Jody Mullen Returns to Don't Tell Mama with A THING CALLED HOPE

A THING CALLED HOPE, an original cabaret featuring New Jersey-based singer Jody Mullen, plays at Don't Tell Mama this fall on September 9 and November 12 at 4 PM. The show, which takes its name from the song "A Cockeyed Optimist" from Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, celebrates the beauty, wit, and charm of the American Songbook, with music by Jerome Kern, Henry Mancini, Harold Arlen, Jule Styne, and many more. With music direction by Eddie Schnecker, A THING CALLED HOPE is an evening of Golden Age vocals and glamour for the 21st century.

Don't Tell Mama (NYC) is located at 343 West 46th Street in Manhattan. Admission: $10 cover, with a two-drink minimum. Reservations are recommended at www.donttellmamanyc.com. To learn more about the show and the artist, visit www.jodymullen.com.

With an "acclaimed voice that lends itself to the American Songbook" (Don Carswell, The Sparta Independent), Jody Mullen made her New York cabaret debut in Love Letters from Jersey, a one-Jersey-Girl tribute to the Garden State's most iconic musicians, from Frank and Nancy Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan to Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston, Laura Benanti, and Jerome Kern. Directed by Lennie Watts and premiered at Don't Tell Mama in New York in 2015, Love Letters has since played in many venues throughout its namesake state.

Jody has appeared as a solo artist and entertainer in Prudential Hall at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark), Don't Tell Mama (Manhattan), the West End Cabaret (Manhattan), 440 Gallery (Park Slope), 180 Maiden Lane (Manhattan), the Westmount Country Club (Woodland Park, NJ), St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University, and many others. She is a professional soprano soloist and section leader at Grace Church Brooklyn Heights and is on the artist roster of Music for All Seasons in NJ, performing in both public and private events. She is also an alumna of dell'Arte Opera Ensemble, where she sang the role of Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, among others.

Jody graduated with high honors from Barnard College, Columbia University, where she won the LeFrak Prize in Music for her senior recital of American Songbook literature. NJ Mom named her a "Mom-preneur of the Year" in 2016. She currently lives in (where else?) New Jersey with her family.