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Sally Fingerett Resume 2020 SALLY FINGERETT RESUME (as of 2020) TOURING HISTORY OF STAGED MUSICAL REVUES SOLO 2017-Present “The Mental Yentl, Songs and Stories from a Lifelong Student of Crazy” WITH THE 4 BITCHIN’ BABES 2015- Present “Hormonal Imbalance V2.5, Babes’ 25th Anniversary Revue“ 2012- 2015 “Mid Life Vices…A Guilt Free Musical Revue’ 2008-2012 “Diva Nation…Where Music Laughter and Girlfriends Reign” 2004-2008 “Hormonal Imbalance…A Mood Swinging Musical Revue” 2002-2004 “Some Assembly Required...More Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” 2000-2002 “The Babes, Beyond Bitchin” 1997-2000 “Gabby Road, Outta The Mouths Of Babes” 1995-1997 “Fax It, Charge It, Don’t Ask Me What’s for Dinner...More Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” 1990-1995 “Buy Me, Bring Me, Take Me, Don’t Mess My Hair, Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” CDs I and II AS AN ACTRESS NON MUSICAL 2001 8 shows with The National Touring Company of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Regional guest celebrity at the Wexner Center OSU, Col. OH. RADIO AND TV APPEARANCES (a sampling) Songs at the Center, PBS National Syndication What’dya Know with Michael Feldman, NPR Synd The World Café, NPR Synd. Mountain Stage, NPR Synd. The Maxwell House Sessions, CMJ Synd. The Mental Yentl Radio Hour, XM/Sirius Sonya Friedman Live, CNN Circles In The Stream, WUMB Boston D'Art Profile, WOSU-TV Columbus, OH Folk Stage, WFMT for XM Radio The World According to US, WGBH & Lifetime Sunday Morning CBS with Charles Osgood Lifelines Live - Peter, Paul, & Mary PBS National DISCOGRAPHY SOLO “Enclosed” Amerisound 1983 “Unraveled” Amerisound 1990 “Ghost Town Girl” Amerisound 1995 “My Good Company” Shanachie Entertainment 1998 “A Woman’s Gotta Do Her Thing” Shanachie Entertainment 2004 “The Mental Yentl, Songs from a Lifelong Student of Crazy” Green Fingers Music & Press 2015 DISCOGRAPHY W/ THE FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES “Buy Me, Bring Me, Take Me, Don’t Mess My Hair, Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” Vol. 1 Rounder Records, 1990 “Buy Me, Bring Me, Take Me, Don’t Mess My Hair, Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” Vol. 2 Rounder Records, 1993 “Fax It, Charge It, Don’t Ask Me What’s for Dinner, More Life According to FBBs” Shanachie Entertainment, 1995 “Gabby Road, Outta The Mouths Of Babes” Shanachie Entertainment, 1997 “The Babes, Beyond Bitchin” Shanachie Entertainment, 2000 “Some Assembly Required...More Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” Shanachie Ent., 2002 “Hormonal Imbalance, a Mood Swinging Musical Revue” Hem & Haw Productions, 2006 “Diva Nation, Where Music Laughter and Girlfriends Reign” Hem & Haw Productions,2009 “Mid Life Vice, A Guilt Free Musical Revue” Hem and Haw Productions, 2012 SONGS INCLUDED ON COMPILATIONA CD PROJECTS “On A Winter’s Night” Rounder Records w/ Judy Collins, Shawn Colvin, Cheryl Wheeler &more “One Meatball” a tribute to Dave Van Ronk, w/ Jeff Daniels, Tom Paxton, & more “When October Goes” Rounder Records w/ Julie Gold, Cliff Eberhardt, John Gorka & more “Follow That Road” Rounder Records w/ Kate Taylor, Ellis Paul, Susan Werner & more “Where Are My Headphones” w/ Richard Thompson, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, & more “Laugh Tracks” Shanachie w/ Peter and Lou Berryman, Dave Van Ronk & more “Big League Babe” Chistine Lavin Tribute w/ Dar Williams, Andy Breckman & more “Sounds for the Soul” the New Jersey Project w/ Bruce Springstein, Tom Waits, & more “Celebrate Jewish Love Songs” Craig&Co w/ Klezmatics, Soulfarm, Rick Recht & more “The World Is A Narrow Bridge” Craig&Co w/ Debbi Friedman Neshama Carlebach & more “The Heart of the Matter” AIDS Benefit w/ Tuck and Patty, Betty, David Wilcox & more “Women of Kerrville” Silverwolf w/ Karen Taylor Good, Burns Sisters & more “Just One Angel” Yellowtail Records, Jeff Daniels, Janis Ian, Lori Lieberman & more “In My Room” DC Anderson Benefit MS, w/ Mike Reid, Victoria Shaw, & more “Best of American Indie Music” Music Match w/ Tom Kimmel, Jimmy Landry & more PUBLISHED COMPOSED WORKS IN SHEET MUSIC BOOKS CONTEMPORARY CABARET SONGBOOK, Hal Leonard Pub. With Stephan Sondheim, Fred Ebb, John Kander, Tony Bennet, Liza Minelli THE FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES SONGBOOK, Hal Leonard Pub. With Julie Gold, Christine Lavin, Megon McDonough FOLLOW THAT ROAD SONGBOOK, Hal Leonard Pub. With Tom Paxton, Jonathan Edwards, Buddy Mondlock (Sally’s I Wanna Go Home) THE BOTTOM LINE 20TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION, Hal Leonard Pub. With Kris Kristofferson, Janis Ian, Rosanne Cash, Suzanne Vega TZEDEK TIRDOF, THE SOCIAL ACTION SONGBOOK, Transcontinental URJ Books With Craig Taubman, Doug Colter, Doug Mishkin, Noam Katz PUBLISHED WORKS (PROSE & HUMOR) LIFE’S A STITCH Random House, with such writers as: w/Erma Bombeck, Molly Ivans, Gloria Steinem, Wendy Wasserstein, Cathy Guiswaite NOT YOUR MOTHER’S BOOK, ON HOME IMPROVEMENT Publishing Syndicate COLUMBUS MONTHLY “The Days of Wine and Girl Talk” Sept. 2001 “Turkey, Tableware and a Grand Entrance” Nov. 2001 “Snow Time to Slow Down” March 2002 “Starry, Starry Night” June 2002 “Bag o’ Taxes, Cup o’ Joe” April 2003 THE MENTAL YENTL, STORIES FROM A LIFELONG STUDENT OF CRAZY, Green Fingers Music and Press, LLC 2015 SAMPLING OF ENGAGEMENTS (Gigs, not proposals of marriage! Solo and/or with the Four Bitchin’ Babes) Jewish Music and Heritage Fest, NY City Merlefest, Wilkesboro, NC Music in the Mountains, Steamboat, CO Wadsworth Theatre, UCLA, CA Strings in the Mountains, Grass Valley, CA Clark Center, Arroyo Grande, CA Kerrville Folk Fest, TX Great American Music Hall, San Fran, CA Philadelphia Folk Festival, PA The California Center PAC, Escondido, CA Vancouver Folk Fest, BC Canada Carpenter Performing Arts, Long Beach, CA Carnegie Hall, NYC The Bankhead Theatre, Livermore, CA The Bottom Line, NYC Taylor Meade Perform Arts, Stockton, CA Lincoln Center Out Of Doors, NYC Mystic Theatre, Petaluma, CA BB Kings, NYC Frieght and Salvage, Berkeley, CA The Egg, Albany, NY Cascade Theatre, Redding, CA Landmark on Main, Port Washington, NY Firehouse Arts Center, Pleasanton, CA Chicago Folk Fest at Ravinia, IL Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA Greater Chicago Jewish Folk Arts, IL The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA Williamson Theatre, Staten Island, NY The Barns at Wolftrap, Vienna, VA Munson Williams Proctor Inst. Utica, NY The Pavillion Theatre, Norfolk, VA Earville Opera House, Earlville, NY Court Square Theatre, Harrisonburg, VA Center for the Arts, Homer, NY Theatre at Limekiln, Lexington, VA Smith Opera House, Geneva, NY Franklin