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🎶HAPPY HOLIDAAAAAYS! HAPPY HOLIDAAAAAAAYS! MAY THE MERRY BELLS KEEP RINGING, HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU! 🎶
BUCKETS AND BENEFITS AND BINDERSUZE, OH MY! What’s been going on? I can honestly say, your girl’s been busy and is just starting to slow down a bit. *Back in November, the fabulous Bug Johnson debuted a staged reading of their play The Golden Ass as part of the reading series at Pete’s Candy Store. I’ve played the goddess Venus in this piece sincethey started working on it with The Playground Experiment and was thrilled to be part of this reading of the full play. *A few days later, I was part of my first Voices of America monologue festival put on by the PGE. Each year, the PGE asks for submissions for this monologu festival AND book. I’ve wanted to be part of it for some time and this year was the year! There was so much great material, and so many fantastic performances. It’s a fab contribution, particularly as the monologues really are for all ages, races, gender expressions, and abilities. *December opened up with being part of the Cabaret stalwart, Goldie Dver’s benefit for St. Jude’s Hospital. To get to sing with legends and emerging legends of the cabaret scene is such an honor and also just a heck of a good time. *Following Goldie’s benefit, it was time for one of my other favorite benefits of the season: The Red Bucket Follies for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Being an offstage singer and “Vanna” for this event is an honor and pleasure and a JOY. *And then suddenly, it was the 15th, the date of my show with collaborator Richard Binder. We debuted our live show last year at Don’t Tell Mama, performed it again in May at The Green Room 42, and then decided to make it cozy and perform our holiday version at Pangea. There was a lot of love in that room and we got a fantastic response to our old and new material, in particular the mashup we call 2 Drunk 4 Champagne. We mashed up the Dead Kennedy’s, Kiss, Amanda Lenore, Lita Ford and Lerner & Lowe. And it WORKED. (We should have a recording soon.) *12/19 Binder and I will be with Madison Avenue Baptist Church for our Christmas Gala. Mozart! Haydn! It will be beautiful, so come on down In the meantime, if you need this merry mixed mezzo for your concert, demo, play, film, pilot, etc, contact me HERE. Peace ✌🏽
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I have finally started a website! I just got these beautiful new headshots done by L Morgan Lee of BLUEphotography, and at last have a place to display them. I've also been getting this self-tape thing DOWN. Madison Avenue Baptist Church, with whom I've been the alto for going on twelve years, like most churches, has gone virtual, so we are making videos of solos and hymns for the time being. (Someday, I'll release an outtake reel.) There've been other opportunities, as well, for practicing this process: virtual choir and concert videos. I've been lucky enough to work with Prospect Theatre Company and, thus, was asked to be part of their lovely video featuring Peter Mills' tune "Two Buoys". (I come in with the alto part and drums>) Two Buoys Next, a dear friend - a jazz musician and choir director, presently living in Italy - started up Singers Without Borders and asked me to be part of this uplifting number: How Can I Keep From Singing? Lastly, The Rigano Songbook asked 42(!) of their closest friends to help out with this wonderful song about an all too relevant and growing segment of our lives as we try to communicate with proper social distancing: Screen To Screen The Rigano has a concert planned for 3/13...and then the world shut down. But far be it for them to not have a show. Yes, the Ides of March Extravaganza is now the Ides of APRIL and will be in virtual form. When those videos go up, I'll be sure to share here. In the meantime, contact me here if you would like me to be part of YOUR virtual - and/or, eventually, LIVE - project. Peace ✌️ AuthorAlexandra de Suze is a singer, actor, drummer who also writes a bit and occasionally makes silly videos Archives
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