COMING IN 2008:

"CABARET" at the 5th Avenue Theatre.

Welcome to the creepy world of 1930 Berlin. Angie Louise plays German hooker Fraulein Kost in this 5th Avenue co-production with American Musical Theatre of San Jose and the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, starring Nick Garrison (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) as the M.C. The production plays in Seattle at the 5th Avenue Theatre March 25 through April 13 after playing tour dates in San Jose March 4 - March 16; additional tour dates in St. Paul (MN) May 2 – May 18. Cast and show details to follow.

DECEMBER 2007:

"HANKY PANKY HOLIDAZE" at the Crepe de Paris.

Great tunes and holiday hijinks with Angie Louise, Joanne Klein and Elizabeth Nestlerode. Eat, drink, be merry, and enjoy the music as we celebrate the holiday season in all its fun and folly!

Show dates:

Saturday & Sunday Dec. 1, 2;
Friday, Saturday & Sunday Dec. 7, 8, 9;
Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday Dec. 13, 14, 15, 16;
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Dec. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23;
Monday, Dec. 24.

Shows start at 8:30 pm on Fridays & Saturdays; 8:00 pm Tues, Wed, & Thurs; 7:30 pm on Sundays.

NOVEMBER 2007:

Season of Light Gala at the Fairmont Olympic.

Angie Louise and Kitten In Swingville return to perform at this year’s Season of Light auction/dinner gala, a benefit for Children’s Hospital. Louise leads co-vocalists Karen Skrinde and Charissa Bertels in Andrews Sisters-style holiday harmonizing and toe-tapping tunes, kicking off the season with a little jazz and swing and a hot band. Saturday, November 24. Tickets: $250. A glamorous evening and a fabulous cause!

AUGUST 2007:

"NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: An Evening With Angie Louise"

Show Dates: Friday & Saturday, August 17-18 and 24-25 / 8:30 pm

FOUR SHOWS ONLY!

Singer-pianist Angie Louise presents many of her own songs (along with gems from such iconic dark bards as Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Richard Thompson) in this soulful show about misfits, barflies, drifters, dreamers, and underground dwellers of all stripes. Blues? Cabaret? Country? Beer-hall? Pirate songs? You bet. Angie will be performing on Crepe de Paris' lovely Steinway piano (up onstage for the occasion), joined by beloved bassist extraordinaire Dave Pascal and the melodic and versatile Jeff McGrath on trumpet and guitar.

The Seattle Times has written of Angie: "Handles comedy and near-tragedy with equal dexterity." SGN wrote: "An emotional range most performers shy away from... A mesmerizing presence and an amazing voice." So come join Angie, Dave and Jeff for NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND!

Special Half-Price Ticket Offer: Mention this website and get half-price tickets ($7.50) - not only for yourself, but for anyone you bring. (Regular show-only price: $15.) For reservations, call Crepe de Paris, 206-623-4111. (To get half-price, be sure to specify show-only when you make your reservation, since the Crepe also offers a $45 three-course-dinner-and-show package which is not discountable. You will still be able to order off the menu.) Crepe de Paris is located at 1333 Fifth Avenue in downtown Seattle.

All shows start at 8:30 pm.

JULY 2007:

Pampas Room with Billy Joe & the Vinyl Avengers, July 20

Angie guests on a couple blues tunes with the glorious Billy Joe Huels at the Pampas Room, where Billy (recently Buddy Holly in the 5th Avenue Theatre's Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story) plays every Friday night with his sizzling band from 8 pm til 12 (no cover). These guys are the best!

The Pampas Room is located at First and Wall in Belltown.

MOVIEOLA!

Show Dates: July 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 / 8 pm

Straight-Edge Theatrics presents Angie Louise and Marcus Wolland in a showcase of songs from the silver screen. From Mae West to Monty Python, from Mel Brooks to John Waters, from "Willy Wonka" to "The First Nudie Musical", there's something here for everyone. Accompanied at the piano by Deanna Schaffer. Performances run July 5 through July 15, Wednesday through Sunday nights. All shows start at 8 pm.

