No advance tickets, First come, first served. We encourage you to get there early (6:30ish), as this event usually sells out. Admission $20
Plenty of free parking in lot on the east side. More info: Gerry Fialka 310 306 7330
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LA's Diva Deluxe SUZY WILLIAMS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzy_Williams
& BRAD KAY
http://www.janetklein.com/web/bios/brad.htm
The 18th annual celebration of song and literature features new works and hits from past shows.
New: Alfred Lord Tennyson, James Joyce, Zelda Fitzgerald, Jonathan Swift, O. Henry.
Past: Walt Whitman, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Graves, Langston Hughes, Rudyard Kipling.
The band includes stellar musicians:
Brad Kay: Piano and Vocals.
Suzy Williams: Vocals.
Kahlil Sabbagh: Percussion.
Ryan Feves: Upright Bass.
Stuart Fordyce: Flute.
Kylan Sabbagh: Guitar
and more.
Special guests:
Ginger Smith,
Jon Eric Preston,
THE LIT SHOW has featured songs based on words by Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Graves, Edna St Vincent Millay, J.D. Salinger, Samuel Beckett, Raymond Chandler, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, Rudyard Kipling and more. Dorothy Parker wrote a song that Billie Holiday sang. Tennessee Williams wrote a song that Marlon Brando sang as a rambling troubadour in The Fugitive Kind. Lonely House was written by Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes. Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg wrote Pull My Daisy with David Amram.
You've read the book, now hear the song.
Video clips from past shows:
The Tavern
Dog - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Finnegan's Wake song
C J Cronner's LIT SHOW review: .
http://www.blogtownbycjgronner.com/.../the-lit-show...
THE LIT SHOW has featured the likes of J.D. Salinger - see video at
SUZY WILLIAMS has played Carnegie Hall with Stormin' Norman & Suzy, performed with Pilobolus Dance Company, and has worked with Van Dyke Parks, Buster Poindexter, Marc Shaiman, and film director Nicholas Ray. Bette Midler, Horace Silver, Roosevelt Sykes, Ann Magnuson, Eubie Blake, Odetta and Hadda Brooks have praised her passionate singing and vibrant energy. Suzy's voice is vibrant and lusty...great gusto and bold emotion." - Nat Hentoff, Cosmopolitan. "Williams' energy must be seen to be believed...a natural performer." - Robert Palmer, New York Times.
BRAD KAY, composer, pianist and historian, has led bands in Los Angeles since 1965. He has collaborated with Danny Elfman's Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, Firesign Theater’s Phil Austin, jazz pioneer Gerald Wilson, writer Harlan Ellison, director Tim Burton, and Suzy & Her Solid Senders. Kay plays cornet and piano with Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys. "No one I have ever met is more dedicated to music than the great pianist Brad Kay...he is ever searching for infinite harmonic variations, love and a soulful sense of humor in his music." - George Winston.
Press ready stills:
https://laughtears.com/hi-res-pics.html
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