Photo Coverage: THE BEST IS YET TO COME Opens at 59E59

The dictionary gives others words for BEST. EXCELLENT, EFFECTIVE, PERFECT, UNSURPASSED, PREEMINENT, HIGHEST QUALITY etc. None of those are sufficient enough to describe the Songs, the Arrangements, the Performers, the Musicians, David Zippel and of course the great Cy Coleman in a production at 59E59. From the moment a smiling Billy Stritch (performer, musical director and arranger of the show) entered the stage and went to the piano, it was obvious that a musical tour de force was about to begin and The Best Was Yet To Come!

31 Cy Coleman songs performed by David Burnham, Salley Mayes, Howard McGillin Billy Stritch, Lillias White, Rachel York, and a first rate orchestra was all you will need for your Broadway Musical Theatre Fix this year.

THE BEST IS YET TO COME is playing at 59E59 till July 3 Devised & Directed by David Zippel & Choreographed by Lorin Latarro. Musical direction & Arrangements by Billy Stritch - Presented by Rubicon Theatre Company.

Photo Credit: Stephen Sorokoff

Hoda, David, Zippel, Kathy Lee

Amanda Green & Phyllis Newman

Lillias White & Billy Stritch

Hoda & Kathy Lee

Danny Aiello & Billy Stritch

James Noonan & Brian Stokes Mitchell

David Burnham Lillias White, Rachel York, Howard McGillin, Sally Mayes

Jamie deRoy

David Burnham, Billy Stritch, Lillias White

The Orchestra

David Burnham, Lillias White, Rachel York, Howard McGillin

Lillias White, Christine Ebersole, Howard McGillin

Rachel York & Howard McGillin

Christine Ebersole & Howard McGillin

Howard McGillin, Rachel York, Sally Mayes, David Burnham

THE CAST

Christine Ebersole & EDa Sorokoff

Billy Stritch & EDa Sorokoff

Doug Major, Billy Stritch, Lillias White

Jamie deRoy, EDa Sorokoff

OPENING NIGHT PARTY

Michael Feinstein & Brian Stokes Mitchell

Billy Stritch, Doug Major, Lisa Lampanelli

Stephen Sorokoff & Billy Stritch

Stephen's life seems to have always revolved around a camera and a piano. He studied at Manhattan School of Music and performed in the "Borsht Belt" during college vacations, where in the true DIRTY DANCING tradition he met his wife Eda. Stephen was a Board Member of the First All Children's Theater and his wife, a classical pianist, is a Board Member of Barrington Stage Co. In between he made time to be CEO of a multi national machinery company and President of a domestic Textile Mfg. Co. In retirement, he now takes pictures of his 5 grandchildren and various other performers.

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