Every year there is music that always gets away. Here are five notable releases that were nearly missed.
Jennifer Roberts is both a singer and actress with a musical theater background and experience in television and film. Her musical theater experience...
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The classically trained Jennifer Roberts has her roots in musical theater, a style she dynamically applies to the eclectic mix of numbers on her debut CD, An Evening with Jennifer Roberts. The title comes from her cabaret show of the same name––one of three she’s mounted––which she’d been taking to club rooms for the...
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Upon hearing the very first track on the CD "An Evening With Jennifer Roberts" it becomes readily apparent that this is going to be an unusually good record, and by the end of that opening track, the listener will find his or herself swaying, smiling and lost in what can only be labeled a perfect opening number. People unfamiliar with Ms. Roberts' work might be initially...
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It was wonderful watching cabaret singer Jennifer Roberts return to the work of one of her favorite lyricists, Sheldon Harnick. The Tuesday April 30th show in celebration of what would have been Harnick’s 100th birthday, featured selections of some of Harnick’s most well-known songs and delightful obscurities plucked from the archives. Several of the songs Roberts sang, Harnick himself had sent her sheet music for that wasn’t publicly available.
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If you are a fan of the "Broadway" style and musicals, as we are, at the editorial offices of Bayou Blue Radio and Paris-Move, you will enjoy this album by Jennifer Roberts (singer and actress). Perfect and the joy of life, this is what comes out when listening to this album with syrupy jazz, which makes you want to settle in a concert hall and watch/listen to Jennifer Roberts who...
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It's easy listening when Jennifer Roberts sings, as I found when encountering her for the first time in her "An Evening with Jennifer Roberts" act at Don't Tell Mama, one of New York's busy cabaret venues (April 21 and 22, 2003). She is luminous as she takes the mike and moves confidently through a well-chose repertoire ideally suited for her well-trained voice and warm...
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Following some successful off-Broadway cabaret
performances of “An Evening With Jennifer Roberts”, Jennifer thought it was time to finally go into a studio and record it for CD. With the genius of pianist and arranger Tedd Firth, Ms. Roberts has herself a 15-song gem of a CD. She starts and finishes with some traveling songs. Opening with “Clamorous Life"...
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Sometimes it takes a while for a singer to find the confidence and opportunity to get into a studio to make a recording. There were eleven years between the time that Jennifer Roberts, an actress and singer with extensive experience in musical theater, and a variety of film, television and commercial roles, performed her initial New York City cabaret show, and the point at...
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For the wonderful lyricist Sheldon Harnick’s 100th birthday, Jennifer Roberts paid tribute to him with the appropriately named show She Loves Sheldon. A wide variety of his work was on display (happily not just his standards), and excellent musical arrangements by Tedd Firth illuminated both the words and the melodies. The show was a marvelous tribute. Roberts, with her flexible voice and immense personal charm, was the lovely center of it all.
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Turn in your plane tickets to New York to see 'Guys and Dolls.' Broadway came to the Barn Theater Tuesday with its sparkling new production of the American musical classic. No need to travel beyond Augusta.
Actor Tom Wopat starred and directed, buoyed by an exceptionally able cast and technical staff. Frank...
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Tom Wopat pays what he owes. Wopat, who starred as Luke Duke in the 'Dukes of Hazard' in the early '80's, returns as often as his schedule permits to the Barn Theatre in Augusta where he trained in its apprentice program in 1976 and 1977...
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