In Putting Things Away, Raissa Katona Bennett takes the audience on a musical journey through the universal milestones of life – searching for hope and beauty as we purge the old and embrace the new.

Raissa’s newest cabaret show, Putting Things Away, is directed and co-written by 2008 MAC Award Nominee Eric Michael Gillett, an acclaimed performer of Broadway, Concert and Cabaret. Eric has also written and directed for an impressive roster of cabaret talent.This will mark her second collaboration with Musical Director, David Caldwell. David is the musical director of Forbidden Broadway.  He conducted the American premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s Children of Eden and composed music and lyrics for Robert Fulghum’s All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindregarten and Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas.

On Broadway, Raissa performed as "Christine Daae" in Phantom of the Opera, and she also performed in the Los Angeles and National Touring Companies of Phantom. Also on Broadway, Raissa appeared in the Actor’s Fund Benefit Concert of Chess. In the First National Tour of Cats, she pounced on the roles of "Jellylorum/Griddlebone” and "Jennyanydots”.  She was thrilled to work with the original creative team of director Harold Prince, choreographer Patricia Birch, author Alfred Uhry, and composer Jason Robert Brown in the First National Tour of Parade as "Lizzie Phagan.” As an original cast member of Savin' Aimee, Raissa had the joy of working with its wonderful creators: Kathie Lee Gifford, David Friedman, and David Pomeranz.

Raissa has performed at the Supper Club, The Rainbow Room, 88's, Don't Tell Mama, Rose's Turn, Chita's, and Radio City Music Hall on a bill with: Marla Maples, the late Vicki Sue Robinson, Rebecca Luker, Hugh Panaro, the late Vincent Gardenia and many other Broadway notables.She performed her first cabaret show, Listen To My Heart – Stories And Songs From The Journey, in NYC at The Regents, and in other venues throughout the East Coast and Hawaii.Her CD, What I Was Dreaming Of, is based on this first show. Raissa has soloed with several symphonies such as the Erie, Wallingford and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras and she was guest soloist at the estate of the legendary Cal Ripken, Jr.