Arts & Entertainment
Jefferson Mays is part of Sands Point Preserve's Valentine's Night Cabaret
The evening is hosted by composer Steven Lutvak, in a 'Gentleman's Guide' reunion at Hempstead House Feb. 13.

Tony-winner Jefferson Mays is part of Sands Point Preserve’s Valentine’s Night Cabaret when original cast members from “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” perform songs from the Broadway hit on Feb. 13 at Hempstead House.
The versatile Mays – who plays eight different roles in the “Gentleman’s Guide – will join Broadway composer Steven Lutvak, along with Bryce Pinkham, Lisa O’Hare and Catherine Walker.
At this year’s cabaret, audience members will quickly see why Charles Isherwood of The New York Times dubbed Mays “dazzling” on stage.
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“Mr. Mays’s tour de force obviously is among the show’s principal charms,” Isherwood wrote. “His tasty caricatures of British archness and dottiness are spot on.”
The Yale-trained actor, who won the Tony for his role in “I Am My Own Wife” and was Tony-nominated for his performance in “A Gentleman’s Guide,” seems to have as much fun on stage as his fans in the audience. Starring in “A Gentleman’s Guide” is “deliriously fun,” Mays told the LA Times.
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The show, which ended its Broadway run on Jan. 17 and now enjoying a national tour, is enamoring audiences across the country.
And it’s easy to see why. Just ask Mays.
“The score is sublime—it really is,” Mays told The Observer. “It makes me sound like a Philistine saying this, but it’s music you can go out of the theater humming.”
General tickets for the Valentine’s Night Cabaret are priced at $125 and include 7 p.m. cocktails, buffet dinner catered by Philip Stone, concert and dessert with the artists. A limited number of VIP tickets, at $250, are available for a special 6 p.m. cocktail reception featuring an in-depth and interactive Q&A conversation with the cast – with questions encouraged from the guests – followed by dinner, concert and dessert.
To purchase tickets to cultural arts performances, visit www.TheSandsPointPreserve.org, call 516-304-5076, or visit the Gate House at 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point, NY, 11050, open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The 12-month membership pass is available online, at the Gate House, or by calling 516-571-7901.
Friends of the Sands Point Preserve is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization with the mission to protect and preserve the 216-acre waterfront grounds and historic mansions, and to provide a range of cultural arts events and educational programs for families and schools in the Phil Dejana Learning Center.