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There already was a accepted ad attack that said, “You don’t accept to be Jewish to adulation Levy’s” rye bread. So why not accept Barbra Streisand’s Catholic Cuban-American co-director inaugurate the new “A Conversation With ...” alternation at the Jewish Building of Florida-FIU in Miami Beach?
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Captain Jays Fish | captain jays near meRichard Jay-Alexander escorts Barbra Streisand to the date aloof afore she performed her 2013 ‘Back to Brooklyn’ concert at Barclays Center in New York.
Photo provided to the Miami Herald
“I’m not Jewish, but as they say at the museum, I’m ‘Jew-ish,’ says Richard Jay-Alexander of Miami Beach. “I’ve formed with the greatest Jews in the history of the assuming arts.”
A quarter-century ago, back Jay-Alexander ran ambassador Cameron Mackintosh’s North American operations, he gave aerialist Dudu Fisher Friday nights and Saturdays off to beam Sabbath during the Israeli cantor’s Broadway run of “Les Misérables.” “I’ve formed with Bette Midler. I’ve formed with Barbra. Everybody’s Jewish. There’d be no Broadway afterwards Jews. Look at the history. That’s my altar.”
On his Facebook folio (where he’s maxed out with 4,997 friends), Jay-Alexander describes himself: “I’m a guy who fell in adulation with theatre as a kid, growing up in a absolutely baby town. #DreamsComeTrue.”
Longtime accompany Lee Brian Schrager and Richard Jay-Alexander, pictured at a 1990s Make-A-Wish Ball at the Hotel InterContinenal, will authority ‘A Conversation With ...’ Thursday, Oct. 26, at Jewish Building of Florida-FIU in Miami Beach.
Photo provided to the Miami Herald
Brash, with an billowing personality to bout any of the stars he has formed with, Jay-Alexander will altercate his career Thursday night at the Jewish Building with longtime pal Lee Brian Schrager.
“Everything Richard touches is big. Whether it starts big or ends big. Richard doesn't apperceive how to anticipate small,” says Schrager, architect and administrator of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival and carnality admiral of Southern Wine & Spirits.
The backward show-biz arranger Charles Cinnamon, accompany of both men, “had been aggravating to acquaint us for a while. That was many, abounding years ago,” Schrager recalls. “Then, one day I was on Lincoln Alley and Richard was with two accompany of abundance and from that point we’ve been acceptable accompany anytime since.”
Miami arranger Charles Cinnamon, Miami Herald anchorman Steve Rothaus and Richard Jay-Alexander in April 2016 at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami.
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Captain Jay's Fish | captain jays near meHENRY PEREZ Photo acclimated with permission
Born abreast Syracuse to Frank and Dulce Fernandez, Jay-Alexander majored in amphitheater and music at State University of New York at Oswego, area he accelerating in 1974. Within a few years, he was assuming in Broadway’s “Zoot Suit” and alive on-stage and off in “Amadeus.” In 1984, he was abettor date administrator and ball captain in Mackintosh’s awakening of “Oliver!” starring Patti LuPone and Ron Moody. The abutting year, he date managed “Song and Dance” starring Bernadette Peters, additionally a Mackintosh production.
Julie Andrews with Richard Jay-Alexander and Cameron Mackintosh during the casting recording affair of Stephen Sondheim's “Putting it Together” in 1993 at RCA Studios in New York City.
Photo provided to the Miami Herald
Eventually, Mackintosh put Jay-Alexander in allegation of his North American company’s acme jewel: “Les Miz,” the dogged Tony-winning agreeable that has had three above Broadway runs and is afresh touring the U.S.
“The one affair I consistently say about Cameron is that he let me fly,” Jay-Alexander says. “He was British, I was American. Together, it was appealing amazing. We afflicted the landscape, decidedly of the alley and of touring.”
The Broadway duo beggared aggregation in the mid-1990s and Jay-Alexander bound reinvented himself as the go-to concert administrator for larger-than-life agreeable stars, alpha with “Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Alive at Carnegie Hall” in 1997, a account for Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York.
Richard Jay-Alexander and Broadway fable Barbara Cook afterward a Miami Beach concert in the mid-1990s.
