Tony-Nominee Loretta Ables Sayre Returns To Blue Note Hawaii This Month
By: A.A. Cristi Feb. 12, 2019
Tony-nominated Broadway actress Loretta Ables Sayre returns to Blue Note Hawaii in Waikiki on Feb. 24, with a show at 8 p.m. Ables Sayre's performance will feature jazz standard selections from the Great American Songbook. Joining Loretta will be Hawaii-based musicians Jim Howard on piano, Dean Taba on bass and Darryl Pellegrini on drums.
"I'm really looking forward to returning to the Blue Note Hawaii and performing some of my favorite jazz standards with these extremely talented musicians and having Scott Villiger, one of Hawaii's finest sax players, join us to make the evening even more magical and romantic."
Tickets for the Feb. 24 show are available at bluenotehawaii.com and range in cost from $25 to $45. Parking is validated at the OHANA East Hotel for $6 for four hours, and at the Outrigger Waikiki for $15 for four hours valet.
About Loretta Ables Sayre
Loretta received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress and a Theatre World Award for her Broadway and NYC debuts as Bloody Mary in the 2008 Lincoln Center Theater revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific. In addition, she performed Bali Hai on the nationally-broadcast 2008 Tony Awards Preview Concert. The nearly three-year run concluded with a live production of South Pacific on the nationally-televised PBS program Live From Lincoln Center.
She made her London debut in 2011 in Lincoln Center Theater's production of South Pacific at the Barbican Theatre and appeared in the production's U.K. tour in cities across England, Scotland and Wales.
Loretta began singing professionally in 1979 as the first featured female vocalist with Keola and Kapono Beamer in the Ocean Showroom of the Reef Hotel in Waikiki. She was the opening act for comedian Andy Bumatai in the Monarch Room of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in 1981.
In 1989, she began singing as the featured vocalist of the Lewers Lounge in the Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki. She performed at the five-diamond hotel five nights a week for 10 years for numerous guests including Luther Vandross, John Travolta, Dick Clark and Natalie Cole.
From 1999 to 2006, she performed at The Veranda at the five-diamond Kahala Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Among her accolades was a command performance requested by Neil Sedaka.
Other Theater: Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly! (Diamond Head Theatre), Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Goodspeed Opera House), Bloody Mary in South Pacific (The MUNY) (Paper Mill Playhouse) (Asolo Theatre) (Diamond Head Theatre) (Pittsburg Civic Light Opera) and co-director South Pacific (Diamond Head Theatre), Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (Hawaii Theatre), You Somebody (Diamond Head Theater), Dreamgirls (Hawaii Theatre), Song of the Navigator (Honolulu Theater for Youth - U.S. tour including Kennedy Center and Australia.)
Concerts: opening act for The Beach Boys, Kenny Loggins, James Brown, Four Tops. Blue Note Hawaii.
TV: "Hawaii Five-0" - recurring role, "Beyond the Break", "North Shore", "Hawaii", "BaywatchHawaii," "Byrds of Paradise".
Movies: "Sex and The City 2", "dress" with Henry Ian Cusick.
For more information, visit lorettaablessayre.com or Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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