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SUZANNE CARRICO BRINGS THE ART OF THE CAHN TO FIRE ISLAND
Vocalist Suzanne Carrico brings her show, THE ART OF THE CAHN: Music
from the Sammy Cahn Songbook to THE CLUB AT POINT O'WOODS (Fire Island,
Brookhaven, NY) on Saturday, June 16th at 5:30 pm. Suzanne will be performing
som of Cahn's most beloved material including "Day by Day", "Teach Me
Tonight" & "Be My Love" as well as some lesser know gems like "That's
What Makes Paris Paree" & "Love is a Bore" with special guest Don Rebic
on the piano & Steve Doyle on bass for show on June 16th before bringing
the show back to New York City's METROPOLITAN ROOM in July. Musical
director is Tedd Firth and the show is directed by Mary Cleere Haran.
There is NO cover charge.
Sammy Cahn's lyrics are an important part of the Great
American Songbook, including work with composers like Saul Chaplin,
Jule Styne, Nicholas Brodsky, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Vernon Duke
and James Van Huesen among many others. These songs have graced the
silver screen, stage and concert halls sung by our greatest voices;
including Mario Lanza, Doris Day, Jo Stafford, Bing Crosby and most
prolifically the great Frank Sinatra.
Suzanne Carrico has for some time been one of New York's
rising young opera singers, having performed twice as a Young Artist
Fellow at the Caramoor Bel Canto Festival with the Orchestra of St.
Luke's. Ms. Carrico holds a Bachelor of Music from Webster University
College of Fine Arts in St. Louis, where she was awarded the Dysart
Family Prize from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
and a Masters of Music Degree from Manhattan School of Music.
Suzanne spent a week exploring American Popular Song
at the Sundance Institute with the Mercer Foundation working with
the likes of Margaret Whiting, Melissa Manchester, Charles Strouse,
Michael Rupert, Jimmy Webb, Billy Stritch and Don Rebic. This experience
inspired Ms. Carrico to return to her roots in Musical Theatre and
American Song as a "belter" and to put together her fist cabaret show:
MR RIGHT. Her second show, OLD MOVIES brought her together with her
Music Director Tedd Firth.
Tedd Firth is one of New York City's best and most sought
after accompanists, jazz pianists, and arrangers. He has accompanied
many renowned artists, including Lee Ann Womack, Faith Prince, Tom
Wopat, Margaret Whiting, Barbara Brussell, Karen Akers, Carol Sloane,
Bob Stewart, Hilary Kole, Nancy Marano, and Claiborne Cary. Among
the jazz musicians he has worked with are John Pizzarelli, Houston
Person, Benny Golson and Joe Morello. Mr. Firth's New York appearances
include the Blue Note, Birdland, the Iridium, the Algonquin, the Rainbow
Room, and the Russian Tea Room.
Director Mary Cleere Haran began her performing career
in the original Broadway cast of THE 1940's RADIO HOUR, Off-Broadway
in THE HEEBIE JEEBIES and HOLLYWOOD OPERA and San Francisco's longest
running musical hit, BEACH BLANKET BABYLON. But her first love is
club-singing and she has brought her witty, musically sophisticated
cabaret act to such rooms as Rainbow & Stars, Michael's Pub, The Ballroom,
The Russian Tea Room, and The Oak Room at The Algonquin Hotel in New
York; the Cinegrille in Los Angeles, San Francisco's Plush Room, Philadelphia's
Barrymore Room at the Bellevue Hotel as well as numerous other cabarets
and concert halls throughout the U.S.
Ms. Haran's first album, There's A Small Hotel: Live
at the Algonquin (Columbia Records), was greeted by rave reviews in
People Magazine. Her next releases, This Heart of Mine: Classic Movie
Songs of the 40s and This Funny World: Lyrics by Hart (Varese/Saraband),
part of the 1995 Lorenz Hart centennial celebration, were placed in
the "Top 21 Albums of the Year" by Stephen Holden of the New York
Times and in the "Top 10 Vocal Albums" by PULSE magazine for two consecutive
years. Her CD, Pennies From Heaven was named #1 Vocal Album of 1998
by PULSE magazine.
Ms. Haran has also brought her writing talents to such
PBS television specials as: Remembering Bing, Irving Berlin's America,
When We Were Young: the Lives of the Child Movie Stars, Satchmo and
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey. She has written liner notes for
the Stan Getz reissue from Polygram and most recently, she published
feature articles on lyricist Dorothy Fields and Frank Sinatra in New
York's The Village Voice and was one of a select group asked to write
on Frank Sinatra in The New York Times after his death.
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