[NEohioPAL] Liz Callaway at Nighttown July 20

[Bruce Hennes]

*Nighttown Presents...*

*Liz Callaway with Alex Rybeck on piano*                      *
Tuesday, July 30
7:30 PM
$30 cover charge (no minimum)

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*This is an extraordinary opportunity to see a star of this magnitude on
the small and intimate Nighttown stage.
For reservations, call Nighttown at 216-795-0550.*

Liz Callaway is a Tony® Nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer and
recording artist. She made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily
We Roll Along, received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in
Baby, and for five years, won acclaim as Grizabella in Cats. She has also
starred in the original casts of Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers, and The
Look of Love.

Off-Broadway she received a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in
The Spitfire Grill (Playwrights Horizons), and also appeared in Brownstone
(Roundabout), No Way to Treat a Lady, Marry Me a Little, and Godspell.
Other New York appearances include the legendary Follies in Concert at
Lincoln Center, A Stephen Sondheim Evening, Fiorello! (Encores!), and Hair
in Concert.  Regionally, she starred as Venus in the Chicago Ovations!
production of One Touch of Venus, in Elegies at Reprise! in Los Angeles,
and Fascinating Rhythm at Hartford Stage.

Ms. Callaway has also established a major career as a concert and recording
artist. The award-winning Sibling Revelry (created with sister Ann Hampton
Callaway) was presented to great acclaim at the Donmar Warehouse in London.
Boom!, a celebration of the music of the 60’s and 70’s, also created with
her sister was recently recorded Live at Birdland, and is currently touring
performing arts centers around the country. She had the pleasure of
co-starring with Jimmy Webb & Paul Williams in their critically acclaimed
engagement at Feinstein’s in New York, and recently joined Burt Bacharach,
Dionne Warwick, and Stevie Wonder at Hal David’s 80th Birthday Celebration
Concert at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.

Her extensive US symphony work includes appearances at The Kennedy Center,
Carnegie Hall, Ravinia, The Hollywood Bowl, as well as in concert with The
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and The Boston Pops. Worldwide, she has
performed in China, Australia (with Stephen Schwartz), Iceland, Estonia,
France (Theatre du Chatelet, Paris), Slovenia, South Korea, and Barcelona’s
Gran Teatre del Liceu where she premiered a new concert featuring the music
of Stephen Sondheim.

Liz sang the Academy Award nominated song “Journey to the Past” in
theanimated feature Anastasia and is also the singing voice of Princess
Jasminein Disney’s Aladdin and the King of Thieves and The Return of Jafar.
Other film work includes the singing voice of the title character in The
Swan Princess, Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride, Beauty and the Beast, and The
Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars.

She received an Emmy Award for hosting Ready to Go, a daily, live
children’s program on CBS in Boston.  Other TV credits include In
Performance at the White House, Inside the Actor’s Studio: Stephen
Sondheim, Christmas with the Boston Pops, The David Letterman Show, and
Senior Trip (CBS Movie of the Week).

Liz has released four solo recordings: Passage of Time (PS Classics) as
well as The Beat Goes On, The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway On and
Off-Broadway, and Anywhere I Wander on the Fynsworth Alley label. Her
numerous other recordings include Sibling Revelry (DRG), Boom! Live at
Birdland (PS Classics), Unsung Sondheim, Lost in Boston, The Maury Yeston
Songbook, Dreaming Wide Awake: The Music of Scott Alan, Hair in Concert,
and the complete recording of Allegro produced by the Rodgers and
Hammerstein Organization.

*Alex Rybeck*

Alex Rybeck is a pianist, arranger, composer, and musical director,
well-known for his work in theater, cabaret, and on recordings. Broadway
credits include MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (directed by Hal Prince) and Grand
Hotel (directed by Tommy Tune). He also conducted the New York workshop and
San Diego world premiere of What the World Needs Now, winning personal
praise from Burt Bacharach.


Off-Broadway shows include Wings (Public Theater) and Really Rosie
(directed by Patricia Birch). Winner of the 2005 Manhattan Association of
Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) Award, he has worked in Manhattan’s premiere
concert halls and cabaret venues, including Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Jazz
at Lincoln Center, The Algonquin’s Oak Room, Feinstein’s, the Carlyle, and
The Russian Tea Room, to mention a few. He has toured nationally and
internationally as well, and has appeared on PBS several times (including
“Great Performances”).

Among the many stars of Broadway and cabaret he has worked with are Tommy
Tune, Eartha Kitt, The McGuire Sisters, Michael Feinstein, Faith Prince,
Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway, Donna McKechnie, Debbie Gravitte, Karen
Mason, Lee Roy Reams, Tovah Feldshuh, Amanda McBroom, Marni Nixon (“The
Voice of Hollywood”), Jason Graae, Jeff Harnar, Australia’s David Campbell,
Craig Rubano, Anna Bergman, Rita Gardner, Metropolitan Opera diva Roberta
Peters, and the legendary Kitty Carlisle Hart.

A graduate of Oberlin College and NYU, he was taught and mentored by
Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, and
Comden & Green. He is a member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild.

*Join us at Nighttown for an amazing evening of Broadway, cabaret and jazz
with the great Lizz Callaway and Alex Rybeck.*

http://lizcallaway.com
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