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Just the right mixture of nostalgia and irony in a seamlessly fluent show that mixes songs and movie lore with astutely chosen snatches of vintage movie dialogue.
- Stephen Holden, The New York Times

Harnar and Hicks playful and breezy nod to Mickey and Judy... sunny and decisively joyous.
- Robert L. Daniels, Daily Variety

Caramoor's Cabaret in the Music Room to feature the Westchester County premiere of Jeff Harnar & Shauna Hicks in I Got Rhythm! - Mickey and Judy's Hollywood

NYC Cabaret and Broadway Stars in a Star-Spangled Salute to the Movie Music of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland

Katonah, NY - Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts will present a special Cabaret in the Music Room benefit event featuring the multi-award-winning cabaret star Jeff Harnar and Broadway leading lady Shauna Hicks in a star-spangled salute to the movie music of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland:  I Got Rhythm! - Mickey and Judy's Hollywood. 

Co-chaired by Adela and Lawrence Elow of Bedford, NY, the benefit will take place on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 8:00 pm in the magnificent 200-seat Music Room of the House Museum at Caramoor, the former home of Caramoor's founders, Lucie and Walter Rosen.

I Got Rhythm! - Mickey and Judy's Hollywood takes a tuneful and nostalgic look at Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland's classic MGM films, including Girl Crazy, Babes in Arms, Strike Up the Band, and Babes on Broadway, and salutes their reunion years later on CBS television.
 
Their songbook includes classics by the Gershwins, Rodgers & Hart, and Harold Arlen and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, featuring such unforgettable songs as Embraceable You, Our Love Affair, Where or When, I Wish I Were in Love Again, and I Got Rhythm, among many others. 

Jeff Harnar and Shauna Hicks have toured I Got Rhythm! - Mickey and Judy's Hollywood to critical acclaim and rapturous audiences throughout the country, from the Cinegrill at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to New York City's Town Hall.  Their performance in the Music Room at Caramoor marks the Westchester County premiere of this treasure chest of American standards and good old-fashioned entertainment.

Jeff Harnar is familiar to television audiences for his acclaimed PBS specials The 1959 Broadway Songbook and Remember: Songs of the Holidays. On A&E he was the Singing Narrator of Gershwin on Ice starring Dorothy Hamill.  Other television appearances include CBS This Morning and The Charles Grodin Show.  He appeared at Carnegie Hall in both the Cole Porter and Noel Coward Centennial Galas, as well as in his own one-man show at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall.  His solo recordings include The 1959 Broadway Songbook, Because of You: Fifties Gold, and Sammy Cahn All The Way.  He is a two-time winner of the Manhattan Association of Cabaret (MAC) Award as Best Male Vocalist and three-time winner of the Back Stage Bistro Award (Vocalist, Newcomer, and Outstanding Show).  Jeff Harnar has performed across the country in every major city, as well as internationally in Paris, London, Oslo, and on the High Seas (Crystal Cruises, the QE2 and Seabourn, among others).  A personal career highlight was opening for the McGuire Sisters during their reunion tour.

Shauna Hicks starred on Broadway in the role of Linda in Blood Brothers opposite David and Shaun Cassidy with Petula Clark, Carole King and Helen Reddy. She won the Florida Carbonell Award and received a Chicago Jeff Award nomination for her performance as Rosemary in the national tour of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opposite Ralph Macchio.  Other credits include Meet Me in St. Louis on Broadway, understudying the Judy Garland role, and the American premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's The Country Club with Cynthia Nixon.  She has appeared with Marisa Tomei in the Drama Department's staged reading of Free to Be You and Me and was featured in the Children's Television Workshop production Sesame English.  A writer as well as a singer/actress, Shauna Hicks has written two critically acclaimed one-woman shows: Shauna Hicks and Her 60's Chicks (MAC, CAB, Bistro Awards) and Shauna Hicks and Her 70's Mix.  Her recordings include Unsung Berlin and Broadway Sings Bacharach.

Tickets
There is limited seating for Cabaret in the Music Room performances.  Tickets for Jeff Harnar and Shauna Hicks in I Got Rhythm! - Mickey and Judy's Hollywood are $200, $125, and $75 - all but $30 is tax-deductible.  The evening includes the performance and a post-concert dessert and champagne with the artists.

For tickets and additional information, call 914.232.1492 or the Caramoor Box Office at 914.232.1252, or email events@caramoor.org.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is located at 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, New York.

About Caramoor
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is the legacy of Walter and Lucie Rosen, who built the great house and filled it with their treasures. Walter Rosen was the master planner of the Caramoor estate, bringing to reality his dream of building a country home to showcase his decorative arts collection and to entertain friends from around the world.  The Rosens' musical evenings were the seeds of the International Music Festival of today. Realizing the pleasure their friends took in Caramoor - the house with its art collection, the gardens, and the musical programs on summer evenings - the Rosens gave the estate to the public as a center for music and the arts.

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