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January 21 & February 11:
 LIZ LARSEN Broadway credits include
Hairspray, Rocky Horror Show, The
Smell of Kill, The Most Happy Fella* (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle
nominations, LA Dramalogue Award Best Featured
Actress) Damn Yankees, A Little Night Music, Starmites*, Fiddler on the Roof, Blues in the Night, Annie, DuBarry was a Lady (City Center) Other New York shows: Such Good Friends (NYMF - Outstanding
Performance Award), A New Brain*, Bingo*, Him and Her (Fringe excellence award-performance), New Yorkers, Loman Family Picnic, Personals,
Little By Little*. Road: Sunday in the Park (Helen Hayes Award
Lead Actress), Baby (Helen Hayes
Award nomination Featured Actress) Falsettos,
Guys and Dolls, The Value of Names (with Jack Klugman) Annie Get
Your Gun, Evita,
Joseph…Dreamcoat.
TV: Series Regular: My Guys.
Recurring roles on: Law and Order, SVU,
Third Watch. Guest star: Sopranos, Sex and the City, Criminal
Intent, Conviction, Deadline, The Street, Exiled (M.O.W.)
Concerts and recordings: 20 different compilation recordings on the Varese Sarabande label, Oh! Kay, Broadway 1960, and Symphonic Pops Concerts all over the world
from the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall to the Gothenberg
Symphony, Sweden. *Original Cast Recordings
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January 28:
KT SULLIVAN
Broadway
credits include The Three Penny Opera
with Sting, the play Broadway
directed by George Abbott, and the leading role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She also played feature roles in the
national tour of Annie Get Your Gun as
well as the workshop production of Easter
Parade with Tommy Tune. Off-Broadway,
KT appeared in Splendora and A My Name is Still Alice. With
Mark Nadler she co-wrote and starred in American Rhapsody: George Gershwin to the World, receiving Drama Desk and
Lucille Lortel nominations and winning the MAC
Award for best musical revue. Her regional theatre credits include the Old
Globe Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Municipal Opera of St. Louis, Missouri
Rep, Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse
and The Great Lakes Theater Festival, where her roles have ranged from
Frances in Light Up The Sky and Carrie in Carousel to Meg in Brigadoon and Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday.
KT has
been featured several times at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Lincoln Center and
The Caramoor Festival. She has also performed at
The Spoleto Festival, La Nouvelle Eve in Paris, The
Chichester Festival in the U.K. and several times
at The Adelaide Festival in Australia. Since 1992 KT for the past ten years has been a regular
headliner at the Oak Room of New York’s Algonquin Hotel and just completed an engagement in her
latest show” Autumn In New York” for which she received the most enthusiastic
press. For several years has starred at the Sabarsky
Café of the Neue Gallerie
on Fifth Avenue and Live on the Park in London. She made her West End debut
in Vienna to Weimar at London’s
Jermyn Street Theatre in 2004 and has returned annually in Noel Coward and
Irving Berlin revues. In addition, KT has recorded seven albums on the DRG
label, including “Crazy World” (voted #1 in the vocals category of Tower
Records’ Pulse Magazine) and “Live From Rainbow and Stars: The Songs of Bart
Howard,” which won Backstage magazine’s Bistro Award. Her latest CD of the
songs of Cole Porter with Mr. Nadler and
saxophonist Loren Schoenberg was recorded last fall
during an extended engagement at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia.
On television, KT has guest starred on Police Squad, Night Court, Remington Steele, Hardcastle
and McCormick, Cabaret 13 with Michael Feinstein and
In Performance at the White House, with Mary Martin. Liza Minelli
presented KT Sullivan with the Manhattan Association of Cabarets’ Outstanding
Female Vocalist Award and Irish America Magazine named her one of its Top 100
Irish-Americans. On that note, KT is proud to be married to outstanding Irish
American Steve Downey.
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February 4:
 JANA ROBBINS has played leading
roles on Broadway in Good News, I Love My Wife, Crimes of the Heart, Romance/Romance, Gypsy - playing Mazeppa (the bump it with a trumpet stripper) while
standing by for Tyne Daly as Mama Rose (40 performances), and The
Tale of the Allergist’s Wife where she covered both Linda Lavin (Valerie Harper) and Michele Lee. On the National
Tour of Allergist’s Wife, Jana replaced Michele Lee and co-starred
across the country opposite Valerie Harper. Other National Tours include Ethel
in Footloose and Aldonza in Man
of La Mancha with Jose Ferrer.
Her long list of
Off-Broadway and repertory credits include both straight plays and
musicals. Some of her favorite roles have been, Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
Lady in Orpheus Descending, Dr. Livingstone
in Agnes of God, Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie,
The Leader in Zorba, and most recently
Bessie Berger in Awake and Sing at
Arena Stage, just to name a few.
