MAC Award-nominee Dorian Woodruff brings stories and songs about his lifelong, nosy fascination with interiors and all things opulent to Pangea for two performances on October 6 and 12 at 7:00 pm. Welcome Home: Everybody Has a Story, written and performed by Woodruff, is directed by Lina Koutrakos, with musical accompaniment by Yasuhiko Fukuoka. Music arrangements are by Rick Jensen and Lori Mechem.
From fabrics and fixtures in duplexes on the East Side, to furniture and wallpaper in crumbling mansions on the St. Lawrence River, other people’s homes have always been Woodruff’s playground. In this new cabaret, Woodruff weaves together stories of traveling and performing all over the world with the timeless songs of Rodgers & Hart, Jimmy Webb, Barry Manilow, Mary Chapin Carpenter and many more. He regales tales of his grandmother—a Chanel-wearing, former Ziegfeld girl—as well as his star-struck encounters at vintage NYC Woolworth counters; and playing piano in the 1970s for his childhood idols in smoky, downtown jazz bars.
“When I was a kid,” Woodruff says, “I always wanted to see the inside of other folks’ apartments and homes. What kind of furniture did they have? What kind of art? What kind of wallpaper? Through my somewhat pushy prying, and much to the dismay of my grandmother, I finagled my way in to see most of them. I learned their stories. I discovered who had country homes, who could cook, who was friendly, and who wasn’t. As I grew older, a marvelous thing happened – I became friends with these treasures.”
Dorian Woodruff is a cabaret and jazz singer, director, writer and a 2016 MAC Award Nominee for Male Vocalist. He has performed in clubs internationally and in the top clubs of New York, Chicago and Nashville. He will appear on the opening night of the 2018 New York Cabaret Convention in Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall.
For more information and tickets visit www.pangeanyc.com
Pangea is located at 178 2nd Avenue, NYC
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