An Awesome Weekend of Birthday Fabulousness!

It was a busy weekend.  It was a fun weekend.  It was a weekend full of birthday celebrations from start to finish and it's about freaking time!  It seems like it's been forever since I've enjoyed myself as much as I did this weekend.  The birthdays I helped celebrate all belonged to special people and so this last weekend of February and first into March was one that I'll remember for a long, long time to come.

 

Happy Birthday Manny!

The plan was two trips into the city on Friday and Sunday, with a family birthday party for my nephew Jake sandwiched in between on Saturday.  First up on Friday night was an evening of debauchery for my pal Manny's birthday.  His birthday is actually today, but Monday's not really a good night for going out, and so he, our friend Ozzie and I traipsed into NYC for a little fun with Manny's friends Norberto and Raj at the Fairytail Lounge and then on to Icon in Astoria for a nightcap and some dancing.  I'll spare you any gory details, but let's just say it was great to be with these two friends for such a fun night!

Happy Birthday Jake!

My youngest nephew is a teenager.  My brother's younger son turned 13 years old on Saturday and after spending an awesome day with him seeing Wicked a few weeks back, I was only too glad to spend his special day with him.  Until that jaunt into the city I'd never really spent much time with Jake, and I'm so glad that we took that trip because for the first time I really got to know him as a person.  All I can say about that is he is one awesome kid...um, young man!  Jake, you rock!  Happy Birthday!

  

Happy Birthday Blanchie!

Last, but certainly not least was the best part of my weekend.  You see, tomorrow one of my oldest friends, Bobby, will be joining the '50 Club,' and me and our third Rich treated him to see Kinky Boots on Broadway,  The three of us spent the awesomest of days together in the snow-covered city laughing, dining and enjoying a spectacular show.  Though I consider many of my friends a part of my extended family, these two are my real family, and it was nice to be just the three of us together. The only sucky part was an awful ride home because a murky forecast of snow turning to freezing rain was mostly snow...and a lot of it!  Poor Dita had to drive us for the better part of a two and a half hour ride through unplowed expressway to get home.  That didn't stop the mood of the day, though, as the ride was full of good music and good friends, just like the day had been.

Anyway, since I feel like a lot of the time lately I've been writing about negative stuff (it's been a long winter!), I wanted to share a good time for a change.  So for what it's worth, happy birthday to Manny, Jake and Blanche!  I love you all and I'm lucky to have each of you in my life!

   

2 for 1 Broadway Tickets at NYCGo's Annual Broadway Week Sale

Have you been wanting to see a Broadway show, but have been hesitant to spend all of that the money on expensive tickets?  Well, now is a great time to catch that hit musical you've been aching to see because right now NYCGo is running their annual Broadway Week special sale, with two for one tickets to many of the hottest shows Broadway has to offer.  

NYCGo's annual Broadway Week begins on Tuesday, January 20th and runs all the way to Thursday, February 5th, and during that time you can enjoy the awesome discount of two for one tickets to such tried and true hit musicals such as Kinky Boots, Mamma Mia, Wicked and Jersey Boys or new , soon to be classics like Honeymoon in Vegas, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.  In all, more than 20 shows are participating in the special offer. 

  

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Here's how it works: just visit NYCGo and select the shows you'd like to see.  You can select either the 2 for 1 offer or a special upgraded offer that brings you better seats for an additional $20.  These great discount tickets are on sale now, but only at NYCGo, so click on the link and check it out.  

Music News Bytes: New Beyonce, will.i.am with the Biebs; A New Carole King Musical

Music News Bytes is a collection of short music news items that I follow on the Web.  If you're into the same type of music I am, that is pop, dance, R&B, and such, check it out...

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New Beyonce Tune

In my Yahoo piece, Exciting New Music Coming in 2013, I mentioned that Beyonce was working on a new album and finally something has leaked out.  The cut is actually two songs in one and like I said in the piece, it sounds more like Sasha Fierce than the softer side of Bey we heard on 2011's 4 record. Click the link for philly.com to take a listen to funky Bow Down/I Been On.

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical coming to Broadway

Anyone who was around in the early 70's surely remembers the beautiful music of Carole King.  Her Grammy-winning 1970 album Tapestry, produced several classics for the Great American songbook, including I Feel the Earth Move, You've Got a Friend and It's Too Late. Coming in the spring of 2014, the famed singer/songwriter will be the subject of a new Broadway musical, Beautiful.  The announcement follows a popular trend on Broadway, where catalogs of musical acts have been used to weave a story line of a show.  Just think Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys, and so on.  This one just might be good!

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will.i.am and the Biebs on a New Song

Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am continues to work with the hottest music acts of the day, and his newest collaboration from his forthcoming album is with teen pop idol Justin Bieber.  The song is called That Power and it's another thumping club tune that's sure to burn up dance floors in the coming months.  Check out a preview on YouTube.



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