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FRIDAY MAY 10!!! ✨ Join me for a benefit performance in honor of the reopening of the storied Maggie’s Cabaret series at St. Margaret’s in Dupont Circle, along with my peerless musical director Howard Breitbart. ✨ FINDING HOME is dedicat
Happy World Theatre Day, world; belated because I was…in a theater. ✨ In the midst of watching fall season auditions and preparing students for a big concert as well, I am reminded how much beauty, how much strength there is when we share ours
Thrilled to be next up on Classical Movements’ 2023-2024 concert series at The Secret Garden at The Rectory in Old Town. ✨ Join me and my right- (and left-) hand man, Howard Breitbart as we dive into an evening of iconic theater melodies from
#flashbackfriday The hands….!!! And the eyebrows. Swipe for the now. 1️⃣ 21. So sure I would book it all. 2️⃣ 25. Phantom (but hoping for Sally Bowles?). 3️⃣ 29 plus tweezers. Encores. 4️⃣ Proudly no longer 21. And TBD… ✨ 📸 1 Lar
One day, I realized I had something to say, so I created a cabaret to say it (and sing it!). And it was pretty good, so I did another one. And then another one or two, or three, more. Now I have eight solo shows to my name, a host of wildly talented
Looking forward to performing with my talented AU colleagues! Hear Brahms, winds, a marimba-cello duet (as cool as it sounds). And from me: a few of Maury Yeston’s December Songs - I’m loving digging into them. ✨ Be sure to join us on Ma
An honor to honor the honorees with a song at a very-DC luncheon. Official pics to come, but for now let me say a huge thank you to @theamericanpops, and my dear friends, APO’s maestro Luke Frazier and Robert Pullen for the gracious invitation;