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| Marianne Challis In NYC On November 15th and 17th 2006 vocalist Marianne Challis will be performing "Confessions of a Middle Aged Party Girl- Time to Start Livin" directed by Scott Barnes at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City. Challis will be joined on stage by the world class ensemble of Christopher Marlowe (piano & musical director) & Dick Sarpola (Bass). Marianne Challis has reentered the performing field with a bang! Critics having seen her last show, 'Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me ... continuing confessions of a middle-aged party girl, " have hailed her as a "performer of style and substance", "in full command of her craft and always in clarion voice." In a packed performance year, she has delighted crowds at the elegant Royal Room in Palm Beach, as well as playing to sold out houses at Playhouse on the Green in Bridgeport, Ct. and at Piccolo's in Westfield, Mass. Her regular home in New York City has become Danny's Skylight Room, and she has recorded her first full-length CD, "Confessions of a Middle Aged Party Girl" performed live at Manhattan Beach Recording Studio in January and due for release in November. Audiences across the country are discovering the "every-woman" quality of her approach: as if your next door neighbor could sing from the depth of her soul, or share the mundane challenges that face the baby-boomer generation as they careen toward fifty. Paired with superb pianist and arranger, Christopher Marlowe, Marianne has a musical partner willing to explore the emotional depths of such great writers as Mercer, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Sondheim, and Monk. Before you regain your bearings, however, she will deftly bring you to tears of laughter with her own brand of satirical story-telling and "off-the-cuff eye for the absurd." Her "prior performance life" was diverse: starring at New York City Opera in South Pacific, Carnegie Hall's "Sondheim: A Musical Salute" and the famed Goodspeed Opera House. She performed leading roles at regional theaters throughout the country as well as touring nationally with the Broadway show, "Side by Side by Sondheim." write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |