Photo Flash: First Look at Sarah Raines Valentine's Day Cabaret Concert

The Sarah Raines Concert Series, which produced the hilarious, sold-out event "All's Lehrer in Love and War," presented a Valentine's Day Cabaret Dinner theatre at The Ellery Room on February 10.

BroadwayWorld gives you a first look below!

The show starred local performer Sarah Raines, seen last summer at the Ellery Room for the sold-out extended run of the hysterical dinner theatre Nunsense.

Sarah Raines is a classically-trained singer and comedic actress. She earned her bachelor of music in voice from NYU and has been performing ever since. In 2013, she was honored to be invited to the New York Music Theatre Festival as a supporting actress and music director of the original show The Dead Legend. Locally, she's been in Lompoc Civic Theatre's 2.0 and Nunsense and is currently singing in the chorus of Opera Santa Barbara's season. As producer and performer in The Sarah Raines Concert Series, she's presented full and sold-out performances in Lompoc for the past nine months and donated proceeds to local charities such as the Lompoc Food Pantry, Domestic Violence Solutions Lompoc Shelter, and Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara.

Born and raised in Taiwan, Yun Murphy comes from a musical family where both parents as well as both of her sisters play piano and sing. She started playing at age eight years and began formal lessons at 13. After finishing her B.S. in electrical engineering at Chung Yuan University she studied for 17 years under Professor David Saidenberg, a professional pianist and professor of music at Taiwan University. She established her own music school and taught for 28 years students aged 3 to adult. In 2001 she received her AMI Montessori diploma from the Montessori Institute of Denver. After marrying Jim Murphy, director of the Children's Montessori School of Lompoc, in 2007 she moved to the U.S. She has been the pianist for the Lompoc Valley Master Chorale, the Lompoc Pops Orchestra, various ensemble groups and currently teaches private piano lessons and is working at the Children's Montessori School.

Photo Credit: Paula Pladsen

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