GEORGA OSBORNE EXTENDS "SUMMER IN THE ATTIC (SOME'RE NOT)

Bistro and 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 three performances, beginning on Wednesday, January 22nd at 8:30 pm, with subsequent shows on Wednesday, January 26th at 8:30 pm and Thursday, February 6th at 8:00 pm. The show is directed by Lennie Watts, with musical direction by Steven Ray Watkins. The cover charge is $20.00 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, "Summer In The Attic (Some're Not)," 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). She contrasts the comedy with heartbreaking vulnerability in ballads including the Larry Gatlin song "I've Done Enough Dyin¼ 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 "womanless wedding" in Kentucky in the 1930s!)

Osborne premiered Summer In The Attic (Some're Not) at Don't Tell Mama this past October and it ran through November, gathering critical praise. During an interlude from presenting her show at Don't Tell Mama, Osborne performed in Taos, New Mexico.

Osborne was a favorite in the Chicago Cabaret Convention in March 2002, and will return to perform there as part of the second convention this February. While she is in Chicago she will present her solo act at the Chicago Cultural Center's Randolph Cafe on Saturday, February 15th at 12:15 pm. She has presented her show In "A Different Key" at Jermyn Street Theatre in London, where it was very well received. Returning to London, she appeared at Lauderdale House 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. (Morag McLaren will return with her own solo show beginning February 21 at Don't Tell Mama.)

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" Award in 2000. 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.

For more information, visit her website at http://www.glosong.com/.

 

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