JIM GORDON RIP — If you’re a music fan, you know the name Jim Gordon well. Brilliant musician, part of the Wrecking Crew; Mad Dogs & Englishmen; Delaney...
Friars Club roasted comedian Tracy Morgan last night at the former Ziegfeld Theater, now Ballroom at the Friars Club 2022 Entertainment Icon Award. Morgan joins Cary...
Roger Friedman who has scooped many major stories in his career on Fox TV and in NY Magazine broke another one on his Showbiz411 website. Roger...
Aerosmith and Run-DMC GRAMMYS — The LA Times’ Randy Lewis said that the allegations that surfaced last week about NARAS, was akin to setting off a nuclear device in Grammy-land. Regrettably, to silence...
Some Radio and TV Stations may be refusing to play Frank Loesser’s Academy Award-winning song, but Deana Martin and Steven Maglio sang it last night at...
Larry Weissfeld, Magda Katz, Gary U.S. Bonds, Jane Shevell, Steven Van Zandt and his wife Maureen Photo by David Alan Kogut The hits of Gary U.S....
What happens in the Friars Club is supposed to stay within it’s walls but producer Jane Shevell couldn’t stop the leakers revealing the “perfect conversations” at...
The Friars Club remembered a dark time in American history yesterday afternoon with a panel discussion led by Christine Pedi exploring the Hollywood Blacklist and McCarthyism...
Legendary Grammy nominated songwriter, singer and best-selling author, Gary U.S. Bonds will be performing a special one-night only dinner and show Monday, Dec. 9, at the...
New York Mayor David Dinkins, Larry King and others submitted support letters to get Gyure off the hook and it worked. It seems District Judge Naomi...
Do you want to have the best birthday party ever? First…. be talented and admired entertainers who have lots of talented friends. Then, have many adoring...
When you enter the Friars Club on 55th street the world immediately becomes a better place. The first space you encounter is the Billy Crystal Room...
Gary Busey is a prolific character actor known for The Buddy Holly Story, Lethal Weapon, Predator 2, Point Break, Under Siege, The Firm, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Piranha 3D, and many...
In 1983 Phyllis Diller had to dress up in drag to sneak into a men’s only Sid Caesar’s Friars Roast. Last night women’s champion Friar Gloria...
In a darkened Frank Sinatra Dining Room an off stage voice using that classic Dean Martin intro “ And Now Direct FromThe Bar” announced co-hosts Bill...
The Friars archives and Wikipedia have finally been corrected. Nineteen Eighty Eight was a watershed year for women. They gained membership to numerous private men’s clubs...
Adrianne Tolsch, the first female House MC at the legendary Catch a Rising Star was remembered at the Friars Club last night and you can only...
Milton Berle once said that the average age of a Friar was “deceased”. He’d better take a look at his room at the Friars Club now....
In 1904 the Friars started meeting ,and in 1918 The Yiddish Art Theatre was founded. How symbolic that the Yiddish Theatre, now a City Village Cinema...
There have only been 9 Abbots in the history of the Friars Club starting with George M. Cohan who held the position from 1907-1932. Then came:...
Julianne Boyd, artistic director of Barrington Stage Co. announced that the BSC/NYC sold out Benefit recently held at the Friars Club was the theatre company’s most...
Friars have socialized and been entertained by every major Broadway and Great American Songbook composer starting with Friar George M. Cohan, who in addition to writing...
The plaque on the Friars Club building (The Monastery) reads Jerry Lewis. On the main floor it’s the The Frank Sinatra Dinning Room. Downstairs we...
BSC’s artistic director and founder Julianne Boyd recently announced that Barrington Stage Company will kick off the 2018 season with The World Premier of The Royal...
Tony Award winner (The Sisters Rosensweig) Madeline Kahn was lovingly remembered on what would have been her 75th Birthday by some of her show business friends at...
