Martha Lorin Returns to LA's Gardenia With Love Me Or Leave Me May 21

Tome Rolla's Gardenia, Eric Bufano and Lampkin Music Group presents Martha Lorin in "Love Me Or Leave Me - A Tribute to Ruth Etting" ONE SHOW ONLY! Saturday, May 21st, 2011.

Gardenia Restaurant and Nightclub
7066 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, Cal.
Tickets are $20.00.
RSVP @ 1-323-467-7444

Critically acclaimed jazz singer, Martha Lorin, returns to the LA nightclub scene after many years with a new show, "Love Me Or Leave Me - A Tribute to Ruth Etting", in it's premiere performance. The theater piece features a collection of songs and stories as told by Martha, about her early years working with Ruth as mentor. Directed by Broadway legend Larry Fuller with a script by Larry Fuller and Martha Lorin, "Love Me Or Leave Me" is appearing direct from it's first preview in Pennsylvania.

Martha Lorin, hailing from Colorado and now based on the East Coast, has been praised by critics worldwide for the brilliance of her tone, the beauty of her voice and her exceptional way with a lyric. Martha has received a Back Stage Bistro Award, a Billboard Award for her songwriting abilities, and continues to raise the bar for new jazz singers on the rise with every new recording she releases. The current CD "Don't Slam That Door -- The Many Moods of Martha Lorin" is a collection of new and re-released recordings from 1980 till 2004, that will be released in late 2007. It features Martha's work with jazz legends Pee Wee Ellis, who arranged Martha's debut album, "The Best Is Yet To Come," film score legend Mark Isham; and includes the rare cut "Last Night When We Were Young" arranged and accompanied by Russ Kassoff (Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, Sylvia Syms). She has appeared in many prestigious concert hall/clubs: Carnegie Hall/Weill Hall, Town Hall, Birdland, Eighty Eight's, Iridium, the Plush Room, Jazz at Pearl's in San Francisco, Playboy Club in Japan and the Philippines, and nightclubs from Vancouver to Paris. Martha has worked with some of the finest Jazz musicians including the late Johnny Frigo, Gene Bertoncini, Larry Klein, Richie Coles, Von Freeman, Fared Hague, Tommy Flanagan and Billy Stritch.

Larry Fuller:

Larry Fullers Broadway choreographic works include EVITA (he also did the original London production), SWEENEY TODD, ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, A DOLL'S LIFE and the American premiere of Kurt Weills' SLIVER LAKE, for the New York City Opera.
Mr. Fuller both directed and choreographed the Off-Broadway musical LOVE, which won two Outer Critics Awards for Best Book and Best Musical Score, and a summer spectacular at Radio City Music Hall, GOTTA GET AWAY.
His non-musical directorial credits include two New York Off-Broadway productions by Canadian playwright, Maxim Mazumdar, OSCAR REMEMBERED, at the Provincetown Playhouse and INVITATION TO THE DANCE, at American Theater of Actors.
In Europe he directed and choreographed the first European productions of CANDIDE, GIRL CRAZY and ON THE TOWN, along with four German productions of WEST SIDE STORY. He worked on the films A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, starring Elizabeth Taylor, and THE BOARDING SCHOOL, starring Nastassja Kinski. At the Theatre An Der Wien, in Vienna, he created the highly successful dance evening, JAZZ AND THE DANCING AMERICANS, and for the London Festival Ballet, a classical piece entitled HUMORS OF MAN. Also in London he directed and choreographed the West End hits MARILYN, THE MUSICAL and TIME.
For EVITA, Mr. Fuller received a Tony Award nomination for outstanding choreography, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Distinguished Choreography, and two New York Critics Circle Awards for his work in SWEENEY TODD and EVITA and a New York Television Academy Award for choreographing OUR AMERICAN MUSICAL HERITAGE series on WCBS-TV.

LAMPKIN MUSIC GROUP:

A Production/Promotions/Consultation company owned by Ralph Lampkin, Jr; has worked on many interesting electric projects over the years:
Los Angeles Credits include: "Everybody's Girl" starring Alexandra Billings at Sterling's at Vitello's (named Best Female Cabaret Singer of 2009, Broadway World; Alexandra Billings tour-de-force autobiography play, "Before I Disappear" - an 8 week run in Los Angeles (2005), receiving a ADA nomination for Best Play of the Year and Best Actress for Alexandra Billings and "Home Again" Starring Alexandra Billings at Sacred Fools Theater. Recent credits include: "Daily Practice; Volume One" starring Tony Winner Alice Ripley; "What He Did For Love" starring Alexandra Billings, Spider Saloff, Robin Kay, Justin Wiliams, Carlo Chapelle, Jeremy Rill, Robert Ollis, Danny Lerman, Tim Gant and Shelln Lubin: My Musical Comedy Life" starring Tony Winner Donna McKechnie. Recording projects include the critically acclaimed "Come Walk With Me" (Grammy nomination) "Blues Over Broadway" and "Don't Slam That Door" all by Martha Lorin, and the recently released "Shade of Blue" by Carlo Chapelle, which reached the top 40 on the jazz chart in Australia. These CDs have been heard on NPR (reaching number 1 on several stations), DMX radio, Discover Radio (reaching number 1 on the jazz chart), Everything Old is New Again - N.Y, National Dance Pool Chart (reaching the top #25). Ralph has 18 ASCAP awards for his talents as a lyricist.

Lampkin has been called "King of Cabaret" by Rick Kogan, WGN RADIO; "Producer Extradinaire" by the Chicago Reader; "Cabaret's Guro" by Andrew Patner of WMFT and Chicago's "premier cabaret producer" by writer/critic, Jonathan Abarbanel.

 

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