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New York State of Mind. A New York City mob boss has been framed from multiple murders which he did not commit. He looks towards his two loyal associates to find him a way to locate the real murderer. A truss maybe in the works but he knows a double cross when he sees one.
Discussing the new short film, 'New York State of Mind,' a love letter to New York City, with the video's ...
- Sara Bareilles
- Idina Menzel
- Brian Stokes Mitchell
- Kelli O’Hara
- Joseph Joubert
- LaChanze
A Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and more, Sara Bareilles sings her verses from Russ and Daughters on the Lower East Side, a culinary landmark run by the Russ family for four generations. The setting warms up Bareilles for a star return to “Waitress,” the Broadway show for which she wrote the music and lyrics. Her six-week stint begins with its r...
Idina Menzel filmed her portion of New York State of Mind in the stark, workaday setting of Open Jar Studios on Broadway and 48th Street, where countless musicians and dancers rehearse and audition. She brings star power and a belting, knock-out voice to her shows, old and new. She won a Best Featured Actress Tony Award for the role of Elphaba the ...
Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell has been a leading man on Broadway for more than three decades, and also literally lives on Broadway, on the Upper West Side. The baritone contracted the coronavirus in March 2020, and as soon as he recovered, he shared his voice again. After the close of the city’s nightly 7 p.m. clap in appreciation of fron...
Seven-time Tony Award nominee and winner for her role in “The King and I” revival, Kelli O’Hara has been performing on Broadway since 2000. “Great Performance”’s presentation of “Roger & Hammerstein’s The King and I” captures O’Hara and Ken Watanabe in the Tony Award-winning revival of the beloved musical about a British schoolteacher instructing t...
One of the first to be filmed for “New York State of Mind” video is someone usually not on camera or stage: Joseph Joubert, a pianist, Broadway conductor and music director. Filmed at the jazz club Birdland, the native New Yorker plays most of the song’s piano track (classical pianist and composer Chloe Flower, also plays a portion). Joubert is a f...
The lady in red who sings “New York State of Mind” verses from the Steinway & Sons Factory rooftop in Astoria is LaChanze, whose name is Creole for “one who is charmed.” She began charming awards committees with her first starring role on Broadway in the original “Once on This Island” (1991), which earned her a Tony nomination for Best Actress and ...
- Christina Knight
In the mid 1970's, when New York City was on the verge of economic collapse, one might have expected an artist to write a song about the once-great city’s imminent demise. Instead, Billy Joel wrote "New York State of Mind," a love letter expressing his passion for the city.
"New York State of Mind" is a song written by Billy Joel that is featured on his fourth studio album, Turnstiles (1976). Although it was never released as a single, it has become a fan favorite and a song that Joel plays regularly in concert. [3]
Apr 25, 2019 · A New York City mob boss has been framed from multiple murders which he did not commit. He looks towards his two loyal associates to find him a way to locate the real murderer. A truss maybe in the works but he knows a double cross when he sees one.
The exhibition and film program New York States of Mind becomes an invaluable space through which to understand cultural mediation in the form of objects and moving images that stand as unique, intertwined testimonies of cultural transformations, produced by a set of gifted and trained observers.