Jana has guest starred on Cheers, Roseanne,
Babylon 5, JAG, Law & Order, Law & Order -SVU and Criminal Intent. For
the big screen, she recently filmed The
Women (2008) written and directed by Diane English, starring Eva Mendez,
Meg Ryan, and Annette Benning. Other film credits include The
Last Days of Frankie the Fly with Dennis Hopper and Keifer Sutherland, Executive Target with Michael
Madsen and Roy Schieder, and Haunted Heart with
Olympia Dukakis.
Jana’s own one-woman shows – One Hell
of a Ride! (The Songs of Cy
Coleman) and Gypsy in my Soul have played
cabarets and theaters across the country.
Her CD: “Jana Robbins – Face to
Face” can be purchased at Footlight Records and online at CDBaby.com.
Jana was also one of the producers of Little
Women on Broadway starring Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern, and
the Off-Broadway musical, I Love You Because. Her latest musical, Unlock’d just won
the “Best of the Fest” Award at The New York Musical Theater Festival 2007 and
will play Ravinia this summer in Chicago. For more
information go to: www.janarobbins.com
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February 18:
JANE SUMMERHAYS Broadway:
The Wild Party (Public Theater/NYSF),
The Real Inspector Hound
(Roundabout), Taking Steps (Circle in
the Square), Lend Me a Tenor, Me and My
Girl (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), A Chorus Line (Orig. American Cast, also London), Sugar Babies. National tours: Sugar Babies, Oh Kay! Off
Broadway/regional: La Cage Aux Folles (Ogunquit Playhouse), Roleplay (Pittsburgh Public), Anyone Can Whistle (Prince Music
Theatre), Camila
(Walnut Street Theatre), Follies
(American Musical Theatre), Dream
(Tennessee Rep.) Noel and Gertie (York Theatre Co.), On Approval (Roundabout), Paris
Lights (American Place), The Miser,
Happy End, Tonight at 8:30 (Olney Theatre), Louisiana Purchase (Goodspeed). TV: “Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Understand,” "Ed," "Sex and the
City," "Law & Order," "New York News," "The
Cosby Mysteries," "One Life to Live," "All My
Children," "Kennedy Center Honors." Film: Bobbing
for Apples, This Train. Founding Director: Broadway Musical Project in
Israel.
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February 25:
SUSAN LUCCI was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2006 and was garnered with her own Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 28, 2005. That date will stay in memories of fans of Ms. Lucci as much as the day she won the Emmy in May of 1999. This incredible honor is the icing on the cake of an incredible career as she celebrates her 35 years as Erica Kane on “All My Children.” In fact, she has been honored with many awards over the course of her career spanning from her tireless work with children, her passionate dedication to her community and in celebration of her work as an actress.
In fact, when VH-1 named her one of their “200 Top Icons of all Time,” Susan was thrilled and honored by the reference. Her work and her contribution to the entertainment community and beyond had become timeless and any new endeavor she partakes will only continue to add dimension to her already multi-faceted and award-winning career.
As the most famous face in daytime television history, Lucci has held audiences spellbound for years as the sexy, sassy, beautiful “woman you love to hate,” Erica Kane on ABC-TV’s “All My Children.” In May 1999, all of America stood and cheered when Susan Lucci won the Emmy Award for “Best Actress”. It was a historic moment not only for Susan Lucci, but for all of television. She has hosted “Saturday Night Live” and guest-stared in a one hour special of the successful ABC series “Hope and Faith” and most recently on an episode of “Raven.” It renewed the industry’s attention and admiration as she showed a lighter side to the dramatic turns of daytime television.
Lucci’s artistic excellence allowed her the opportunity to expand to luminous careers in theater and cabaret. For the last three years, Susan’s sensational nightclub performances opening for Regis Philbin have dazzled audiences as she graced the stage to sold-out crowds and performed solo concerts across the country. In October 2001, Lucci debuted her cabaret act at “Feinstein’s at the Regency” working with director John McDaniels and Shawn Gough. In his review of Lucci, Rex Reed stated, “This is a gal that sends you home smiling.”
During her 1999 Broadway debut starring as Annie Oakley in the revival of Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun,” Lucci not only received a standing ovation from the entire house, but she had lines of fans around the block, both old and new, waiting for an opportunity to catch Ms. Lucci either on stage or upon her departure from the stage door, for autographs. Said Michael Logan of TV Guide, “Susan Lucci didn’t just take Great White by storm: she took it by tornado, hurricane and tsunami, too."
