2003 MAC AWARD WINNER GEORGA OSBORNE ENCORES AWARD-WINNING SHOW

Bistro and Multiple-MAC Award winning Broadway singer Georga Osborne will reprise her quirky cabaret show "Summer In The Attic (Some're Not)" at DON'T TELL MAMA (343 West 46th Street, NYC - 1-212-757-0788 - http://www.donttellmama.com/) for two encore performances, on Thursday, May 15th at 8:00 pm and Tuesday, May 27th at 10:00 pm. Osborne premiered the show this past October and it ran through November, gathering critical praise and a 2003 MAC Award for Musical Comedy. The show is directed by Lennie Watts with musical direction by Steven Ray Watkins. The cover charge is $15.00 with a 2-drink minimum.

Sorting out the estate of her aunt in her childhood home of Maysville, Kentucky, Osborne spent the summer of 2002 going though the attic, the repository of family history. Nostalgic reactions gelled into her new show presented with Osborne's remarkable combination of trained operatic voice and twisted comedy. "Summer In The Attic (Some're Not)" features Georga's warped comedy including her channeling of Mrs. Miller, the suburban pitch-challenged chanteuse (heading dangerously into Latin territory); an Elvis medley, and her defiant spin on "I Enjoy Being A Girl," (Georga's response to being the seventh and final child in a series of daughters).

Ms. Osborne contrasts the comedy with heartbreaking vulnerability in ballads including the Larry Gatlin song "I've Done Enough Dyin' Today," the poignant Jerry Herman song "Kiss Her Now," and Barry Manilow's "I Am Your Child," delivered in accompaniment to a slide show of family anecdotes (including her rugged farmer grandfather in a flowing floral chiffon dress for a "woman-less wedding" in Kentucky in the 1930s!)

During an interlude from presenting her show at Don't Tell Mama, Osborne performed in Taos, New Mexico, where she garnered more praise.

Osborne was a favorite in both the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Chicago Cabaret Conventions in March 2002 and 2003 and while there presented her solo act at the Chicago Cultural Center's Randolph Cafe and at DAVENPORT'S Piano Bar & Cabaret (1383 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL - 773-278-1830 - http://www.davenportspianobar.com/) to rave reviews. Likewise, after earning praise for her performances in the First-ever Palm Springs Cabaret Convention, she entertained sold-out crowds at DOLLY'S PALM SPRINGS (1032 North Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA - 760-422-3655 - http://www.dollyspalmsprings.com/), a new cabaret space in Palm Springs.

She has presented her show "In a Different Key" at JERMYN STREET THEATRE (16B Jermyn Street, Piccadilly, London - 020 72872875) where it was very well received. Returning to London, she appeared at LAUDERDALE HOUSE (Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park, North London, ENGLAND - 020 8348 8716) in November of 2001 in a duo act with West End performer Morag McLaren, who performed alongside Georga in a special duo show this past November at Don't Tell Mama.

MS. Osborne will perform in the First-ever Hamptons Cabaret Convention on July 20th and at THE BRADSTAN (Route 17B, White Lake, NY - 845-583-4114 - http://bradstancountryhotel.com/) on August 24th. On September 8th, she will appear in San Francisco in the Mabel Mercer Foundation's "One Night Only" at the Herbst Theater.

Georga trained at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and Carnegie-Mellon University. She has appeared in the original Broadway cast of "Meet Me in St. Louis" and regionally in "Carousel," "Nine," "Hollywood/Ukraine," "The Music Man," "Cabaret," and "Nunsense II." She sang the role of the Witch in "Hansel und Gretl" in Germany and Switzerland and has been performing across the USA for over a decade.

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) saluted Georga with their "Outstanding Female Musical Comedy Performer" Award in 2000 and again in 2003. Her previous cabaret show "Attack of the Killer Show Tunes" received the 1998 Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Musical Comedy Performer, and In Theater magazine named her as "One of the Funniest People in Cabaret."

This musical humorist has performed in New York venues including The Russian Tea Room, The FireBird Cafe, Eighty-Eight's and Don't Tell Mama. Her solo debut (on a High D!) at Carnegie Hall was in Disney's Fantasia 2000 with James Levine conducting the London Philharmonia Orchestra.

Visit her website at http://www.glosong.com/.

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