Award Winning Singer and Vocal Technician Marianne Challis Hits the Duplex June 4-5

Award winning singer and vocal technician Marianne Challis will bring her new show, "The Party Continues...Downtown!" to The Duplex on Thursday, June 4 and Friday, June 5 at 7pm.

A fun-filled exploration of the challenges of the baby-boomer generation - stamped with Marianne's own brand of satirical story-telling and "off-the-cuff eye for the absurd." Teamed with music director Don Rebic, and Broadway musicians Dick Sarpola on bass and John Redsecker on drums, Marianne continues her award - winning "party-girl" series with sophisticated comedy and top-flight singing for an evening that is as wackily fun as it is emotionally satisfying. Directed by Scott Barnes.

Critics have hailed her as a "performer of style and substance", "in full command of her craft and always in clarion voice." She has delighted crowds at the elegant Royal Room in Palm Beach, as well as playing to sold out houses at the Laurie Beechman Theater in NYC and Playhouse on the Green in Bridgeport, Ct. Her regular home in New York City has become the deluxe Metropolitan Room, culminating in a 2008 Bistro Award for Oustanding Female Vocalist from BACKSTAGE!

Marianne recorded her first full-length CD, "Confessions of a Middle-Aged Party Girl", performed in front of a live audience at Manhattan Beach Recording Studios, which is available nationwide.

Audiences across the country are discovering the "every-woman" quality of her approach: as if your next door neighbor could sing from the depth of her soul, or share the mundane challenges that face the babyboomer generation as they careen toward fifty....and beyond. In superb pianist and arranger, Christopher Marlowe, Marianne has a musical partner willing to explore the emotional depths of such great writers as Mercer, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Sondheim, and Monk. Before you regain your bearings, however, she will deftly bring you to tears of laughter with her own brand of satirical story-telling and "off-the-cuff eye for the absurd."

Her "prior performance life" was diverse: starring at New York City Opera in South Pacific, Carnegie Hall's "Sondheim: A Musical Salute" and the famed Goodspeed Opera House. She performed leading roles at regional theaters throughtout the country as well as touring nationally with the Broadway show, "Side by Side by Sondheim." Marianne spent over two decades appearing with musical theater's biggest stars as well as entertaining some of America's largest corporate entities, such as Sunbeam, Fuji, and IBM.

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