs
and artists that I adore, and I always just want to sing them.
I always want to go into their world putting a show together.
I kind of just pull on whatever
artist and music inspires me for this specific show.
So with Broadway on the Bowery, because a space has such a very,
very luxurious, very, very real feel to it that feels so unique,
it made me want to grab on to some of my iconic
New York artists that I adore.
Like Patti Smith and St Vincent and Cyndi Lauper, Velvet Underground,
and then also embrace the old school Broadway standards of like,
the jazz era and the, you know, the American Songbook, like Harold Arlen
and that sort of music and bring that as well.
Well, I hope the audiences will come to the show
have a night
of just
escape and fun
just to celebrate live performance and to be in a space
together, feeling safe and just enjoying a night of music.
Hopefully they enjoy me.
We have an incredible band I have these incredible
guest artists that are joining me.
So it's just like the collaboration of all of that, which is so fun for me,
the collaboration of it, and trying to put it together
and bring all these different elements.
And I miss that so much.
And now I'm going to give you a sneak peek into one of the songs.
I will be performing at Broadway on the Bowery and is “Heroes” by David Bowie
with just a little twist.
I will be king
and you
you will be Queen
though nothing
will drive them away
we can beat them
just for one day.
We can be heroes
just for oneday.
And you
you can be mean
and I
I’ll drink all the time.
‘cause we're lovers,
and that is a fact.
Yes, we’re lovers,
and that is that.
Though nothing
will keep us together
We can steal time
just for one day.
we can be heroes,
forever and ever.
What d'you say?
I, I will be king
And you,
you will be queen
Though nothing
will drive them away
we can't beat them
just for one day
We can be us,
just for one day
I can remember
Standing, by the wall
And the guns,
shot above our heads
And we kissed,
as though nothing could fall
And the shame,
shame was on the other side
Oh we can beat them,
for ever and ever
We can be heroes
just for one day.
We can be heroes
just for one day
We can be heroes
just for one day
Well, thank you for watching.
Thank you to Playbill and for more information about Broadway
on the Bowery, go to AbingtonTheatre.org, and I hope to see you there.
February 21st