The 37th season of Lyrics & Lyricists at the 92nd Street Y opens
January 6-8 with THE LAST GIRL SINGER: ROSEMARY CLOONEY…AND HER WAY
WITH WORDS.
Deborah Grace Winer, journalist, playwright and Clooney's longtime
friend and colleague, is artistic director and host. The show features
an all-star line-up of jazz and Broadway vocalists - James Naughton,
John Pizzarelli, Paula West, Karen Ziemba and Debby Boone. John Oddo,
Clooney's longtime artistic collaborator, is music director of the
show and wrote the orchestrations. The band features Clooney's
longtime collaborators Bucky Pizzarelli on guitar, Jay Leonhart on
bass and Joe Cocuzzo on drums, as well as George Rabbai on trumpet and
flugelhorn and Mark Vinci on reeds.
Songs will include "Let's Get Away From it All" by Matt Dennis and Tom Adair;
"I'll Be Around" by the sophisticated, prolific but under recognized Alec
Wilder; "We'll Be Together Again" by Frankie Laine and "God Bless the Child" by
Billie Holiday.
Jan 06 to Jan 08
92nd Street Y
92nd Street & Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10128
(212) 415-5500
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