{"id":317,"date":"2008-07-21T09:01:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T14:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/berkshires-news\/?p=317"},"modified":"2008-07-21T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T14:01:45","slug":"barrington-stage-co-presents-songs-of-a-night-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/barrington-stage-co-presents-songs-of-a-night-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrington Stage Co. presents SONGS OF A NIGHT OWL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barrington Stage Company<\/strong> Musical Theatre Lab presents:<strong>SONGS OF A NIGHT OWL; Nikos Tsakalakos Cabaret<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At STAGE 2\/VFW Hall <\/li>\n<li>Thursday, July 24 at 9:30pm<\/li>\n<li>Friday, July 25 at 9:30pm<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, July 26 at 10:00pm<\/li>\n<li>TICKETS $15, $20<\/li>\n<li>413-236-8888<\/li>\n<li>or online at <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barringtonstageco.org\/\">www.barringtonstageco.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(PITTSFIELD, MA) SONGS OF A NIGHT OWL, an evening of original songs by the ridiculously talented singer-songwriter Nikos Tsakalakos, will take over BSC\u2019s Stage 2 for a special three-night engagement at Stage 2\/VFW Hall (36 Linden Street) on Thursday, July 24 at 9:30pm, Friday, July 25 at 9:30pm, and Saturday, July 26 at 10pm. Tickets are $15 Thursday, with tickets Friday and Saturday at $20.<br \/>\nNiko Tsakalakos inaugurated Barrington Stage Company\u2019s Musical Theatre Lab\u2019s Late Nite series last year with LATE NITE WITH NIKO. Dubbed \u2018the Greek Neil Diamond\u2019 by mentor William Finn, SONGS OF A NIGHT OWL features original songs by Nikos Tsakalakos inspired by Finn and songs he co-wrote with others.<\/p>\n<p>SONGS OF A NIGHT OWL with Nikos Tsakalakos, features special guests Heath Calvert, Molly Ephraim, Demond Green and Alsyha Umphress. Jamming onstage with Niko are Music Director Brian Usifer on piano, Jeff Roberts on drums, and Jeff Link on bass.<\/p>\n<p>Nikos Tsakalakos is a singer-songwriter from New Brunswick, NJ, who recently completed his MFA at NYU\u2019s Musical Theatre Writing Program as a composer\/lyricist. He received his BA in English Literature from Rutgers University, with an emphasis on creative writing\/poetry. As drummer and lead vocalist, his band, Saint Friday, has played the Los Angeles circuit, including venues such as the Viper Room, the Roxy and the Troubadour. In LA, he spent two years at the Academy for New Musical Theatre, where he collaborated with various writers and singers. Niko is a two-time recipient of UCLA Writing Lyrics that Succeed and Endure Scholarship with Marty Panzer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrington Stage Company  Musical Theatre Lab presents: SONGS OF A NIGHT OWL; Nikos Tsakalakos Cabaret July 24 -26, 2008 at the VFW hall in Pittsfield, MA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}