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Let Me Sing and I'm Happy: Songs from the Great American Songbook

  • First Presbyterian Church 110 W Broadway Granville, OH, 43023 (map)

Kate Merryman presents an afternoon of music from the Golden Age of Musical Theater. Come here the songs that have become the fabric of American life, featuring the music of COle Porter, Geroge Gershwin, Irving Berlin and so much more.

Originally from the Washington D.C. area, Kate has been labelled an “impressive singing-actress” by Broadway World Washington DC. Kate has performed various musical theatre roles including Johanna (Sweeney Todd), Elle Woods (Legally Blonde), Cinderella (Into the Woods), over 60 performances of Cosette (Les Misérables), and Narrator (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) for which she was nominated for a Washington Area Theatre Community Honors Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She has also performed several operatic roles with Opera Columbus including the role of Nella in Gianni Schicchi, Elvira in #UncleJohn, and Pamina in The Magic Flute for Education Outreach. Other operatic roles performed are Lisette in La Rondine and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas. Concert work includes soprano soloist for Handel’s Messiah at Bluffton University, Faure’s Requiem with St. Veronica Catholic Church Adult Choir, and guest soloist with the Lancaster Chorale.

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