Billboard By The Year: 1988
October 5, 2018
Slap on your leg warmers, grab your Walkman, and rollerblade on down to Feinstein’s/54 Below for a totally radical look back at the greatest songs that made the Billboard charts in the awesome year of 1988.
While Bush and Dukakis duked it out for the White House, and Dustin Hoffman was definitely, definitely going to win the Oscar, boomboxes were blasting the sounds of George Michael, Guns N’Roses, Whitney Houston, and Poison.
For one night only, Feinstein’s/54 Below is going back thirty years to celebrate the music and legends who gave the world one of the most exciting years in music and solidified their place on the Billboard Charts.
Audiences will jam out to “The Way You Make Me Feel,” “Faith,” “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn,” “Don’t Worry Be Happy,” and “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
Featuring:
Joseph Allen (Sweet Charity, Hair)
Gilbert Bailey (A Bronx Tale, The Book of Mormon)
LaDonna Burns (Follies, Eubie)
Philip Casnoff (Chess, Sinatra)
Claybourne Elder (Bonnie & Clyde, Torch Song)
Will Hutcheson (Ballroom, Woman of the Year)
Aaron Jackson (Comedy Central’s “The Opposition With Jordan Klapper”)
Travis Kent (Next to Normal, Disaster)
Erin Lamar (Bring It On, Sousatzka)
Tyler Lenhart (A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder)
Charlotte Maltby (The Sound of Music, The Secret Garden)
Doreen Montalvo (On Your Feet, In The Heights)
Julia Murney (The Wild Party, Wicked)
Jonathan Savage (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Kiss Me, Kate)
Dana Schaaf (Merry Go Round Playhouse, Celebrity Cruise Lines)
Daniel Schwartzberg (West Side Story, Newsies)
Talia Suskauer (Be More Chill, We Will Rock You)
Ryan Vona (Paramour, Once)
Also Featuring:
Thomas Doelger (A Chorus Line, Titanic)
Alexandra Frost (She Loves Me, Drowsy Chaperone)
Nina Landazabal (Nine, We Will Rock You)
Ian Shain (Peter Pan, Grease)
Sarah Warrick (Kristen Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway, Sweetwater)
Hosted by Rob Maitner
Produced and Directed by Robert W. Schneider
Music Directed by Luke Williams