KT Sullivan
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Sep 16–19, 2010
Colored Lights
KT Sullivan’s performances evoke words like classic, comical, theatrical, and sensational. Her new show, Colored Lights, tracks the hilarious story of a singer’s ups and downs from the sticks to Broadway.
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Biographies
KT Sullivan has been a regular headliner at the Oak Room of New York’s Algonquin Hotel since 1992 and for several years starred at New York’s Neue Galerie Sabarsky Café and Live on the Park in London. She made her West End debut in Vienna to Weimar at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2004. KT has appeared in Broadway and touring productions of The Three Penny Opera (with Sting), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Annie Get Your Gun, and was featured in the workshop of Easter Parade with Tommy Tune. Off-Broadway, KT appeared in Splendora, A My Name is Still Alice, and co- wrote and starred in American Rhapsody: George Gershwin to the World, receiving Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations and winning the MAC Award for best musical revue. She has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, LincolnCenter, and The Caramoor Festival. She has also performed at The Spoleto Festival, New York Historical Society, La Nouvelle Eve in Paris, The Chichester Festival in the U.K., and several times at The Adelaide Festival in Australia. Her regional theater credits include the Old Globe Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Municipal Opera of St. Louis, Missouri Rep, Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, and The Great Lakes Theater Festival, where her roles have ranged from Frances in Light Up The Sky and Carrie in Carousel to Meg in Brigadoon and Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday. In addition, KT has seven albums in worldwide distribution, including “Crazy World” (voted #1 in the vocals category of Tower Records’ Pulse Magazine) and “Live From Rainbow and Stars: The Songs of Bart Howard,” which won Backstage magazine’s Bistro Award. Her latest CD of the songs of Cole Porter was recorded during an extended engagement at the Hal Prince Theatre in Philadelphia. She co-recorded the multiple award-winning “Always: The Love Story of Irving Berlin,” which won the Nightlife Award for best musical revue. On television, KT guest starred on Police Squad, Night Court, Remington Steele, Hardcastle and McCormick, Cabaret 13 with Michael Feinstein, and In Performance at the White House with Mary Martin. Liza Minnelli presented KT Sullivan with the Manhattan Association of Cabarets’ Outstanding Female Vocalist Award and Irish America Magazine named her one of its Top 100 Irish Americans.
Jon Weber, Music Director, has toured all over the world as a composer and pianist. As a teenager, his prodigious quintet opened for jazz luminaries Pat Metheny, Freddie Hubbard, and Buddy Rich. He has also performed with distinction as a sideman to Benny Golson, David “Fathead” Newman, and Clark Terry. Jon’s music has been recorded in locations such as Denmark, Switzerland, India, Australia, and the USA by Gary Burton, Roy Hargrove, Eric Alexander, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, and Avishai Cohen. Jon’s newest CD, “Simple Complex,” was voted 2004's #1 Jazz CD by the Chicago Tribune, Swiss National Radio, Norwegian National Radio, Estonian National Radio, and BBC Online. DownBeat calls it "A great stride forward" and Jazz UK voted him "Best New Star of 2005." He has performed to a sold-out Carnegie Hall four times and been profiled by CNN, BET, CNBC, Bravo Arts, NPR, Voice of America, 92nd Street Y, and the BBC for his unique musical depth and vast knowledge of his craft. Jazz Journal International writes; “Jon Weber is a virtuoso pianist with outstanding technique plus boundless imagination and enthusiasm who is bound to make a big impression on the international jazz scene.”