Audrey
Lavine Sings of Booze & Blues at HELEN'S
Multiple
cabaret award winner and Broadway veteran Audrey Lavine brings her
latest show, Booze & Blues, to HELEN'S RESTAURANT, CABARET & PIANO
LOUNGE (169 Eighth Avenue, NYC - 212-206-0609 - http://www.helensnyc.com/
), Fridays and Sundays in October at 7:00 pm. Joined once again by
Ross Patterson, musical director for the Broadway By the Year series,
and long-time Lavine collaborator and bassist Don Falzone,the new
show features standards such as "Mood Indigo," "Serenade in Blue,"
and "You Go to My Head," side by side with rarely heard paeans to
grain, grape, and the low-down life. Ms. Lavine, who is a Tennessee
Squire, notes that she has never failed to mention Jack Daniels (which
she refers to as "mother's milk") in one of her shows. There is a
$15 cover, $15 food/drink minimum.
Ms. Lavine is the winner
of the 2001 Bistro Award (Outstanding Vocalist) and MAC Award (Female
Vocalist), for her shows This is No Dream and Dancing presented at
the FireBird Cafe and Judy's Chelsea, was a featured performer in
the 2002 MAC Awards at Town Hall, and a 2002 Nightlife Awards finalist
(Outstanding Cabaret Female Vocalist) for her show Simply Lavine,
presented at Judy's Chelsea and Don't Tell Mama.
Audrey's intriguing theatrical
past includes having been tapped to stand by or understudy some of
the great leading ladies of our day. First heard on Broadway in Moony
Shapiro Songbook, she was understudy to Judy Kaye. She survived covering
for both Betty Buckley and Barbara Cook in the infamous Carrie. And
in Rags, in which she can be heard as Rosa on the Broadway cast recording,
she was understudy for Teresa Stratas.
In the 70s and 80s Audrey
could be seen at the Ballroom with Alan Menken, Ted Hook's OnStage
with Michael Renzi, Freddy's with Michael Abene, the Stage Door Canteen
as a featured guest in the Ladies of Off-Broadway series, the King
Cole Room with Robert Morse and Lynn Thigpen in a tribute to Frank
Loesser, and at the Kennedy Center in a tribute to George Gershwin.
Her retrospectives of Harold Arlen and Stephen Sondheim were part
of the Citicorp Salute to Great American Songwriters, and led to a
stint as a headliner on the s.s. Rotterdam World Cruise.
Regional theater appearances
are evidence of her vocal and performing range. She won a Carbonnel
Award nomination for her portrayal of Jo Carlson in the premiere of
Cowgirls, portrayed Anna Held in Tintypes, Rhetta Cupp in Pump Boys
& Dinettes, and was Bebe Neuwirth's wife in Happy Birthday and Other
Humiliations by Judith Viorst and Shelley Markham.
Audrey graduated with
a degree in Opera from the Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music.
Originally from Greensboro, North Carolina, she currently lives in
Manhattan with her husband, actor/director H. Clark Kee.
Her CD of This is No Dream
was released in the fall of 2000, just in time for the first of her
critically acclaimed appearances at the Mabel Mercer Foundation's
Annual Cabaret Convention at Town Hall. Her second CD, based on her
last project of 2001, At Home With Arlen, was released in September
2002.
For more information,
see http://www.audreylavine.com/.
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