KT SULLIVAN SINGS OF "LADIES OF THE SILVER SCREEN"
Classic cabaret artist and Broadway performer, KT Sullivan, makes
her Pittsburgh debut on Friday, March 21st as part of the Cabaret
Pittsburgh Riverview Series at the THE RENAISSANCE PITTSBURGH HOTEL
(107 Sixth Street, Pittsburgh, PA - tkts: 412-394-3353 -
http://www.proartstickets.org/
) with shows at 7:30 & 9:30 pm. Sullivan brings her show, The Ladies
of the Silver Screen, in which she evokes memories of stellar screen
legends such as Bette Davis, Doris Day, Carmen Miranda and Marlene
Dietrich, in her acclaimed tribute to the songs and singers made famous
on film. She is accompanied by James Followell at the piano. One of
eight children from a musical family in Oklahoma, Sullivan has established
herself in the cabaret world internationally.
Sullivan has been featured several times at Carnegie Hall, Town
Hall, Lincoln Center and The Caramoor Festival, and since 1992 has
been a regular headliner at the Oak Room of New York's Algonquin
Hotel. For several years she has starred at the Sabarsky Cafe of
the Neue Gallerie on Fifth Avenue and Live on the Park in London.
She has seven albums on the DRG label, including Crazy World and
Live From Rainbow and Stars: The Songs of Bart Howard, which won
Backstage magazine's Bistro Award.
Broadway credits include The Three Penny Opera with Sting, the
play Broadway directed by George Abbott, and the leading role in
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She also played feature rules in the national
tour of Annie Get Your Gun as well as the workshop production of
Easter Parade with Tommy Tune. Regional theatre credits include
the Old Globe Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Municipal Opera of
St. Louis, Missouri Rep, Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse
and The Great Lakes Theater Festival.
On television, she has guest starred on Police Squad, Night Court,
Remington Steele, Hardcastle and McCormick, Cabaret 13 with Michael
Feinstein and In Performance at the White House, with Mary Martin.
Legend Liza Minnelli presented KT Sullivan with the Manhattan Association
of Cabarets' Outstanding Female Vocalist Award and Irish America
Magazine named her one of its Top 100 Irish-Americans.
Tickets are $45 and include entertainment, hors d'oeuvres and beverage.
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