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SAMUELI THEATEROctober 5 – 7, 2017

Thursday – Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

2017–18 CABARET SERIES

Out of courtesy to the artists and your fellow patrons, please take a moment to turn

off and refrain from using cellular phones, pagers, watch alarms and similar devices. The use of any audio or videorecording device or the taking of photographs (with or without

flash) is strictly prohibited. Thank you.

The Center applauds:

DivaliciousAnn Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom

Michele Brourman, music director

Larry Tuttle, bass

M.B. Gordy, drums

About the ArtistsAmanda McBroom Amanda McBroom has been called “…the greatest cabaret performer of her generation, an urban poet who writes like an angel and has a voice to match.” Her name first came to the attention of the music public when Bette Midler’s version of Amanda’s song “The Rose” hit number one all over the world in 1979. But it was Amanda’s performance of her own song on the Golden Globes (she won), Grammys® (she didn’t) and The Tonight Show that launched her career as a singer as well as songwriter. Her songs have have been recorded by the likes of Bette Midler, Leanne Rimes, Barry Manilow, Judy Collins, Barbara Cook, Anne Murray, Harry Belafonte, Betty Buckley, Stephanie Mills, The Manhattan Transfer, Donny Osmond, West Life, Nana Mouskouri, the Chipmunks, and the Baby Dinosaurs in Land Before Time (she wrote all the songs for 16 Universal Cartoon videos with longtime collaborator Michele Brourman). But growing audiences worldwide became convinced that the best interpretations of McBroom songs are by McBroom herself and applaud her in con-cert halls around the world including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, Wolftrap and Kennedy Center (where she sang with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marvin Hamlisch), Angel Place Recital Hall in Sydney, Melbourne Recital Hall in Melbourne, Australia, where she headlined the Festival of the Arts, Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall in Taiwan and Pizza on the Park and Crazy Coqs in London. Amanda’s concert career was documented over two evenings high atop Manhattan’s RCA building for release as Amanda McBroom Live at the Rainbow & Stars by the DRG label in 1995 and remains her only live concert recording. Her recording career began on the MGM soundstage where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers had overdubbed the sounds of their tap routines over forty years before. It was 1980 and she recorded direct-to-disc—no tape, no overdubs, no mixing, no fixing—for the prestigious vinyl audiophile label Sheffield Lab Recordings. Growing Up in Hollywood Town became an audiophile classic around the world and set a new standard for vinyl recording and hi fi stereo reproduction. Billboard called the LP a “stunning artistic success” and Amanda

became “the queen of the high end” for the purity of her vocals and the emotional depth of her songs. Sheffield released a second McBroom direct-to-disc recording titled West of Oz in 1981. Both recordings were compiled and re-released as Amanda by Sheffield in 1996. In 1985 Amanda and her manager Garry George partnered in their own label Gecko Records and released Dreaming in 1986. Under the auspices of Monster Cable Products, Inc. Amanda performed live at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1987. From that performance and the birth of the CD format, Dreaming became a classic around the world especially in SE Asia. Gecko releases followed including Midnight Matinee in 1992, A Waiting Heart in 1997, the “best of” collection, Portraits, in 1999 released in con-junction with Hal Leonard publishing compa-ny’s release of a bound songbook of Amanda’s songs, and Chanson, her tribute to Jacques Brel released in 2010. Her love of and background in musical

theatre (she starred in the New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and European pro-ductions of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, on Broadway in Seesaw, and in Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music and Mame) compelled her to create a musi-cal based on her songs. Heartbeats made its debut in 1989 in Los Angeles and the play has enjoyed over 15 regional theater productions around the U.S. The original cast recording was released in 1994 on Varese Sarabande Records. The musical is represented by the Rogers and Hammerstein Music library. Amanda’s latest musical, A Woman of Will, made its off-Broadway debut in 2005. Long-time fans still revere Amanda’s many guest starring roles on television in everything from Star Trek: The Next Generation to her most recent appearance at the Kennedy Center in the NBC special From the Heart. Amanda attributes her success to “divine intervention and a lot of caffeine.”

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Amanda McBroom

Ann Hampton Callaway Ann Hampton Callaway is one of the leading champions of the great American Songbook, having made her mark as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer. Voted recently by Broadwayworld.com as “Performer of the Year,” Ann is born entertainer. Her unique singing style that blends jazz and tradi-tional pop, making her a mainstay in concert halls, theaters and jazz clubs as well as in the recording studio, on television, and in film. She is best known for Tony®-nominated per-formance in the hit Broadway musical Swing! and for writing and singing the theme song to the hit TV series The Nanny. Callaway is a Platinum Award-winning writer whose songs are featured on seven of Barbra Streisand’s recent CDs. The only composer to have col-laborated with Cole Porter, she has also writ-ten songs with Carole King, Rolf Lovland and Barbara Carroll to name a few. Callaway’s live performances showcase her warmth, spontaneous wit and passionate deliv-ery of standards, jazz classics and originals. She is one of America’s most gifted improvis-ers, taking words and phrases from her audi-ences and creating songs on the spot, whether alone at a piano or with a symphony orchestra. Ann has been a special guest performer with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, and is featured at many of the Carnegie Hall trib-utes. She has sung with more than 30 of the world’s top orchestras and big bands, and per-formed for President Clinton in Washington, D.C. and at President Gorbachev’s Youth Peace Summit in Moscow. Callaway per-formed with her sister, Broadway star Liz Callaway, in their award-winning show Sibling Revelry at London’s Donmar Warehouse. Their act, Boom!, a critically acclaimed celebration of the baby boomer hits of the ’60s and ’70s, was recorded on PS Classics which debuted in the top 25 on Billboard Jazz. Ann was fea-tured in the Macy’s Day Thanksgiving Parade telecast watched by 6 million people singing Emmy® Award-winning song, “Yes, Virginia.” She took the symphony world by storm with her latest show The Streisand Songbook which she premiered with The Boston Pops and continues to tour with top orchestras across

