Dawn Derow Performs MY SHIP: SONGS FROM 1941 at The Laurie Beechman Theater

"MY SHIP is built up of songs composed and published in 1941. 76 years ago these songs were comforting the hearts and minds of women from that time: young brides married to soldiers headed off to fight in WW2, conventional house wives raising children alone, factory workers like "Rosie the Riveter," and the entertainers passionately at work to raise the moral of AMERICA through this beautiful music."

MY SHIP ~ songs from 1941, Tapping into the 1941 Hit Parade with songs like "Chattanooga Choo Choo", " Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "The White Cliffs of Dover," Dawn Derow's "My Ship" explores the emotional climate of America as it entered WWII and opens our minds and heart to the women of that era, whether they were a 'Rosie the Riveter', a housewife raising children alone, a USO entertainer, or a nightclub singer.

Derow revisits the music that comforted and uplifted a nation until there was peace "At Last."

When Patricia Fitzpatrick asked Dawn and Barry to do a show for CabaretFest 2017 in Provincetown, she started to research My Ship and what else was published that year. What it was like to be a woman in 1941? Allow Dawn to take you back to an era where the songs being played defined a generation.

Dawn with her beautiful, smooth sound weaves a musical journey through the songs of 1941 and women emerging from The Shadows with the songs of 1941: Billy Strayhorn, Kurt Weil, Ira Gershwin...and so much more!

Music Director: Ian Herman

Bass: Tom Hubbard

Drums: Daniel Glass

Director: Jeff Harnar

Photo credit: Matt Baker