October 19th, 2007

"Two for the Road" is a musical trip celebrating the best of
The Great American Songbook & Broadway stage!

Jan Peters is Improper Bostonians Best Cabaret Act 2005 and a 1999 Eugene O’Neill Cabaret Symposium Fellow whose work draws from an extensive repertoire of popular Broadway and standard songs as well as material from promising new songwriters. Jan’s cabaret work has been showcased at many of Boston’s major venues such as Sculler’s Jazz Club, Club Café, and The Lyric Stage. In 2002 Jan received the Independent Reviewers of New England Award for Best Female Cabaret Artist and was named Bay Windows Newspaper Best Cabaret Performer of the Year.

Recent performances include the prestigious Mabel Mercer Foundation’s Annual Cabaret Conventions in New York and The Hamptons, Boston’s Annual Cabaret Festival, Boston’s First Night Celebration, Cabaretfest! Provincetown and Newfound Lake Musical Evenings. In addition to her cabaret work Jan performs throughout New England accompanied by ensembles ranging from intimate jazz groups to large swing orchestras.

Carol O’Shaughnessy released a new cd titled Ring a-Ding-Ding! . . . The Music of the Rat Pack! It features a rip-roaring romp of the wonderful music introduced by the late "Rat Pack" greats Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Celebrated songs like "One For My Baby," "Chicago," "That's Life," and "Once In A Lifetime," all classics from the mid-Twentieth Century "show-biz" era distinguish this recording. The musical concept for this CD was born from Carol's highly successful one-woman show of the same title. Furthering the ring-a-ding-ding concept, Carol is scheduled to perform a two-week run of new musical for two weeks beginning May 10, 2006. Entitled fully Ring A Ding Ding, A New Musical by Jack Neary, this Broadway-style show was written by Lowell-based playwright Neary especially for Carol!

Ms. O'Shaughnessy has received critical acclaim for her other rousing one-woman shows entitled A Talent To Amuse: The Music of Judy Garland and Just For Laughs. Working in one-woman vignettes such as her now famous "Mamma Scugliachi," a humorous Italian character she first added to her shows in 1978, she also won accolades such as Provincetown's Hall of Fame Award, The Entertainer of the Year Award, the Pride Lights Bridge Builder Award and numerous other honors over the years. But the ultimate praise came from comedienne Joan Rivers with whom she shared a bill at the North Shore Music Theatre in 1991. After her set, Joan had exclaimed, [Carol is] "the best singer in her price range!"

Cost for show is $30.00, or $50 for the show with dinner.
Raffael's @ Nantasket Beach, 45 Hull Shore Drive.