Kent
French Sings "The Four Loves" in Scullers Jazz Club Debut
A
favorite performer on Boston area stages, Kent French will present
his new show, "The Four Loves" at SCULLERS JAZZ CLUB (400 Soldiers
Field Road, Allston, MA - 617-562-4111 - http://www.scullersjazz.com/)
on Wednesday, May 8th, at 8:00 pm. Kent offers a warm and personal
show that illuminates the many ways that love enters our lives“through
friendship, affection, sex and soul. "The Four Loves" includes standards
from the American Songbook, as well as songs from singer-songwriters,
new musicals and pop songs. Tickets are $15.
In the last three years,
Kent French has become a familiar face to New England theatergoers.
In addition to his cabaret career, he has done twenty theater productions,
including SpeakEasy's "The Wild Party," Boston Theatre Works' "The
Laramie Project," Commonwealth Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," American
Stage Festival's "A Wonderful Life," and productions at Seacoast Repertory,
Wheelock Family Theater and Pet Brick Productions. Kent has also worked
on productions at the Huntington, understudying roles in "The Sons
of Ulster," "Hedda Gabbler," and "The Dead."
He was also nominated
for IRNE awards for "The Laramie Project" with Boston Theatre Works
and for his portrayal of Carl in "The Baltimore Waltz" at Wellesley
College Theatre.
Trained as a classical
singer, Kent sang for seven seasons with the chorus of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra. In 1997, he began turning his attention to the
American Songbook, focusing on songs from the 20s, 30s and 40s.
In 1998, Kent was named
a Fellow at the O'Neill Theater Center's Cabaret Symposium, where
he studied with Margaret Whiting, Julie Wilson and Marilynn Lovell
Matz. Since that time, Kent has performed his solo shows at Foxwood
Casino's Cinedrome Nightclub, Eighty-Eights in New York, the Blacksmith
House in Cambridge, the French Library in Boston, the historic Muehlebach
Hotel in Kansas City, and for many private events around New England.
In addition to his cabaret
and theater work, Mr. French regularly works on-camera in corporate
videos and commercials (most frequently seen in Giant Glass and Boston
Interiors ads.)
Ron Roy, an accomplished
musician, will accompany Kent at the piano. Mr. Roy has acted as musical
director for theatrical productions in Boston, New York, Chicago,
as well as in Europe and Japan. He teaches on the faculty of The Tuscany
Project, a summer musical seminar in Italy, and travels regularly
around the country playing for productions of Forbidden Broadway.
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