Susan Egan CD Signing and Performance On April 22
By: BWW News Desk Apr. 21, 2005
Stage and Screen star Susan Egan will perform a few songs and sign copies of her latest CD, "Coffee House" on April 22 at the Barnes and Noble (1972 Broadway @ 66th Street) at 7pm. The event and performance is free.
COFFEE HOUSE is a new musical blend that reflects how the worlds of Broadway, pop and classic rock have recently begun to merge. It celebrates the kind of music once played in those local hangs 30-40 years ago – great story songs with an acoustic texture – fused with contemporary interpretations created by Egan and her long-time friend, producer, arranger and orchestrator, Christopher McGovern. COFFEE HOUSE featuers Terrence Mann (Egan's costar in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast) singing Janis Ian, an Alan Menken/David Zippel pop song cut from the animated film Hercules, and Jerry Herman's latest jazz tune from his new musical Miss Spectacular set along side great new theatre/cabaret composers (including the song, "Taylor the Latte Boy") and classic artists such as Cat Stevens, Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell. The worlds of these writers are no longer far apart!
A Southern California native, Susan Egan has traversed all four corners of the entertainment industry, making powerful impressions in theatre, film, television, and music.
On Broadway, Egan recently starred in the title role of Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has won extensive critical acclaim as "Sally Bowles" in Cabaret, originated the starring roles in Triumph of Love and State Fair, and most notably, received both Tony Award® and Drama Desk® nominations as the original "Belle" in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Among her regional credits, Egan starred alongside Carol Burnett in Putting It Together at the Mark Taper Forum, Tommy Tune in the national tour of Bye, Bye, Birdie, and reprised her role of "Belle" for the Los Angeles premiere of Beauty and the Beast. She has also performed in concert with dozens of symphony orchestras across the country including three engagements at the Hollywood Bowl.
Susan has been busy in film, having just completed principal shooting for The Third Wish, and working last year on the ensemble indie Meet Market (Sarasota Film Festival, 2004), the mockumentory Death and Texas (Seattle Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival, 2004), the road picture The Almost Guys (HBO Comedy Festival, 2004), and the new film by Revolution, 13 Going on 30, starring Jennifer Garner. Egan has also led such films as Gotta Kick It Up for the Disney Channel and several independents including The Disappearing Girl Trick, Falling. In Love, Extreme Close Up, and Man of the Century, which won the Audience Award at Slamdance.
In animation, Egan gave the sultry voice to "Meg" in Disney's Hercules, sang the role of "Angel" in Lady and the Tramp II, and rendered "Lin" English for the American release of the Japanese blockbuster Spirited Away, which won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Egan has also recorded the English translation for another Miyazaki film, Porco Rosso, which was released in August 2004.
On television, Egan spent two seasons on the WB's Nikki, and has appeared on NYPD Blue, Arliss, Party of Five, Drew Carey, Almost Perfect, Partners, All My Children, Loving, and Great Performances: Rodgers and Hart, as well as movies of the week and specials for ABC, CBS, and the Disney Channel.
Egan's third solo CD, Coffee House, is now available on LML Records. Her debut CD of Broadway hits, Susan Egan, So Far…, on JAY Records, has received high critical praise, as has her compilation solo CD All That and More on the Fynsworth Alley label. She can be heard on more than 30 other recordings for Fynsworth Alley, JAY, Disney compilation disks, the Broadway cast recordings of Beauty and the Beast and Triumph of Love, and the motion picture soundtrack of Disney's Hercules, Spirited Away, and Porco Rosso.
Entertainment Weekly calls Egan's website, www.susanegan.net, the "slickest site around."
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