Marlene Verplanck at Bonington Theatre

Marlene VerPlanck returns to the Bonington for an unmissable evening of jazz standards. She is one of these hidden American national treasures, with that ability to leap up & down her vocal register brilliantly delivering her songs in a facile, pure & almost bell-like tone. In her early career she worked as a backing singer for Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Tony Bennett, emerging as a leading solo performer in the 1970s, playing Carnegie Hall to rave reviews.
"She may be the most accomplished interpreter of popular material performing today... interpretive sensitivity and perceptive choice of songs that can be matched only by a handful of singers."...

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Marlene VerPlanck returns to the Bonington for an unmissable evening of jazz standards. She is one of these hidden American national treasures, with that ability to leap up & down her vocal register brilliantly delivering her songs in a facile, pure & almost bell-like tone. In her early career she worked as a backing singer for Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Tony Bennett, emerging as a leading solo performer in the 1970s, playing Carnegie Hall to rave reviews.
"She may be the most accomplished interpreter of popular material performing today... interpretive sensitivity and perceptive choice of songs that can be matched only by a handful of singers."
New York Times

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