Acting and singing are only two of Ms. Lucci’s many passions. She has also become a successful entrepreneur,. In 1991, she launched the Susan Lucci Collection of hair care products. She created a sensual fragrance, Susan Lucci Invitation, and a fresh, sparkling fragrance, LaLucci. Both fragrances were finalists for the renowned Fifi Award. The year of 2001 brought great inspiration and success for Susan as she proudly introduced her own jewelry, shoes, and accessory lines – all inspired by offering apparel for women of all shapes and sizes. In 2003 she introduced a lingerie line for “beauty of all ages.” Her head-to-toe collection is a constant sell-out and available on the Home Shopping Network (HSN), HSN.com and through Susan Lucci’s own personal Web site, www.susanlucci.com. In June 2002, Susan also introduced a personal microdermabrasion system with Guthy-Renker, Youthful Essence® by Susan Lucci which has sold over 2 million kits since its debut and was awarded “Best Beauty Informercial” at the 2004 Electronic Retailing Association Awards. Lucci will expand her expertise with Guthy-Renker by presenting a pilates chair fitness product entitled “Malibu Pilates.”
Further, Susan always makes sure to find time for what she believes to be most important: children. She supports Little Flower Children & Family Services of New York, the largest child care agency in the state of New York providing foster care and adoption services to all five boroughs as well as Long Island. She has also served as the March of Dimes’ National Ambassador in 2000 and as a celebrity spokesperson for AMDeC (Academic Medicine Development Company) and The New York Cancer Project. She was the recipient of the prestigious New York City Gracie Award and the Muse Award for Women in Film & Television and in 2004 accepted an award from Albert Einstein Medical Center.
Susan Lucci has been honored by the City of New York by being presented with a “Key to the City” by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. She also received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and joined the 1,000 Broadway legends as her caricature became immortalized on the walls of New York’s famous Sardi’s Restaurant. She has been named one of E! Entertainment’s “The Top Entertainers of the Year” as well as one of Barbara Walters’ “Ten Most Fascinating People.” Her “Lifetime Intimate Portrait” aired on the Lifetime cable network in May 2003 and she hosted the “White House Christmas Special” for A&E. Susan’s accomplishments and contributions to the world of television and the performing arts have truly made her an icon to millions.
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March 3:
JOYCE DeWITT is most widely known to audiences for her starring role as “Janet Wood” in the ABC Television hit series Three’s Company. She also has an extensive background in the theatre, working both as actress and director in a stage career which spans over forty years.
Miss DeWitt has starred in numerous theatrical productions including most recently as Mama Rose in the musical Gypsy at the Buck County Playhouse, the Canadian premieres of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize winning play Dinner with Friends and Alfred Uhry’s Tony Award-winning play The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Other recent stage performances include the North American premieres of Daylight Savings and Remember Me, the British farce Noises Off, the revival of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, and the Broadway musical Olympus on My Mind, for which she completed the cast recording – her first album.
Miss DeWitt’s other theatre credits include starring roles in Chapter Two, Sweet Charity, Damn Yankees, Middle of the Night, Star Spangled Girl, The Crucible, Medea, Tartuffe, A Hatful of Rain, Desire Under the Elms, MacBeth, The Mikado, Li’l Abner, South Pacific, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Peter Pan, Brigadoon, All the Way Home, A Month in the Country, The Tempest, The Impossible Years, Dracula: An Original Rock Musical, Stop the World, I Want to Get Off and Same Time, Next Year.
Her other television credits include singing and dancing in numerous specials having had the pleasure of appearing with such wonderful talents as Greer Garson, Ann Miller, Perry Como, Bill Cosby, Don Knotts, Anne Murray, Tony Randall, Rich Little, Cheryl Ladd, John Ritter, and Steve Martin. She has also made numerous guest-starring appearances on popular television programs including The Love Boat, The Osmonds, Hope Island, Cybill, Twitch City, and Living Single, as well as starring in the television movies With This Ring and Spring Fling.
Miss DeWitt holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ball State University and Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA where she was awarded the Master of Fine Arts Fellowship as well as the Clifton Webb Scholarship.
Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, on April 23rd, Miss DeWitt is one of four children. Her childhood years were divided between West Virginia and Indiana.
Having had the good fortune to work with such wonderful human beings as Valerie Harper and Dennis Weaver, whose dedication to ending hunger and homelessness in our world and support of environmental issues is boundless, Miss DeWitt participated with members of the House and Senate at the Capitol Hill Forum on Hunter and Homelessness and has hosted presentations for the Family Assistance Program of Hollywood. She is most grateful for having been allowed the privilege of hosting the International Awards Ceremony at the Wide House for the Presidential End Hunger Awards, as well as co-hosting, with Jeff Bridges, the World Food Day Gala at the Kennedy Center.
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Liz Larsen (1/21 & 2/11)