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MAUDE MAGGART RELEASES HER FIRST LIVE CABARET RECORDING
Maude Maggart, the sultry chanteuse who started her performing career
in the clubs of New York and Los Angeles and is exploding into one of
today's most compelling international concert artists, has announced
the release of her new recording, MAUDE MAGGART LIVE. The CD will be
available on March 13, 2007. The disc includes classic love songs such
as "You Go To My Head," "Skylark," "I Can't Get Started," "All The Things
You Are" and "The Song Is You," in addition to rarely-heard vintage
compositions by Kurt Weill ("The River Is So Blue"), Jerome Kern ("Let's
Begin") and Harry Warren ("Coffee In The Morning, Kisses In The Night").
Recorded live in concert at THE OAK ROOM OF THE ALGONQUIN
HOTEL in New York and THE GARDENIA in Los Angeles, the album features
musical director Lanny Meyers on piano, David DePalma on saxophone,
clarinet and flute; Yair Evnine on cello and guitar; Dr. James Sitterly
on violin; and Andy Stein on saxophone and violin.
This new CD continues a year of astonishing success
for Maude, including a spot on Entertainment Weekly's "Must List,"
a feature segment on NPR's "Morning Edition," and a Time Out New York
cover story. Maude recently filmed her screen debut in a new movie
about composer Kurt Weill by director/actor/screenwriter Robert Downey,
Sr. She recorded a duet with Broadway and TV star John Lithgow for
his new CD, The Sunny Side of the Street, which was nominated for
a Grammy Award. Maude makes her London debut this month as part of
Jeff Harnar's "American Songbook in London" series at the Jermyn Street
Theatre.
Her concerts have become celebrity magnets, attracting
such boldface names as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lynn Redgrave and Neil
Simon. Her latest show, "Good Girl/Bad Girl," which explores the emotional
complexities of songs written for both naughty and nice, and others
open to interpretation, opened to rave reviews in New York and Los
Angeles. She will reprise the program in Chicago at the Steppenwolf
Theater Company on March 8, 2007.
Her previous CD, "Maude Maggart Sings Irving Berlin,"
features well-known standards from Berlin's catalog such as "The Song
Is Ended," "Always" and "What'll I Do" in addition to lesser known
songs such as "When I Leave The World Behind," "Slumming on Park Avenue"
and "Yiddisha Nightingale." Her 2004 CD, With Sweet Despair, was featured
by legendary British broadcaster Russell Davies on the BBC and Garrison
Keillor on NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion." Her recordings are available
at Amazon.com and CDBaby.com.
Ms. Maggart is the scion of an acclaimed show business
family: her grandmother starred in the George White Scandals of 1926,
her grandfather was the star vocalist for the famed Harry James Big
Band, her parents met while performing with Lauren Bacall in the Broadway
musical Applause, and her sister is pop singer-songwriter Fiona Apple.
Born and raised near 125th Street in New York City,
Maude created a stir in Hollywood with her debut show at the Gardenia.
Fostered by Andrea Marcovicci and Michael Feinstein, Maude has performed
at nightclubs around the country, including Feinstein's at the Regency
in Manhattan, the Plush Room in San Francisco, the Colony Hotel in
Palm Beach, the Savor Room in St. Louis and Schroeder's in San Diego.
For the 92nd Street Y's "Lyrics and Lyricists" series,
Maude starred in Easy to Love: The Love Songs of Cole Porter and Kurt
Weill In America, the latter which will be released on CD this spring.
She will return to the series in June 2007 for Noíl Coward and His
Ladies, curated by Steve Ross. In 2005, she was featured in the LAByrinth
Theatre Company's Obsession benefit, curated and directed by John
Patrick Shanley. Maude is the recipient of the 2005 Time Out New York
Award for Special Achievement, the 2005 MAC Award for Best Female
Debut and the 2005 Back Stage Award for Special Achievement.
Over the past year, she has headlined shows at New York's
Downtown River to River Festival, Guild Hall in East Hampton, the
Hudson Opera House, the Oregon Festival of American Music, the Bridgeport
Playhouse and Michael Feinstein's "Standard Time" concert series at
Carnegie Hall. She appeared as the special guest star with the MYO
Dance Company in Garden of Reason - a theatrical event with song,
dance and magic - at the Ivar Theatre in Hollywood.
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