Francesca Amari Presents YOU MAKE ME LAUGH to Benefit Gilda's Club, 8/21

Recent desert transplant, actress and singer Francesca Amari will reprise her new show You Make Me Laugh at The Arthur Newman Theatre at The Joslyn Center in Palm Desert on Sunday, August 21st at 2 PM. Francesca will be joined by local music director Joel Baker for this highly acclaimed show which features many songs and stories from Gilda Radner's own repertoire and pays tribute to her stage career and long run on Saturday Night Live. Gilda's Club Desert Cities, an affiliate of the Cancer Support Community, will benefit with a portion of each $10 ticket sold. Gilda's Club Desert Cities provides a full range of programs free of charge, through emotional and social support groups, gentle exercise, nutrition, social activities and education in the comfortable, home-like environment of their center located in Cathedral City and off-site in Desert Hot Springs, Mecca, and Thermal. More information is about available at www.gildasclubdesertcities.org or by calling 760-770-5689. 

Francesca Amari's previous cabaret appearances are numerous and include clubs throughout the Midwest, Chicago, Palm Springs, San Diego, The Gardenia in West Hollywood and NYC's Metropolitan Room, and concerts in New York with Broadway star Karen Mason and cabaret legend Andrea Marcovicc. Her many musical review credits include: Midlife! The Crisis Musical; Boogie Woogie Babies"; Boogie Down Broadway; and Boogie, Beehives & Beyond. Francesca is a former dramatics teacher at such educational institutions as Aquinas College, Western Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, and has directed numerous children's productions for more than 20 years. She's currently is a Teaching Artist for McCallum Theatre Institute and has done writing, editing, special event planning, PR and marketing for several non-profits like United Way; Planned Parenthood; YWCA; and Grand Rapids Public Library. Ms. Amari released her CD, “Better Days,” in 2008 receiving national recognition and four 'JAMMIE' nominations from WYCE West MI.

Francesca Amari in You Make Me Laugh - A Love Song To Gilda Radner is presented by Les Michaels' as part of the Life Is A Cabaret Sundays In Summer Series at The Arthur Newman Theatre at The Joslyn Center, located at 73-750 Catalina Way, in Palm Desert. Tickets for the Sunday, August 21st are $10 cash only and may be purchased at the box office, which opens at 1 PM with a curtain time 2 PM. For more information please call 760-325-2731.

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