Written by HH
Here at HamletHub, we are saddened by the death of Amy Oestreicher who left this Earth too soon on April 7, 2021, a few days shy of her 34th birthday. Amy was born on April 10, 1987.
Amy was a talented writer and local creative who shared her health challenges in her powerful memoir
My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful. Two weeks before her senior prom, a blood clot caused Amy s stomach to explode. She almost died. She shared her trauma and life detour in her TEDx talk. Watch it here.
Amy lived. She lived boldly and for nearly two decades, inspired the world with her tenacity, positive energy and determination to get the most out of life.
Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for Huffington Post, speaker for TEDx and RAINN, health advocate, survivor, award-winning actress, and playwright, sharing the lessons learned from trauma through her writing, mixed media art, performance and inspirational speaking. As the creator of Gutless & Grateful, her BroadwayWorld-nominated one-woman autobiographical musical, she s toured theatres nationwide, along with a program combining mental health advocacy, sexual assault awareness and Broadway Theatre for college campuses and international conferences. Her original, full-length drama, Imprints, premiered at the NYC Producer s Club in May 2016, exploring how trauma affects the family as well as the individual. To celebrate her own “beautiful detour”, Amy created the #LoveMyDetour campaign, to help others cope in the face of unexpected events. Detourism is also the subject of her TEDx and upcoming book, My Beautiful Detour, available D
Audiobook Of Amy Oestreicher s MY BEAUTIFUL DETOUR Now Available
Oestreicher records over 40 characters in her unthinkable journey - plus a few surprise cameo appearances. by BWW News Desk
Audie-Award Nominated Author, Playwright, Actress and 4-time TEDx Speaker Amy Oestreicher has released an audiobook of Award-Winning Memoir, My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful, with an afterword written and narrated by Tony Award Winning Composer and Lyricist William Finn.
Following a run at the famed Feinstein s/54 Below, The Triad Theatre, United Solo Festival, Barrington Stage Company (Tony-Award winning William Finn s Cabaret Series) and a nationwide tour from Washington D.C. to Hawaii of her multi-award winning musical, Gutless & Grateful, performer, playwright and four-time TEDx speaker Amy Oestreicher was not supposed to be alive.
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Mark Winkler & David Benoit: Old Friends 2021
Collection of some of the duo s favorites songs by some of their favorite composers, as well as three original tunes. I ve Got Just About Everything, Sweet Kentucky Ham, Better Than Anything, The Shadow of Your Smile, Two for the Road, Old Friends / Bookends, When This Love Affair Is Over, I Think It s Going to Rain Today, In a Quiet Place (Kei s Song), I Wish I d Met You, Dragonfly, Thirty Years, Some Other Time.
The Story Pirates will release their fourth full-length album, The Strawberry Band, on April 9th, and DJ Squirm-a-Lot is throwing a huge party on Zoom the night before, which is Thursday, April 8th at 7 pm EST, 6 pm CST, 4 pm PST.
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Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein OLC 2021
Live recording made over several performances in the West End at the Garrick Theatre. Score by Mel Brooks ( Puttin on the Ritz by Irving Berlin). Cast includes Ross Noble, Lesley Joseph, Dianne Pilkington, Patrick Clancy. Overture, The Brain, Please Don t Touch Me, Together Again, Roll in the Hay, He Vas My Boyfriend, It Could Work, Hang Him Till He s Dead, The Experiment, He Vas My Boyfriend Reprise, Welcome to Transylvania, Transylvania Mania, He s Loose, Listen to Your Heart, Surprise, Someone, Puttin on the Ritz, Deep Love, Hang the Doctor, Deep Love Reprise and Finale, Finale - Together Again, The Bows, Exit Music. Mastered by Andy Water at Abbey Road Studios. Produced and mixed By Paul Gatehouse. Executive Produced By Mel Brooks and Kevin Salter. P