Susan Egan and West Coast Singers Perform Beauty of Broadway March 19 in Hollywood

On Saturday, March 19, at 6:00 p.m., West Coast Singers (WCS) presents The Beauty of Broadway: An Evening With Susan Egan and the West Coast Singers, a benefit concert for the chorus which includes a silent auction. The event will take place at the Gallery Theatre in Barnsdall Art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, near the intersection of Hollywood Blvd. and Vermont Ave. This unique park, which offers breathtaking views of the city and the Hollywood Sign, is also home to the Junior Arts Center and the famous Hollyhock House that was designed in the 1921 by the internationally acclaimed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

From 5:30 to 6:30, VIP ticket holders will have the opportunity to meet Broadway, television, and film star Susan Egan in person. The silent auction and concert begins at 6:30, with an exciting treasure trove of auction items— including VIP tickets for the Tonight Show and Ellen—that will go to the highest bidder!

General admission tickets are $25. VIP tickets, which include preferred seating, a gift bag, and a sneak preview of the silent auction items—as well as the chance to bid first—are $50. All tickets can be ordered online at www.westcoastsingers.org or by calling (800) 439-4WCS (4927). A map and directions to the theatre are also available on the West Coast Singers website. Parking is free.

Sponsored in part by Absolut Vodka, the California Arts Council, and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

About West Coast Singers

As part of its mission, West Coast Singers seeks to educate and facilitate mutual respect between the gay and lesbian community and the community at large, as well as to sing to our fullest potential, making the best music that can be made. Now celebrating its 22nd season, West Coast Singers was founded in 1983 and is considered to be one of the nation's premier choruses. In addition to its regular season of concerts, the chorus is invited to perform annually at hospitals, hospices, and community events such as the Christopher Street West Pride Celebration and annual awards banquets for the Lazarus Project, the Rainbow Coalition of Ventura County, and Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). In July 2004, WCS was proud to be perform in Montreal at GALA VII, an international gathering of over 6,000 singers sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (www.galachoruses.org). In September 2002, West Coast Singers was the first organization to receive the prestigious Rainbow Key Award from the City of West Hollywood for its community outreach and humanitarian activities.

West Coast Singers' four-city European concert tour in the summer of 1998 included performances at the Gay Games and in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and it was the first gay and lesbian chorus ever to openly perform in Salzburg, Austria, Mozart's birthplace. The group's first CD, Simple Gifts, was nominated for a 1999 Gay and Lesbian American Music Association (GLAMA) Group of the Year award.

About Susan Egan

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."