ABCNY's ENTERTAINMENT EVENING #2

the program

The Association of the Bar of The City of New York

Presents

 

Amateur Night And Talent Show

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

6:30 p.m.

The House of the Association

42 West 44th Street

New York, New York

 

SPONSORED AND PRODUCED BY

THE COMMITTEE ON ENTERTAINMENT

MARTHA COHEN STINE, Chair

The Performers, In Order of Appearance

Arthur J. Greenbaum                       Clean and Politically Correct Stand-Up Comedy

Kenneth T. Wasserman &               “Que Reste T’il De Nos Amours?”  Music by Leo 

Rita Wasserstein Warner               Chauliac, Lyrics by Charles Trenet; “La Vie en

Joel Truex Camche, Piano                Rose,” Music by Louiguy, Lyrics by Edith Piaf; “La Parapluies de Cherbourg,” Music by Michel Legrand, Lyrics by Jacques Demy; “If I Loved You,” Music by Richard Rogers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Jennifer A. Shafer &                         The Argentine Tango

Tioma “El Ruso” Maloratsky

 Israella F. Mayeri                               Piano, Figleaf Rag, Scott Joplin

Bonnie Beth Greenball                        “I Love You Much,” Music and Lyrics by Peter W.

Peter W. Dizozza, Piano                     Dizozza;  “Peel Me a Grape,” Music and Lyrics by Dave Frishberg

Nelson Lin                                            Magic Show

Martha Cohen Stine                           “Why Can’t You Behave?”

Peter W. Dizozza, Piano                     Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter

Peter W. Dizozza                                “No Fault,” Music and Lyrics by Earl Wilson Jr. & Peter W. Dizozza; “Straight for Your Heart,” Music and Lyrics by Dizozza

Pamela W. Grayson                           “And The World Goes Round,” Music and Lyrics

Peter W. Dizozza, Piano                    by Kander & Ebb; “You Gotta Dress Down,” Music by Peter W. Dizozza, Lyrics by Heather Doughty

Frances E. Scanlon                             Standin’ Up for Stand Up

Tyrone Mark Powell                          “I Apologize,” Music and Lyrics by Al Hoffman, Al Goodman & Ed Nelson; “Once in a

                                                               While,”Music and Lyrics by Bud Green & Michael Edwards; “I Miss You,” Music and Lyrics

                                                                by Tyrone Mark Powell

Richard S. Weisbroat                         “Molly Malone” (Old Irish Melody);

                                                                Peter W. Dizozza, Piano                    “The Foggy, Foggy Dew” (Old English Ballad); “Goodbye, Fare You Well” (Sea Chantey)

 

Eugene A. Leiman &                           “The Crystal Ball v. The Magic Mirror,” Music and

Shirley Stewart Farmer                      Lyrics by Eugene A. Leiman; “By a Fair

Joel Truex Camche, Piano                 Preponderance of the Evidence, I Love You,” Music and Lyrics by Leiman

The Cast

Joel Truex Camche  is a classically trained pianist who has been playing piano to entertain since his teens, starting in the Borscht Belt in the '40s, at Harvard with "The Harvardians," in the Army with Special Services, and at the Bar Association since 1968 with the Entertainment Committee. He loves to play.

Peter W.  Dizozza is an attorney and creative artist driven by a need to collide and reconcile individual “vision” and “experience” with collective reality and the ever-elusive objective reality. This need arose from his foregone, unproven and perhaps inanely misguided conclusion that reality exists apart from our perception of it.  "Here's a fellow with musical ideas in his soul." Barry L. Cohen, The New Music Connoisseur.

Pamela W. Grayson is either a renaissance woman or a dilettante, depending on your point of view.  An attorney, writer, singer and actress, her most recent and demanding role is “Stressed Out Mother of Two Children,” a role for which she has no training, experience, or patience, and which she performs 24/7 to a mostly adoring audience.

Bonnie Beth Greenball is Special Counsel to the Conflicts of Interest Board,  New York City’s Ethics agency.  She has been in every City Bar show since 12th Night in 1997.  An avid theatregoer all her life, her participation on the Entertainment Committee has fostered her love of performing on the stage.

Arthur J. Greenbaum graduated from Harvard Law School in 1955.  A partner at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman from 1967 through 2000, he is currently Senior Counsel at the firm.  He is also adjunct Professor of Trademark Law at NYU Law School. He made his standup comedy debut in 1996.

Eugene A. Leiman has been practicing law for over 67 years and is currently of counsel to Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass, with a focus on insurance litigation.  He has written music and lyrics for City Bar Association productions for the past 57 years.

Israella F. Mayeri, a New York State Support Magistrate in Kings County Family Court, has recently renewed her passion for piano, which she studied as a child.  A frequent performer in the Park Slope and Cobble Hill Sections of Brooklyn, she makes her debut here at the Bar Association tonight.

Nelson Lin, when not conjuring magic, serves as Vice President of investments at a premier investment bank managing millions of dollars every day.  An attorney and entrepreneur, he serves on the boards of various businesses. Other hobbies include piano, cello, tennis, yoga, handwriting analysis and self-promoting bios. 

Tyrone Mark Powell, a litigation attorney, is a pianist, vocalist, published songwriter, arranger and producer, whose original music has been used in film and television, including “Witness to the Mob,” “All My Children,” “One Life to Live,” and “The Young and the Restless.”  He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), Film & TV Music Network, and National Academy of Popular Music. 

Frances E. Scanlon, an artful practitioner, moonlights on Hollywood feature films and episodic television, when she’s not free-lancing as a writer/publicist. 

Jennifer A. Shafer specializes in civil litigation and real estate investment in NYC, where she is a fixture in the courts.  When  not practicing law, she devotes her time to fund-raising for children’s charities, dancing the Argentine Tango, and conversing in French and Spanish. Her partner, El Ruso, is well known in the Tango community. 

Shirley Stewart Farmer has appeared in many Classical Recitals and Jazz-Pop concerts, including last November at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall where she and her companion sang opera duets and arias in the first half, and pop, jazz and blues in the second half.  CDs representing both styles are available. 

Martha Cohen Stine, Chair of the Committee on Entertainment, has performed in Bar Association shows for the last eight years and co-produced them for the last four. She is proud to have served as chair, producer and actress/singer in the most recent 12th Night, “The Fordham Flash,” a sold-out, smash hit.  Marti sings with Village Light Opera Group, having recently appeared in “The Gondoliers” and “Pirates of Penzance.”  She is a partner in the matrimonial firm Cohen Hennessey & Bienstock P.C. 

Rita Wasserstein Warner is head of the matrimonial department at Coblence & Warner, holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, a  B.A. from Smith College, and studied at L’Ecole es Hautes Etudes Internationales.  She has been performing in City Bar 12th Night shows for over twenty years, but this is her first opportunity to play a French chanteuse. 

Kenneth T.  Wasserman is a single practitioner, having a focus in commercial and general litigation, including estate practice.  He is a former Chair of the Committee on Entertainment. 

Richard S. Weisbroat is a founder and (supposedly) retired partner of Kramer Levin, an Irish tenor cantor, an addicted jogger, and a pro bono bon vivant.

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