54 BELOW SINGS FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD
DIGITAL PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 28TH, 2022
HOSTED BY MIKAYLA PETRILLA
MUSIC DIRECTED BY FELIX JARRAR
FEATURING THE TALENTS OF TAYLOR IMAN JONES, T. OLIVER REID, ALLIE TRIMM, SARAH STEELE, MARY KATE MOORE, JELANI REMY, SAIGE NOELLE BRYAN, EVERTON GEORGE, AND ROBERT PETERPAUL
SERGIO RIPA ON GUITAR, ISAAC GOLDSTEIN ON BASS, KYLE MILNER ON DRUMS, AND FELIX JARRAR ON KEYS
THE CAST
TAYLOR IMAN JONES
SIX THE MUSICAL’S NEW CATHERINE PARR, ANDY IN THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, MOPSA IN HEAD OVER HEELS, GROUNDHOG DAY, HAMILTON (PEGGY SCHUYLER), EMOJILAND (PRINCESS)
JELANI REMY
SIMBA IN THE LION KING, AIN’T TOO PROUD, SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE, THE APPLE BOYS, EMCEE IN CABARET (GOODSPEED)
T OLIVER REID
T has spent the past 20 years working on Broadway shows, (HERMES in Hadestown; Once On This Island; Sunset Boulevard; After Midnight; Sister Act; Mary Poppins; The Wedding Singer; Chicago; La Cage Aux Folles; Never Gonna Dance; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Follies; Kiss Me, Kate), which have amassed more than 20 Tony Awards from the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards. He is also an accomplished cabaret artist and multiple award winner for his solo show, “Drop Me Off In Harlem” which he directed, wrote and starred in. He is on faculty at NYU-Tisch’s Grad Acting Program and Columbia University School of the Arts’ Grad Acting program. He is also co-founder of Black Theatre Coalition.
ALLIE TRIMM
Broadway: Wicked (Glinda Standby), 13 The Musical (Patrice); Bye Bye Birdie (Kim MacAfee). Off-Bway/Regional: BAZ Star Crossed Love; Evolution of Mann; Enter Laughing; Allegiance; Les Misérables. Film/TV: Prom (Disney); Next Stop Christmas (Hallmark); “30 Rock”; “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”. Stanford University.
SARAH STEELE
THE GOOD FIGHT, THE GOOD WIFE, THE HUMANS, THE COUNTRY HOUSE, THE TO DO LIST, SPANGLISH, PLEASE GIVE.
EVERTON GEORGE
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, WARNER BROS. POLAR EXPRESS, REGIONAL NOM FOR COLLINS IN RENT, RICHIE IN A CHORUS LINE (INTERLAKES). CURRENTLY WORKSHOPPING THE SURVIVAL OF ST. JOAN.
SAIGE NOELLE BRYAN
RECORDING ARTIST: NEW SINGLE “NEVER FORGET” AVAILABLE TO STREAM NOW. FELICIA IN MEMPHIS (DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE)
MARY KATE MOORE
Mary Kate is currently understudying The Baker's Wife, Cinderella, Little Red and Florinda in INTO THE WOODS on Broadway at the St. James Theatre and transferred from the previous production at Encores! She is known for playing Fantine in the national tour of LES MISERABLES and has been seen in Songs for a New World at the Gateway Playhouse, Spring Awakening and the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, and "The Other Two" on HBO MAX.
ROBERT PETERPAUL
JOJO IN SEUSSICAL, HOST OF THE ART OF KINDNESS PODCAST, THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, BULL ON CBS. CURRENTLY WORKSHOPPING THE MUSICAL COMEDY STARTING UP
CHARISSA HOGELAND
ELSA U/S FROZEN BROADWAY, HEATHERS, NICOLA IN NATIONAL TOUR OF KINKY BOOTS, DAISY IN BAZ: STAR CROSSED LOVE, THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL (AMAZON PRIME)
MIKAYLA PETRILLA
HOST
“This concert series that Ms. Petrilla has been presenting at various clubs around the city from some “five or six months”...is so important as to draw words of praise and commitment from each actor to share their talents in the show”