TERRI-MARIE MICHAELS HAS GOT A NEW PAIR OF SHOES
Actress-singer Terri-Marie Michaels performs her cabaret show "Got
A New Pair of Shoes" at DON'T TELL MAMA (343 West 46th Street, NYC
- 1-212-757-0788 -
http://www.donttellmamanyc.com/
) on Saturday, February 24th and Monday, February 26th, both shows
at 6:30 pm. Directed by Kathy Morath, the show is under the music
direction of Broadway's Ted Kociolek and features Walter Wallace on
bass and Adam Weber on drums.
Terri-Marie performs an effervescent variety of songs
from many genres while telling her Cinderella-esque tale of a frustrated
30 something gal in pursuit of a significant other in the big city.
Instead she encounters a parade of unsuitable suitors including
a blind date with small feet and a big ego, a salsa dancing Latin
with "mother issues", a womanizing dentist, and a nice, but commitment-phobic
Jersey Guy. Frustrated by her results, she even falls for her roommate's
boyfriend when suddenly someone utterly unexpected steps forth from
the fold and offers her...a new pair of shoes! Lyricist David Zippel
has written special lyrics for Terri-Marie's rendition of his song
"What A Guy" from the Broadway musical The Goodbye Girl.
Terri-Marie first performed Got A New Pair of Shoes
at DANNY'S SKYLIGHT ROOM last November to sold out audiences. Once
a busy Boston based performer, she opened her first cabaret show,
"The Wide Wild World of Me" to rave reviews from the Boston press.
Regionally she's had lead roles in Falsetto's, Sunday in the Park
with George, Anything Goes, and Is There Life After High School?
After coming to New York, she was cast in Tony and Tina's Wedding
playing the Maid of Honor and other roles. For television she's
had reoccurring roles on NBC's Vidkids and performed as a promotional
singer for The Wizard of Oz on the Today Show and at Madison Square
Garden. "Got A New Pair of Shoes marks her New York cabaret debut.
Director Kathy Morath is also an actress, voice coach,
writer and teacher. As an actress, her Broadway appearances include
the NYSF production of The Pirates of Penzance and Arthur Laurents'
Nick and Nora. Off-Broadway she was featured in original productions
of All in The Timing, Personals, Alice in Concert and appeared in
The Fantasticks at the Sullivan Street Playhouse. As a voice and
dialogue coach she worked on the Bruce Willis film Hostage and on
the PBS children's program Wishbone. She directed Pump Boys and
the Dinettes at the Watertower Theatre in Dallas as well as many
summer stock productions. She performed her own cabaret show, Day
Dreaming... Channeling Doris Day at numerous venues on the West
Coast. At present she serves on the faculty of AMDA NY. Her father
is the noted pianist and historian, Max Morath.
Music director Ted Kociolek has been affiliated with
several Broadway shows and has worked extensively in regional theater
as a conductor, music director and pianist. He is the composer and
co-librettist (with James Racheff) for Abyssinia that garnered both
critical and public acclaim when it was presented at Goodspeed,
the Cleveland Playhouse, Arena Stage and North Shore Music Theatre.
He has contributed songs to Nicky Silver's Shrinks and to the revue
Crazy Love. A featured artist for a Meet The Composer grant as well
as a recipient of a New Jersey Council of the Arts Fellowship for
composition, Ted is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild.
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