February/March Performances and News!

I have been honored with 2 MAC Award Nominations!  1 as Major Artist and 1 as the Producer of THE CONCERTS FOR CITY GREENS!  I’m so grateful to be nominated with my good friends, colleagues and CFCG Alumni, one and all: BABY JANE DEXTER,  TERESE GENECCO, ERIC MICHAEL GILLETT,and  LENNIE WATTS.  I’m seriously thrilled because there is A LOT of amazing talent here in NYC!

Friday & Saturday, March 3rd, 9th, 15th, 16th at 7 pm – THE AMANDA MCBROOM PROJECT!! a very exciting evening of the music of one of my favorite composers – again, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. N Join me on all 4 nights along with a rotating roster of 30 of the best women in NYC nightlife, many CFCG Alumni!  Hosted and created by Eric Michael Gillett.

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The Amanda McBroom Project

Finally, I was honored to be nominated in 4 Categories for the Broadway World Cabaret Awards.  You can click on this link to see the list of nominees and now, winners – most of them CFCG Alumni, I’m proud to say!

My newest CD, ANOTHER KIND OF LIGHT is  available on iTunes, Amazon, and LML Music.  If you have it, or are planning to,  please go to iTunes and Amazon and write a review!

January 2013 Appearances

Sunday, Jan. 13th –  11:40 pm, yes PM! At APAP, (Association of Performing Arts Presenters), New York Hilton, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York  10019.   I’ll be in the GIBSON SUITE, 2nd Floor.  I’m starting a new association with CPI (Center Productions, Inc.) and will be presenting 15 minutes of my show, “Can’t Help Singing – The Music of Jerome Kern” with Kenneth Gartman on piano and Tom Hubbard on bass.  It’s free for  you – come and enjoy!  We do cocktails afterward!

Sunday, Jan. 27th – 3 pm“Cookie’s Corner”The Laurie Beechman Theatre, 407 W. 42nd St. at 9th – reservations:  212.695.6909 - The inimitable Cookie Stark debuts her new salon series and I just may pop in and do a “surprise” duet with Eric Michael Gillett….and you definitely get to see my gal pal, the luminous Shana Farr as Cookie’s special spotlight guest.  BTW, all involved are CFCG alumni….

Finally, I was honored to be nominated in 4 Categories for the Broadway World Cabaret Awards.  You can click on this link to see the list of nominees and now, winners – most of them CFCG Alumni, I’m proud to say!

My newest CD, ANOTHER KIND OF LIGHT is  available on iTunes, Amazon, and LML Music.  If you have it, or are planning to,  please go to iTunes and Amazon and write a review!

 

 

November/December Appearances

Wed. – 11/28 – 7 pm – Cabaret Hotline CD’s for the Holiday Party Showhttp://www.cabarethotlineonline.com/ to order tickets – $10 to 15 depending on when you order. Don’t Tell Mama – I’m singing one song from my CD and another Xmas song. Great line up of people, many CFCG alumni.

Thurs. 11/29Kenneth Gartman accompanies and sings a duet with me as I do a 15 minute set: Cabaret at the Players to benefit the Mabel Mercer Foundation – GREAT line up of people with KT Sullivan Hosting. http://www.mabelmercer.org/events/ - $20 suggested donation – beautiful club. – 212-980-3026 to RSVP – space is limited – beautiful room, cash bar, no minimum.

Sunday 12/2 – Broadway at the Met Room to Benefit the Group Theatre Too – 7 pm at The Metropolitan Room – 212-206-0440 – $30 cover, 2 drink minimum. Singing one song but with a bunch of big stars, so pretty cool. This benefits my friend Justin Bocitto’s company. http://cabaret.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadways-Richard-Kline-Hosts-BROADWAY-AT-THE-MET-ROOM-Benefit-122-20121105 – this previous link has a nice article on it – you’ll recognize many names.

Thurs. 12/6 – DRIVE! – 6:30 pm – At the Jerry Orbach Theater, Snapple Theater Center, Thursday, December 6, 6:30PM. 210 West 50th, Just West of Broadway – Single Admission: $18.00 – 212-989-6706.

