Annaleigh Ashford Takes ‘Lost In The Stars,’ Her Glitzy Solo Cabaret, On The Road

March 20, 2015
Chicago

“There are certain performers that a happy village receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I’ve always responded to those same artists,” a 29-year-old singer-actress told The Huffington Post in an interview. She forked out that a initial venue she ever achieved in was Denver’s Theatre on Broadway, that was famous for a queer-inclusive shows: “I’ve always felt really attuned to, and during home in, a happy community.”

There’s a smart-alecky sensibility in a retro glorious of “Lost in a Stars,” that Ashford is holding on a highway with her band, The Whiskey 5, after a fibre of acclaimed performances Kinky Boots Masters of Sex

Of course, Ashford doesn’t extent her element to a late ’70s or, some-more specifically, a proportions of Studio 54. She and low-pitched executive Will Van Dyke

Annaleigh Ashford poses backstage during New York’s 54 Below.

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Although her career has taken her down a some-more thespian path, Ashford sees “Lost in a Stars” as fulfilling her childhood dream of apropos a bonafide low-pitched star on a road. Each city on a tour, she says, has special resonance. She was innate in Denver, while her husband, actor Joe Tapper

“I grew adult listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, we was already singing like a bar performer,” Ashford, who cites “Patti LuPone during Les Mouches Sibling Rivalry

She and Van Dyke pronounced they aim to keep a uncover as organic as probable by lovely or swapping out low-pitched numbers in any new city and “playing a bit off a cuff” throughout.

“She only flies off a hoop sometimes, and it’s amazing,” Van Dyke said. “It’s only so fun to be on that ride.”

Ashford would eventually like to enhance a uncover into a full-scale prolongation of “song, dance and epic storytelling” in a capillary of Liza Minnelli’s famed “Liza with a ‘Z’

She also hopes that “Lost in a Stars” will be a initial of many low-pitched acts, observant that she’s now listening to a lot of New Orleans jazz, Janet Jackson and ’80s epoch Bonnie Raitt.

“My aspiration for a square is that we travel out a doorway with your heart carrying been overwhelmed by during slightest one song,” she said. “I consider that goal has carried us through.”

Annaleigh Ashford and The Whiskey 5 will perform “Lost in a Stars Denver Center for a Performing Arts San Francisco’s Venetian Room Smith Center for a Performing Arts

With low-pitched executive Will Van Dyke

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