FROM BROADWAY TO GOD

...How did someone who started out as a singer and an actor end

up as a Jesuit priest?

In a series of songs and stories,

Fr. John Sheehan, SJ traces the road that took him.....

From Broadway            to God

    Featuring

Fr. John Sheehan, SJ

With Woody Regan

 on piano

Wednesday, November 4

7 PM

Holy Name of Jesus Church

Our Lady of the Angels Chapel

207 West 96^th St – Between Broadway & Amsterdam

No Admission

BUT

A collection will be taken up for

The Xavier Society of the Blind

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, Orlando, South Bend, Chicago and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Presently he is Chairman of the Xavier Society for the Blind and assists at St. Malachy’s Church (the Actors’ Chapel). He is chaplain for the New York Athletic Club, American Legion Post 1870 and the Notre Dame Club of New York.  He is a member of  Actor’s Equity, the Episcopal Actors Guild, the Blue Hill Troupe, the Mario Lanza Society, the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, the Lamb’s Club, and the Cornell Club. He has three CD’s available at www.lulu.com, and 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.