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SAN FRANCISCO - PACIFIC NORTHWEST
BILL COOPER PREMIERES SHOW LOCALLY BEFORE MAKING NEW YORK DEBUT
Bill Cooper, a Bay Area cabaret favorite and co-host of one of San Francisco's
most popular open mics, will premiere his latest cabaret act at THE
OCTAVIA LOUNGE (1772 Market Street, SF - 415-863-3516 - http://www.octavialounge.com/
), on Saturday, October 27th, before heading east to make his New York
debut at THE METROPOLITAN ROOM on November 6th. He is accompanied by
fellow cabaret artist Barry Lloyd at the piano.
Bill Cooper shows what magic can happen when a man of
a certain age with a passion for Broadway ladies and famous flop shows
steps onto the stage. Bill has had a lifelong love affair with American
popular song and with the singers - usually girl singers - like Susan
Johnson, Dolores Gray, and the incredible Karen Morrow as well as
"non-singers." In this show, for instance, there are songs that were
introduced by Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters and Nancy Sinatra.
Bill invariably assembles - and his audiences have come
to expect - a show that offers an eclectic, tasty overview of the
Great American Songbook. At the heart are the standards and theater
songs by songwriters like Ray Noble (the classically beautiful "The
Touch Of Your Lips"), Harold Rome ("Who Knows" from I Can Get it for
You Wholesale), and the many great composers whose names are linked
by an ampersand-and by their enormous talent-such as Bock & Harnick,
Wright & Forrest, Kander & Ebb, and Rodgers & Hart & Hammerstein.
He rescues rarely performed gems from flop Broadway
shows like 70 Girls 70, I Had a Ball, Kean, Minnie's Boys and Allegro,
from dimly remembered movie musicals like Kiss the Boys Goodbye, and
from camp classics like Imitation of Life (the Lana Turner remake,
of course). There's even a song or two cut from a musical and a healthy
dose of the witty special material that Bill is known for.
Currently a San Jose resident, Bill has established
himself on the Bay Area cabaret scene with concerts and featured appearances
at the Plush Room, Purple Onion, Castro Theatre, the Gershwin Theatre
(as part of the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention), at Club Regent in
the San Jose Fairmont Hotel, and other Bay Area venues. These days,
Bill takes center stage at THE OCTAVIA LOUNGE on alternate Sundays,
hosting one of the city's most entertaining open mikes, where local
and visiting talents often drop in, as well as the usual aspiring
singers. Bill's debut CD, Anything Goes, was released on the Original
Cast label.
There is a $15 cover charge.
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