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Jimmy Webb with special guest, Broadway star Mara Davi (No No, Nanette; The Drowsy Chaperone) with pianist/composer Adam Waite
"One of the real, real geniuses." -Sammy Cahn
"One of the most innovative and proficient songwriters of our generation." -Billy Joel
There is no shorthand way to sum up the first 35 years of Jimmy Webb's career. He's known worldwide for the instant classics he wrote for Glen Campbell (“By The Time I Get To Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” “Where’s The Playground, Susie”), Richard Harris (“MacArthur Park,” “Didn’t We”), the Fifth Dimension (“Up, Up and Away,” “This Is Your Life”), The Brooklyn Bridge (“Worst That Could Happen”), Art Garfunkel (“All I Know”), Linda Ronstadt (“Easy For You To Say”), Joe Cocker (“The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress”) and countless others from Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney to Urge Overkill, Reba McEntire, and R.E.M..
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He's the only artist ever to receive Grammy awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration. He's been elected to the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Songwriters. “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” and “Up, Up and Away” are among the fifty most-performed songs of the past fifty years ("Phoenix" is Number Three).
As a performer of his own songs, he's recorded ten albums and appeared in theaters and high-end cabaret rooms around the world. And, he brings with him a lifetime of stories and the passion and playfulness of his own compositions. There is nothing like hearing Jimmy Webb sing Jimmy Webb.
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Special guest Mara Davi is an actress and singer who has starred on Broadway in A Chorus Line (as Maggie), The Drowsy Chaperone (replacing Sutton Foster) and No, No, Nanette (with Sandy Duncan and Rosie O'Donnell). She will be performing with pianist/composer Adam Waite.