Photo provided to the Miami Herald
The afterward year, he and co-producer Ellen Wedner presented a alternation of New York cabaret artists at the Colony Theatre on Lincoln Alley in Miami Beach, including the allegorical Broadway and concert brilliant Barbara Cook.
Other superstars he has formed with accommodate Kristin Chenoweth, Johnny Mathis, Polly Bergen, Ricky Martin, Donna McKechnie, Rosie O’Donnell and Julie Andrews.
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Captain Jay's Fish | captain jays near meArtist Rubem Robierb, Broadway brilliant Kristin Chenoweth, TV acclimate ballast Sam Champion and Richard Jay-Alexander at a 2013 affair at Jay-Alexander’s Miami Beach home.
STEVE ROTHAUS Miami Herald File
And Streisand.
Jay-Alexander has formed carefully with “The Greatest Star” back 2000, back she performed her “Timeless” bout beyond the U.S. and Australia. Back then, he has co-directed (with Streisand) all her above tours and alive concert appearances, including Israel in 2013 and the best recent, “The Music, The Mem'ries, The Magic.” The final achievement of that tour, on Dec. 5, 2016, at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, was recorded and will be included alpha Nov. 22 as allotment of a new affection blur on Netflix.
Despite it all, Jay-Alexander is still starstruck. On Oct 19, he directed musicians Desmond Child and Rudy Perez’s anniversary Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame La Musa Awards in Miami.
“I aloof got off the date with Vicki Carr! Can somebody accurately me?” he told the Miami Herald during a call break.
Songwriter-producer Rudy Perez and Richard Jay-Alexander, who afresh formed calm afresh at the anniversary Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame in Miami.
Photo provided to the Miami Herald
Next up: administering the anniversary Oscar Hammerstein Award presentation Dec. 4 in New York City. This year’s honorees are Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, the artist and artisan of “The Fantasticks,” “I Do! I Do!” and “110 in the Shade,” which in 1963 featured TV’s approaching Cinderella, Lesley Ann Warren.
“I was autograph to Lesley Ann Warren the added day. I’m activity to be alive with her in December,” Jay-Alexander says. “I sheepishly said, ‘I’m blubbering as I blazon this. I’ve been a fan for so long.’ I beggarly she’s Lesley Ann Warren and I’m not.”
Turning 65 in May, Jay-Alexander has accustomed up apartments in New York and West Hollywood, his primary abode actuality a abode in North Beach he bought in 1992.
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Captain JJ's Fish | captain jays near meLast summer, he abounding an display aperture at the Jewish Building on Washington Avenue and that led to the bearing of “A Conversation With ...,” blooming afterwards a accepted account alternation at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.
At the Jewish Building of Florida-FIU in July: Richard Jay-Alexander, building administrator Susan Gladstone, babysitter Jacqueline Goldstein and membership/programs administrator Nancy Doyle Cohen at the aperture of ‘Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road.’
MANNY HERNANDEZ Photo provided to the Miami Herald
“He jumped at the abstraction and Lee jumped at the abstraction and it was done,” building administrator Susan Gladstone said. “Next up will be Brett Ratner and Billy Corben in January. We additionally will accept Judy Blume, the author, with [WLRN’s] Alicia Zuckerman in the spring.”
Schrager — who additionally boasts a big personality — says he can’t delay to accompany Jay-Alexander at the museum.
“How would you call Richard? I consistently try to call Richard afore I acquaint him to accompany — so they’re prepared,” Schrager says. “He’s addition like me, who grew up modestly, had a dream and fabricated it on his own. Nobody gave him anything. It was all adamantine work. Forty years into his career and he doesn't accept to [now]. Richard works as adamantine as anyone.”
Jay-Alexander has a simple account for his ceaseless drive: “I still adulation it.”
“I’m 64 years old. And I’ve becoming opinions. I’m with Oprah back she says no affliction afterwards 60. But I’m not jaded. That is the adorableness of me. I’m not jaded. I’m absolutely not. I still adulation it. Whether you go to call and you’re artistic all day or you go to a amphitheater at night and the lights get dark, the possibilities are still endless.”
▪ What: “A Conversation with ... Richard Jay-Alexander & Lee Brian Schrager”
▪ Where: Jewish Building of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach
▪ When: 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday
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