LUBA MASON BRINGS THE COLLAGE TOUR TO NYC

LUBA MASON BRINGS THE COLLAGE TOUR TO NYC

Broadway star of HOW TO SUCCEED..., THE CAPEMAN, JEKYLL & HYDE, CHICAGO and more will perform at THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440 - http://www.metropolitanroom.com/ ) on Friday through Monday, November 23rd through 26th at 10:00 pm with songs from her debut CD Collage. She will be accompanied by the Ed Alstrom Trio. The Collage collection is a labor of love for Luba, a native New Yorker, who spent her early youth devoted to training in classical voice, piano and dance.

The CD, produced by the legendary Jeffrey Lesser (Barbra Streisand, Lord of the Rings) and available in stores now, features Luba's soulful imprint on 14 tracks of pop classics by George Harrison, Neil Diamond, Van Morrison, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello and Ruben Blades, who also joins her for a rendition of Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now."

The early artistic passion of Luba, a first generation American, born to Slovak parents, paid off, with her early acceptance to the Circle In The Square Theatre School and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Luba quickly gained notice from her peers and the industry alike. She was tapped by Ruben Blades as a guest vocalist on his 2003 Grammy Award-winning CD Mundo, for which she earned critical acclaim. Legendary rock artist Lou Reed, who Luba covers with her rendition of Reed's "The Calm Before the Storm," a post-9/11 commentary. Earlier this year, Mason was a featured guest on the new NBC primetime series, RAINES opposite Jeff Goldblum.

Luba most recently starred on Broadway in the musical Chicago as Velma Kelly. Previously, Luba earned starring roles on Broadway in Jekyll & Hyde, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (opposite Matthew Broderick), Paul Simon's The Capeman, Trevor Nunn's Sunset Boulevard and the Tony winning The Will Rogers Follies, directed by Tommy Tune.

Recently, she starred opposite Val Kilmer in the American premiere of The Ten Commandments at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. She is also no stranger to cabaret, having performed in sold out shows at Los Angeles' famed Cinegrill as well as Opia and Cafe Versilles of New York in 2006. The Collage Tour has played several cities this summer including recent performances at Catalina Jazz Club in L.A. three performances of Collage at EXIT Theatre in San Francisco and two nights at Davenport's in Chicago.

Drawing from her Slovak roots, classical training, Broadway background and integrated pop, jazz and Latin rhythms's sensibility, Luba Mason has created a debut recording that accurately reflects the highly eclectic nature of the artist herself. Collage is a musical hybrid perfected for the new millennium.

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