NEW
YORK MUSIC FESTIVAL
presented
AS YOU WISH
Created
by CRYSTAL KELLOGG, ANDREW WHEELER, & TOM WOJTUNIK
Starring
CRYSTAL KELLOGG
Featuring
KATE ROCKWELL & JUSTIN SARGENT
Musicians
Piano: Andrew Wheeler
Guitar: Micah
Burgess
Bass: Marc
Schmied
Drums: Spencer Inch
Stage
Manager: NATALIE WAGNER
The
Laurie Beechman Theater at the West Bank Café
407 West 42nd Street, New York City
407 West 42nd Street, New York City
Visit
http://www.nymf.org
for more information about the festival.
As You Wish performed August 2 and August 6, 2016
As You Wish performed August 2 and August 6, 2016
It
all started last year when Crystal Kellogg (Creator/Performer) entered New York Music Festival's (NYMF) Next Broadway Sensation and claimed the
ultimate prize of having her own solo concert produced by NYMF with
collaborators Andrew Wheeler (Creator/Musical Director) and Tom
Wojtunik (Creator/Director). Together, they created AS YOU WISH
which depicts the ten year long journey of Crystal's foray as an actor/singer
in New York City.
Her story was told through her choice of songs with
beauty and a sense of humor. How some of her auditions, although creative
didn't cut it like her dual perspective of Maria in West Side Story switching
back and forth from a girl with a Puerto Rican accent to an opera singer which
was actually priceless as a performance.
Onwards towards relationships and singing a song
from Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1970 rock
opera Jesus Christ Superstar I Don't Know How to Love Him which
brought tears to many audience members. Success, trials and tribulations were
part of the mix but winning NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation landed her a new
agent and her Broadway debut with the School of Rock (another Webber musical)
and presently, with Finding Neverland.
Her Broadway dreams came true and as part of her
solo concert, she invited her friends, Kate Rockwell and Justin Sargent to
perform skits with her that added fun and joy to the overall concert. Crystal
Kellogg is certainly a performer to watch.
Crystal
acknowledged that her parents encouraged her to follow her dreams and she did.
She ended the concert by saying, "If I'm happy and feeling good, then I
must be doing something good." It appeared as though feeling good was the
theme of the concert. There were smiles all around. The concert finished with
the song Never Can Say Goodbye--appropriate
because she wants to return to the stage again and again!
I'd
highly recommend to see Crystal Kellogg in upcoming appearances On Broadway and
in concert.
-
Laura Thompson -
(Certified
Executive/Life Coach & Arts & Culture Freelance Journalist)
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