The Show may be called ONE NIGHT ONLY but we know its inimitable gregarious producer Michael Childers has been eating, sleeping, and thinking about it since the final curtain call of the last show a year ago.  It’s a major highlight in Palm Springs’s social calendar as it not only brings such a starry cast of Broadway performers to town. but it also raises much need funds to support Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, which is celebrating its 36th anniversary.

Childers has been a renowned and highly respected film, dance, and theater photographer for forty years.  He’s also a film director and producer and one of the last great queer raconteurs.  With his late partner the Academy Award winner John Scheslinger, Childers was very much part of Hollywood’s golden days but nowadays he is very much at the center of the contemporary cultural scene.

Over the years that Queerguru has had the pleasure/honor of being one of his friends, we are very much that he is the lynchpin in all the circles he travels in.  He’s like the ‘Kevin Bacon’ of Palm Springs, Provincetown, and of arts and culture that somehow links all the friends in his vast address book.

Tomorrow will be the star-studded 16th Edition of ONE NIGHT ONLY at Palm Springs MacCallum Theatre which with its theme New York New York that pays musical homage to the city that never sleeps 

Childers confided to QUEERGURU that when selecting this year’s theme, he decided not to dedicate the evening to the works of a single famous composer, such as Jerry Herman, or a noted writing team like Rodgers and Hammerstein, as he has in past shows. “I thought about how much I love New York and how the city has been through two years of hell,” he said “So, I decided to celebrate the joys of it and every great song written about New York City and Broadway and Tin Pan Alley and Harlem and the Brill Building and Brooklyn — and even Billy Joel’s ‘Uptown Girl.’ ”“‘

Directed by award-winning singer and director Scott Coulter, with musical direction by Todd Schroeder,  the cast includes Christine Andreas, Edmund Bagnell, Klea Blackhurst, Carole J. Bufford, Keith Carradine, Julie Garnyé, Alex Getlin, Debbie Gravitte, Sam Harris, Clint Holmes Alix Korey, Chris Mann, Lesli Margherita, Amanda McBroom, Sean McDermott, Anthony Murphy, Ken Page, Teri Ralston, Lee Roy Reams, Gary Shaw, Seth Sikes, Billy Stritch, Karen Ziemba and Nickerson-Rossi Dance.

P.S. Over the past 16 years, ONO has netted more than $4 million to help support numerous nonprofits in the Coachella Valley.