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ARTS PREVIEW: ALL KNOCKED UP!

Susan Egan & Georgia Statt Bring Broadway: Chance Style To Anaheim, CA

By: Team Buzzine
August 10, 2009

Susan Egan (Photo by Kevyn Major Howard)

Anaheim, California – It’s not every day that two gorgeous, immensely talented performers get themselves pregnant at the exact same time — twice, in just under two years. And what better way can there be to celebrate this unlikely occurrence than by writing a show about it? And heck, let’s make it a musical!

 

Celebrated singer-songwriter Georgia Stitt (NBC’s America’s Got Talent) and Tony Award Nominee Susan Egan (Beauty and the Beast) will perform their new cabaret act, All Knocked Up! (again), as part of The Chance Theater’s second annual fundraiser, BROADWAY: Chance Style.

 

Yes, both ladies are pregnant, each with their second child.

Fans of the Chance will remember last year’s BCS which featured Tony Nominee Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde, the musical) and Broadway veterans Lea Michele (Spring Awakening) and Orange County native Eden Espinosa (Wicked), as well as a slew of other special guest stars performing a revue-like evening of standards and songs selected from the best of Broadway. This year’s concert is a bit different. Instead of performing a collection of great songs from various shows, this year’s concert will be an actual stand-alone musical cabaret.

 

So, what is All Knocked Up! (again) about?

 

The hilarious, lighthearted (perfect for families with kids over the age of ten) production celebrates the awfully funny and sometimes sickly journey to motherhood and gives an insider’s look to what it means to live in the public eye while 

Georgia Stitt

slowly ballooning to the size of a small house. These two talented ladies are enormous figures in the entertainment industry, with Ms. Egan being something of a hometown hero (she went to the Orange County High School of the Arts). This performance will be the West Coast premiere of this raucous evening, filled with uproarious songs, juicy gossip and the occasional pee break.

 

In addition to supporting the award-winning productions and education programs of The Chance Theater, the concert will also benefit students affiliated with the Anaheim Union High School District. The concert will take place in the stunningly beautiful new Performing Arts Center at Kennedy High School, where patrons will enjoy a fully refurbished, state-of-the-art facility that was brought into being by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Foundation. A portion of the evening’s proceedings will go to ensure that students will be able to enjoy this wonderful venue for many years to come.

 

It is clear — these are tough times, tough for all of us as individuals and especially tough for the arts. But this’ll be fun. Just pure fun. And you can help out two worthwhile organizations that truly, desperately need your support.

 

The event will also feature a very special silent auction, presentations by members of The Chance family, and a New York raffle with a grand prize valued at $2,000. Tickets for the concert start at just $70; raffle tickets can be purchased for as little as $10 each when you buy ten.

 

To do just that and get tickets direct from the Chance Theater, simply click here.