RED BANK: A NEVERENDING TALENT SHOW

Oct 19, 2015

The All Star Tour edition of America’s Got Talent LIVE! (above) takes it to the Count Basie stage Tuesday, and the Celtic songcraft of Loreena McKennitt (below) makes for an intimate evening’s entertainment this Thursday.

As the crowds who snatched up deeply discounted tickets during last week’s annual $10 sale could attest, there’s always a little something for everyone at the year-round talent show that is Red Bank’s Count Basie Theatre — and the coming nights are another study in entertaining eclecticism, as crowdpleasing contestants from a hit realiTV series share midweek space with a world-traveling storyteller, and the return of some pioneers in the art of political parody.

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October 19, 2015 - 12:00 pm |

CHOICE VOICES IN RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN

Apr 15, 2015

AMERICA’S GOT TALENT breakout sensation Jackie Evancho, left, makes her area debut at the Count Basie this Friday, while Gianna Salvato (of THE VOICE competition) joins kindie-rocker Miss Sherri for a show taping at the MAC on Saturday.

The greater Red Bank Green rolls out the red this weekend for a pair of young performers, each of whom made a nationwide impression on TV talent shows.

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April 15, 2015 - 9:00 am |

RED BANK: DANCER MOVES TO TV FINALS

Sep 4, 2014

Red Bank dance instructor Nick Mishoe, performing in the two-person Blue Journey, advanced to the finals of NBC’s ‘America’s Got Talent Wednesday night. Against a soundtrack of Radiohead’s “Exit Music (for a film)” and a watery visual projection, Mishoe and team closed in on a $1 million prize. With his wife Shayne, Mishoe owns Red Bank’s Academy of Dance Arts. (Click to enlarge)

September 4, 2014 - 6:20 am |

RED BANK: DANCER GETS NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT

Aug 29, 2014

Nick Mishoe dancing as a member of the two-person Blue Journey in the ‘America’s Got Talent’ quarterfinals earlier this month, and in his Red Bank studio, below. (Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

School may just be getting back in session, but the young dancing students of Red Bank’s Academy of Dance Arts will have a good excuse for staying up late on Wednesday night.

Their instructor, Nick Mishoe, is half of a dancing pair called Blue Journey that has made it to the semifinals of NBC’s ‘America’s Got Talent.’

For the uninitiated, AGT is “a giant talent show in which we’re competing against acrobats, magicians, jump-ropers, musical groups” and more for a grand prize of $1 million, Mishoe tells redbankgreen.

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August 29, 2014 - 5:00 pm |