the country. Said Randall Fleischer after conducting the show with The San Francisco Symphony, “Ann’s tribute to Streisand is a glorious evening of great songs, brilliantly orchestrated and sung magnificently.” After performing the show at 54 Below, she garnered two Broadwayworld.com Awards and the 2013 MAC Award for Show of the Year. Ann’s latest recordings have both met great critical acclaim—The Sarah Vaughan Project: Live at Dizzy’s in 2014 and The Hope of Christmas in 2015. She is featured on her sister Liz Callaway’s holiday EP Merry and Bright as well as Arbor’s Records CD Johnny Mandel: The Man and His Music. Her recent solo CDs At Last, Blues in the Night, Slow and Signature have received rave reviews as well. She has recorded two popular holiday CDs—Holiday Pops! with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, and her solo CD, This Christmas. Ann’s other recordings include Easy Living, To Ella with Love, After Ours, Bring Back Romance, Ann Hampton Callaway, and the award-winning live recording Sibling Revelry. Callaway has also been a guest performer on more than forty CDs including Kenny Barron’s latest CD The Traveler. Ann’s dream of working in film, TV and radio has been realized in several recent

projects. She made her feature film debut opposite Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon in the Robert De Niro film The Good Shepard, performing the standard “Come Rain or Come Shine.” She recorded “Isn’t It Romantic?” and “The Nearness of You” in Wayne Wong’s Last Holiday, starring Queen Latifah. Ann wrote songs for the upcoming movie musi-cal State of Affairs, to be directed by Philip McKinley. And, as a part of her mission to keep the American Songbook thriving, she has produced and hosted two TV specials called Singer’s Spotlight With Ann Hampton Callaway with guests Liza Minnelli and Christine Ebersole for WTTW National which dovetails into her highly anticipated radio series This is Cabaret which is gearing up for national distribution in mid-2016. Ann devotes much of her time to philan-thropic causes, both as a singer performing in numerous benefits, and as a songwriter com-posing songs in times of need. In September 2005, Ann performed her original composition “Let the Saints Come Marching,” written to honor Hurricane Katrina victims, on a nation-al TV broadcast on the Fox News Channel. Her song “Who Can See the Blue the Same Again?” was released earlier in 2005 as a single, paying tribute to the tsunami survivors and

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raising much needed money for The Tsunami Fund of The Prasad Project. In the aftermath of September 11th, Ann composed the stirring anthem, “I Believe in America,” which she performed on Larry King Live and released as a CD single. Just days after the tragedy, Ann heard an 8,000-year-old prayer from the Rig Veda and composed the world renowned “Let Us Be United.” Ann recorded the song with Kenny Werner, The Siddha Yoga International Choir and 5-year-old Sonali Beaven, who sang in honor of her father who lost his life on Flight 93. It was released on CD and DVD and its proceeds continue to benefit Save the Children and The Prasad Project. Ann’s father was Chicago’s legendary TV and radio journalist, John Callaway. Her mother, Shirley Callaway, a superb singer, pianist and one of New York’s most in-demand vocal coaches, was recently featured at New York’s Town Hall, singing with Ann and her sister, Liz. Ann resides in New York. She lives by the creed best expressed in the Andre Gide quote: “Art is the collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does, the better.”

Michele Brourman Michele Brourman began making up songs when she was three years old. By age 13, she had formed a small ensemble for which she was composer, musical director and singer. She’s been joyously making up songs and sing-ing them ever since. Her best-loved song, “My Favorite Year,” has been recorded by Michael Feinstein, Dame Cleo Laine, and Margaret Whiting, with other songs recorded by Olivia Newton-John, and Rita Coolidge and more. With Amanda McBroom, she’s written the songs for 18 animated features for Universal Studios, including the beloved The Land Before Time series, writing for Reba McIntyre, Michael York, Lucy Lawless, Donny Osmond, Corbin Bleu, and more. Brourman’s work has been featured in television and film and performed by count-less cabaret artists, garnering numerous awards and critical acclaim. Her works for theater include “Dangerous Beauty” (with lyrics by McBroom) and the off-Broadway musical “The Belle of Tombstone” (with lyricist Sheilah Rae.) Brourman has been called “a consummate artist/composer… whose songs target the human condition with a simplicity, honesty and directness which make them into contem-porary classics.”

Larry Tuttle Larry Tuttle is a bassist, an orchestral composer, and a performer on the Chapman Stick. Recent composing accomplishments include winning the Pittsburgh Symphony’s 2014 Audience of the Future Composition Competition and taking second place in the 2016 Keuris Composers Contest in Amersfoort, Netherlands. He is currently composing a piece on a commission from the USC Wind Ensemble. Larry studied bass in Seattle with jazz great Gary Peacock and several classical teachers from the Seattle Symphony, including James Harnett and Ron Simon. He attended the National Music Camp at Interlochen, where he played principal bass in the World Youth Symphony. You can find the latest news on Larry’s music at www.larrytuttle.com.

M.B. Gordy M.B. Gordy is an acclaimed drummer, per-cussionist and educator whose credits include albums by iconic recording artists, blockbuster films, TV series, video games, and prestigious rock/pop/theatrical and orchestral live perfor-mances and tours. As a session player he is a go-to resource for the industry’s top compos-ers and record producers.

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