"Zany and heartfelt... Angie Louise and Marcus Wolland are entertainers in the very truest sense of the word... This duo takes on the movie music twilight zone with ribald results." - TalkinBroadway.com

For full review, click here

JUNE 2007:

"DANCING WITH TIME" - June 30

The West Coast concert premiere of a new musical by fabled Broadway composer Charles Strouse (Annie, Bye Bye Birdie, It's A Bird! It's A Plane! Superman!, Applause, Annie 2: Annie Warbucks, etc). Directed by David-Edward Hughes with musical direction by Mark Rabe, "Dancing With Time" is a play within a play about the assortment of strangers gathered at a memorial for a dead composer who find themselves acting out the half-written musical he's left behind. The show-within-the-show is a tale of love, betrayal, politics and segregation set in Palm Beach during the Watergate years.

Performance: Kirkland Performance Center, Saturday June 30, 7:30 pm.

Cast: Craig Doescher, Jessica Skerritt, Eric Englund, Eric Polani Jensen, Angie Louise, Nick DeSantis, Harry Turpin, Marcus Wolland.

This performance is a benefit for ShowTunes! Musical Theatre Company. Charles Strouse will be in attendance at the performance for Q&A and at the after-show gala. Tickets are $25 for show only or $50 for show & gala. Silent auction is open to all ticketholders.

"EVE AND EDDIE" - June 11

A new musical by Ben Fleck and John Ruoff, directed by David Koch with musical direction by John Engerman. This screwball comedy set in the early 60s tells the madcap adventures of a young Steve-and-Eydie-ish song team whose journey takes them from the bottom rungs of show biz (a regional tour of bowling alley venues) to the B-movies of Hollywood ("Anthony and Cleopatra: The Musical") and a mob-produced opera ("Gelato"). The concert performance is on Monday, June 11, at 7 pm, at the Seattle Public Theatre (Bathhouse Theatre) on Greenlake. Free!

Cast: Angie Louise as Eve, Logan Benedict as Eddie, Charles Crowley as Henri Bouvant, The French Elvis, Karen Skrinde as tacky stripper Ruby Diamond, Sandra Singler as uber-agent Agnes Archer, and more...

APRIL 2007:

Spotlight Night at the 5th Avenue Theatre. David Armstrong’s guests include director of Pacific Northwest Ballet Peter Boal, Broadway lyricist Martin Charnin, and world-class choreographer Matthew Bourne, creator of new musical Edward Scissorhands. Featuring special performances by Angie Louise and Louis Hobson. Free! Friday, April 13, at 7:00 pm.

The 5th Avenue Theatre presents the Northwest premiere of this musical based on Buddy Holly's life and songs. The show played on London's West End for twelve years and is described by the Boston Globe as "Pure exhilaration... A faithful, rapturous tribute to a rock pioneer who fully deserves the acclaim."

Angie Louise appears as Vi Petty, rockin' lady piano player and wife of Holly's record producer Norm Petty. The show stars Billy Joe Huels as Buddy Holly. Also featured: Mike Daugherty and Matt Weiner as the Crickets, Brandon O'Neill and Kelly Van Camp as Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, Jennifer Paz as Maria Elena Holly, Peter Crook as Norm Petty, and Peter A. Jacobs as Hipockets Duncan. Directed by David Bennett; musical direction by Rich Gray.

BUDDY runs for three weeks, Feb. 14 through March 4. Performances are every evening except Monday, plus matinees on Saturdays and Sundays. Showtimes: Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at 7:30 pm; Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8 pm; Saturday matinees at 2 pm; Sunday matinees at 1:30 pm; and Sunday evenings at 7 pm. Tickets range from $22 to $73.

The historic 5th Avenue Theatre is located at 1308 5th Avenue in downtown Seattle. For reservations, call 206-625-1900 or visit www.5thavenuetheatre.org.

