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who’s who Sharon Catherine
Brown (Jolpinaire/
Mary Bridget Chantel/Blues Singer)
Davies (Janis is from New York
Joplin). 2014 Tony City. Last seen at The
Award® nominee, Pasadena Playhouse
Mary Bridget Davies’s as Velma in Regina
journey began in Taylor’s Crowns.
her hometown of Female lead in Smokey Joe’s Café (Ovation
Cleveland, Ohio, when Award nomination). Broadway: Effie in
she started singing in local bands and she Dreamgirls, The Narrator in Joseph and
hasn’t slowed down since. She starred the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
in Anything Goes and It Ain’t Nothin’ “Seasons of Love” soloist in Rent with
But the Blues. Upon gaining acclaim as Neil Patrick Harris. First African-American
Janis Joplin in Love, Janis, she was asked woman to star as Lucy in Frank Wildhorn’s
to front Big Brother and the Holding Jekyll and Hyde. Film: Etta Jones in HBO’s
Company. Mary Bridget is a 2014 Drama Introducing Dorothy Dandridge starring
Critics’ Circle Award winner, B. Iden Halle Berry, Sister Act 2 with Whoopie
Payne Award winner, Cleveland Critics’ Goldberg. TV: Opera diva Angela on “A
Circle Award winner, and 2014 Theatre Different World.” Host of popular fashion/
World Award winner. A two-year regional lifestyle web series “The Love It Show.”
run sent A Night With Janis Joplin to yveTte CaSon
Broadway where Mary received her (Jolpinaire/Chantel/
Tony® nomination for “Best Performance Aretha Franklin/
by an Actress in a Lead Role in a Musical.” Nina Simone). Yvette
recently sold out
Kacee Clanton shows of a reprise
(Janis Joplin Alternate) performance of Ella
appears for the first The Musical, playing
time at The Pasadena the legendary First Lady of Song, Ella
Playhouse. Broadway: A Fitzgerald. Other credits include:
Night With Janis Joplin Dreamgirls (Broadway and International
(The Lyceum Theatre). Tour); Play On! (Broadway and Pasadena,
Regional.Other: One Ovation Award); Once on this Island, Ain’t
Night With Janis Joplin (ZACH Theatre, San Misbehavin’, St. Louis Woman, Into the
Jose Repertory Theatre), Love, Janis (San Woods and Sisterella at The Pasadena
Diego Repertory, Kansas City Repertory, Playhouse, for which she won an NAACP
Downstairs Cabaret Theatre), Your Town Theatre Award. She has toured and sung
Follies, a Cirque Comique (El Portal with some of the industry’s elite: Whitney
Theatre). Film/TV Soundtrack: “The Tooth Houston, Stevie Wonder, David Foster, and
Fairy,” “Kinsey,” “Brothers and Sisters,” Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds. Yvette can
“Fox Sports,” “Cribs,” “Open House New be seen in the feature film Dreamgirls.
York,” “18 to Life,” “The Guiding Light,”, Education: Berkeley College of Music.
“Star Search,” “Thirty Something.” Sylvia MacCalla (Joplinaire/Chantel/
Additional Credits: Toured as a vocalist Bessie Smith/Odetta). Sylvia appeared
with Joe Cocker, Luis Miguel, Big Brother in the Broadway hits Rent (Joanne) and
and the Holding Co.
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