Carly Ozard Performs Tribute To Freddie Mercury at The Rrazz Room at the Hotel Nikko 10/22-10/23

Critically-acclaimed musical theater singer and comedic cabaret artist Carly Ozard presents her new cabaret show Somebody to Love: My Musical Tribute To Freddie Mercury. Carly Ozard will be "Queen For A Day", paying homage to her musical idol, and sharing historic and unknown facts about Mercury's public and personal lifestyle. Ms. Ozard new cabaret show will showcase popular songs from Queen's extensive repertoire, as well as perform solo work written by Freddie Mercury without Queen. Rare musical material and collaborations will be featured in this tribute to the rock tenor who flaunted his four-octave range, charmed his audiences, and lived his 45 years to the fullest. Ozard will be joined on stage by a three-piece combo along with special guest star Katya Smirnoff-Skyy. Musical Direction is by Joe Wicht. Somebody to Love: My Musical Tribute To Freddie Mercury will be performed for Two-Nights Only, Fri. & Sat. Oct. 22 & 23, 2010 - 10:30 pm at The Rrazz Room at the Hotel Nikko - 222 Mason St. (at O'Farrell St.) in SF 94102. Tickets are $20 + a two drink minimum.

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Carly relates to Mercury's flair for theatrical and dramatic performing, incorporating his work into 2 nights of inventive cabaret. Familiar Mercury selections include "I Want It All," "Don't Stop Me Now" "Somebody To Love," "Hard Life," "Days of Our Lives," "Who Wants to Live Forever?" and "The Show Must Go On" along with lesser-known treasures as "Too Much Love Will Kill You," "Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow," "Your Kind of Lover," "In My Defense" and Brian May's tender send-off for Freddie Mercury, entitled "No One But You." Carly Ozard's previous Solo Cabaret shows BITTER AND BE GAY, and BEWITCHED, BOTHERED AND BIPOLAR! have played to sold-out houses at Martuni's, and the Rrazz Room.

 

CARLY OZARD in
Somebody to Love: My Musical Tribute To Freddie Mercury
Fri. & Sat. Oct. 22 & 23, 2010 - 10:30 pm - 2 Nights Only!
at The Rrazz Room at the Hotel Nikko in SF
Special Guest Star - Katya Smirnoff-Skyy
Musical Direction by Joe Wicht

Critically-acclaimed musical theater singer and comedic cabaret artist Carly Ozard presents her new cabaret show Somebody to Love: My Musical Tribute To Freddie Mercury. Carly Ozard will be "Queen For A Day", paying homage to her musical idol, and sharing historic and unknown facts about Mercury's public and personal lifestyle. Ms. Ozard new cabaret show will showcase popular songs from Queen's extensive repertoire, as well as perform solo work written by Freddie Mercury without Queen.

Carly Ozard, a classically-trained mezzo-soprano, and no stranger to Bay Area musical theatre, celebrated her one-woman cabaret debut with Bitter and Be Gay in 2008! Carly has played leading roles in The Golden Apple (42nd St. Moon), Carousel (Lamplighters), and featured as "Sally" in Follies opposite San Francisco Cabaret regulars Barry Lloyd, Lua Hadar, Russ Lorenson and Linda Kosut. Ozard has performed with Foothill Music Theatre, Broadway by the Bay, Altarena Playhouse, Notre Dame de Namur and as a cantor at the Castro's Most Holy Redeemer Church. She was a frequent co-host of Open Mic at Octavia Lounge on Fridays, and regularly performs at Martuni's as a featured guest in Katya Presents! and in Trauma Flintstone's Bijou Nights. Ozard made her Plush Room debut in Nov. 2007. Carly Ozard has studied at Perry-Mansfield under cabaret instructors Karen Mason, Andrea Marcovicci, Barry Kleinbort, Chris Denny, Shelley Markham and David Gaines. Carly studies voice with Baker Peeples.

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"Borat" star Sacha Baron Cohen is set to play flamboyant rocker Freddie Mercury in a dramatic feature focusing on his Glory Days as the frontman of Queen, its producers said on Thursday.

The untitled film is being written by Peter Morgan, the British scribe behind "The Queen" and "The Last King of Scotland." No director is attached yet.

Shooting will begin next year, said producer Graham King, whose GK Films is partnering on the project with Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal's Tribeca Productions, and Queen manager Jim Beach.

The project has the cooperation of Mercury's estate and the three surviving members of Queen, a spokeswoman for GK Films said. Guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor will oversee the musical content of the film, which will feature both original Queen music and Mercury solo music. (Bassist John Deacon has retired from the music industry.)

The film will focus on a period of a few years leading up to what was arguably Queen's greatest moment: its performance at the Live Aid charity concert in 1985, when the band mesmerized London's Wembley Stadium and a worldwide TV audience with such hits as "We Will Rock You" and "Radio Ga Ga."

The band continued touring and recording even as Mercury's health deteriorated. A day after finally admitting he had AIDS, Mercury succumbed to the disease in 1991, at age 45.

Born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar and educated in India, Mercury co-founded Queen in 1971 with May, Taylor and Deacon. The mustachioed and buff Mercury was never shy about his camp sensibilities even as the band drew part of its musical inspiration from the progressive and hard rock genres.

Queen hit the big time in 1975 with its fourth album, "A Night at the Opera," which included the Mercury-composed anthem "Bohemian Rhapsody." Mercury also wrote such Queen hits as "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "We are the Champions."

Off stage, Mercury lived a very private life, rarely consenting to interviews and never discussing his homosexuality.

Baron Cohen rose to fame in his envelope-pushing roles as a bumbling Kazakhstan reporter in "Borat" and as a fashionista in "Bruno."

 

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