After many years in San Francisco, Diane D’Angelo has returned to New York with Closing Credits, her second show since her homecoming! Years ago, D’Angelo found herself often the last person in the movie theater, savoring the songs that played over the final frames. D’Angelo’s musical tasting menu includes songs from a wide range of movies, from timeless classics to modern favorites like Working Girl, The Shape of Water, Lilo & Stitch, and many more. D’Angelo’s ability to reimagine songs with her captivating vocals and dynamic performance creates a truly unforgettable experience. Directed by Lina Koutrakos, the show features musical director/arranger Gregory Toroian on piano, Tom Hubbard on bass and David Silliman on drums. Closing Credits, which premiered November 12, 2024, at The Green Room 42, followed by an encore performance on May 15, 2025, at Laurie Beechman Theatre, promises an eclectic mix of musical emotions. BroadwayWorld says, “Diane D’Angelo is brimming over with a perfect combination oftalent, confidence, sass and humor, and an absolute mission to connect to every person in her audience.” A 2025 MAC Hanson Award Winner, Diane D’Angelo has appeared on cabaret stages from coast to coast and around the world. In NYC, she has performed at Arci’s Place, Laurie Beechman Theatre, Don’t Tell Mama, the FireBird, The Green Room 42, Judy’s Chelsea, and the Waldorf Astoria. She has played to sold out crowds at both NYC’s 54 Below and San Francisco’s Feinstein's at the Nikko. D'Angelo is a classically trained vocalist who has performed for two former U.S. Presidents. She can be heard on the soundtrack of The Godfather III and has worked with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. As a soloist, D'Angelo has sung the comic operas of Gilbert & Sullivan with the Lamplighters Music Theatre and the San Diego Comic Opera. She has performed at prestigious events such as the World Expo in Shanghai, enchanted audiences on the Greek island of Mykonos, and captivated festival goers at Burning Man with her role in the original opera, The Daughters of Ishtar, creating the role of Ishtar, the Goddess of Love.
Cast and Creative team for Diane D'Angelo: Closing Credits at Chelsea Table + Stage
Cast
Diane D'Angelo
Vocals
A 2025 MAC Hanson Award Winner, Diane D’Angelo has appeared on cabaret stages from coast to coast and around the world. In NYC, she has performed at Arci’s Place, Laurie Beechman Theatre, Don’t Tell Mama, the FireBird, The Green Room 42, Judy’s Chelsea, and the Waldorf Astoria. She has played to sold out crowds at both NYC’s 54 Below and San Francisco’s Feinstein's at the Nikko. D'Angelo is a classically trained vocalist who has performed for two former U.S. Presidents. She can be heard on the soundtrack of The Godfather III and has worked with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. As a soloist, D'Angelo has sung the comic operas of Gilbert & Sullivan with the Lamplighters Music Theatre and the San Diego Comic Opera. She has performed at prestigious events such as the World Expo in Shanghai, enchanted audiences on the Greek island of Mykonos, and captivated festival goers at Burning Man with her role in the original opera, The Daughters of Ishtar, creating the role of Ishtar, the Goddess of Love.
Gregory Toroian
Musical Director / Piano
Gregory Toroian is a musical director, arranger, jazz pianist, vocalist, songwriter, and educator. He has been featured in Cabaret Scenes magazine and was the 2020 Bistro Award winner for Outstanding Collaboration with Sue Matsuki, with whom he had also won a MAC award for Best Duo Production. In addition to working with such artists as Tony Bennett, Jon Hendricks, Cab Calloway, Donna Summer, Melissa Errico, Marilyn Maye, Karen Mason, and Jane Olivor, he has appeared in almost every jazz club and cabaret (major and minor) in New York. He has toured with principal dancers from the New York City Ballet and has made numerous radio and television appearances including the Today Show and Maury Povich. His recording work includes the recent debut CD of Suzanna Ross, the debut CD of award-winning cabaret artist Sue Matsuki, for which he was arranger, producer, and pianist, and seven CDs with cabaret singer Nancy Stearns. Toroian’s vocal arrangements have been featured on a series of albums in the US and Japan, by the vocal group String of Pearls. He currently offers an array of performance workshops.
Tom Hubbard
Bass
Tom Hubbard is a bassist who lives and works in New York City. He studied with Arthur Gold and George Stahl of the Minnesota Orchestra and renowned jazz bassists Richard Davis and Dave Holland. He has performed with instrumentalists Kenny Barron, Jay McShann, Charlie Rouse, Dewey Redman, Dannie Richmond and Dave Stryker among others. Tom has accompanied a long list of singers including Joe Williams, Jon Hendricks, Mose Allison, Freddy Cole, Chris Connor, Sheila Jordan, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Marilyn Maye, Stacey Kent and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. He has performed in some of the top venues worldwide including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, The Academy of Music (Philadelphia), The Sydney Opera House, NHK Hall (Tokyo) and Frankfurt’s Alte Oper. He is a two-time MAC Award winner for best ensemble instrumentalist.
David Silliman
Drums
David Silliman…Drummer and percussionist. David's middle name should be “versatility”. Whether accompanying song stylists such as Mariah Carey, Cassandra Wilson, and Blossom Dearie or playing with Colombian Harpist Edmar Castaneda, David's exciting rhythmic energies add color and mood to any musical performance. He's also comfortable playing in the pit of a Broadway show or with the New Jersey Symphony. David has over 20 years of experience. His performances have taken him to concerts and festivals in Italy, Vienna, Berlin, the North Sea, Monterey, Uruguay and Lithuania. David was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he was exposed to a wide variety of music. David's first studies were in the Classical field, studying snare drum, xylophone and timpani. Later studies exposed him to Jazz, Latin Jazz, Brazilian and Funk music.“ I love living in NY because it gives me the opportunity to play and perform with so many diverse artists, across all styles of music!”
Creative Team
Lina Koutrakos
Director
Lina Koutrakos is an award-winning singer/songwriter/teacher/director based in New York City. As a singer, she has repeatedly received rave reviews from The New York Times to Billboard Magazine in both rock and roll and cabaret and has been awarded Cabaret’s most prestigious awards for “Best Female Vocalist” and “Entertainer of the Year,” multiple times. For three decades Koutrakos has been a New York City musical fixture - as both soloist and as a director and performance coach. Her directorial nods include being a 4-time winner for “Best Director” from the MAC Association as well as a lifetime Backstage Bistro Award-Winner for “Best Director.”. Koutrakos was on staff as a Master Teacher for years at both the Eugene O'Neill Cabaret Symposium and The Yale Cabaret Conference. She was the first Master Teacher with The St. Louis Cabaret Conference and co-founded NYC’s Summer in the City yearly workshop on weekends. She has since gone on to start her own performance workshop “Performance Connection,” which umbrellas many ongoing and specialty workshops and seminars both online and in person. The Advance Performance Workshop in NYC has produced many award-winning performers and shows over the last 2 decades. Her singing and being the founder of the Midwest Cabaret Conference in Chicago for 10 years won her the “Gold Coast” Award with the Chicago Cabaret Professionals in 2019. She spearheads an annual Advanced Performance Workshop on the island of Mykonos. Due to her performance workshops with full bands to one-on-one clients across the U.S. to her own award-winning original material and one woman shows, Koutrakos has been called a “Walking Master Class” by Billboard Magazine. linasings.com
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