{"id":151307,"date":"2026-03-03T18:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151307\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:02:51","slug":"cris-eli-blaks-his-name-was-bobby-short-sets-nyc-industry-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151307\/","title":{"rendered":"Cris Eli Blak&#8217;s His Name Was Bobby Short Sets NYC Industry Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon Theatre Company will host an invite-only industry presentation of Cris Eli Blak&#8217;s\u00a0His Name Was <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/bobby-short-vault-0000110703\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Short<\/a>, the company&#8217;s first commission, March 4. Chad Austin is directing, and is the project&#8217;s conceiver.<\/p>\n<p>The bioplay centers on longtime Caf\u00e9 Carlyle performer Bobby Short, who died in 2005 at the age of 80. With a repertoire of more than 500 songs, Short was best known for interpretations of songs by Cole Porter. The project, adapted from Short&#8217;s memoir\u00a0King of Cabaret, will also feature some of those songs.<\/p>\n<p>The reading cast will feature\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/curtis-wiley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Curtis Wiley<\/a> (Ain\u2019t Too Proud), Maria Bilbao (Sweeney Todd), <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/robert-cuccioli-vault-0000108425\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Cuccioli<\/a> (Jekyll &amp; Hyde), Annelise Cepero\u00a0(West Side Story), Lorenzo Scott (Feud: Capote vs The Swans), <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/rema-webb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rema Webb<\/a> (Hell\u2019s Kitchen), and Jeffrey Grover (Feud Capote\u2019s Women). Allison Hohman will stage manage.<\/p>\n<p>Industry members interested in attending can email <a href=\"http:\/\/playbill.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#7b32151d143b3a1912151c1f14152f131e1a0f091e5514091c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abingdon Theatre Company will host an invite-only industry presentation of Cris Eli Blak&#8217;s\u00a0His Name Was Bobby Short, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-151307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}