SINGER-SONGWRITER ROSEMARY LOAR AS METROPOLITAN ROOM
Singer/songwriter Rosemary Loar will perform her songs at THE METROPOLITAN
ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440 -
http://www.metropolitanroom.com/
) on Friday, April 6th at 7:30 pm and Monday, April 9th at 9:30 pm.
Her songs are an intimate conversation about her emotional 'take'
on the world, her singular way of processing events and relationships
in her life.
Rosemary began her singing career in the back seat
of a station wagon with her other six brothers and sisters. Her
father would take the family on Sunday drives and the concert would
begin. Rosemary's sense of humor and intensity is apparent in her
writing style: sometimes she is screaming back at God with a smile
on her face and sometimes she is whispering in your ear.
Rosemary influences are eclectic. Her first five years
in New York City were spent performing a critically acclaimed jazz
cabaret act, where she wrote the arrangements and broke new ground
in what was then, a very homogenous venue.
Loar's theatrical expertise was honed on Broadway
and in national tours, in shows like Sunset Boulevard, Cats (critically
acclaimed as Grizabella), You Can't Take It With You, Chess, Once
Upon A Mattress, (understudy to Queen Aggravain) Encore and 42nd
Street (understudy Dorothy Brock.) She originated the role of Gladys
Fritts (a quirky flapper with a penchant for poetry, operatic singing
and handsome men), in Radio Gals at the John Houseman Theatre.
She was a headliner for the PBS special, New Years
Eve with Guy Lombardo. Rosemary Clooney was rushed to the hospital
and Rosemary Loar came to the rescue: with all the keys a fourth
higher. As a concert performer she has appeared at: Carnegie Hall,
(the day after she was married), 92nd Street "Y", at Town Hall in
Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion, with the North Carolina
Symphony, the Orlando Symphony and with the Peter Duchin and Nelson
Riddle Orchestras. She regularly performs the role of Christine
in The Andrew Lloyd Webber Tribute internationally and in different
venues.
As a recording artist she can be heard on Sting's
soundtrack for the movie The Emperor's New Groove, the cast albums
of Chess and Sunset Boulevard and on the Listening Library series.
Her debut CD ALTERNATIVE TORCH was released in 1996,
her second, THROUGH WOMEN'S EYES was produced in 1997 to benefit
Susan G. Komen Foundation. WATER FROM THE MOON released in 2003
is also the score of Rosemary's original rock musical by the same
name: produced by the Grammy award winning Joel Moss (soundtrack
for Chicago).
Rosemary's songs have been featured on NBC's The Today
Show, on The Lifetime Network, at Town Hall, Joe Franklin and Joan
Hamburg shows, at the UN Fourth Conference for Women in Beijing
and in the documentary Our Daughters, Our Future narrated by Hillary
Rodham Clinton. Ms. Loar has been the recipient of the ASCAPlus
Award for Popular Music for the past four years.
There is a $20 cover, 2-beverage minimum.
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