Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko (San Francisco, CA)
The Rrazz Room welcomes Karen Akers in Akers Sings Porter: "Anything Goes", including hit songs "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "I Love Paris," "Can Can" and more. A Broadway star in Grand Hotel and Nine, she's gone on to a Grammy-nominated recording career, and concert appearances including Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.
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Definitely different from what I'm used to. Older crowed, but Karen can really entertain.
Elegant spot-on performer. Her tribute to Cole Porter is a treat for Porter fans. It may years before she gets back to the Bay Area. She her now.
Ms. Akers was wonderful. Her voice and personal style were charming and interesting. The pianist was absolutely sensational. I would recommend this show to all who want a totally enjoyable evening.
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Karen Akers is a recent recipient of the NY Nightlife Award as “Outstanding Female Cabaret Vocalist in a Major Engagement.” She has appeared in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Café Carlyle, Rainbow & Stars, Hollywood Bowl, Wolf Trap and abroad in France, Russia, London and Barcelona. Karen’s career encompasses theatre, television, film and recording. On Broadway she was one of the original stars of the Tony Award-winning musical Grand Hotel and made her Broadway debut in the original production of Nine, for which she won a Theatre World Award and a Tony nomination. Her current CD, “Simply Styne” Other CD’s include“If We Only Have Love,” a collection of theatre songs,. “Feels Like Home,” “Under Paris Skies,” “Just Imagine…” and “Unchained Melodies.” Her film roles include Mike Nichols’ Heartburn, Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo and Vibes.
Karen Akers is one of America's more arresting and successful concert and cabaret stars. She is the recipient of the 2005 NY Nightlife Award for "Outstanding Female Cabaret Vocalist in a Major Engagement and the 2009 “Legends Award”. Ms. Akers has appeared in many prestigious venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and New York's premiere nightspots such as Café Carlyle, Rainbow & Stars, Le Jazz Au Bar, and now makes her Manhattan cabaret home at The Oak Room at The Algonquin Hotel. She has taken her music to the south of France, London's Pizza-on-the-Park, to Russia and to Barcelona's Opera House.
Her concert and cabaret performances are just a part of Ms. Akers multi-faceted career, which encompasses theater, television, film and recordings. She appeared at The Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway as one of the original stars of the Tony Award-winning musical "Grand Hotel" directed by Tommy Tune and made her debut on The Great White Way in the original production of "Nine" (also directed by Mr. Tune) for which she won a Theatre World Award, as well as a Tony Award nomination.
Ms. Aker's television appearances include "Cheers," "The Tonight Show," The Equalizer, "Hart to Hart, "The Merv Griffin Show" and the PBS specials "Ellington - The Music Lives On" and "Ira Gershwin At 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall." In addition, Ms. Akers had two of her own PBS television specials: "Presenting Karen Akers" and "Karen Akers: On Stage at Wolf Trap." The latter is available on home video.
Her film roles include the femme fatale in Mike Nichol's "Heartburn" opposite Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose of Cairo," and "Vibes."
Ms. Akers CD's include “Simply Styne”(DRG), "If We Only Have Love," "Feels Like Home" "Live at Rainbow & Stars," "Under Paris Skies," "Just Imagine," "Unchained “Melodies," "In a Very Unusual Way," "Presenting Karen Akers" and “Like It Was.”
ERIC MICHAEL GILLETT (2008 MAC Award Winner-Outstanding Director) has directed a roster of concert and cabaret talent including the Grammy-Award winning vocalist, Lari White (My First Affair, Love Letters), international star Karen Akers (2007’s Simply Styne, Move On), Sheera Ben-David (Come Summer, Let Me Sing and I’m Happy), KT Sullivan (Autumn in New York, All the Things You Are-Celebrating Kern, Dancing in the Dark-Songs by Dietz & Schwartz), La Tanya Hall (What Love Is, No More Blues), and Anna Bergman (Wherever Love Takes Me, My Heart Stood Still-The Love Songs of Richard Rodgers). Coming in 2009 are Karen Akers’ return to the Oak Room with Akers Sings Porter/Anything Goes, Sue Matsuki’s newest solo effort, Matsuki at the Beechman, Chris Reisner’s as-yet untitled tribute to her uncle Albert Hague and encore performances of Valerie Lemon’s Marvin Hamlisch Songbook. Eric Michael's other directing clients include Raissa Katona Bennett, The Delivery Girls, Joshua Desjardin, Aaron Lee Battle (Step Right Up and Simple Joys), Olivia Stevens (Pleasure and Peril: Songs of Zarah Leander and Olivia/Passion), Ron Ramsay (Go With Me), Culver Casson (Island Magic), Rita Harvey (Letting Go), Maureen Kelly Stewart (Heart’s Desire), the 2008 run of Darren Williams’ tribute to Peter Allen, Boy From Bondi, Kim Smith at the Neue Gallerie, John Koprowski (Dreams and Reflections), and Annette Hunt (The Grace Moore Songbook), as well as the cabaret debut of Gilligan's Island reality show star, Melissa Mason Jones. At Town Hall, Eric directed Broadway Musicals of 1943 (featuring Sally Mayes and Heather MacRae) and Broadway Musicals of 1957 (featuring Alix Korey and Tony-Award winner Adriane Lenox), the premiere performances of Scott Siegel's Broadway by the Year series. A champion of new theater composers, Eric directed The Ben Moore Songbook at The Triad, starring Kerry Butler, and the Beaux Arts Society named him a recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Award for Excellence for his direction of the Pat Rasile Songbook, Gift From the Heart. He is also represented as writer and director of Valerie Lemon’s A Song in My Heart: The Jane Froman Songbook and, in November, 2007, made his Weill Recital Hall directing and performing debut with the concert, 1907-It Was a Very Good Year. His clients regularly appear at Feinstein’s at the Regency, the Oak Room of the Algonquin, Strathmore, NJPAC, the Jermyn Street Theater, and other internationally recognized venues.
Eric Michael Gillett has been named director of the 2010/2011 Big Apple Circus. Other recent theatrical credits include the Brownville Concert Series Christmas Show, At Home for the Holidays, Eric Fallen’s The Monster for the Samuel French One Act Play Festival, Carnegie Mellon School of Music’s production of A Little Night Music, as well as NYC workshops of Blacker, Russ Weatherford’s play about the last days of Oscar Wilde in Paris. He is currently director of Barry Kleinbort’s musical, Skyline, which will receive a first public reading in March 2010 and a new series of one-act plays by Eric Fallen entitled Small Talk in Perfect Weather.
On October 7, Eric Michael will be honored by the Mabel Mercer Foundation at Rose Hall/Jazz at Lincoln Center with the 2009 Dick Gallagher Award. Visit Eric Michael Gillett at www.ericmichaelgillett.com
Don Rebic has been a composer, musical director and Pianist for almost thirty years. He began his career as the Musical Director for the 1977 production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” on Broadway. He conducted the National Companies of “Dancin,” “ Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” and was the Associate Conductor of the North American tour of “The Kiss of the Spider Woman” staring Chita Rivera.
Don has been the Musical Director and pianist for Karen Akers, Mary Cleere Haran, Peggy Lee, Leslie Uggams, Barbara Cook, Maureen McGovern, Tovah Feldshuh and Morgana King.
Don was recently appointed as the Artistic Director of the Singers Forum, New York’s premier vocal academy and has served on the board of governors for the New York Television Academy.
As a composer, Don has written music for an off-off Broadway show, documentaries for HBO and a Christmas song performed by Michael Feinstein.
Don attended Oberlin College and has a performance degree from Indiana University.
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