Lowenstein, who toured with his twin brother in the early two-thousands as part of the pop group Evan and Jaron, has lined up performers ranging from Jimmy Buffett to Jason Mraz to perform live concerts for limited, paying Internet audiences.
There is also a hefty concert lineup of more than 40 musical performers, ranging from Big Shot, a local Billy Joel tribute band, to the rock band Zebra.
Models and performers ranging from the incomparable Donna Jordan to Viva and Jackie Curtis shaved off their eyebrows and made urban, Deco-shiny masks of their sardonic faces.
The latter role overlaps with that other classic drag persona, the battle-axe, as modelled by performers ranging from Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) to Martin Lawrence in Big Momma's House (2000) and Tyler Perry's Madea character.
Based on the flood stories of six different cultures, it's quite a spectacle, with ballet, acrobatics and music, and performers ranging from Samburu tribespeople to the Arab Orchestra of Nazareth.
Today's release of the Haiti relief single, a not-so-great version of REM's "Everybody Hurts", features performers ranging from Susan Boyle via Mariah Carey and Paul McCartney to Take That, produced by pop svengali Simon Cowell at the behest of the Prime Minister.
With the exceptions of Penélope González in "Prelude to Night" and Charis Haines as Helen of Troy in "On Distant Shores" — to some degree, they instill their parts with raw nerve — the performers range from automatic to staid.
The marquee of the Harms center, which in recent years announced an eclectic slate of performers ranging from Tony Bennett to the children's act the Wiggles, has been blank for two months, proclaiming financial failure for the theater and uncertainty about this city's continued revival.
The ball has not been an annual event; rather it has returned in spurts over the years, filling venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin and Wembley Arena, and featuring performers ranging from comedians such as Steve Coogan, Vic Reeves, Fry and Laurie and French and Saunders, to musicians including Morrissey and Lou Reed.
