Reprise Theatre Co Presents An Evening With Liz Callaway 9/19

Reprise Theatre Company presents An Evening With Liz Callaway. It will have one performance only on Monday, September 19 at 8:00 pm, at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

An Evening With Liz Callaway is the latest in Reprise Theatre Company's tradition of presenting Broadway stars and legendary entertainers in concert, which have included Barbara Cook, Patti LuPone, Carol Burnett, Sutton Foster, Ben Vereen, Kristin Chenoweth, and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

Tickets go on sale Wednesday, September 7. For tickets, priced at $35 -$75 (All $75 seats include a post-show Meet & Greet with Liz Callaway) please call the UCLA Central Ticket Office at 310/825-2101 or visit www.reprise.org <http://www.reprise.org> .

Reprise Theatre Company is headed by Artistic Director Jason Alexander. Christine Bernardi Weil is Managing Director and Gilles Chiasson is Producing Director of Reprise Theatre Company.

Award-winning actress, singer, and recording artist Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along." She received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in "Baby," and for five years, appeared as Grizabella in "Cats." She has also starred in the original casts of "Miss Saigon," "The Three Musketeers," and "The Look of Love." Off-Broadway, she received a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in "The Spitfire Grill," and also appeared in "No Way to Treat a Lady," "Marry Me a Little," and "Brownstone." Other New York appearances include "Hair in Concert," the legendary "Follies in Concert" at Lincoln Center, "A Stephen Sondheim Evening," and "Fiorello!" at Encores!

Liz and her sister Ann Hampton Callaway premiered their new show, "Boom!" to a sold-out audience at New York's famed Town Hall. Their award-winning "Sibling Revelry" was presented at the Donmar Warehouse in London. She had the pleasure of co-starring with Jimmy Webb & Paul Williams in their critically acclaimed engagement at Feinstein's in New York. Her concert and symphony work includes appearances at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Hollywood Bowl, and on tour with the Boston Pops. Worldwide, she has performed in China, Iceland, Estonia, France, Slovenia, Seoul, South Korea, Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. She recently returned from Tasmania, Sydney, and Adelaide, Australia where she appeared in concert with Stephen Schwartz as well as in solo concerts at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Liz sang the Academy Award-nominated song "Journey to the Past" in the animated feature "Anastasia." She is also the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney's "Aladdin and the King of Thieves" and "The Return of Jafar." Other film work includes the singing voice of the title character in "The Swan Princess," "Lion King 2: Simba's Pride," "Beauty and the Beast," and "The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars." She received an Emmy Award for hosting "Ready to Go," a daily, live children's program on CBS in Boston. Other TV credits include "In Performance at the White House," "Inside the Actor's Studio: Stephen Sondheim," "The David Letterman Show," and "Senior Trip" (CBS Movie of the Week).

Liz has 4 solo recordings: "Passage of Time," "The Beat Goes On," "The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway On and Off- Broadway," and "Anywhere I Wander: Liz Callaway Sings Frank Loesser." On July 12th, "Boom! Live at Birdland" (with Ann Hampton Callaway) was released on PS Classics.

About Reprise Theatre Company

Since its inception in 1997, Reprise Theatre Company has been a focus of the Los Angeles musical theatre community, producing productions of great American musicals, and a wide variety of concerts, staged-readings, special events and outreach programs. In May 2007, Jason Alexander became Artistic Director. Christine Bernardi Weil is Managing Director and Gilles Chiasson is Producing Director of Reprise.

Since its inaugural production of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Promises, Promises," which starred Mr. Alexander, Reprise has brought to the stage vibrant productions from all eras of American musical theatre including the Gershwins' "Of Thee I Sing" and "Strike Up the Band," Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" and "Kiss Me Kate," Rodgers and Hart's "The Boys from Syracuse" and "Babes in Arms," Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel," as well as Richard Rodgers' later "No Strings." The "Golden Era" has been well represented - Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg with "Finian's Rainbow," Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe with "Brigadoon" and "Gigi," Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green with "On the Town" and "Wonderful Town," Irving Berlin with "Call Me Madam," Robert Wright and George Forrest with "Kismet," both of the Richard Adler and Jerry Ross musicals "The Pajama Game" and "Damn Yankees," Johnny Mercer and Gene dePaul with "Li'l Abner," Jule Styne with "Bells are Ringing," and Frank Loesser with "The Most Happy Fella" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."

Musical theatre reached a new peak of popularity beginning in the sixties, along with new creative talents, and Reprise has presented shows by many of them including Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt with "The Fantasticks," Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick with "She Loves Me," Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt MacDermot's "Hair," Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone with "1776," Charles Adams and Lee Strouse with "Applause," Stephen Schwartz with "Pippin," Cy Coleman with "On the Twentieth Century" (libretto by Betty Comden and Adolph Green), "City of Angels" (lyrics by David Zippel), and "I Love My Wife" (libretto by Michael Stewart), Jerry Herman with "Mack and Mabel," Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's "Once on This Island," Marvin Hamlisch and Carol Bayer Sager's "They're Playing Our Song" (with libretto by Neil Simon) and four Stephen Sondheim musicals - "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," "Company," "Sweeney Todd," and "Sunday in the Park with George."

Many of the great stage performers working today, as well as those who make their residence primarily in Los Angeles, have appeared in Reprise shows including William Atherton, Scott Bakula, Christine Baranski, Brent Barrett, Orson Bean, Jodi Benson, Stephanie J. Block, Stephen Bogardus, Dan Butler, Len Cariou, Carolee Carmello, Vicki Carr, Patrick Cassidy, Matt Cavenaugh, Anthony Crivello, Jason Danieley, Lea DeLaria, Cleavant Derricks, Manoel Feliciano, Rodney Gilfry, Kelsey Grammer, Josh Grisetti, Harry Groener, Bob Gunton, Neil Patrick Harris, Sam Harris, Gregory Harrison, Simon Helberg, Tom Hewitt, Mimi Hines, Seán Martin Hingston. Judy Kaye, Jane Krakowski, Marc Kudish, Ledisi, Vicki Lewis, Judith Light, Rebecca Luker, Lesli Margherita, Eric McCormack, Maureen McGovern, Joey McIntyre, Donna McKechnie, Andrea Marcovicci, Millicent Martin, Marin Mazzie, Julia Migenes, Karen Morrow, Burke Moses, Kelli O'Hara, Lisa O'Hare, John O'Hurley, Ken Page, Robert Picardo, David Hyde Pierce, Larry Raben, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Roger Rees, Charles Nelson Reilly, Cathy Rigby, Alexandra Silber, Douglas Sills, Rex Smith, Brent Spiner, Lea Thompson, Steven Weber, Lee Wilkof, Ruth Williamson, Marisa Jaret Winokur, Lillias White, Fred Willard, and Rachel York.

Theatre: The Freud Playhouse at UCLA located in Macgowan Hall
Dates: Monday, September 19, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Tickets: UCLA Central Ticket Office: 310/825-2101
Price $35-$75 ($75 seats include post-show Meet & Greet with Liz Callaway)
More Info: www.reprise.org <http://www.reprise.org>

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