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BAY AREA CABARET PRESENTS ACCLAIMED BROADWAY STARS FALL 2005 MARIN MAZZIE & JASON DANIELEY IN OPPOSITE YOU OCT. 23 AT 5 PM DARIUS DE HAAS IN THE STEVIE WONDER SONGBOOK NOV. 20 KAREN MASON IN THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL DEC. 11
All Performances at Marines Memorial Club Tickets Now on Sale; Call 415/392-4400 or www.BayAreaCabaret.org
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 2005—Bay Area Cabaret launches its second anniversary season with three evenings of intimate musical programs, featuring a quartet of nationally acclaimed and multi- talented Broadway artists: the beloved husband and wife team of Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie, Oct. 23; Darius de Haas, Nov. 20; and Karen Mason, Dec. 11. Presented at the San Francisco Marines Memorial Club, 609 Sutter Street, all performances will begin at 5 p.m.
“What I enjoy about producing cabaret is the chance to present talented artists that we know from larger theater venues, and showcasing them in the intimacy of a smaller room,” commented Bay Area Cabaret Executive Producer Marilyn Levinson. “The 2005 series will offer artists who are both familiar and new in repertory that is rooted in the Broadway and popular music tradition. From Irving Berlin to Stevie Wonder, I assure you a remarkable musical journey.”
JASON DANIELEY & MARIN MAZZIE in Opposite You, Oct. 23 at 5 p.m.; tickets $55 “Broadway’s golden couple” (San Francisco Chronicle) returns to the Bay Area following their recent SF Symphony performances in Of Thee I Sing/Let ‘Em Eat Cake, for their local cabaret debut of Opposite You. Danieley and Mazzie created this cabaret show in 2002 for the Lincoln Center American Songbook Series and have since refined it and performed it at clubs across the nation, all to great reviews. Opposite You, which will be released on CD in early November, features duets, solos and medleys from Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens, among others. According to the New York Times, “the couple’s highly disciplined voices blend together beautifully” in Opposite You.
Ms. Mazzie garnered three Tony nominations for her Broadway performances of Kiss Me, Kate, Passion, and Ragtime. Mr. Danieley scored a Drama Desk nomination for Candide, directed by Harold Prince, and enjoyed critical praise for his leading roles in The Full Monty and Floyd Collins. In addition to several performances with the San Francisco Symphony including Candide, they have performed with the orchestras of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
DARIUS DE HAAS in The Stevie Wonder Songbook, Nov. 11 at 5 p.m.; tickets $45 In his San Francisco debut, Obie Award-winning singer, actor, and dancer Darius de Haas will bring his highly praised Stevie Wonder Songbook cabaret show. Filled with 19 beloved and immortal songs including “If It’s Magic,” “Where Were You,” “Signed, Sealed, Delivered,” “All in Love,” and “Ribbons in the Sky,” de Haas has twice performed this sold-out show at Lincoln Center. The New York Times wrote “Mr. De Haas elicited the same sense of awe produced by Mr. Wonder’s best records,” and TheatreMania.Com enthusiastically stated “He’s a charismatic, sexy entertainer and you can’t take your eyes off him.” - more - Bay Area Cabaret Launches Fall 2005 Season Pg. 2
Mr. de Haas made his Broadway debut in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and went on to be featured in various productions including Lincoln Center’s revival of Carousel, Rent and Marie Christine. He toured internationally in the world premiere of I Was Looking at the Ceiling… directed by Peter Sellars, and won the Obie Award in the title role of Off-Broadway’s Running Man. His voice has been heard on the film soundtracks of Anastasia, Martin & Orloff, and Chicago. Other credits include performances at Carnegie Hall, London’s Royal Festival Hall, Disney Hall in Los Angeles and concerts of composer Billy Strayhorn’s music.
KAREN MASON in The Winner Takes it All, Dec. 11 at 5 p.m.; tickets $45 Broadway star and cabaret singer Karen Mason will debut her latest musical show, The Winner Takes it All, which will include music from her soon-to-be-released (October 2005) CD, The Sweetest of Nights, in addition to some Christmas holiday favorites. A seven time MAC Award winner, Ms. Mason originated the role of Tanya on Broadway in the hit ABBA musical, Mamma Mia, for which she received a 2002 Drama Desk nomination.
Her extensive Broadway credits include the starring role of Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Play Me a Country Song, and Torch Song Trilogy. Her regional credits include White Christmas in St. Louis, Company in Boston, Heartbeats at the Goodspeed Opera House, and Side by Side by Sondheim at the Coconut Grove Playhouse.
Her headline acts range from Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Feinstein’s at the Regency, The Russian Tea Room, Rainbow and Stars, The Algonquin, the Cinegrill in Los Angeles, the Plush Room in San Francisco. This multiple award winning artist recently performed at the Kennedy Center and portrayed Dorothy Parker in You Might As Well Live at the Chicago Humanities Festival.
Bay Area Cabaret is a 501(c)(3) corporation whose purpose is to expand the audience for intimate popular musical entertainment before it dies or is lost to television, computers and video games. The company presents a range of extraordinary performers in a variety of venues. Last year’s Diva Evenings series featured Broadway diva Barbara Cook at Davies Symphony Hall, singer/songwriter and jazz diva Ann Hampton Callaway at the Marines Crystal Ballroom, and opera diva Karen Slack at Giorgio’s Restaurant in Marin.
Marilyn Levinson, Executive Producer, worked in New York for producers Arthur Cantor and Joseph Papp. For two years, she served as assistant to Yul Brynner on his final tour of The King and I. A graduate of Stanford Law School, she was Director of Business Affairs for Charles Duggan at the Marines Memorial Theatre and City Cabaret. At the City Cabaret, she presented Karen Mason and Emmett: A One-Mormon Show (a New York Shakespeare Festival production), and raised money for AIDS charities. Ms. Levinson has worked for ACT’s executive producer and for Beach Blanket Babylon’s creator, the late Steve Silver.
To order tickets to all three Bay Area Cabaret programs, telephone 415/392-4400, or in-person at Medium Rare Records at 2310 Market Street, San Francisco. All performances begin at 5 pm and are presented at the San Francisco Marines Memorial Club, 609 Sutter St. For additional information about the Fall 2005 Season, visit www.BayAreaCabaret.org. # # #
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