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CABARET EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
CABARET EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
MINNEAPOLIS, MN: TCCAN'S FIRST EVER CABARET FEST! ANNOUNCED - OCTOBER 1st & 2nd
Save the Date (and get your tickets now!) for the first ever "Cabaret Fest!" presented by TCCAN - The Twin Cities Cabaret Artists Network on Saturday & Sunday, October 1st & 2nd at THE PHOENIX THEATER (2605 Hennepin Avenue. S, Minneapolis, MN)! This event has three components, and audience/ community is welcome at one or all! You don't want to miss this action packed weekend devoted to the art of cabaret!SPOTLIGHT - Saturday, October 1st, 5:00 to 9:30 pm: See Cabaret in Action! TCCAN Members will each be performing 10-minute sets of songs and stories. If you've attended their Cabaret Salons at the Town House Bar in St. Paul, consider this our Salon-a-thon! We're expecting 20+ TCCAN Members to perform. They invite you to enjoy the full roster or come and go as you like! Featrued are two fabulous accompanists throughout the evening: Andrew Walker and Raymond Berg.
BEHIND THE SCENES - Sunday, October 2nd, 2:00 to 5:00 pm: Catch a sneak peek at the preparation and development of Cabaret via a "Cabaret Back to Basics Workshop" presented by TCCAN Members Dorothy Doring, Erin Duffy, and Rhonda Laurie. Then listen and learn as Guest Teaching Artists (and local cabaret aficionados) Ben Krywosz, Melissa Hart, and Andrew Cooke provide their perspectives on cabaret in the Twin Cities and work with selected TCCAN Members on song interpretation and patter development.
SOIREE - Sunday, October 2nd, 5:00 to 6:00 pm: A key tenet of TCCAN is to foster a supportive community of cabaret artists and friends! Join them for an informal social opportunity, meet Members of TCCAN, enjoy refreshments, and hobnob after the "Behind the Scenes" workshop.
Tickets: $25 for the whole weekend; $15 for a day pass (either Saturday or Sunday). Available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2590339
CHICAGO: CCP SETS DATE FOR 18th ANNIVERSARY GALA - OCTOBER 16th
FEATURED CABARET ORGANIZATION EVENT
FEATURED CABARET ORGANIZATION EVENT
CCP (Chicago Cabaret Professionals)has announced that the Chicago Cabaret Professionals' 18th Anniversary Gala "Sentimental Journeys" will be held on Sunday, October 16th at 7:00 pm at THE PARK WEST (322 West Armitage, Chicago, IL - TKTS: 312-559-1212 - http://www.ticketmaster.com/). Chicago cabaret veteran Joan Curto and Tony Award-winning actor, and former Chicagoan, Christine Ebersole will be honored during the gala. Curto will receive the Gold Coast Award and Ebersole the Lifetime Achievement Award. Detailed plans for the show, which casts a welcome spotlight on Chicago's ever-growing cabaret community, are in progress. Information will be posted as it becomes available. Tickets go on sale in August. Stay tuned! More information at http://www.chicagocabaret.org .
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NYC: THE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION LAUNCHES ITS FOURTH DECADE OF SONG & SPLENDOR AS SEVENTY DIVERSE PERFORMERS HERALD SONDHEIM, STROUSE, HARNICK, SYMS, ET AL - OCTOBER 18-21
FEATURED CABARET ORGANIZATION EVENT
FEATURED CABARET ORGANIZATION EVENT
The Cabaret Convention of THE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION will take place October 18th through 21st at ROSE THEATER AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER (Columbus Circle, Broadway at 60th Street, NYC). The event has become a much anticipated, much acclaimed annual highlight of New York's autumn music season. This year, however, the four-performance concert series observes two especially noteworthy achievements. In addition to celebrating its twenty-seventh convention presentation, the Foundation simultaneously heralds the onset of its fourth decade of operation. Against wildly fluctuating public preferences in music, entertainment, and entertainers, The Mabel Mercer Foundation now has endured for more than thirty years • and flourished in its absolute commitment to the classic, "Great Popular Songbook," past, present and future. Commemorating that achievement, the 2016 Cabaret Convention presents four different music programs. More than seventy singers are scheduled to appear, and the productions include specific tributes to the songs of Stephen Sondheim, the lyrics of Sheldon Harnick, the melodies of Charles Strouse, and the repertoire of legendary jazz artist Sylvia Syms. Each evening boasts its own host(s), and the preeminent emcees include Klea Blackhurst, Jeff Harnar, Andrea Marcovicci, Rex Reed, and KT Sullivan; the latter also is the artistic director of The Mabel Mercer Foundation. Presale advance tickets now are available ONLY through The Mabel Mercer Foundation: 212-980-3026 or info@mabelmercer.org . Prices are $100, $50, and $25, and Premium Patron Seating is also available @ $500 ($350 of which is tax-deductible). Those holding Patron Seating tickets are invited to a post-show cocktail reception with the evening's artists; Patron Seating is limited to fifty seats per performance. For further information about the twenty-seventh Cabaret Convention, please visit: http://www.mabelmercer.orgcopyright 2016 - See cabaret listings from all over the world at CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
"Another Kind of Light", Raissa Katona Bennett's latest CD is available now - perfect for relaxed listening and a great gift for any time of year that keeps giving joy and pleasure all year round! It's a pop-contemporary spin on several well known standards, combined with new songs, a mix of jazz, pop, and theatre, that intelligently explore the human condition and strike a universal chord. On this CD, three songs were written expressly for Raissa - two by Michael John LaChiusa: "Torch Song for Raissa" and "Bye, Bye, Ingenue", and onw by David Caldwell: "i carry your heart". Two other songs received their first commercial recording here: Ron Abel and Chuck Steffan's "Waiting for a Westbound Train," and "How Could I Not?" is from the David Spencer/cAlan Menken musical, THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ. On Broadway: Raissa was "Christine Daae" in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, and performed in CHESS, as a benefit for the Actor's Fund. First National Tours: "Jellylorum/Griddlebone" and "Jennyanydots" in CATS, and as "Lizzie Phagan" in PARADE, where she worked with the original creative team of director Harold Prince, choreographer Patricia Birch, author Alfred Uhry, and composer Jason Robert Brown. In NYC, Raissa has headlined at: Feinstein's, Metropolitan Room, Iridium and The Laurie Beechman Theatre. She has guest starred at: The Supper Club, Rainbow Room, 88's, Don't Tell Mama, Chita's, The Algonquin, and Radio City Music Hall. She has soloed with many symphony orchestras and was guest soloist at the estate of the legendary Cal Ripken, Jr. She was featured at the Lincoln Center Barnes and Noble in their Any Wednesday series, performing selections from her CD, What I Was Dreaming Of. Her newest CD, Another Kind of Light, was released through LML Music, August, 2012, and can be purchased there or on Amazon and iTunes. For details and to order, 
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