Come on out for a special BROADway Brunch for Mother’s Day Weekend at Chelsea Table + Stage with Lianne Marie Dobbs and Ron Abel on Saturday, May 11 at 1 PM in Why CAN’T a Woman…?
The show celebrates all the hats that women wear, featuring unique piano and voice arrangements of Broadway melodies and songbook standards, all linked together with passages by female authors and classic heroines. Songs include “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face”, “Something’s Coming”, “How to Handle a Woman”, “If I Ruled the World” and more.
Dobbs was named one of the Best Vocalists of the Decade (BroadwayWorld, 2020) and has filled The Green Room 42, 54Below, Feinstein’s at Hotel Carmichael, Feinstein’s at the Nikko, Blue Strawberry in St. Louis, and will be featured in Chicago’s Cabaret Week later in May. Her show “Why CAN’T a Woman…?” was named one of the best cabaret shows of the year (2022) by BroadwayWorld, and called “an honest to goodness emerging work of art”. She has appeared in leading roles Off-Broadway, in National Tours, and at renowned theaters such as Denver Center, Repertory of St. Louis, Ogunquit Playhouse, Goodspeed and many more. You might recognize her from roles on The Gilded Age, Law & Order, The Equalizer, and F.B.I.
Abel is Lianne’s music director and arranger, whose accolades include: LA Critics Circle Award Winner and L.A. Weekly Award Winner for his original compositions and unique arrangements of Broadway hits for orchestras and singers. He has been the music director for acclaimed vocalists such as Lucie Arnaz, Peter Allen, Joely Fisher, Valarie Pettiford, Julia Migenes, Helen Reddy and John Lloyd Young.
For tickets and more information, visit ChelseaTableandStage.com.
Chelsea Table & Stage is located at 152 West 26th Street, NYC.
