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Like in the old days,
live music before the movie...
August 3, 2012
The Paramount Theatre in Middletown, NY, will present a special program to accompany its fall classic movie series.
Beginning Friday, August 24th and ending Saturday, December 22nd, the Paramount Theatre creates a modern twist on an old tradition. During the golden age of cinema, the great theatres often had live musical performances before their films.
This autumn, The Paramount Theatre is bringing vocalist Ellen Kaye and her Moscow 57 band to perform before the screening of each movie in its fall/winter series. In addition, the Paramount Theatre's mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ will be fabulously featured at each performance.
For Kaye, this is also a continuation of the family "business." Her uncle, Jan Peerce, performed for many years at Radio City Music Hall and was known as "The Voice." Along with tunes that celebrate these particular films, Kaye will be singing Peerce's signature song from those days, The Bluebird of Happiness, as she honors her Uncle Jan and this terrific hybrid form of entertainment.
Kaye, known for her gutsy, sensuous hybrid of blues, rock and folk is well-suited to this task of performing the wide range of songs these films inspire - from Elvis's Don't Be Cruel to What a Swell Party from
the film High Society, the musical version of The Philadelphia Story.
Over the past few years Ellen Kaye has been appearing regularly at the noted jazz club, Iridium, and at the Metropolitan Room, one of the premier cabaret rooms in New York. Ellen was invited to sing at the Metro NY chapter of UN Women Luncheon in the Delegates' Dining Room at the United Nations on March 2, 2012.
The first film is the Elvis Presley-starrer, Roustabout, presented on August 24th. Other films in this series are The Philadelphia Story on September 29th Arsenic and Old Lace on October 27th, The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Erroll Flynn and Olivia de Havilland on December 1st and the perennial favorite It's A Wonderful Life with James Stewart on December 22nd, when Ellen will sing songs from her holiday album Ice Wine. Ellen and her musical director and guitarist, Ethan Fein, will tailor each pre-film set to correspond with the movie the audience is about to see, to create a complete evening.
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