Running With Scissors Presents LISA SINGS LEE 5/7-16

Running With Scissors' very own Lisa Picone presents LISA SINGS LEE. Directed by Banu Gibson, Piano Jesse Reeks • Bass Sam Phillips • Drums Chris Guccione May 7 - 16 at Le Chat Noir • 715 St. Charles Avenue Fridays and Saturdays at 8 • Sundays at 6

Special opening performance TONIGHT for the Mystic Krewe of Satyricon
Tickets: $20 donation • Call 504 525 4498 or visit www.MysticKreweOfSatyricon.com

For all other performances, call 504 581 5812 or visit www.cabaretlechatnoir.com
Tickets: $25, which includes a $5 credit toward drinks

As an homage to Miss Peggy Lee in her 90th birthday year, Lisa Picone celebrates the music and life of this incomparable performer by singing songs Lee wrote -- "Mañana", "It's a Good Day", and "He's A Tramp" (from Disney's Lady and the Tramp) -- and songs she made famous, like "Is That All There Is?", "Big Spender", and "Fever".

Miss Picone is a Big Easy Award-winner and a familiar face to New Orleans theatre fans. She is especially known for her work with local troupe Running With Scissors. This is her premiere solo cabaret show after graduating from the prestigious Cabaret Conference at Yale University.

Director Banu Gibson's career highlights include appearing on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, ringing in the millennium as the only guest artist of the Boston Pops, singing at the 2001 Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, performing with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at the Bowl, and sitting in with Woody Allen at the Café Carlyle. Banu is also highlighted in the first chapter of Charles Kuralt's book Charles Kuralt's America.

In New Orleans, on the other side of the footlights, Banu has directed Cole Porter Tonite! for Tulane's Center Stage, the Press' Gridiron Show, and most recently Amy Alvarez's cabaret show Taking A Chance on Love at Le Chat Noir. She has choreographEd Mack & Mabel at Le Petit Theater and Girl Crazy for Tulane Summer Lyric Theater. Banu also choreographed and directed Getting A Kick Out Of Cole at Le Chat Noir. She was honored in 2009 by the Preservation Resource Center for her contributions to music and was a New Orleans Magazine's 2007 Jazz All Star.

Accompanist Jesse Reeks is a graduate of Loyola College of Music Jazz Studies. Raised by two musicians, his dad, John, is a Loyola professor and has been a clarinetist with the LPO for 30 years, and his mom, Jan, has been a pianist at Pat O'Brien's for 20 years. Jesse graduated from NOCCA winning the "Make It Funky" scholarship for the Outstanding Jazz Student. His former instructors include Ellis Marsalis, Michael Pellera, and SheaRon Horton. Professionally, he has accompanied many choruses and musicals around the city, often at Le Petit Theatre. Currently he works as a vocal accompanist at both Loyola and Tulane Universities.

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