Broadway actress-singer, MAC and Bistro Award winner, Raissa Katona Bennett, returns to the cabaret stage in April celebrating the release of her third recording, Can’t Help Singing—The Music of Jerome Kern. This romantic celebration of Kern’s greatest hits, including “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” “All the Things You Are” and “The Way You Look Tonight,” will play Thursday, April 26th and Thursday, May 3rd at 7 PM at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Pianist Jon Weber joins Katona Bennett as Musical Director for this engagement. Can’t Help Singing—The Music of Jerome Kern was recorded live at Feinstein’s at the Regency in 2011, with Musical Director-Arranger Don Rebic on piano and Tom Hubbard on bass.
Raissa Katona Bennett appeared on Broadway as Christine in Phantom of the Opera and has numerous off-Broadway credits. She crisscrossed the USA in the First National Tours of Parade and Cats and has appeared as a soloist with symphony orchestras nationwide. For nine years (through 2016) Katona Bennett produced and hosted Concerts for City Greens, a series she founded to expose culturally and socio-economically diverse audiences of all ages to art events in city settings and to promote the ‘greening’ of cities. The series included talent from the theater, jazz and cabaret worlds, all of whom donated their time and talents. Katona Bennett received the 2010 Bistro Award and 2011 MAC Award for Outstanding Achievement as the creator, producer and host of Concerts for City Greens. In 2014, she was awarded a special Ruth Kurtzman Benefit Series MAC Award.
Can’t Help Singing—The Music of Jerome Kern, April 26 and May 3 at 7 PM.
The Laurie Beechman Theatre is in the rear and downstairs at the West Bank Café, 407 West 42nd Street, NYC For tickets/reservations call 212.695.6909 or click here.
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