NewsPHOTO CALL: Laura Benanti, Rory O'Malley, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Morgan James, Alison Fraser and More Strip Down with The SkivviesTony Award winner Laura Benanti, Rory O'Malley, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Morgan James joined the Skivvies for their June 10 engagement at 54 Below.
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Matthew Blank
June 14, 2013
Featuring actor-musicians Lauren Molina (Sweeney Todd, Marry Me a Little) and Nick Cearley (All Shook Up), the Skivvies are known for their acoustic performances of pop songs, wearing nothing but their underwear. The duo and their guests play instruments ranging from the cello, ukulele, guitar and glockenspiel to the melodica.
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Laura Benanti, Rory O'Malley, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Morgan James, Alison Fraser and More Strip Down with The Skivvies
Laura Benanti, Rory O'Malley, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Morgan James, Alison Fraser and More Strip Down with The Skivvies
Tony Award winner Laura Benanti, Rory O'Malley, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Morgan James joined the Skivvies for their June 10 engagement at 54 Below. Read the Playbill.com story.
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Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley
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Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley
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Rory O'Malley
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Lauren Molina, Rory O'Malley and Nick Cearley
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Rory O'Malley
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Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley
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Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley
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Andrew Keenan-Bolger
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Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Nick Cearley
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Lauren Molina, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Nick Cearley
In addition to Benanti (Gypsy), O'Malley (The Book of Mormon), Keenan-Bolger (Newsies) and James (Motown), the 9:30 PM concert featured Alison Fraser (The Secret Garden), Wesley Taylor ("Smash") and Leslie McDonel (American Idiot).
Highlights included: a beach-themed surfing medley from O'Malley, Taylor delivering TLC's "Unpretty" peppered with readings of recent Amanda Bynes Tweets, James wowing the crowd with "Do Right Woman" and "Maneater," a wig-clad McDonel belting a "Crazy" medley and Keenan-Bolger stripping to a mashup of "It's a Small World" and Lily Allen's "F*** You."
Audiences were also treated to such Skivvies favorites as "We Found Love," "Pumped Up Kicks," "Umbrella," "Video Killed the Radio Star" and "The Hardbody Hoedown."
They were joined by Shannon Ford (Next to Normal) on drums and Katrina Yaukey (War Horse, Billy Elliott) on saxophone/accordion.
The musical is the newest project by Hunter Bird, one of the creative minds behind the immersive Off-Broadway revival of The Phantom of the Opera, Masquerade.