COURT HOUSE — New York actors Charles Lindberg and Katherine Pecevich may have the biggest supporting cast of their successful show business careers when they bring their hilarious cabaret show “Ludwig Live!“ to the stage of the Performing Arts Center of Middle Township on Sat. night, Feb. 2 at 7:30.
To give the intimate illusion of a New York cabaret, The PAC will seat on the stage the first 200 who attend. Others will be accommodated in the regular seating of the 1,000 seat theater.
The plot of “Ludwig Live!” centers on a New York cabaret where the actors go on strike. Ludwig Van Beethoven (Lindberg) assures the stage manager (Pecevich) that everything will be alight when he assumes the roles of the missing stars. In Beethoven style, he acts, sings and plays on a grand piano, with help from Pecevich, the works of such as Barry Manilow, Elvis and, John Philip Sousa. Even Sarah Palin gets into the act.
The PAC managing director Kay Aspell, who booked the show after seeing it in a small setting, decided to create the cabaret atmosphere at the performing arts center to give it the flavor of a Manhattan cabaret and to make the audience part of a “a show within a show.”
Cabaret shows are nothing new for Lindberg. He has headlined at the real thing, such as New York’s prestigious Rainbow Room, the Waldorf Astoria and Reno Sweeney’s. He has won the Bistro award for best Manhattan entertainer from Backstage Magazine and the Nightlife Award in the same category.
Lindberg has performed with and accompanied such stars of stage and screen as Bernadette Peters, Glenn Close, Jim Dale, Carol Burnett, Albert Finney and Mickey Rooney. And he wrote the lead sheets with Jerry Herman for the Tony award musical, “La Cage Au Follies.”
Pecevich, a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music, has performed with the Berkshire Theatre Festival and in the plays “The Full Monty,” “”Annie” and “Messhuggah Nuns.” The script was written by five- time Emmy award winner Nancy Holson whose hit comedy, “The News In Revue,” played for 15 seasons in the Berkshires, off Broadway and on nationally broadcast PBS specials.
Tickets are $25 and may be ordered by calling 609-463-1924.
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