The L.A. Reprise! series has announced that An Evening of Comedy and Music, consisting of two cabaret shows featuring performers Amanda McBroom, George Ball, and Jason Graae, will be performed on March 24, the “dark” night during the run of the Reprise! production of She Loves Me. McBroom and Ball will perform their act Love, Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, while Graae will present his one-man show Color Me Mine.
McBroom, an acclaimed cabaret performer who appeared in the Reprise! production of Follies last year, may be best known as the composer of “The Rose” for Bette Midler. Ball won an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for his performance in Harry Chapin — Lies and Legends and appeared in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston. Graae appeared in Anything Goes, The Boys From Syracuse, and Of Thee I Sing for Reprise! and was recently seen as Marcellus in the Hollywood Bowl production of The Music Man.
“An Evening of Comedy and Music” will be performed at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. Tickets are $60 and may be purchased in person at all TicketMaster outlets, online at http://www.ticketmaster.com, or by phoning the UCLA Central Ticket Office at 310-825-2101.