GERTA GRUNEN
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Sunday Feb. 27 at 4pm at Danny's 346 West 46th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Avenues) |
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Laurie Lawson of Electronic Link Jouney says: "... vivacious GERTA GRUNEN brings her outrageous sense of humor, her charismatic camaraderie with the audience, and her obvious love for music to her latest show "Let's Revue" Click here for full review
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Ms.
Grunen just completed a featured role in the new film, The Next Big
Thing starring Farley Granger and can be seen in the film
Last Breath,
a medical thriller starring
Luke Perry from TV’s Beverly Hills 90210
(Available
at video stores) Ms.Grunen has performed in New York cabaret since 1982 at some of New York’s most popular clubs including Eighty Eights, Danny’s Skylight Room, Don’t Tell Mama,The Duplex, Rose’s Turn and Jan Wallman’s. She was a guest on Jim Lowe And Friends on New Jersey’s WVNJ with Steve Allen. She has performed her one-woman show Under the Apple Tree at the Lincoln Center Bruno Walter Auditorium and A Lighter Shade Of Weill - Kurt Weill’s American Music as well as A Jewish Girl's Christmas at the Donnell Library Auditorium. At the Donnell Auditorium, she also played "Mistress Page" in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor; starred as Rose Katz in Becoming Garcia at the New Federal Theatre (with Elizabeth Pena), and played "Mrs. Hardcastle" in a musical version of She Stoops to Conquer at the Mazur Theatre and at the Delacorte Theatre starred in From Shakespeare To Moby Dick. Gerta has been designated a "Distinguised Artist" by the Beaux Arts Society.
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FOUR OF GERTA'S DYNAMIC CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SHOWS AVAILABLE FOR BOOKINGS Each can be performed in a theatre, club, for your organization, function or special event. Cole Porter-Ninety Stories High sparkles with Porter's wonderful story songs, some unusual takes on familiar standards and a few little known facts about his fascinating life.Under The Apple Tree-Music and Memories of the 1940s is a cavalcade of songs and humorous anecdotes about Gerta's experiences and impressions of those troubled yet thrilling times.In A Lighter Shade of Weill the emphasis is given to Kurt Weill's brighter American style music. Through story and song Gerta regales her audience with some of Weill's amusing rarities as well as his Broadway gems.A Jewish Girl's Christmas is a joyous, warm and funny look at the holiday season regardless of what church you attend. This virtual sleigh ride includes Hanukkah as well as perennial favorites plus a surprise parody or two.ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHYGerta Grunen has been "on the stage " since she made her debut at the Paramount Theater in Portland, Oregon at age four. She has appeared Off-Broadway in THE CLUB directed by Tommy Tune, toured with Broadway star Jan Peerce in Fiddler on the Roof, performed at The Felt Forum, in Dinner Theaters, National tours, Off-Off Broadway, on television, radio and motion pictures.Gerta did her one-woman -show, Under The Apple Tree -- Music and Memories of the 40's in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, performed at The Donnell Library Auditorium in various shows including, William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, playing Mrs. Page and debuted her one-woman show, A Jewish Girl's Christmas, to standing-room-only audiences. At The Delacorte Theater, she starred in From Shakespeare to Moby Dick. At The New Federal Theater, Gerta starred in Becoming Garcia playing "Rose Katz," performing opposite Elizabeth Pena. Gerta also performed in a new musical version of She Stoops to Conquer,at the Mazur Theater. Gerta was recently a guest on Jim Lowe And Friends on New Jersey's WVNJ with none other than Steve Allen!Cabaret aficionado Jan Wallman said, "In fifteen years playing the city's intimate rooms, Gerta Grunen has captured the essence of cabaret. She has a clear sense of the medium and puts her heart into entertaining her audience with thoughtfully selected songs that suit her voice and charming persona."Gerta has a featured role in the feature film "Lifebreath", a medical thriller starring Luke Perry from TV's Beverly Hills 90210, which was released in May of 1998. |
