WonderFULL: The Music of Stevie Wonder at The Green Room 42

Gregory Toroian

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 CDs of Leslee Warren, Suzanna Ross, Nancy Stearns, and Sue Matsuki. Gregory’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.

Peter Calo

Guitarist Peter Calo has performed and/or recorded with such diverse artists as Carly Simon, Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah, Willie Nelson, Hall and Oates, Linda Eder, Sophie B. Hawkins, Andrea Bocelli, Jimmy Webb, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Shaiman, Frank Filipetti, Julie Taymor, Lesley Gore, Crash Test Dummies, Joel Grey, The Platters, Harvey Fierstein and more. Calo has also produced many recordings including Carly Simon’s release, “Never Been Gone” and is featured in the documentary, “All You Need is Klaus”. He was guitarist for Showtime’s “Ray Donovan” and for the Tony and Grammy Award-winning original Broadway and film production of “Hairspray”. Calo also contributed music for Carly Simon's autobiographical audio book, “Boys in the Trees.” Calo played to a sold-out Carnegie hall as part of the "Lead Belly Tribute,” performing with Eric Burton (The Animals), Edgar Winter, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Walter Trout and others. In 2018, Calo was the musical director for the PBS Special “Jimmy Webb Live from The Kate” which also featured Ashley Campbell, the daughter of legend Glen Campbell. Peter's CD, “Time Machine.” Which went #9 Top Album on the Alternative Album Charts. Calo composed the music for “Extra Inning” which recently won best film in both the “Manhattan Film Festival” and the “Jersey Shore Film Festival” and is now on Amazon Prime Videos.

David Silliman

David Silliman is a 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!”

Paul Adamy

Bassist Paul Adamy has played and /or recorded with Carly Simon, Marvin Hamlisch, Todd Rundgren, Cher, Gladys Knight, Ne-Yo, Trey Songz, Jennifer Love-Hewitt, Art Garfunkel, Judy Collins, Nanci Griffith, Phoebe Snow and more. He has also played on Broadwayand Off-Broadway in "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical", Paper Mill Playhouse; "The Cher Show", Neil Simon Theater; "Kinky Boots", Al Hirschfeld Theater; "Mamma Mia", Winter Garden & Broadhurst Theaters; and more. Along with multiple film, television, and commercial credits, other performances include New York Philharmonic/Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center; Carnegie Hall; Lugano (Switzerland) Music Festival; Luzerne (Switzerland) Blues Festival; Detroit International Jazz Festival; Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, Wilmington, DE; Syracuse Jazz Festival; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, City Center; and NARAS Recording Academy Honors, New York City.

Ted Kooshian

Ted Kooshian is a jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has performed with Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry, Marvin Hamlisch, Edgar Winter, Sarah Brightman, Il Divo, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Kooshian has played in many Broadway pit orchestras, and has been a member of the Ed Palermo Big Band since 1994. Originally from San Jose, California, Kooshian has been performing since the 1980s. He has released five albums: Clockwork (2004), Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet (Summit, 2008), Underdog, and Other Stories... (Summit, 2009), Clowns Will Be Arriving (Summit, 2015), and Hubub! (Summit, 2022).

Margaret Curry

Margaret Curry, 2024 Bistro Award-winning vocalist, has shared the stage with luminaries including Leslie Uggams, Carol Channing, Billy Stritch, Amanda Green, and Ann Hampton Callaway. She has appeared as a soloist or featured performer at Lincoln Center’s Kaplan Auditorium, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room, the Hudson Guild Theatre, and many of NYC’s leading cabaret venues, as well as Davenport’s in Chicago and The Jazz Cave in Nashville. Her solo show The Space In-Between, nominated for a 2025 MAC Award, is currently touring regionally and internationally. Also an award-winning actress, director, producer, and writer, Curry has performed in over 300 Off-Broadway shows as Titania in Fools in Love, The Musical and toured nationally with Church Basement Ladies. Other recent notable stage work includes starring in Three by Tennessee with White Horse Theater Company and in Lanford Wilson’s The Moonshot Tape, directed by Mark Cirnigliaro, which had a successful Off-Broadway run in 2024. She will reprise The Moonshot Tape as part of Deep Flight Productions’ Who We Become: One-Acts by Lanford Wilson at 59E59’s East to Edinburgh Festival in July 2025 and for a full run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. On screen, Curry stars as Susan Baker in the holiday feature Merry Good Enough, which had its North American premiere at the New Hampshire Film Festival—winning Best NH Narrative Feature—and is now streaming worldwide. Additional screen work includes the feature films Starfish and Diamond Ruff, as well as national and regional commercial campaigns for Carnival Cruises, Spike TV, Jello Mousse, and Cuisinart. Curry is currently co-writing, co-starring in, and co-producing a new original dark comedy series. For more information, visit margaretcurry.com.

Diane D'Angelo

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 sung 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 the World Expo in Shanghai, on the Greek island of Mykonos, and on the Playa at the Burning Man Festival in the original opera, The Daughters of Ishtar, creating the role of Ishtar, the Goddess of Love.

