Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their audience along for a fantastic ride.
David Sabella will be a featured guest on “If These Walls Could Talk” with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 2 PM ET live from the infamous Pangea Restaurant.
Wendy Stuart is an author, celebrity interviewer, model, filmmaker and along with If These Walls Could Talk she hosts TriVersity Talk, a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community.
Tym Moss is a popular NYC singer, actor, and radio/tv host who recently starred in the hit indie film “JUNK” to critical acclaim.
DAVID SABELLA, Broadway’s original “Mary Sunshine” in the musical CHICAGO (1996) is also an internationally recognized singer and winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, whom Luciano himself declared to be “Excellent, not good, excellent!” Sabella is cited, along with colleagues David Daniels, Brian Asawa, and Mark Crayton as one of the originators of the “American countertenor sound,” and remains the only one working in the popular music genres of Broadway, Pop, and Great American Songbook.
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David Sabella began his professional performance career as a member of the now legendary all-male opera comedy troupe “La Gran Scena,” conceived by and starring Ira Siff. La Gran Scena was to opera what Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was to ballet, spoofing all the great early and mid-century opera divas and great operatic scenes. During his time with the troupe, Sabella was the inimitable “Mirella Frenzi” and sang arias/roles including Aida, Butterfly, Lakme, Semiramide, Sofie, and Adrianna Lecouvreur.
His 4+octave range also landed him opportunities in voice-over work for both Disney (“Teacher’s Pet” with Nathan Lane), and Fox Animation (“Peter Pan and the Pirates” with Tim Curry) where he played the evil villainess “Frau Brumhilde Broomhandle” (YouTube Video of this cartoon here -> https://youtu.be/nIWzJD1c9so)
In 1995 Sabella made history winning the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition when Maestro Pavarotti, so moved by Sabella’s performance, stopped him before the end of his audition to publicly declare “I don’t have to hear to the end. This is excellent! Not good, excellent!” This highest praise from the “King of the High C’s” propelled Sabella into an international career, singing roles like Julio Cesare, Oberon (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Ottone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), and Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), as well as appearing at both Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall as a principle soloist on numerous occasions, including PDQ Bach’s “Three Bargain-Counter Tenors.”
On Broadway, Sabella originated the starring role of “Mary Sunshine” in the 1996 revival of CHICAGO with Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking, and Joel Grey. He remained in that show for the better part of ten years, both on Broadway and on the national tour (Las Vegas), and performed with a host of celebrities including Chita Rivera, Hall Linden, Melanie Griffith, Patrick Swayze, Linda Carter and Marilu Henner, just to name a few.
Sabella is also known as a highly sought-after vocal coach and “Singing Voice Specialist” (SVS), working with medical teams to assist and retrain recovering singers after injury, illness, or surgery. His highly seminal research on the “High Contemporary Belt” was published as part of the 52nd Conference of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and lead to him being featured in “So You Want to Sing CCM,” a textbook profiling 12 international teachers, credited with creating a new Contemporary Commercial Music pedagogy. Sabella is also the author (with Sue Matsuki) of “So You Want to Sing Cabaret,” (2020, Rowman & Littlefield), the unequivocable urtext on the subject of small venue solo vocal performance.
Most recently, Sabella has performed in concert venues throughout the country including Jazz at Lincoln Center (Rose Hall), Feinstein’s/54 Below, Birdland Theater, Laurie Beechman Theatre, Urban Stages, Pangea, Judy’s Chelsea and Don’t Tell Mama. Since 2015 he has also starred Off-Broadway in Jules: The Julian Eltinge Story, and The Phillie Trilogy, for which he won the Fresh Fruit Festival award for “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play.” He is also the 2022 MAC Award winner for “Major Male Artist,” and is currently a nominee for the 2023 MAC Award for “Major Artist.” (April 4, 2023)
David Sabella’s personal caricature was unveiled (June 1998) and hangs in the world-famous theater restaurant, Sardi’s. And, in addition to press quotes included in this release, he has been featured in national magazines such as Opera News, In Theater, Entertainment Weekly, A&U (Cover), OUT, Next, and most recently Gay Parent (June 2021).
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