Piano Mondays: Diva! A Pride Celebration

Join us this Pride month! We’re recreating a classic NYC piano bar experience and bringing it to a beautiful, open-air setting on the park.
About this Event

Advance RSVP for this program is full. Walk-up visitors are welcome after 7pm if the event is not at capacity.

Join us this Pride month for Piano Mondays on the High Line! We’re recreating a classic NYC piano bar experience and bringing it to a beautiful, open-air setting on the park.

Featuring Lance Horne from Club Cumming and Franca Vercelloni from Marie's Crisis jointly leading the music on a real piano and accomplished musicians from Broadway as co-hosts—this finale to the weekly series is a joyous celebration of iconic showtunes and the vibrant LGBTQ+ culture and communities of our surrounding neighborhoods.

Love to sing? The spotlight is yours! Members of the public are invited to step up to the mic and perform—no tips required. Come celebrate Pride month, sing your heart out, and make Mondays your new favorite night out.

June 22, 6 – 8:30pm

Diva! A Pride Celebration

We’ll also be announcing surprise Broadway stars in the 24 hours before the performance—stay tuned!

Check in on the High Line at the Spur at 30th Street and 10th Avenue. You can enter the High Line via the nearest stairs at 30th Street. The nearest elevator is at 30th Street. Please visit https://www.thehighline.org/elevator-status to see the current status of elevators.

If inclement weather is expected and the event may be moved to the rain date, we will notify you via email by noon on the day of the event.

Bio:

Lance Horne is an Emmy award-winning composer, pianist, singer, music director, and producer who has arranged for/performed with Alan Cumming, Jake Shears/Scissor Sisters, Ricki Lake, Rufus Wainwright, Pink Martini, Liza Minnelli, Kylie Minogue, the von Trapps, Ben Folds, Neil Gaiman, Chita Rivera, Justin Vivian Bond, Sandra Bernhard, Shoshana Bean, Amanda Palmer/Dresden Dolls, Cheyenne Jackson, Jelani Remy, Kelli O’Hara, Ken Page, Ana Gasteyer, Meow Meow, Taylor Mac, the Gatlin Brothers, Boston Pops, Seoul Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, London/SF/LA/NY Gay Men’s Chorus, Sydney Dance Company, Michael Feinstein, Carol Channing, and Sesame Street. He performed with Kristen Chenoweth for President Obama, the First Lady, and Queen Elizabeth;

Broadway: vocal arrangements for Little Women, arrangements and appearance in Regina Spektor on Broadway. Music for ‘Bent’ dir. Moises Kauffman at Mark Taper Forum. Producer and performer: World Pride, Copenhagen 2021; Broadway in the Park Series, Mexico City; Secret Broadway, Australia featuring Shoshana Bean. Work with the A.R.T. in Cambridge includes Prometheus Bound, Cabaret, and Extraordinary. Multiple appearances at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, and London's West End.

Albums include compositions and arrangements for “Jake Shears” featuring the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, “Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs”, and John Cameron Mitchell's "New American Dream". Music Supervisor, producer, arranger, and composer, “Each and Every Day” documentary for HBO, dir. Alexandra Shiva. Composer of Ricki Lake Show theme (FOX), Macy's Parades (NBC), multiple film scores, specialty material for television. Multiple residences at Joe’s Pub, host of weekly Mondays in the Club with Lance, now in its seventh year at Club Cumming. Two original musicals currently in development.

Mr. Horne is a Steinway Artist, recipient of Jonathan Larson, Bistro, and ASCAP Awards, Helpmann Award Nominee, Interlochen graduate with BM, MM in Composition, The Juilliard School. Previously on faculty at Juilliard, NYU, and EAMA Paris. Currently on faculty at Syracuse University.

Franca Vercelloni is an actor, musician, writer, teacher, and a High Line/Pride/Diva enthusiast. Acclaimed for leading interactive virtual singalongs during Covid lockdown, this multiple-MAC-nominated pianist/entertainer headlines at iconic NYC piano bar Marie’s Crisis and leads Broadway sing-alongs all over the world. NY stage credits include City Center Encores: Dear World (w/Donna Murphy) and Off-Broadway: Drama Desk nominated productions A Christmas Carol and I’m A Stranger Here Myself, as well as her NY Fringe Festival hit solo show: Classically Trained, Practically Broke. Concerts: Ragtime on Ellis Island (w/Brian Stokes Mitchell), Perfectly Marvelous (w/Audra McDonald). TV: “The Deuce”, “Search Party”, “Bull” and Film: The Big Bad Swim. She has been profiled in the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, American Theatre Wing’s “Working in the Theatre” series and on the cover of The New York Times Arts Section. www.francavercelloni.com @FrancaVerce

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Accessibility:

We encourage all persons with disabilities to attend. To request additional information regarding accessibility or accommodations at a program, please contact [email protected]. Program venues are accessible via wheelchair, and ASL interpretation can be arranged two weeks in advance. If you require registration information for this event in Spanish or Simplified Chinese, contact us at [email protected].

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The Shubert Organization is the Presenting Sponsor of Piano Mondays.

Piano Mondays are supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, under the leadership of Speaker Julie Menin.