ANNE KERRY FORD AT CLUB CABARET AUGUST 6th

Whittier College, in association with Little Bit Productions, inaugurates Club Cabaret, a two-week, six performance series featuring some of the finest cabaret performers in Southern California. Sponsored by Cabaret West and presented at the beautiful RUTH B. SHANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Whittier College, 6760 Painter Avenue, Whittier, CA - 562-907-4203 - http://www.shannoncenter.org/), the series runs August 5th, 6th & 7 and August 12th, 13th and 14th. Appearing August 6th is Broadway, film and cabaret star Anne Kerry Ford. Other headliners in the series include Scott Drier (August 5th), Alan Chapman and Karen Benjamin (August 7th & 14th), Jennifer Gates (August 12th) and Ray Jessel (August 13th). Each program in Club Cabaret features a headliner and opening act. All tickets are $22.50 and include a complimentary first beverage. Showtime is 7:30 pm with seating onstage in a supper club setting. Parking is free.

Located midway between the cities of Los Angeles and Anaheim, the SHANNON CENTER at Whittier College has been producing professional entertainment for 13 successful years. Founded in 1999 by performer Lisa Bowman, LITTLE BIT PRODUCTIONS has produced numerous shows in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area, including several record-breaking Revues, large benefit Galas, and other individual shows. CABARET WEST is a non-profit association dedicated to the promotion, awareness and advancement of cabaret performance as an art form on the West Coast. Inaugurated in 1995, their nearly 400 members include established as well as up-and-coming performers, club and other venue owners, and the loyal patrons who attend their shows. Their website is http://www.cabaretwest.org/.

A classically trained actress who graduated from New York's Juilliard School when she was only 20 years of age, Anne Kerry Ford made her Broadway debut as Grace Ferrell in ANNIE. Then came roles in the revival of THE THREEPENNY OPERA with Sting and Maureen McGovern, HARRY CHAPIN: LIES AND LEGENDS with Amanda McBroom, and the world premiere of JEKYLL AND HYDE opposite John Cullum. In film, she appeared in LOVESICK as Dudley Moore's wife, in FEARLESS directed by Peter Weir, and in CLEAN AND SOBER starring Michael Keaton.

Her cabaret career began in 1996 after a performance at The Gardenia, an intimate supper club in the heart of Hollywood. Finding the experience exhilarating and more fulfilling than waiting around for the next role, she changed career direction and now concentrates solely on cabaret. Since then, she has appeared in major cabaret venues across the country mixing her sparkling soprano with wit to create. In 2000, under the direction of the celebrated composer, arranger and pianist Roger Kellaway, she toured Europe as the featured vocalist with the West German Radio Orchestra in a Kurt Weill Centenary Tribute. The next year, she and Kellaway reprised the show to glowing reviews at L.A.'s Ford Amphitheatre. Her other collaborators include husband Robben Ford, a renowned blues guitarist, and John Boswell, her accompanist and musical director for eight years. For the Shannon Center audience, she'll be singing songs by Oscar Hammerstein II, Stephen Sondheim, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and "that old Zen master, Monty Python."

Opening for Ms. Ford will be baritone Jason Kincaid, whose resume includes Broadway and TV soap operas. For more information about Ms. Ford, see http://www.annekerryford.com/ .

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