JANICE HALL to Reprise Award-Winning MARLENE DIETRICH Tribute Show in New York Cabaret's Greatest Hits Series at Metropolitan Room, 9/13

"Falling in love again . . . Never wanted to . . . What am I to do? . . . Can't help it . . ."

That is the memorable lyric from the iconic song that the legendary Marlene Dietrich delivered as the sexy cabaret singer in the 1930 film, The Blue Angel. Now, cabaret audiences who fell head over heels for opera singer Janice Hall's 2010-2011 solo debut show-Grand Illusions: The Music of Marlene Dietrich-will get to fall in love all over again (and a new audience can become smitten for the first time) when Hall reprises her Award-winning show at the Metropolitan Room on September 13 at 7 pm, in the 12th installment of Stephen Hanks' monthly New York Cabaret's Greatest Hits Series (Associate Producer, Fr. Jeffrey Hamblin, MD). Hall's Marlene Dietrich show is directed by Peter Napolitano, with Matthew Martin Ward as Musical Director/Pianist and Ritt Henn on bass and ukulele.

Just a read through of her reviews will reveal why Hall won a 2011 Bistro Award and the 2012 MAC Award for Best Female Vocalist for her Grand Illusions: The Music of Marlene Dietrich:

"A glorious hour . . . Some of Hall's interpretations achieve a status beyond merely wonderful; they are memorable, unique, standards against which other renditions should be compared . . ." --Roy Sander, Bistro Awards.com

"Many performers have "done" Marlene Dietrich, but none has offered her songs more richly, more movingly and with lovelier singing than petite and elegant Janice Hall." --Peter Haas, Cabaret Scenes Magazine:

"What Hall is doing turns out to be neither imitation nor incarnation . . . She doesn't sound or dress like Dietrich--she evokes the great star in other, far subtler ways . . . it's remarkable to hear how she applies her superior range and musicality to the song, while still respecting Dietrich's essence . . ." --William V. Madison, Opera News magazine

Janice Hall's acclaimed international opera career has taken her to the Vienna State Opera; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the Salzburg Festival, and the Komische Opera Berlin, among others. In the U.S., she has appeared at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center, the Santa Fe Opera, and the Houston Grand Opera. She performed as Violetta in the New York City Opera's Emmy-winning telecast of La Traviata, in the "Live from Lincoln Center" series on PBS. Janice is now specializing in contemporary opera, including the operatic version of Angels in America, which she performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and in London, with the BBC Orchestra. Janice made her off-Broadway acting debut in 2012 in the New York premiere of the play My Occasion of Sin, at Urban Stages Theater, and also appeared at the 2015 NY International Fringe Festival, in the play Love at the End of Time.

For more information, contact Stephen Hanks, cabaretlifeproductions@gmail.com or 718-753-1323

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