"Performing at the 5th Avenue Theatre is like performing inside a beautiful jewel box."

- Actor Rex Smith

Read full review at TalkinBroadway.com

Musical parody & holiday cabaret at Crepe de Paris. This show sends up Wizard Of Oz, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Tony Soprano, Jerry Lewis, and scary hillbillies. What more do you want for your office party or your in-laws? With Bob DeDea, Angie Louise, Mark Carr, Amber Cutlip, and pianist John Allman.

Crepe de Paris is located inside Rainer Square in downtown Seattle at 1333 5th Avenue, between Union and University. Tickets are $55 for dinner/show package; $20 for show only. For reservations call 623-4111.

Show runs Tuesday through Sunday nights through December 26. Showtimes on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays are at 8 pm; on Fridays and Saturdays, 8:30 pm.

"The standout performer is Angie Louise, a powerhouse vocalist... The highlight of the show: a chilling NRA version of "Carol of the Bells" called "Carol of the Gun." In one sparkling number, the cast... demonstrates the power they can harness... "

- Kelly Huffman, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"The Cabaret de Paris at downtown's Crepe de Paris is a holiday institution... This year's offering, WICKED XMAS, is a sendup of holiday traditions (that) has a lot of real laughs and clever, clever elements... The very talented Angie Louise (is) the strongest element of the revue... An overflowing crowd packed the Crepe, and patrons howled with laughter..."

- Milton Hamlin, Seattle Gay News

Angie Louise and the merry maidens of Kitten In Swingville performed two hours of swingin' Andrews Sisters-style tunes at the annual Children's Hospital Season of Light Auction dinner and dance, contributing boogie-woogie bugling and holiday harmonies to this annual Thanksgiving weekend event. Matching last year's drive, guests raised nearly a million bucks for the Children's Hospital Fund.

"What a great job... These gals are awesome!"

- Aileen Kelly, Director, Children's Hospital Fund

Cast and audience alike got a rare treat on the opening night of ShowTunes' concert production of IT'S A BIRD... IT'S A PLANE... IT'S SUPERMAN! with the attendance and impromptu performance of a special guest: the show's composer, Broadway legend Charles Strouse (ANNIE, BYE BYE BIRDIE, APPLAUSE). The audience sang along like a roomful of Ediths and Archies as Strouse played one of his best-loved compositions, "Those Were The Days". The composer gave kudos to ShowTunes' production, Eric Englund's performance, and the casting of Angie Louise in the role of originally-male mad scientist Dr. Sedgwick. The composer told the crowd that he'd tried to convince his original 1966 Broadway creative team that the villain would work best as a woman; his colleagues disagreed, saying no one would "buy" a female Nobel Prize-nominated physicist. Claiming victory forty years later, Strouse called Louise's performance "Brilliant!" Thanks to Showtunes' wonderfully supportive audiences for a super weekend.

"As mad scientist Dr. Abby Sedgwick (traditionally played by a man), Angie Louise gave a performance full of madness, determination, and just the right touch of diva... Louise has the comic charm of a Carol Burnett, the devilishness of a Ruth Buzzi, and the soprano belt of a Carolee Carmello... Mesmerizing work."

- Robbie Wachs, TalkinBroadway.com

"The breakout performance was given by Angie Louise as the nefarious Dr. Sedgwick, an evil-spirited scientist with a record of being unfairly overlooked for the Nobel Prize. Her sheer delight in "Revenge" kept her character balanced on the edge of the preposterous - perfect for comic-book reality..."

- Jerry Kraft, SeattleActor.com

Read full review at TalkinBroadway.com

Read full review at SeattleActor.com

CIRCUS OF INFINITY (directed/co-written by Sue Corcoran; co-written by and co-starring Angie Louise) received Best Short Film at the 2006 Nell Shipman Awards. The event was presented by Women in Film/Seattle with Victory Studios and KUOW, in collaboration with the Women in Film/General Motors Alliance. The awards presentation took place at the W Hotel in downtown Seattle on October 13.