Mary Sue Daniels

Vocalist and "natural-born storyteller" Mary Sue Daniels is originally from Anaconda, Montana. Her NYC shows include ”Straight Outta ‘Conda” at Don't Tell Mama and "My First 50" at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Terri Dannenberg

Terri is a newcomer to the cabaret scene but no stranger to the stage. She has appeared in numerous regional theater productions and was honored to perform twice at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. A storyteller at heart, she brings warmth and authenticity to her performances. This fall, she makes her highly anticipated solo debut at Don’t Tell Mama.

Lisa Dennett

Actor/Singer/New York City-native Lisa Dennett creates cabaret performances that tell the stories she's been collecting on the road less traveled. After 25 years advocating for equal access to arts for students with disabilities she's back on the stage as well as on the screen in television and films. Her last solo cabaret show was a tribute to Jim Croce. Stay tuned for a new show, in the works for 2026. Lisa is also a certified American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter and co-founder of the Arts for All Abilities Consortium.

Robert Gino

Cabaret Scenes described Robert’s 2017 London debut at Live at the Zédel as “a heartfelt and quite personal set delivered with charm and panache…effused by Gino’s warm country baritone.” Closer to home, Robert has performed at some of New York City’s best clubs including Feinstein’s/54 Below, the Duplex, the Metropolitan Room, Don’t Tell Mama, the Laurie Beechman Theater, and at Birdland’s Cast Party with Billy Stritch at the piano. On the theater stage, Robert originated the role of Max Schneck in The Dark I Know at New York’s Midtown International Theatre Festival and the dual roles of Father Felician/Father Boudreax in Evangeline, A Curious Journey at Adelphi’s Performing Arts Center. Other favorite roles include Roger de Bris in The Producers, Ira in Laughter on the 23rd Floor and as a featured soloist in Kander and Ebb’s And the World Goes ‘Round Sing for Your Supper, a musical celebration of the songs of Rogers and Hart.

Linda Kahn

Linda Kahn is a Bistro Award winner for Outstanding Recording in 2024 for “Wait ‘Til You See What’s Next,” produced by David Friedman, and was a 2023 MAC award nominee for Best Debut. After starting out as a young actress in TV and theater in Los Angeles, Linda took a 35-year hiatus from show business to raise a family and have a successful career in event planning. In recent years, Linda rediscovered her passion for singing, and found, in the cabaret community, the ideal medium for combining her love of connecting with people with her love of performing. Linda’s first solo show, “Say Yes,” a memoir about the power of giving in to life’s opportunities, has moved audiences and gotten uniformly rave reviews from Broadway World, Cabaret Scenes, Cabaret Hot Spot and A Woman About Town. Linda has performed at major cabaret venues including Laurie Beechman Theatre, The Triad, Don’t Tell Mama, The Duplex, Davenports and Canyon Ranch.

Kati Neiheisel

Kati Neiheisel is 2025 MAC Award Nominee for her show, London by Night, celebrating singer Julie London, directed by Lina Koutrakos with musical direction by Gregory Toroian, and a 2018 MAC Award Nominee for her debut show, Among the Stars, directed by Deb Berman with musical direction by Toroian. She was introduced to cabaret by Helen Baldassare and studied with Marilyn Maye and the late musical director Barry Levitt. In NYC, Kati has performed at the Cutting Room, Don’t Tell Mama, the Duplex, 54 Below, Metropolitan Room, Pangea, the Triad, Urban Stages, and at Jazz on Main in Mount Kisco, NY.

Jamie Salzano

Jamie Salzano is an actor, dancer, singer based in New York. Salzano has appeared at The Metropolitan Room, Don’t Tell Mama, and the Duplex in New York City as well as Davenport’s in Chicago. She has also been spotted on television in Law & Order, in the film Carlito’s Way, and in a French Energizer commercial that required her to run across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Deborah Stone

A native New Yorker, Deborah Stone has been a dancer, actor and singer on the East and West Coasts, was in a Broadway musical, and was a show girl in New York City and Dallas.  She entered the world of Cabaret in 2016, and has performed in New York City at The Beach Café, Pangea, The Metropolitan Room, The Triad, Don’t Tell Mama, The Laurie Beechman Theater, and The Green Room 42, and in Kansas City at The American Jazz Museum’s Blue Room. Drawing upon her years as a folk singer/guitarist at bars, clubs, and restaurants in New York City, Deborah has added these talents to her calendar of performances. In her most recent show, String Theory, pianist Darryl Kojack, guitarist Sean Harkness and bassist Tom Hubbard joined Stone, a fine guitarist herself.

Lina Koutrakos

Lina Koutrakos is an award-winning and accomplished singer/songwriter/teacher/director based in New York City. As a singer, she has been repeatedly rave reviewed 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,” repeatedly. For 3 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 and she is a lifetime Backstage Bistro Award-Winner for “Best Director,” as well. 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 now 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 a now annual advanced performance workshop on the island of Mykonos. From 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, it’s no wonder Koutrakos is referred to as a “Walking Master Class” by Billboard Magazine as both singer and director.