Laguna Playhouse joins local arts organizations around the nation to present the virtual concert event Get Happy: Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland, streaming live from Chicago, Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 4:00pm.
In an Emmy Award-nominated performance, Angela Ingersoll celebrates Judy Garland with virtuosic vocals, passionate storytelling, and naturally winning humor. As seen on PBS, her two hour concert features a powerful six-piece orchestra and classic songs including “Over the Rainbow,” “The Trolley Song,” “Get Happy,” and “The Man That Got Away.”
The event, produced by Chicago-based company Artists Lounge Live, features a talkback with online audience members immediately following the performance. Ticket proceeds will provide crucial support to participating arts organizations struggling to survive.
“We are thrilled to be bringing the wonderfully talented Angela Ingersoll back to Laguna audiences,” states Ellen Richard, Executive Director and Ann E. Wareham, Artistic Director. “She was so incredibly popular when she was here with End of the Rainbow, it will be a real delight to get a different peek into the wonder that was Judy Garland.”
Tickets for Get Happy: Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland are priced at $35 per household and can be purchased online at lagunaplayhouse.com or by calling the 949.497.2787 x1. To view concert, patrons must have a high speed internet connection that allows for streaming. For more information, visit lagunaplayhouse.com.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: LA Times cheers, “Ingersoll has incandescent star power.” Angela Ingersoll headlines concert stages nationwide with her Emmy Award-nominated performance Get Happy: Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland, as seen on PBS. She also won acclaim starring as Judy Garland in the play End of the Rainbow including Chicago’s Jeff Award, a Broadway World Award, and LA Times Woman of the Year in Theatre. Attracting the attention of Garland’s family, she partnered with Garland’s son onstage in Joey Luft and Angela Ingersoll Celebrate Judy Garland. Splash Magazine dubbed Ingersoll, “the heiress apparent to the Garland legacy.” Other credits include work with Marriott Theatre, Paramount Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Northlight, Drury Lane, Porchlight Music Theatre, Steppenwolf, The Second City, Goodman Theatre, La Mirada, Laguna Playhouse, and The Goodspeed. Additional honors include three Jeff Award nominations, four Ostrander Awards, and Best of Year honors from LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Sun-Times. Other television includes Chicago PD. Other concerts include The 12 Dames of Christmas, Happy Together: Michael and Angela Ingersoll Sing Songs You Know By Heart, and Harry Shearer and Judith Owen’s Christmas Without Tears. Angela and husband Michael Ingersoll create and produce the Artists Lounge Live concert series. angelaingersoll.com
ABOUT THE PROJECT: Artists Lounge Live is a dynamic concert series featuring popular music of yesterday sung by singular talents of today. Superb musicianship and powerful storytelling set us apart. Rising stars of stage and screen honor the icons who influenced them with intimacy and mastery. We explore the lives of our icons with empathy. We delve into the cultural landscape of America when the music was being made. We offer audiences an authentic emotional connection. Our headliners are not impersonators. They are the artistic descendants of the icons they cover. As you fall in love with the music all over again, we hope you fall in love with the featured artist dedicated to keeping your music alive. Popular music is our shared heritage and we honor it by gathering together to enjoy live entertainment. We believe in the restorative power of live entertainment for both the individual and the community.
Artists Lounge Live shows are created by husband and wife team Michael and Angela Ingersoll. Michael Ingersoll is an entertainer/producer who starred as Nick Massi of the Four Seasons in the original San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago casts of Jersey Boys. He also created, recorded, and toured internationally with retro-rock vocal group Under the Streetlamp, as seen on PBS. Angela Ingersoll headlines concert stages nationwide with her Emmy-nominated performance Get Happy: Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland, as seen on PBS. She also won acclaim portraying Garland in the play End of the Rainbow, including Chicago’s Jeff Award and LA Times Woman of the Year in Theatre. The couple live in Chicago. artistsloungelive.com
Laguna Playhouse educational programming includes year-round classes, productions by and for children and teens (Youth Theatre) and is one of the few companies in the region that offer a curriculum-based professional theatre-touring program, TheatreReach, which aligns with the California State Standards for literature, history and performing arts curriculum.
Laguna Playhouse has been recognized for the past five years as one of Orange County Register’s “Best of OC” in the category of Live Theatre. The Laguna Playhouse has featured many talented performers on stage, including Ed Asner, Leslie Caron, Hershey Felder, Melanie Griffith, Val Kilmer, Gregory Harrison, Dan Lauria, Hal Linden, Wendie Malick, Paul Rodriguez, Rita Rudner, Charles Shaughnessy, French Stewart, Loretta Swit, and Bette Davis.
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