The Bridge Cabaret PLUS – 12/2/2024

A musical cabaret conceived and performed by MARINA BLUE JARRETTE
with Collaborative Pianist LINCOLN WRIGHT

Monday, December 2
7:00pm Preshow* / 7:30pm Performance

@ ASU Kerr, 6110 N Scottsdale Rd

What’s the soundtrack of YOUR childhood? You are cordially invited to relive the bops and celebrate nostalgia through an eclectic (and unapologetically extra) childhood mixtape. Featuring special guest singers, games, and AT LEAST one song you know!

And… you have a chance to perform!
*Bring sheet music to sing with Lincoln during the 7pm preshow. Please come early and sign up – first come, first served!
Doors open at 6:45pm.


CABARET ARTIST
Marina Blue Jarrette (she/hers) is a Phoenix-based performer, director, and nonprofit administrator. Favorite performing credits include: The Producers (Ulla), Nice Work If You Can Get It (Billie), The Spitfire Grill (Shelby), and Title of Show (Heidi). Recent directing credits include: Pride and Prejudice, The Secret Garden (AD), and 9 to 5 (AD). Marina is also a passionate singer-songwriter, having penned the music, lyrics, and book for an original, feminist-western musical (Legendary) which was a finalist in the Headwaters New Play Festival, a semi-finalist in the Eugene O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference, and earned an invited audit to the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop with Stephen Schwartz. Marina earned her BM in Vocal Performance from Arizona State University and holds a certification in the Fox Method for trauma-informed nervous system regulation in the arts.

COLLABORATIVE PIANIST
Lincoln Wright (he/him) has music directed over 100 shows at theaters across the Valley.  Recent credits include The Secret Garden (Inspire), Christmas Carol (Hale), Newsies (TheaterWorks), Bye, Bye, Birdie (Hale), Godspell (Brophy Preparatory), Unsinkable Molly Brown (Hale), and Hunchback of Notre Dame (TheaterWorks).  He is in much demand as an accompanist for recitals and concerts, and is a resident pianist at Ballet Etudes and Ballet Arizona, and the weekly organist at Christ the Lord Lutheran Church.  Although the arts world beckons, he’s kept his day job as an attorney at the Udall Shumway law firm in Mesa, handling personal injury cases. He is honored to join The Bridge Initiative for The Bridge Cabaret PLUS!

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**This program is made possible, fully or in part, by a grant from Scottsdale Arts with funding provided by the City of Scottsdale. This season’s projects are supported in part by a CCG grant for general operations from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, which receives support from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts.**