The
Golden Age of Swing, Jazz and Blues
It
is always an occasion when the local girl plays her home town theatre
and Rushbrook’s own Ellen McElroy looks certain to pack them in
when she plays Draíocht for one night only in March.
The acclaimed Irish Diva pays her own tribute to the great divas of
the past as she explores the lives, careers and especially the music
of Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Aretha Franklin,
Edith Piaf, Liza Minnelli, Diana Ross and Shirley Bassey.
Ellen is a regular performer at The National Concert Hall with Kevin
Hough’s Theatre Nights and in fact Kevin will be hosting the evening.
Another NCH regular, David Wray, will act as musical director and will
also lend his band for the occasion.
“Coming from a background of musical theatre, my influences would
have to be the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Jason Robert Brown, Stephen
Schwartz and more recently the wonderful duo from New York Marcy Heisler
and Zina Goldrich,” says Ellen. “But I am also very big
into the old favourites such as Peggy Lee, Doris Day, Eartha Kitt, Etta
James and the wonderful Ella Fitzgerald. Now there's a voice!”
Dublin-born Ellen has been performing since the age of nine, having
received her training at the Bull Alley School of Performance and continued
her theatre studies under Audrey Behan. Highlights of her career include
leading roles in such musicals as The Hot Mikado, The Sound Of Music,
The Rocky Horror Show, Jesus Christ Superstar and West Side Story. She
has also shared the stage with such notables as John Barrowman and David
Kernan in Aspects Of Love.
Ellen has received critical acclaim in several productions including:
Side By Side by Sondheim and the new musical review , Simply Sondheim,
commissioned by Opera Fringe, Northern Ireland, and recorded by the
BBC. Ellen has toured the world with the Concordia Theatre Company on
board the QE2.
Working with veteran musical director, David Wray she is currently working
on a cabaret called New York Songbook as well as her own one woman show.
Ellen has just complete a sold out US tour with the Three Irish Tenors
as a member of The Irish Divas.
She performed her one woman show throughout the country last year and
her first solo album, “Love’s Illusions” was released
in May ’07 to great critical acclaim.
Ellen McElroy brings “Songbirds - The Golden Age of Swing, Jazz
and Blues” to Draiocht’s main auditorium on Friday 7th March
at 8pm.
Tickets are €20 / €18.
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