The Big Barry Birthday Bash!
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June 17 (7:00 & 9:30 p.m.) at Don't Tell Mama:
It's Back!!! 7th Annual Production! Everybody has a "hidden" past -- The type of stuff that the tabloids are searching to discover for tomorrow's headlines. Well, it's time to beat them to the punch! Tom will once again appear in A Barry Birthday Bash. This cabaret show is an unabashed bash honoring the divine Mr. Manilow's birthday and offers reverence and camp. It ran at the Bryant-Lake Bowl for three years straight in Minneapolis (Tom was only involved in the 1st. year). The show was such a suprising success, that played for many encore performances. Well, the Twin-Cities producers are now in New York, and they are bringing the bash to Don't Tell Mama (343 West 46th St.). You'll laugh, you'll cry, it will touch your soul. Really. Check out The Big Barry Birthday Bash web site for a whole lot more information.
Here's what the critics' are saying. . .
"No one does a Manilow power ballad better than Tom Schmid: This up-and-coming musical theater star planted his feet and commanded the room with "Who Needs to Dream."
Barbara & Scott Siegel for TheaterMania.com. -- Click here to read the review!
June 21, 2002
"One of the discoveries of the evening was Tom Schmid, who displayed a thrilling voice in "Ready to Take a Chance Again" and a heroic romanticism in "Who Needs to Dream."
Barbara & Scott Siegel for InTheater magazine. -- Click here to read the review!
July 12-19, 1999 issue
"Tom Schmid ... has a wonderful stage presence and a pleasing, clarion voice which he uses to full advantage..."
David Roberts for Theatre Reviews Limited
June 14, 1999
"This event at Don't Tell Mama could go down in history as one of the most extravagant evenings of "Big Fun" in cabaret history."
David Roberts for Theatre Reviews Limited
June 14, 1999
 Critics' Cabaret Pick! -- Time Out New York
Week of June 14 - 20, 1999
"[The producers] have teamed up and invited an impressive list of performers to celebrate mega star Barry Manilow's fifty-third birthday."
David Roberts for Theatre Reviews Limited
June 14, 1999
"Apparently they just can't get enough of Barry Manilow at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater."
Star-Tribune
December 9, 1996
"Speaking of hip happenings at the alley, Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater will pay tribute to schmaltz-master Barry Manilow."
Star-Tribune
June 13, 1996
"Barry Birthday Bash -- "Happy Birthday" is a pretty dreary melody compared to the greatest hits of Barry Manilow. . . Tom
Schmid will sing a medley of Manilow's commercial jingles, including
"Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there."" [Oh boy!]
Star-Tribune
June 16, 1996
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