325 Seats to History
Two Legends Reunite After Fifty Years — in a Room Small Enough to Feel It
These two men have played the biggest rooms on earth. Tony Orlando and Dawn made their very first live appearance at Carnegie Hall and went on to rule primetime television, Las Vegas showrooms, and arenas around the world. Randy Edelman’s music has opened Super Bowls, closed Olympic broadcasts, and thundered through movie theaters on every continent — The Last of the Mohicans, Gettysburg, Dragonheart, The Mask, My Cousin Vinny, Kindergarten Cop. Between them, they have reached audiences in the billions.
On Friday, July 24, 2026, at 8:00 PM, they will play for 325 people.
That is not a limitation. That is the whole point.
The Room Where It Happens
The Bellmore Movies & The Showplace is the oldest theater on Long Island — a lovingly preserved single-screen landmark just steps from the Long Island Rail Road, where generations of Long Islanders have fallen in love with storytelling. It is a room with no bad seats, no video screens needed, no distance to shout across. When Randy Edelman sits down at the piano, presented by Tony Orlando, every single person in the house will be close enough to see his hands.
Think about what that means. The fingers that wrote “Weekend in New England” for Barry Manilow. The hands behind melodies recorded by The Carpenters, Patti LaBelle, Olivia Newton-John, and Dionne Warwick, and film themes that have become the sound of American memory itself. Not projected on a jumbotron. Not filtered through an arena PA. Right there, a few rows away, in a theater older than almost every song in the setlist.
Fifty Years, Face to Face
And this is no ordinary concert. It is a reunion more than fifty years in the making. Edelman and Orlando’s story began in the early 1970s at CBS’s famed publishing house, April-Blackwood Music, where Orlando — the Brill Building prodigy turned music executive — was the man behind the desk, and Edelman was the young staff songwriter from Teaneck with a folder full of melodies. From that one office, two of the great American careers took flight in opposite directions: Orlando to “Candida,” “Knock Three Times,” “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” — the biggest-selling record of 1973 — five number-one hits, and a lifetime of service to America’s veterans; Edelman to international stardom as a singer-songwriter and a legendary run as one of Hollywood’s most beloved composers, with an Emmy for NBC’s Olympic music and the immortal MacGyver theme along the way.
For five decades, their paths never brought them back to the same stage. Now they finally converge — not in a stadium, not on an awards telecast, but in an intimate historic theater where the audience isn’t a crowd. It’s a living room. Stories will be told at conversational volume. Songs will land without amplified distance. And a half-century of history will unfold close enough to touch.
Stadium shows sell tickets. Nights like this sell out and become legend — the kind of evening people describe for years with the same five words: you had to be there.
Billions have heard their music. Only 325 will be in the room. Be one of them.
Randy Edelman & Tony Orlando — Reunited After 50 Years
Friday, July 24, 2026 • 8:00 PM
Bellmore Movies & The Showplace • Bellmore, New York — steps from the Long Island Rail Road
Tickets available via Eventbrite
Produced by JD Sarantakos, JD’s Productions • Supported by Paul’s Pianos 1115 Theodora St., Franklin Square, NY 11010
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