Birdland Theater has announced that Broadway leading ladies Jenn Colella and Chilina Kennedy will perform a song cycle written and composed by Ms. Kennedy on Monday, September 10 at 8:30pm. This one-night-only event will be presented by Eclipse Theater Company.
"Call It Love" is a song cycle written and composed by Broadway's
Chilina Kennedy (Beautiful, Jesus Christ Superstar) starring Tony Nominee
Jenn Colella (Come From Away, If/Then). The show grapples with the way we love, both ourselves and others, and how we self-identify and create family in our complex age of information and reputation. "Call It Love" has been arranged by
Rick Fox (Jesus Christ Superstar) and directed by Mark Schnieder (Miss Saigon).
Jenn Colella is a Tony Award nominee for her role as Capt.
Beverley Bass in Come From Away on Broadway. That role garnered Jenn a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award, a
Helen Hayes Award, Toronto's My Theatre Award, a Dora Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. Colella's first starring role on Broadway was in 2003, as Sissy in Urban Cowboy. Her performance earned her an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. Other starring roles on Broadway include Laura in High Fidelity (opposite Will Chase),
Hedda Hopper in Chaplin (opposite
Rob McClure), and she just concluded a year long run of If/Then at the
Richard Rodgers Theatre (opposite LaChanze &
Idina Menzel). Her Off-Broadway credits include Slut, The Musical (opposite
Andy Karl), Don't Quit Your Night Job, Beebo Brinker Chronicles (opposite
Marin Ireland), Lucky Guy (opposite
Kyle Dean Massey) and the acclaimed revival of Maltby and Shire's Closer Than Ever. Some of her other favorite roles to date include Kiki in Kiki Baby (directed by
Lonny Price), for which she earned an Outstanding Individual Performance Award at the NYMF festival, Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (PCLO), Peter Pan in Peter Pan (Sacramento Music Circus),
Daisy Hilton in Sideshow (Kennedy Center), and Georgie in The Full Monty (
Papermill Playhouse) with
Elaine Stritch.
Chilina Kennedy is an award-winning Broadway actress, singer and Artistic Producer of Eclipse Theatre Company in Toronto. Chilina has starred as
Carole King in Beautiful - The
Carole King Musical on Broadway for over three years and just recently originated the role of Binky in
Stephen Trask and
Peter Yanowitz's world premiere of This Ain't No Disco (
Atlantic Theater Company), directed by
Darko Tresnjak. Chilina made her Broadway debut as Mary Magdalene in
Des McAnuff's revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Chilina is the recipient of a Toronto Theatre Critics' Award and multiple BroadwayWorld Awards for her performances in The Little Mermaid (
Ross Petty) and at the Stratford Festival. Chilina originated the role of Phoebe D'Ysquith in Hartford and San Diego (two Outer Critics Circle nominations), and the title role of Evangeline in the World Premiere of
Ted Dykstra's Evangeline, including its original recording (Charlottetown Festival). Chilina has toured the US with Mamma Mia!, was in the original Toronto production of The Lord of the Rings (Mirvish) and spent three seasons both at the Shaw and Stratford Festivals. She has performed in concert with
Jason Robert Brown,
Colm Wilkinson, recorded with
Burt Bacharach and she released her own debut album "What You Find In A Bottle" in 2014, which is available on iTunes. Her voice can be heard on two Broadway "Carols for a Cure" albums as well as CBC's "Celebrate The Seasons" (Howard Cable).
"Call It Love"
Jenn Colella &
Chilina Kennedy
Birdland Theater
Monday, September 10 at 8:30pm
$30 cover, $10 food/drink minimum
Click here for more information.
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