Callie Carson Makes a Sensational Cabaret Debut @ Sterling's

Actress/singer Callie Carson made her cabaret debut @ Sterling's Upstairs @ Vitello's Sunday October 17 and wowed the SRO house with her super-talent, beauty and glowing charm. It is hardly pretentious to say it, so let's proclaim it loud and clear: this gal has it all. Her height and wholesome good looks have already made her a very successful model. If being offered role after role in musical comedy productions like Little Shop of Horrors and Happy Days the Musical isn't enough proof of her fine singing and acting abilities, then this Sterling's supper club gig should help to pave her way to stage stardom. She is that good.

Highlights of the evening included: a riveting "Home" from The Wiz, "To Sir With Love", the sexy, alluring "Peel Me a Grape", with great bass accompaniment, a very touching "Hello In There", sung to a 90 year-old friend in the audience, Scott Alan's beautiful "Say Goodbye" and "Until Now" her brilliantly dynamic encore. Musical director extraordinaire Michael Paternostro and director Richard Hochberg have penned Scary the Musical which provided her with two extremely funny tunes "The Last Girl" and "I'm Just a Girl", which she followed with the big and bold Earth Kitt arrangement of "I Wanna Be Evil". No limitations for Carson, who ran the gamut from slow ballads and torch songs to upbeat comedic pop tunes with breathtaking ease, polish and flair. She also held the audience in the palm of her hand in between numbers with humorous anecdotes about her hometown in North Dakota and her riveting love story before, with and after her boyfriend Chad. Her emotions were genuine and overflowing, and there was not a dry eye in the house. Titled Until Now the show charted Carson's psychological journey through her heartbreaking romantic breakup to her present state of happy self-awareness. Every song she chose helped to enhance her story. In one number Carson's father joined her jubilantly on stage for string accompaniment.

Don't miss a single performance of Miss Callie Carson, who, thankfully for us, has carved out a richly deserved niche in the LA musical theatre spotlight! Join her for Cabrillo's Happy Days the Musical opening at Thousand Oaks' Kavli Theatre this Friday, October 22!