I’m very, very excited to be doing the lead role of “Bitsy” in Andy Monroe’s new musical. This is a staged reading – I’ve been working on this show with Andy for a few years now and he’s coming down the home stretch with it – and fyi, the week after we present it at the Snapple, we present it in a BMI Masterclass for, uh, Stephen Sondheim!!! – here’s some info:

Musical Mondays Theatre Lab announces the next workshop of a book musical for MMTL’s 2012-2013 season is DRIVE, Book, Music, and Lyrics by Andy Monroe, Outer Critics Circle Award Winner for “The Kid.” Set entirely in the front seat of a car, DRIVE is a new musical featuring an unconventional romance that suddenly forces several lives into the fast lane.

Thurs. 12/13 – THE GOOD GIRL in concert – I play Meg, a self centered glamourous real estate agent and sister (1 of 3 – 1 of whom is Julie Reyburn!) – I love this project and have also been working on it for a few years. By CFCG alum and good friend Mary Liz McNamara, who also stars along with Ritt Henn as God or The Devil, depending on your perception! – 7 pm at Urban Stages – part of their Winter Rhythm Series of 24 shows in 12 days – do check out this link as many good, talented friends and CFCG Alumni are performing among them, Julie Reyburn, Miles Phlilips, Mary Foster Conklin, etc, etc. - https://smarttix.com/show.aspx?EID=&showCode=WIN23&BundleCode=&PackageCode=&GUID=

Sat. 12/15 – Urban Stages Closing Concert – 5 pm – https://smarttix.com/show.aspx?EID=&showCode=WIN23&BundleCode=&PackageCode=&GUID= – singing a lovely new standard written for me by Mark Janas and Peter Napolitano.

Finally, I’m honored to be nominated in 4 Categories for the Broadway World Cabaret Awards.  You can click on this link to see the list of nominees and then click on this link to vote for me or any of my talented friends and colleagues you’ll see there.  My new CD, ANOTHER KIND OF LIGHT, is one of the nominations – it’s available on iTunes, Amazon, and LML Music.  If you have it, or are planning to,  please go to iTunes and Amazon and write a review!

ANOTHER KIND OF LIGHT


Listen to the Commercial


List of Tracks

(Click on the Song to Listen at LMLMusic.com)

1: It’s Possible
2: ▶ I Concentrate On You
3: ▶ Make Me A Kite
4: Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind
5: I Furnished My One-Room Apartment
6: How Could I Not?
7: If I Love Again / Will You?
8: Putting Things Away
9: Torch Song For Raissa
10: I Will
11: ▶ Waiting For A Westbound Train
12: A Tomb With A View
13: Bye, Bye, Ingénue
14: Ordinary Miracles
15: ▶ i carry your heart

Texting Translation for “Torch Song for Raissa”

RUUP4XNO-ING? – “Are you up for kiss-and-hugging?”
UBIN2MUVIGO-ING? – “You into going to a movie?”
URHNSA – “You’re hot and sexy-assed.”
IMSNF2PSOWYSAM – “I am safe and free to play so would you send me a message.”

And,

NIFOC – “Naked in front of Computer”

WHAT I WAS DREAMING OF

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Raissa Katona with Frank Spitznagel on Piano

Listen to a selection from this CD – click on one of the links below:
04 Niagra
06 A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Make
Please send $15.00 (which includes s&h) check or money order to:
Raissa Katona Bennett
2 Tudor City Place, Suite 15ES,
NY, NY 10017

Raissa sings backup for Lucie

Raissa and her singing surgeon husband, Garrett, sing “back up” for Lucie Arnaz on her LATIN ROOTS cd – you must get this wonderful cd – here’s a clip and the link: 05 Johnny Angel Latin Roots

“The Third Testament”

Raissa’s Scenes from “The Third Testament”

This film is first-time feature producer/writer/director Matt Dallman’s ambitious alternate-present indie thriller, a preposterous, irresistibly compelling car-wreck of a yarn in which, essentially, the Jesus Seminar and Dan Brown fanatic conspiracy theorists win, theologically—and succeed in having the “Third Testament” of the Gnostic gospels canonized.