Bay Area Cabaret Adds Second Lea Salonga Concert 9/17

After selling out the original 8pm Friday September 16th performance three weeks in advance, Bay Area Cabaret has added a second Lea Salonga concert on 5pm Saturday, September 17, 2011 at the Venetian Room of the Fairmont San Francisco (950 Mason Street). In an intimate evening with the singer, who recently received accolades from The New York Times for her Café Carlyle engagement, Tony Award winner Lea Salonga shares a smartly conceived selection of Broadway tunes, standard classics, and today's hits, as well as deeply personal stories of her life. Tickets ($60 general / $50 subscribers/$30 under 18) are available at www.bayareacabaret.org or by phone at City Box Office (415) 392-4400.

Salonga comes to San Francisco fresh from her critically-acclaimed run at New York's Café Carlyle where The New York Times noted, "Ms. Salonga's bright, metallically edged voice is a shiny all-purpose instrument that confidently establishes its dominion over whatever musical setting surrounds it." Salonga, on August 9, 2011, also released a brand new live version CD of her successful 2010 concert Lea Salonga: The Journey So Far, which debuted at #1 on the iTunes jazz chart. Salonga began her career as a child star in the Philippines, making her professional debut in 1978 at seven years of age in the musical The King and I. By the time she was 10, she had released her debut album, "Small Voice." Worldwide acclaim came with her Olivier Award-winning role as "Kim" in the original London production of the musical Miss Saigon in 1989, at the age of 17. Opening on Broadway two years later, she swept the season by winning the Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theater World Awards. She has since become a musical theatre icon, starring in productions of Les Miserablés, Cats, Flower Drum Song, Cinderella, and Into The Woods. As an actress and singer, she has starred in numerous films and TV shows as well as performing in concerts around the world.

Bay Area Cabaret's fall line-up continues Saturday, October 22 by film (American Beauty, The Player), television (The O.C.), and Broadway star Peter Gallagher, and December 11, 2011 by Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Stacey Kent.

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