Get ready to groove! This high-energy tribute to the disco decade features hits from the Bee Gees, ABBA, Donna Summer, the Eagles, Gloria Gaynor, and other iconic artists of the '70s. Broadway vocalists and the Palms Springs Pops bring glitter and glam, turning the Plaza into a full-on boogie wonderland. Don't forget your dancing shoes and join two-time Grammy award winner Tamika Lawrence and friends for an unforgettable evening.
Disco IS the sound of the 70s and it still has the power to get us “movin’ and groovin’.” Travel back to the days when “Saturday Night Fever” was a box-office smash, Donna Summer was the queen of the air waves and Beethoven had his first top-40 hit.
You’re invited to celebrate those disco days and boogie nights with a cast of New York’s top performers singing and dancing to super-hits by Abba, the Bee Gees, Gloria Gaynor, Barry Manilow, Donna Summer and more! The stage will be ablaze with a live disco band and a trio of Broadway vocalists reminding you that “You Should be Dancin’, yeah!”
Performers include:
TAMIKA LAWRENCE (Vocalist)
Tamika is a two Time Grammy Singer, Actor, and Writer. Broadway: The Heart of Rock and Roll, Caroline, Or Change, Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Beautiful, If/Then, Matilda, The Book of Mormon. Off-Broadway: Black No More (Drama Desk Nomination for Best Actress in A Musical) Rent, The Tempest, Hercules (The Public Theater). Television: That Damn Michael Che, Modern Love, The Last OG, The Wiz Live!, Vinyl (HBO), Show Me a Hero (HBO), Blue Bloods, Law & Order: SVU. Movies: Mean Girls, Better Nate Than Never, The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen, White Girl, Breakable You.
JESSICA HENDY (Vocalist)
Jessica Hendy is widely recognized as one of Broadway’s best belters. She played the role of Grizabella in CATS the original Broadway run and the 2016 revival cast, becoming the only person in history to have appeared in both Broadway incarnations of that smash hit musical. Other Broadway credits include AIDA (Amneris), and AMOUR. She has toured Nationally and in Canada in CATS (Grizabella) and Joseph...Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator). She's a Drama Desk Award nominee and winner of the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for her one-woman musical "Walking With Bubbles" and a Bistro Award-winner for the revue "Get Your Tickets Now." NYC Pre-Broadway workshops include DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES, AIDA, and THE MOLLY MAGUIRES. She played Diana Goodman in the regional premier of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical NEXT TO NORMAL, at The Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati and starred with Jason Robert Brown in his SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center. Her performance as 'Jeanne' in THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL at ETC earned her an ACCLAIM Award for Best Actress. She regularly appears with symphonic orchestras around the world in a variety of concerts and is a proud graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
SCOTT COULTER (Vocalist)
Scott Coulter is one of New York's most honored vocalists having received five MAC Awards (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs), five Bistro Awards and two Nightlife Awards for Outstanding Vocalist. He's performed at most of NYC’s top rooms including Birdland, 54 Below, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, and Feinstein’s at The Regency where he spent a record-setting eight months performing the revue 11 O’CLOCK NUMBERS AT 11 O’CLOCK which he also co-created, directed and musically arranged. His self-titled debut CD won the 2003 MAC Award for Outstanding Recording and was chosen as the best recording of the year by TheatreMania and Cabaret Scenes magazines. Scott was director and star of A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE SYMPHONIC CONCERT in its world premiere with the Baltimore Symphony and reprised his performance in the Emmy-nominated PBS production. He is an Emmy nominee himself for his performance in AMERICAN SONG at NJPAC and a Grammy nominee as a featured vocalist on the album "Sondheim Unplugged: The NYC Sessions." Scott regularly performs in concert both as a solo artist and with a variety of legendary performers including Sheena Easton and Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz. Schwartz has said “One of the greatest things that can happen to a composer is to have his music interpreted by Scott Coulter.”
Scott is creator, arranger and director of over forty touring shows (symphonic and non-) including MUSIC OF THE KNIGHTS, THE WONDERFUL MUSIC OF OZ, BLOCKBUSTER BROADWAY!, and, for The ASCAP Foundation, JERRY HERMAN: THE BROADWAY LEGACY CONCERT. As a director his credits include many shows for The Town Hall in NYC and BROADWAY BY THE YEAR for The Berkshire Theatre Festival and Broadway by the Bay. Along with Michael Kerker and ASCAP, he's a regular producer/director of Michael Feinstein's STANDARD TIME at Carnegie Hall. Scott, along with Dave Gaebler, is a co-producer of the Jessica Hendy/Brianna Barnes musical "Walking WIth Bubbles" which received a 2023 Drama Desk Award nomination and won an Off-Broadway Alliance Award. The show's cast album is produced by Coulter and Vibecke Dahle Dellapolla. Coulter and Gaebler are also on the producing teams (Broadway and tour) for SUFFS (Tony Awards for Book & Score) and WATER FOR ELEPHANTS.
Scott is founder/owner of Spot-On Entertainment and Spot-On Arts Academy and is a resident director of programming at 54 Below (Broadway’s Supper Club) in NYC. For almost a decade he was the artistic director of the Pocono Mountains Music Festival and is the founder of the Pocono Pops! Scott is a proud graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music which honored him with the CCM Young Alumni Award in 2010 and CCM's Distinguished Service Award in 2020.
JOHN BOSWELL (Pianist)
John Boswell has served as musical director for Judy Collins, Andy Williams, Bob Newhart, Scott Coulter, Maude Maggart, Faith Prince, Carmen Cusack, Babbie Green, Jason Graae and a host of other fine talents. Boswell played the role of “Moose” in the national tour of Crazy for You and has appeared on The Tonight Show, Today Show, CBS This Morning, Regis and Kathie Lee, General Hospital and was the piano playing hands of Nancy McKeon on the sit-com The Facts of Life. Recent concerts with symphonies have included Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert, Blockbuster Broadway!, Sheena Easton and Scott Coulter: The Spy Who Loved Me and Music of The Knights.
SPOT-ON ENTERTAINMENT
Scott Coulter's Spot-On Entertainment is a concert production/booking company based in New York City. Owner and founder Scott Coulter is a multi-award winning performer, director, musical arranger and producer whose creations for theaters, performing arts centers and symphonies include Music of the Knights, Bette Babs & Beyond, The Wonderful Music of OZ. You’ve Got a Friend and Blockbuster Broadway! Special composer tribute shows include Defying Gravity: Stephen Schwartz & Friends and Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert (which is co-produced by Spot-On and The ASCAP Foundation). Spot-On concerts often feature an education component that result in local artists appearing on stage with members of the Spot-On family. It is our goal to inspire and pass the torch to the next generation.
