Photo Coverage: Amra-Faye Wright Plays Metropolitan Room

Broadway and West End Star Amra-Faye Wright made her New York Cabaret Debut December 29^th at the Metropolitan Room. Her show "Sittin' on Top of the World" was an elegant evening of wry tales, engaging wit and sophisticated glamour. It traced Amra-Faye Wright's unlikely journey from African farm girl to Broadway leading lady-illustrated with stylish interpretations of The Great American Songbook, popular show-tunes and renditions from her native South Africa and other lands.

Featuring Mark Hummel on piano, Jeff Carney on bass and Heinrich Kruse on drums it was an evening that warmly illustrated Amra's amazing passion for life and tenacious insistence on making home anywhere in the world that strikes her fancy. Most recently, Amra-Faye has dazzled audiences all over the world as the merry murderess Velma Kelly in the musical Chicago, a role she has played since 2001, and which for the past five years has taken her back and forth from Broadway to London's West End, and this year to Japan, where she performed the roles in Japanese.

Musical direction and arrangements wre by Mark Hummel who has written cabaret acts for Chita Rivera, Marcia Lewis, Karen Akers and Julie Wilson. He also frequently collaborates with Brian Stokes Mitchell, Barbara Cook, Rufus Wainwright, Bernadette Peters and Tommy Tune.

Photo Credit: Stephen Sorokoff