Park, PAC, Princeville, VA Emelin Theatre, Mamaronek, NY Whittman Auditorium, Roanoke, VA Lisner Auditorium, Washington DC Black Friars Playhouse, Staunton, VA Kennedy Center Carl Reiner Tribute, DC The Old Town School, Chicago, IL Winnipeg Folk Fest, Manitoba, CN Krannert Center, Champaign, IL Edmonton Folk Fest, Alberta, CN Centre East, Skokie, IL Greatwoods Folk Fest, Mansfield, MA Fermilab, Batavia, IL Alaskan Bald Eagle Fest, Haines, AK Space, Evanston, IL Three Rivers Arts Fest, Pittsburgh, PA Sangamon Aud. Springfield, IL Summer Fest, Milwaukee, WI Arcada Theatre, St. Charles, IL Greater Columbus Arts Fest, OH Castle Theatre, Bloomington, IL Waterville Valley Music Fest, NH Norris Cultural Arts Center, St. Charles, IL South Florida Folk Fest, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Dunham Theatre, Edwardsville, IL Arts On The Green, Coeur D'Alene, ID Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, IL Albany Monteith River Park, Albany, OR Moraine Valley, Palos Hills, IL The Seattle Zoo, WA Coll of Du Page, Glen Ellyn, IL Coll of Lake County, Grays Lake, IL Broward Center PA, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Freedom Hall, Park Forrest, IL Tampa Bay PAC, Tampa, FL The Coronado, Rockford, IL Weidner Center, Green Bay WI Chandlers Hall, Schaumberg, IL The Madison Civic Center, Madison WI Govenors State, University Park, IL Oshkosh Opera House, Oshkosh, WI Stephens Auditorium, Ames, IA Thrasher’s Opera House, Green Lake, WI Englert Civic Center, Iowa City, IA UW Parkside, Kenosha, WI Pella Opera House, Pella, IA Lake Superior Big Top, Bayfield WI Russell Hall, Cedar Falls, IA Irving Young Auditorium, Whitewater, WI The Arts Center, Council Bluffs, IA The Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN Hawkeye Comm., Waterloo, IA The World Theatre, Minneapolis, MN The Bridgeview Center,Ottumwa, IA Reif Arts Center, Grand Rapids, MN Hoyt Sherman Place, Des Moines, IA McNair Studio, Bass Hall, Ft. Worth, TX The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI Mucky Duck, Houston, TX Wharton Center Perf. Arts, East Lansing, MI One World Theatre, Austin, TX Sanders Theatre, Cambridge MA Edison Theatre at Wash U, St. Louis, MO Berkely School of Music, Boston, MA Joplin Memorial Hall, Joplin, MO Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst, MA Stadium Theatre, Woonsocket, RI West Hampton Perf Arts, W. Hampton, NY Greenwhich Odeum, Greenwhich, RI IMAC, Long Island, NY Charleston Heights Arts, Las Vegas, NV Ogunquit Playhouse, Ogunquit, ME Colonial Theatre, Idaho Falls, ID Unity Center Performing Arts, Unity, ME Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, UT The Myrna Loy Center, Helena, MT Peery’s Egyptian Theatre, Ogden UT The Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT TLA, Philadelphia, PA Kimo Theatre, Albuquerque, NM Rose Lehrman Perf Arts, Harrisburg, PA Union Colony Civic Center, Greeley, CO Gordon Center, Owings Mills, MD Lincoln Center, Ft. Collins, CO The Rams Head, Annapolis, MD The Boulder Theatre, Boulder, CO Weinberg Center, Frederick, MD Air Force Academy, Denver, CO Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA Vilar Center for the Arts, Beaver Creek, CO Imperial Theatre, Augusta, GA Rich Forum, Stamford, CT Cobb Civic Center, Marietta, GA Quick Center for Perf Arts, Fairfield, CT Chastain Park, Atlanta,
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