James Barbour to Play Holiday Concert in New York and L.A.

Broadway’s James Barbour will bring a little yuletide joy to both coasts with his Holiday Concert 2009. The show, which features musical direction by Constantine Kitsopoulos and Peter Wolf, will play New York City at Bill’s 1890 Restaurant and Café from December 11 through December 19 and Los Angeles for one-night only at the Colony Theatre on December 21.

The evening will feature a musically inspired reading of Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “The Night Before Christmas.” The scholar/philanthropist wrote the piece for his nine children in 1822 while they lived at 57 East 54th Street, the building which now houses the Café.

Barbour’s most recent Broadway credit was playing Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities. His other Broadway credits include playing Billy Bigelow in Carousel, the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Edward Fairfax Rochester in Jane Eyre, Officer Lockstock in Urinetown and Leon Czolgosz in Assassins.

Both concerts are being produced by Treehouse Entertainment Inc. and Roberta Nusim for TMA (Theatrical Marketing Associates) and will feature special guest appearances by Broadway and Hollywood luminaries to be announced in the coming weeks.