"IT'S A BIRD... IT'S A PLANE... IT'S SUPERMAN!"

A rare chance to see this campy comic-book musical from 1966 with a score by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie) and a script co-written by Robert Benton (Kramer Vs. Kramer, Places In The Heart). This fall opener for Showtunes! Theatre Company's 2006-2007 season of musicals produced in concert form pits the Man of Steel (Eric Englund) against a female mad scientist (Angie Louise). Will the world survive?

Performances are Saturday, October 7 at 8 pm and Sunday, October 8 at 2 pm, at Kirkland Performance Center. Tickets are $24. 425-893-9900. Direction by David-Edward Hughes; music direction by Mark Rabe.

Starring Eric Englund, Tracy Coe, Angie Louise, Marcus Wolland, Sarah Rudinoff, Art Anderson.

VILLAGE THEATRE FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS

Village Theatre presents their sixth annual Festival of New Musicals, curated from a now-international pool of musicals in development and presented in association with their playwrights and composers. THE BIG DEAL, a collaboration between London and Los Angeles-based writing teams, is billed as "two musicals about death and show biz." In the first act, a musical-hating theatre producer (Eric Jensen) develops a brain tumor and begins to hallucinate everyone around him bursting into song; in the second act, the surviving sister of a dead playwright (Angie Louise) tries to fix her life by putting on the show her brother left behind.

Festival runs August 3 through 6 at Village Theatre's First Stage; festival passes are $75. 425-392-2202. THE BIG DEAL performs Sunday, August 6 at 2 pm, and is directed by Bryce Britton.

Starring Eric Jensen, Angie Louise, Karen Skrinde, John Lutyens, Charissa Bertels.

Von Piglet Sisters' Circus of Infinity takes Honorable Mention at Seattle's First Annual Science Fiction Film Festival, tying with Israeli film Heartbeat and audience award-winner Cost of Living. The festival's debut was a huge success, as ticket-takers turned patrons away from both sold-out shows at the 800-seat Cinerama. Kudos to Seattle sci-fi fans! What a fabulous geek town we are.

Click here to see festival article and photo

"FLORA, THE RED MENACE"

Opened January 14 at Kirkland Performing Arts Center. Audiences gave a standing O to ShowTunes Theatre Company's staging of the little-known first musical from composers Kander & Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret), directed by Scot Charles Anderson and starring Jessica Skerritt, Craig Doescher and Angie Louise.

"NO, NO, NOEL!"

Opening the day after Thanksgiving and closing New Year's Eve, this holiday cabaret show from Straight-Edge Theatrics runs four nights a week at Crepe de Paris.

Featuring Angie Louise, Loretta Deranleau-Howard, Marcus Wolland, Charles Crowley.

Click here to read a review of this production at TalkinBroadway.com

WASHINGTON NEWS COUNCIL ROAST FOR BILL GATES SENIOR AND MIMI GARDNER GATES

This celebration at the Washington Convention Center on November 9, 2005, honored the lives and philanthropic achievements of guests-of-honor Bill Gates Sr. and wife Mimi Gardner Gates. Inspiring stuff and an amazing event to be part of.

Entertainment from Jim Anderson's Cabaret Productions featured musical performances by Hugh Hastings, John Deveney, Valerie Anderson and Angie Louise.

"FIORELLO!"

Opening October 1 at Kirkland Performing Arts Center, this is a chance to see a rarely-produced Tony-winning show from Fiddler on the Roof composers Harnick & Bock.

In this first production of its 2005-2006 concert season, ShowTunes Theatre Company offers direction by David Bennett, a distinguished cast and a hot band conducted by Bruce Monroe from behind his drum set. Starring David Silverman, Julian Patrick, Vickilee Wohlbach, Angie Louise, Candice Song Donehoo.