Jennifer Sheehan Makes Met Room Debut 3/10

The award-winning Jennifer Sheehan brings her much-lauded celebration of the Great American Songbook, "You Made Me Love You," to the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, for three weeks in March. Sheehan, the first Noël Coward Foundation Cabaret Award winner, and a recipient of the Julie Wilson Award from the Mabel Mercer Foundation, makes her Metropolitan Room debut with "You Made Me Love You," a songbook show that explores the enduring appeal and relevance of American songwriting. Her three-week Metropolitan Room engagement performs on Thursday March 10 at 7pm, Friday March 18 at 9:30pm and Friday March 25 at 7pm. The music director, James Followell, is featured on piano, with Jered Egan on bass.

In "You Made Me Love You" Sheehan traces the arc of American Songbook -- from its earliest stirrings in the teens, to its flowering mid-century, all the way to the present as a new generation of composers makes their own sophisticated, if not idiosyncratic, contributions. Melding a versatile voice (that ranges from silky soprano to earthy belt), lithe sensuality and an understated intelligence and humor, Sheehan gracefully illuminates a firmament of songwriters - from Shelton Brooks who wrote the acknowledged first American standard, "Some of These Days" (recorded in 1911), all the way to the contemporaries Adam Guettel and John Bucchino.

A Juilliard School graduate, Sheehan made her Carnegie Hall debut last year as a special guest of Michael Feinstein. She has performed as a featured vocalist in Radio City Music Hall's "Christmas Spectacular;" in the 92nd Street Y's "Lyrics & Lyricists Series" opposite Andrea Marcovicci and Klea Blackhurst, and in numerous New York Cabaret Conventions. She has appeared as a guest soloist of Andrea Marcovicci in concerts in New York, Chicago and her native St. Louis. Sheehan has performed "You Made Me Love You" at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach; the Brownsville Concert Series (Brownsville and Omaha Nebraska); the Union Club, and at the National Arts Club here in New York. "You Made Me Love You" was seen in a short run at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in 2009.

Jennifer Sheehan in "You Made Me Love You - Celebrating 100 Years of the Great American Songbook" performs three times from March 10 to 25 -- on Thursday March 10 at 7pm, Friday March 18 at 9:30pm and Friday March 25 at 7pm. The music charge is $20, with a two-drink minimum. For reservations call 212/206-0440, or to order online visit www.metropolitanroom.com The Nightlife and Bistro Award-winning Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, celebrates its fifth anniversary in May.