Third Annual TOMATOES GOT TALENT Show Features Women Over 40

The "Tomatoes Got Talent" show will take place on Sunday, March 13 at the Triad, 158 West 72nd St. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at www.thethreetomatoes.com/talentshow2016.

Randie Levine-Miller is co-producing with Cheryl Benton of The Three Tomatoes, as well as hosting this year's talent competition featuring women over 40 who have segued to other careers.

According to Levine-Miller: "Some of our performers started out to be pros, but "life" took them in other directions. But now they're back...and some of them are better than ever. Some of our "faux-pros" are as fabulous as current "pros" in the business!"

For the third year in a row, the judges are show business veterans: Beth Fowler, Tony Award nominated actress/singer, as well as SAG Award winner for "Orange Is the New Black"; Margaret Colin, TV and Stage Actress, currently starring in "City of Conversation" at the Kennedy Center in Washington; and Alyce Finell, co-director of The Mabel Mercer Foundation. Paul Chamlin is Musical Director. Guest performance by Karen Nason, 2014 Tomatoes Got Talent winner.

Among the talented performers vying for top prize, which includes over $1,000 in gifts and the chance to appear in a professional revue back at the Triad in June, are: Beth Goehring, a book publishing executive by day who loves singing cabaret, the theatre and her corgi; Ellen Naomi, an abstract artist who also expresses herself through singing Cole Porter songs; Jane Deeken, a personal assistant to a NYC philanthropist, expresses her creative side as an artist and a singer; Jeanne Marino, a piano and voice teacher who only recently started to perform herself, loves singing her own parodies; Jo Marchese a retired flight attendant who describes herself as "well over 40", started singing at open mics six years ago; Kathleen Waters, a legal secretary whose first love is music, sings everything from R&B to the oldies; Marcie Chasen owns a national market research firm and loves to perform, especially cabaret and Broadway tunes; Mary Malloy is a newspaper editor and reporter who loves to sing the standards and is the first runner up in the Ms. New York Senior America pageant; Mary Roesler is a legal secretary in NYC, who recently took a couple of cabaret classes and got hooked; Michele Sivori is a self-described "computer geek" for a large financial services company by day, but loves singing by night; Patrice Richardson a former cruise ship performer who now owns a designer consignment boutique, in East Northport, and these days loves being in regional theater; Susan Mack worked on Wall Street for 20 years, and after a 35-year break from singing is now back following her passion.

Watch the audition video: www.thethreetomatoes.com/talentfinalists2016

"The bottom line is never give up on your dream," says show co-creator Cheryl Benton, whose popular (and free!) online newsletter, The Three Tomatoes (thethreetomatoes.com) is "The Insider's Guide for Women Who Aren't Kids".

Photo Credit: The Three Tomatoes' website