Micaela Leon in
W EIMAR NOIR - Songs & Sounds of Weimar Nights & Dreams
Micaela Leon
with Paul Trueblood, piano & Philipp Gutbrod, drums & Luigi on electronics
Friday - Sunday June 19 - 21 at 9pm
The Salon, 511 West 20th St (betw 10th & 11th Ave)
Ticket Hotline 212.414.1422
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photos: Brent Murray (live pix by Jim Vern) CLICKHERE
A 2007 Nightlife Award finalist (for Cabaret Musical Comedy/Characterization) and MAC Award nominee (for Best Female Debut), the German-born actress and singer Micaela Leon studied voice at Hochschule für Musik Dresden and London's Trinity College of Music. She studied drama at The Lee Strasberg Institute for Theatre and Film.
Her widely praised Weimar cabaret show "Tigers, Muses and Jasmine", is enjoying an open run at Don't Tell Mama and was presented at the prestigious Café Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie in April. Micaela Leon performed with fellow chanteuse Karen Kohler in their duo show "Noise & Smoke: Hits of Weimar Berlin" at the first European Cabaret Festival "Kabarett Fete" at Helen's last and her Weill & Eisler classics in the successful series of “Weimar NY: The Spiegel Sessions“ at the world-famous Spiegeltent all in 2007 in NYC. She recently appeared as Marlene Dietrich in Kristof Barthory’s “Garbo’s Last Walk“ at Barnes and Noble and as Inez in Sartre's “No Exit“ at the Richmond Shepard Theater which was paired with her one-woman-show "Paris Café" about French existentialist Bohemian Juliette Greco.
Previous performances include Marie in “Entartete Musik“ at The Drill Hall Theatre London, the Windsor Arts Festival and touring throughout Europe; Desideria in Menotti’s “The Saint of Bleecker Street“ at the Peacock Theatre London; Golda/ Teresa in “In the Jungle of the City“ at The Drill Hall Theatre London; KitKat - Girl in “Cabaret“ at Greenwich Theatre London; Filipyevna in “Eugene Onegin“ at Jackson Lane Theatre London, and the title role in Janacek’s “Sarka“ for the Garsington Opera education series. Leon collaborated with blues guitarist Tony Remy on Jean Toussaint’s album “Nazaire“, which was awarded the BBC British Jazz Album of the Year 2004. Due to her studies with the leading British contemporary singer Linda Hirst, she got involved in many new music projects such as Paul Whitty & Anna Best’s “Vauxhall Pleasures“ at Vauxhall Crossing London and Tate Britain, and a collaboration with The Curious Chamber Players Sweden with whom she performed Lutoslavsky’s “Five Songs“ and a night of Free Improvisations.
When she arrived in New York almost two years ago, Leon, took part in the exclusive Cabaret Conference at Yale University, where she met both Paul Trueblood, her musical director and Lina Koutrakos, her director.
Leon premiered a new show last fall at New York's leading new concert venue, The Metropolitan Room; "Trance Atlantic", a new original cabaret-theater event, with songs associated with Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker and Jane Birkin.
"She is a knockout - tall, blonde and sparkling with her power to act out a song." - William Wolf, Wolf Entertainment Guide
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"A real artist, who combines a dazzlingly virtuosic talent with deep, intellectual scholarship, a truly rare marriage in cabaret!" David Noh - Gay City News
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"Falling in Love Again" from "Trance Atlantic" recorded at THE METROPOLITAN ROOM NYC October 2007
"Tigers, Muses & Jasmine - The Wild Heroines of Weimar Berlin" at Don't Tell Mama
"She proved with Tigers, Muses and Jasmine that she could own the classics with the best of them. With Trance Atlantic, she proves that she can perform contemporary songs just as well." Jena Tesse Fox - Broadwayworld.com
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Photos by Jackie Roman (Live at the Metropolitan Room)
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