{"id":322446,"date":"2026-08-16T08:24:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322446\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:24:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:24:55","slug":"antwayn-hopper-will-record-live-debut-album-at-54-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322446\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwayn Hopper Will Record Live Debut Album at 54 Below"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/antwayn-hopper-vault-0000035285\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antwayn Hopper<\/a> (<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/a-strange-looplyceum-theatre-2021-2022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Strange Loop<\/a>,\u00a0The Life)\u00a0will record a debut album at a November 30 cabaret show at NYC&#8217;s 54 Below. The album is being produced by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/mia-moravis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mia Moravis<\/a> for\u00a0Center Stage Records, with a release date to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>The performance will feature Hopper lending his trademark bass vocal stylings to showtunes, pop solos, and more, with special guests to include <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/melody-a-betts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melody A. Betts<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/adriane-lenox-vault-0000032205\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adriane Lenox<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/kecia-lewis-evans-vault-0000047738\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kecia Lewis<\/a>, and RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race favorite\u00a0Willam.<\/p>\n<p>Hopper will be backed by The Notes, led by music director <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/asher-denburg-composer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asher Denburg<\/a> on piano. The ensemble will also include Carlos Mena, Rob Mitzner, Sophie Manaloff, and Aveion Walker. Nora Fox, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/felicia-boswell-vault-0000118309\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felicia Boswell<\/a>, and Christin Byrdsong will provide backing vocals as The Staves.<\/p>\n<p>Hopper made his Broadway debut playing Gus in\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/hair-al-hirschfeld-theatre-vault-0000008201\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hair<\/a>, returning as part of the original cast of the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning\u00a0A Strange Loop. He&#8217;s also been seen in\u00a0The Life at New York City Center Encores! and\u00a0Cats: The Jellicle Ball Off-Broadway, and on screen in\u00a0Will Trent and\u00a0Elsbeth.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are at <a href=\"https:\/\/54below.org\/events\/antwayn-hoppers-debut-album-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">54Below.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antwayn Hopper (A Strange Loop,\u00a0The Life)\u00a0will record a debut album at a November 30 cabaret show at NYC&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-322446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322446","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=322446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}