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He may have hung up his Kinky Boots heels, but Tony and Grammy winner Billy Porter is making his return to Broadway this season in Shuffle Along. This is your chance for you and a guest dine with this multi-talented star at the renowned theatre hot spot Chez Josephine. Enjoy your meal and get candid as you and Billy discuss his career, future projects and anything in-between! 

This Package Includes:

- A dinner for you and a guest at Chez Josephine with Billy Porter

About the Star:

Billy Porter is a Tony® and GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, composer, actor, playwright and director from Pittsburgh, PA. As a recording artist, Porter’s solo albums include his first CD, Untitled, on A&M records and his sophomore album, At the Corner of Broadway + Soul – LIVE, on Sh-K-Boom Records.

Billy’s Back on Broadway, Porter’s highly anticipated debut on Concord Records, is scheduled for release April 15, 2014. Featuring ten classics made famous on the Great White Way that focus on inspiration, empowerment and hope, the album’s title is a nod to Sammy Davis, Jr.’s recording Sammy’s Back on Broadway.

Along with his Tony winning performance in Kinky Boots, his other Broadway acting credits include Miss Saigon, Five Guys Named Moe, Grease (all original cast), Smokey Joe’s Café and Dreamgirls (20th Anniversary Broadway Concert and LA Ovation Award). Off Broadway and regional credits include Angels in America (Signature Theater), Romance in Hard Times, The Merchant of Venice, House of Lear and Radiant Baby (The New York Shakespeare Festival), Birdie Blue (Second Stage), Angels in America (Actors Theatre Of Louisville), Going Native (The Long Wharf), Jelly’s Last Jam (Alliance), Topdog/Underdog (City Theatre), King Lear (Exit, Pursued by a Bear), Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World (original cast), Jesus Christ Superstar, Antigone, A Chorus Line and Chicago. His one-man show, Ghetto Superstar: The Man That I Am, debuted at The Public Theater in NYC in conjunction with City Theatre of Pittsburgh and was nominated for a 2005 GLAAD Media Award. Porter was also named “Pittsburgh’s Performer of the Year 2003-2004” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

About the Restaurant:

Paris, 1930. Walk through the doors of Chez Josephine and you are transported to another country, another time. Named after the incomparable singer Josephine Baker, this romantic, red-velvet dining room is ideal for late-night, post-show dining with its lively scene and reinterpretations of bistro benchmarks. The jazz-age spirit of the place imbues every aspect of the experience.

Item Special Note

Courtesy of Chez Josephine, Billy Porter, and Annette Pfister

PLEASE NOTE:

- All dates subject to availability, and based on a mutually agreeable date.

- Package expires 11/2/2016.

- Gratuity is not included 

Disclaimer:
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