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Andreas, Callaway, Cook, Ebersole, Freelon Set for Bay Area Cabaret Series

Barbara Cook
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Barbara Cook
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)

The Bay Area Cabaret has announced the line-up for its Broadway…and all that Jazz series of performances.

The series will kick off at 7pm on November 16 with Broadway star Christine Andreas, who will perform at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel’s Empire Ballroom. She will be followed by Tony Award winner Barbara Cook at 8pm on December 2 at the Herbst Theatre, where she will perform the work of Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, and other writers as well as discuss these songs with arts critic Steven Winn.

In 2009, the series moves to the Marines Memorial Club’s Crystal Ballroom, which will host performances by jazz singer Nnenna Freelon (5pm, March 8); Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole with pianist-singer Billy Stritch (5pm, April 26), and singer, songwriter, and pianist Ann Hampton Callaway (5pm, May 17).

For tickets and information call 415-927-INFO or visit www.bayareacabaret.org.