NY Cabaret Artist D'yan Forest To Take Solo Show To Orlando Fringe

New York Cabaret Artist, Solo Performer and Stand Up Comic, D'yan Forest's brings her new solo show, A Broad Abroad! to the 25th Annual Orlando Fringe Festival. The cabaret show recently premiered at the 10th Annual New York FRIGID Festival where it received rave reviews and played to packed houses. In addition, A Broad Abroad! is set to play the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. Eric Kornfeld, who has written for Bette Midler and The Rosie O'Donnell Show, directs. This will be D'yan's fourth production at The Orlando Fringe Festival. Previous productions include I Married a Nun, My Heart Is Purrin' Again, and last year's production of Around the World in 80 Years. The Reading Salon raves about D'yan's new show, "A smart, funny and brave cabaret show meets world tour that left us wanting more."

Eight decades of music, madness and foreign affairs are scandalously revealed in this tantalizing new one-woman musical comedy cabaret. The show features D'yan, a modern-day femme fatale, and her jaunts from 1950s Paris, to her romantic swains in Italy, Austria, Jordan and the rest of the world. This feisty 82-year-old is still going strong with her original songs, stand-up routines, racy tales, yodeling, ukulele and piano playing. Plus, she sings in French, Italian and German! Oh, and English.

Tickets are $11.00 and are available at www.orlandofringe.ticketleap.com/a-broad-abroad-8-decades-of-music-madness-and-foreign-affairs - Performances take place at The Purple Venue located in Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 East Rollins Street, Orlando, Florida 32803.

Show Dates: Monday, May 16th @ 7:30 pm (preview), Thursday, May 19th @ 7:30 pm, Friday, May 20th @ 6:00 pm, Saturday, May 21st @ 9:15 pm, Sunday, May 22nd @ 12:00 pm, Monday, May 23rd @ 7:30 pm
Running time: 60 minutes
More info at www.dyanforest.com or www.orlandofringe.org

D'yan Forest (co-writer/performer) is a one of a kind performer. She's not just another 80 year-old Singer/Actress, Stand Up Comic, Cabaret Artist. She's an 80-year-old Singer/Actress, Stand Up Comic, Cabaret Artist, who plays the ukulele! Critics have called her everything from "saucy", "witty" and "irrepressible" to names we can't print here. D'yan has been entertaining around the world for seven decades and at 80, she's busier than ever. Her current one person show, "A Broad Abroad" has been well received at Fringe Festivals in the United States and in Paris, where she performs the show in French.

While attending the Cite Universitaire de Paris, she began appearing in cafes, cabarets and nightclubs throughout the City Of Lights under the stage name, Diana Shulman. Paris appearances led to performing in other European countries. D'yan developed an international act with songs in nine languages and over the past few years, she's not only become a fixture in Manhattan Cabarets like The Metropolitan Room, The Duplex, The Ukulele Cabaret and The Cutting Room, but she can also be seen working on her distinctive stand up act (complete with ukulele) at Gotham Comedy Club, The Broadway Comedy Club, Le Poisson Rouge, UNDER St. Marks, and Dixon Place where she has developed her last two solo shows.
Eric Kornfeld (co-writer/director) is a writer, director, songwriter who has written on THE ROSIE O'DONNEL SHOW (Emmy Nomination), THE CAROLINE RHEA SHOW, for VH1, MTV, HBO, CBS, Nickelodeon and others. As Bette Midler's head writer for 14 years, he wrote her KISS MY BRASS TOUR and her Vegas extravaganza, THE SHOWGIRL MUST GO ON, which ran on HBO (Emmy Nomination). He writes Betty Buckley's special material, worked with the great John Pinette, the immortal Elaine Stritch and has written song parodies for Barry Manilow, Hugh Jackman, Rita Moreno, Jane Krakowski and Roseanne Cash to name a few. His musical (book & lyrics), LOVE IN THE MIDDLE AGES enjoyed two sold out Off Broadway runs and was named "Fringe Favorite" in the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival.