FROM
BROADWAY
TO
BEETHOVEN
A Concert at St Malachy’s Church
(the Actors Chapel)
at 239 W. 49th St
Featuring
Fr. John Sheehan, SJ
With Woody Regan
on piano
7 pm
Monday
NOVEMBER 19th
Admission is free but reservations are required
Phone: (212) 606-3420
or email johnrsheehan@Yahoo.com
and leave your name and e-mail or a contact phone.
All reservations will be confirmed.
Please DON’T wait until the last minute to make reservations.
FATHER JOHN SHEEHAN, SJ
It’s a Singer! It’s an Actor! It’s a Priest!
It’s Father John!
He’s been singing and performing all his life, from his days as a boy soprano and a child model (born in New York, baptized in St. Patrick’s Cathedral) , through high school (in Princeton and Trenton, NJ, both on stage and in radio) and college. He was the recipient of one of the first three degrees in Theatre awarded by the University of Notre Dame, and after graduation came to New York, where he sang with the Light Opera of Manhattan, did dinner theatre tours and summer stock, and a season with Arena Stage in Washington. He also worked with a stunt-driving team, managed dinner theatres and catering services, and had a small public relations business. He joined Actor’s Equity as a stage manager, ran several dinner theatres and was in charge of publicity and front of house for Pittsburgh Public Theatre. He has done voice-overs, local commercials, and he was Cantorial Soloist in a Jewish Temple for 2 1/2 years.
Entering the Jesuits in 1980, he studied and worked in New York and London, did a year of Philosophy study in Dublin, and earned his theology degree in Toronto. He spent twelve years in Nigeria (West Africa) and almost three years in the South Pacific, in the Marshall Islands.
He studied with voice with Charles Reading (assistant to Giuseppe DeLuca), and song study with Pat Maloney (student of Lotte Lehman) and Elizabeth Hawes-Smith, head of the vocal department at the Royal College of Music in London. In Innsbruck, he sang with the Walter von der Vogelweide Kammerchor, and has done multiple solo concerts in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, London, Tokyo, Austin, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
He is a member of Actor’s Equity, Rotary, the Episcopal Actors Guild, the Mario Lanza Society, the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, the Lamb’s Club, and chaplain for the New York Alumni Club of the University of Notre Dame. He is on the staff of St. Malachy’s Church (the Actors’ Chapel) and he has three CD’s available. He cannot believe that God will let him die before he gets to be in a Broadway show.
WOODY REGAN
Woody Regan has been conductor or pianist for many well-known performers, including Elly Stone, Kaye Ballard, Liliane Montevecchi, Donnie Osmond and David Cassidy. In collaboration with Sam Shepard he created and played the piano score of Shepard's play When The World Was Green (A Chef's Fable" which opened The Signature Theater's Shepard Season at The New York Public Theater and The Singapore Festival for the Arts. In Moscow, Woody became the first American composer to perform his own work at The Moscow Art Theater. He also composed incidental scores for many plays, including A Taste of Honey (directed by Michael Mayer) and Marvin's Room at the Crossroads Theater.
