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From: Williams, Albert ([email protected]) To: [email protected]; Date: Fri, January 27, 2012 3:47:02 PM Cc: Subject: RE: Event announcement for Chicago Theatre Review: Feb. 4 Cabaret Show Salutes Musical Theatre Star Betty Garrett and Supports Scholarship in her Name at Columbia College
Thanks! If you could let me know when it goes up I will link it on our Facebook event page - http://www.facebook,com/groups /chitheatresymposium/#!/events/282853268443131/
Here I go again, another benefit... Oy!
Bill
From: [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:40 PM To: Williams, Albert Subject: Re: Event announcement for Chicago Theatre Review: Feb. 4 Cabaret Show Salutes Musical Theatre Star Betty Garrett and Supports Scholarship in her Name at Columbia College
I will definetly post it
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— Reply message — From: "Williams, Albert"
Hi Gayle -
Hope all is well. Please consider the following info for posting in Chicago Theatre Review -- an event I'm helping organize that takes place Feb. 4
Attached are pictures of Betty Garrett as well as a headshot of guest artist Beckie Menzie.
Thanks --
Love, Bill
"AN EVENING OF CABARET" SALUTES BETTY GARRETT AND SUPPORTS MUSICAL THEATRE SCHOLARSHIP IN HER HONOR AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
Columbia College Chicago hosts "An Evening of Cabaret: Journeys and New Beginnings," featuring veteran and emerging Chicago-area cabaret artists. The event will raise funds for the Betty Garrett Musical Theatre Scholarship at Columbia College. The performance will be cohosted by Allen Turner, Chairman of the Board of Columbia College Chicago, and acclaimed Chicago cabaret artist Beckie Menzie. Other performers include Columbia College Musical Theatre Program faculty Paul Amandes, Ashton Byrum, Sharon Carlson, Stephanie Shaw, and Andra Velis Simon; alumni Alex Newkirk and Kate Schwarz; and students Rebecca Bradford, Nathan Cooper, Susanna Corrington, Allyson Graves, Jared Grant, and Gabby
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The Betty Garrett Musical Theatre Scholarship is named in honor of actress-singer-dancer-teacher Betty Garrett, who passed away last February 12 at the age of 91. The scholarship was established with funds raised from a 1998 appearance Ms. Garrett made at the Getz Theatre of Columbia College Chicago's Theatre Department. Since the Scholarship was established in 2000, it has awarded some $21,000 to MubiLdi TiiedLfe Mdjutb dl Cuiumuid Cuiieye. Mure iiifumidliun un the MJiuidtbhip ib dvdiidbie dl http://www.colum.edu/scholarships.
In a distinguished career spanning 60 years, Betty Garrett starred in classic Broadway and Hollywood musicals as well as numerous regional theatre productions and TV shows. Her Broadway credits include the original production of "Bells Are Ringing," in which she co-starred with her husband, Oscar-nominated actor Larry Parks; the Cole Porter musical "Something for the Boys," in which she co-starred with Ethel Merman; the Harold Rome revue "Call Me Mister"; the 1989 stage version of "Meet Me in St. Louis"; and the 2003 Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies," in which she sang "Broadway Baby." In 1962, she co-founded Theatre West, the oldest continually operating theatre company in Los Angeles. Her screen credits include "On the Town," co-starring and co-directed by Gene Kelly, in which she seductively (and comically) lured co-star Frank Sinatra to "Come Up to My Place"; "Words and Music" with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland; 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game," directed by Busby Berkeley and co-starring Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, and Gene Kelly; "Neptune's Daughter," in which she introduced the Oscar-winning song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with co-star Red Skelton; and "My Sister Eileen," in which she co-starred with Jack Lemmon, Janet Leigh, and Bob Fosse (who also choreographed). On TV, she had recurring roles in the series "All in the Family" and "Laverne & Shirley" (for which she won a Golden Globe Award) and also guest-starred on such hit shows as "The Fugitive," "Murder, She Wrote," "Becker," "Boston Public," and "Grey's Anatomy." She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003.
In addition to her work as a performer, Ms. Garrett - inspired by her own youthful work with such teachers as Martha Graham, Sanford Meisner, Lehman Engel, and Margaret Webster - was a dedicated teacher devoted to nurturing young talent. The Betty Garrett Musical Theatre Scholarship at Columbia College Chicago honors her generous spirit and her devotion to teaching as well as her achievement in musical theatre.
Guest artist Beckie Menzie (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=693238398) is a three-time winner of Chicago's After Dark award for "Outstanding Cabaret Artist." She has appeared at some of the nation's top stages including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Town Hall in New York and Chicago's Auditorium Theatre and Park West; she has also been a featured artist at numerous Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Conventions, as well as the ASCAP & Chicago Humanities Festival concerts. In addition to performing, Beckie teaches for Northwestern University's Musical Theatre Department and sits on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Cabaret Professionals. In the Fall 2011 Semester, she guest-taught in the Musical Theatre Program at Columbia College Chicago.
As we approach the first anniversary of Betty Garrett's passing, we salute Ms. Garrett with a cabaret showcase of emerging and established talents, including several recipients of the Betty Garrett Musical Theatre Scholarship. Please join us!
Reservations: http://tickets.colum.edu/tickets/reserve.aspx7performanceNumber=4274 or 312-369-8330.
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