Therese Lee Will Bring PENNIES FROM HEAVEN to Don't Tell Mama
Christopher Denny serves as music director and Jeff Harnar directs the cabaret show at the Restaurant Row venue.
Bistro Award Winner Therese Lee will return to New York for an encore performance of PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, MY LIFE IN BING CROSBY SONGS. The show uses the music of Bing Crosby to highlight stories from her life and includes an eclectic set of songs from Cole Porter to Joni Mitchell, from Kurt Weill to Marvin Hamlisch, including standards and surprises such as “Blue Skies”, “Swinging on a Star”, “Brother Can You Spare a Dime” and "Both Sides Now”.
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, MY LIFE IN BING CROSBY SONGS is made possible with generous support from the Mabel Mercer Foundation Bill Stubing Development Fund Grant and the American Songbook Association Pomranz Performance Grant.
BING CROSBY, whose recording career spanned over five decades, leaving him still holding the world record for physical media sales of his iconic “White Christmas,” was also a star on radio, television and film. He is remembered for musical film classics including “Holiday Inn,” “High Society,” the “Road” pictures with Bob Hope, and an Academy Award for Best Actor for “Going My Way”.
Therese Lee is a versatile performer who has sung in every genre from opera and art song to musical theater and the Great American Songbook. She has performed her own cabaret acts in Los Angeles at the Cinegrill, the Gardenia and Feinstein's at Vitello's and in New York at The Triad and Don't Tell Mama. In 2023, her show RIDING THE BUS TO THE RED CARPET won the Bistro Award for Outstanding Autobiographical Show.
Music Director Christopher Denny is a multi-Bistro and MAC Award winner who has served as musical director, arranger and pianist for such theater, cabaret and opera luminaries as Karen Mason, Lorna Dallas, Julie Wilson, Tammy Grimes, Amanda McBroom, David Campbell, Brent Barrett, Rod Gilfry, Gregg Edelman, Andrea Marcovicci, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Loudon, Kaye Ballard, Jeff Harnar and Steven Brinberg. Film work includes having produced the recording sessions of Placido Domingo for Baz Luhrmann's Oscar-winning musical film, Moulin Rouge. He has recorded about forty CD's.
Director Jeff Harnar is a multiple MAC, Bistro and Broadway World Cabaret Award winning Director, recipient of The Noel Coward Foundation Cabaret Award and was the 2022 Chicago Cabaret Professionals National Honoree. He has directed solo shows for Tovah Feldshuh and Rita Gardner and award winning shows for Celia Berk, Dawn Derow, Margo Brown, Josephine Sanges and Therese Lee.
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN plays at DON'T TELL MAMA (343 W. 46th St.) Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 7PM. There is a $25.00 Cover Charge ($20 for MAC members) with a $20 two drink minimum. Cash only.
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