Liz Callaway is a Tony Award nominee and Emmy Award-winning actor, singer, and recording artist. She made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, receiving a Tony Award nomination for her performance in “Baby,” and for five years, won acclaim as “Grizabella” in Cats. Callaway has starred in the original casts of Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers, and The Look of Love. Off-Broadway, she received a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in The Spitfire Grill (Playwrights Horizons), and appeared in Brownstone (Roundabout), No Way to Treat a Lady, Marry Me a Little, and Godspell. Other appearances include the legendary Follies in Concert at Lincoln Center, A Stephen Sondheim Evening, Fiorello! (Encores!), and Hair in Concert. Callaway has established a career as a concert and recording artist. The award-winning Sibling Revelry (created with her sister Ann Hampton Callaway) was presented at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Boom!, a celebration of the music of the 60’s and 70’s also created with her sister, was recorded live at Birdland, and is currently touring performing arts centers around the country. Callaway sang the Academy Award-nominated song “Journey to the Past” in the animated feature Anastasia and is the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney’s Aladdin and the King of Thieves and The Return of Jafar. Other film work includes the singing voice of the title character in The Swan Princess, The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride, Beauty and the Beast, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars and The Rewrite with Hugh Grant. She received an Emmy Award for hosting “Ready to Go,” a daily, live children’s program on CBS in Boston. www.lizcallaway.com @LizGoesOn (Instagram/Twitter)
Jason Graae has been featured on Broadway in A Grand Night For Singing, Falsettos, Stardust, Snoopy!, and Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? Off- Broadway shows include Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (Drama Desk Award Nomination for Best Actor); the original cast of Forever Plaid, Olympus on My Mind, Spamilton, and more.?Graae recently traveled across the US as “the Wizard of Oz” in the National Tour of Wicked. Winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre, he originated the role of “Houdini” in the US premiere of Ragtime at LA’s Shubert Theatre, was featured in Forbidden Hollywood and Forbidden Broadway Y2KLA! (Ovation Award), and at the Hollywood Bowl playing “Benny” in Guys and Dolls and “Marcellus” in The Music Man, a role he performed with Patrick Cassidy and Shirley Jones in the 50th Anniversary concert production. TV shows include “Friends,” “Frasier,” “Six Feet Under,” “Rude Awakening,” “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “Living Single,” and “Evening at Pops.” For years, Graae was the voice of “Lucky the Leprechaun” for Lucky Charms Cereal, a balanced part of your complete breakfast. Films include Disney’s Home on the Range, Geppetto, On Edge, and Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms. For his solo cabaret show and his duo show with Faith Prince, he has won four Bistro Awards and two New York Nightlife Awards. Graae has recorded more than 70 original cast, studio, and solo albums.
Joining Callaway and Graae is music director and pianist Alex Rybeck, a composer, arranger, and musical director known for his work on Broadway (Grand Hotel, Damn Yankees, Merrily We Roll Along), in concerts and cabarets, and on recordings. Winner of numerous cabaret awards (MAC, Bistro, Nightlife, BroadwayWorld.com), Rybeck appears regularly with Liz Callaway, Faith Prince, Karen Akers, Jeff Harnar, Jason Graae, Sally Mayes, Rita Gardner, and Lee Roy Reams. He has worked with Sutton Foster, Billy Porter, Michael Feinstein, Donna McKechnie, Tommy Tune, Eartha Kitt, Cyd Charisse, Marni Nixon, Roberta Peters, and Kitty Carlisle Hart. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, and various venues around the U.S. and the world. A graduate of Oberlin College and NYU, Rybeck was mentored by Hal Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, and Stephen Schwartz. His original songs have been sung and recorded by such artists as Faith Prince and Nancy LaMott.?He lives in New York City.
Presented by Studio Tenn and Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Cabaret On Stage is a series of four intimate evenings on TPAC’s Jackson Hall stage with some of the most accomplished and award-winning performers from Broadway, film, television, and more.
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