Linn Lorkin in her all-original truesical comedy
Hey,Piano Bar Lady!
'How many people do YOU know who could turn theirlives into a musical comedy?' (Peta Mathias, Redhead Media)
What happens when you're a kiwi muso arriving in the Big Apple with no money andnowhere to live ? You end up in a piano-bar. And life's just beginning... Through swinging original songs and wryly funny stories Linn Lorkin chronicles her adventures in a bye-gone New York as she sleeps on sofas, searches for true love and plays her way from rusty SoHo to ritzy Park Avenue.
'this show sparkles !. a lively combination of beautiful singing, spirited story-telling and dazzling jazz piano-playing' ( Magee Hickey, WCBS-TV, New York)
'a deliciously jazzy romp through '80s Manhattan... cool, elegant songs with brilliantly tangled rhymes and dizzying musical twists... She's a treasure." (New Zealand Listener)
Linn talks about the show's beginning :
"While on tour in Europe with The Jews Brother Band, summer 2009, I was invited to perform a solo concert in an appartment on Berlin's storied Kurfurstendamm Strasse. I had previously had the idea of anauto-biographical musical about my time as a piano-bar performer in New York in the late 70s and 80s. So there I was on the Ku'damm with a happy bunchof English-speaking Berliners, playing a fabulous Bechstein grand and telling the stories. My 'truesical comedy' was born ! "
'Hey,Piano Bar Lady!' was developed and honed through a series of house-concerts in both New Zealand and New York from late 2009 through late 2010. The first public performance was at Don't Tell Mama, NYC, November 2010, followed by a short season at Auckland Fringe March 2011.
VideoTeaser: Hey, Piano Bar Lady! at Don't Tell Mama, NYC, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7FQJHoRnw
Potted Bio
Brought up on a New Zealanddairy-farm, Linn Lorkin got her first piano lessons from her mother, a Ferguson from Aberdeenshire. Her first professional gig was in a low dive in Copenhagen, singing and playing for sailors and prostitutes, her most prestigious at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London. She has a large French repertoire, sings with NZ's premierklezmer group The Jews Brothers Bandand has written close to a hundred songs.(For more details about her fulsome career please consult her web-site.)
Hey,Piano Bar Lady! at Edinburgh Fringe 2011
Henderson's Wine Bar, 94 Hanover Street
August 5 - 28 (Previews 3,4)
Nightly 10.30 pm. Sundays 9pm. No Mondays
Aug 3-4: £4 (£3)
Aug 5-6,7,10,14,16-17 21,23-24,28 : £6 (£5)
Aug 9,11-13,18-20, 25-27 : £7.50 (6)
(Aug 9- 2 for 1)
Duration: 75 min
www.linnlorkin.com, email linn@rouge.co.nz, mobile 07741709279
