Shows
CONCERT/CABARET SHOW DESCRIPTIONS
(all shows described below are available for regional/private venues)
RAISSA AT FEINSTEIN’S – Raissa examines our lives in dreams, their joyous highs and the deeper meaning to be found in letting them go in order to become the best you can be in the moment. This show features a brand-new song written by Tony Award Nominated Composer, Michael John LaChuisa especially for Raissa and this show. Songs include: Darn That Dream/I Had the Craziest Dream, I Concentrate on You, Stranger in Paradise, A Piece of Sky, and I Will.
IT’S POSSIBLE – travels through the chapters and challenges of life on this earth, and the numerous possibilities that each holds for us. Songs include: A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes/I Have Dreamed, The Light in the Piazza, Storybook, Hungry Years, and Think of Me from “Phantom of the Opera”, which Raissa performed on Broadway.
PUTTING THINGS AWAY – Raissa takes the audience on a musical journey through the universal milestones of life – searching for hope and beauty as we purge the old and embrace the new. Songs include: The Girl I Found, Bookends, Will You, A Tomb With a View, We Live on Borrowed Time and At the Fountain.
These 3 critically acclaimed shows are directed and co-written by 2008 MAC Award Winner, Eric Michael Gillett (www.ericmichaelgillett.com).
(Full song list options are available for each show.)
THE CONCERTS AT TUDOR CITY GREENS – Raissa is the Host, Creator and Producer of this award winning series, which is dedicated to preserving the green spaces of NYC, while introducing a whole new audience to the best performers of NYC Cabaret, Folk, Jazz and Broadway.
2010 BISTRO AWARD WINNER – Host, Creator & Producer of THE CONCERTS AT TUDOR CITY GREENS
2010 MAC Award Nominee – Recurring Series – THE CONCERTS AT TUDOR CITY GREENS
2009 MAC Award Nominee – Outstanding Female Vocalist.
As a concert and cabaret performer, Raissa has appeared at: Feinstein’s at the Regency, The Metropolitan Room, The Laurie Beechman Theatre, Iridium, the Supper Club, The Rainbow Room, 88′s, Don’t Tell Mama, Rose’s Turn, Chita’s, and Radio City Music Hall on a bill with: Marla Maples, the late Vicki Sue Robinson, Rebecca Luker, Hugh Panaro, the late Vincent Gardenia and many other Broadway notables. She performed her first cabaret show, “Listen To My Heart – Stories And Songs From The Journey” in NYC at The Regents, and in other venues throughout the East Coast and Hawaii. Her CD, What I Was Dreaming Of, is based on this first show. Raissa has soloed with several symphonies such as the Erie, Wallingford and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras and she was guest soloist at the estate of the legendary Cal Ripken, Jr.
For all Performance, Corporate and Private Event inquiries, please contact:
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