 Man, I am so grateful. Last year started with finishing my cabaret run at Don't Tell Mama and getting a couple of stunning reviews, and went out with just as much of a bang. At the end of October, just before the Halloween Parade, I was asked to be backup James Beaman's cabaret comeback show Lived Experience, which was a marvelous show where Jamie, after playing so many characters over his decades long career, finally got to show us himself. Shortly after, I got to sing the music of one of my favorite composers, Rachel Peters, in a new work with collaborator Kevin Townley, Jr. called Manor of Speaking. Based on Oscar Wilde's first speaking tour across America, the piece is a commission for Blythley Oratonio, internationally known mezzo Stephanie Blythe's tenor alter ego. To sing with an incredible cast, including a favorite mezzo was a dream come true. I can't wait to see what happens next with this piece.
Next I was asked by marvelous cabaret artist Goldie Dver to be part of her holiday benefit for St. Jude's, Tis The Season: With A Twist. It was a night of cabaret legends, featuring Lennie Watts, Meg Flather, Tanya Moberly, Aaron Lee Battle, Sidney Meyer, and many more. Goldie raised around $2K for St. Judes and I was so happy to be part of it. And then: BINDERSUZE! For eight years we've been making mashups and, after being asked if we were ever going to do a show, we finally did! We had a nearly full house at Don't Tell Mama for our show, and had a great reaction from the friends and family who came. The plan is to do it again in the spring so keep an eye out here for the latest. As for THIS year, it started with an appearance as a wealthy Senator in a 20 minute musical as part of the NYPL's series Across A Crowded Room. Timothy Leech (book, lyrics & music), Nicholas Radu-Blackburn (book & lyrics), and Cheryl Chin (music) met at Across A Crowded Room last summer, and decided to write Polar Excess, a marvelous satire loosely based on the Titanic submarine fiasco. 1/22, I'll be back with the Playground Experiment live in Matt Kaplan's A Haunting Melody. Hope you all are well and have a happy, healthy, joyful, and prosperous 2024.
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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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