REBECCA SPENCER & PHILIP FORTENBERRY: Music from Kooky Tunes, “Wide Awake and Dreaming” & More

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Jim Caruso is pleased to announce the Birdland debut of Rebecca Spencer and Philip Fortenberry on Monday, July 26, at 7pm.  This event will be part of the long-running Broadway at Birdland concert series.  Spencer & Fortenberry will also perform a sneak preview of this show in New Hope, PA, at The Nevermore Hotel on Saturday, July 26, at 8:30pm.

Rebecca Spencer & Philip Fortenberry perform as solo artists and as a duo, with symphonies and in major concert hall and performing arts center engagements nationally.  Each performer has Broadway, Las Vegas and Hollywood credits, and their collaboration is a magical exchange that stimulates the mind and enriches the soul.  In their Birdland debut, these two artists will perform music by Keith Thompson (Kooky Tunes), highlights from their award-winning CD, Wide Awake and Dreaming, and their other celebrated CD collaboration entitled, Fair Warning.

Rebecca Spencer recently co-starred in Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular, where she created the role of Madame Giry in the $35 million production under the direction of Harold Prince.  She is an original Broadway cast member of Jekyll and Hyde, in which she played the principal roles of Lady Beaconsfield and Guenivere.  Her additional performances in the role of Emma Carew, completed a circle that had begun eight years earlier when she created the role at the 1990 Alley Theatre world premiere.  She was also in the final Toronto workshop of Ragtime, directed by Frank Galati, and can be heard on the first cast recording.  In New York, Rebecca has been featured at Lyrics and Lyricists, the Ira Gershwin Centennial at Carnegie Hall (recorded for PBS) and marked her fifth ENCORES! concert at the City Center in March, 2004.  She was featured at the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s 2004 and 2005 NYC Cabaret Conventions and is a 2004 Back Stage Bistro Award winner.