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Cheryl Ann Allen

In this irresistible one woman show Cheryl Ann Allen brings to life all the music, humor and drama of one of the greatest stars in show business "Sophie Tucker".

Sophie Tucker in Person

From the Vaudeville era to the Ed Sullivan Show, the audience will be dazzled and enthralled seeing Ms. Tucker brought back to the stage through her great music and anecdotes of her life. Ms. Tucker is accompanied by her pianist and confidant Mr. Ted Shapiro. At this evening in the theater the audience will be transported to an era of entertainment where great songs and humor left them with laughs, tears and warm memories.

Some Of These Days
My Yiddishe Mama
Follow A Star
Last Of The Red Hot Mamas

Born in Russia, Tucker immigrated to the United States and settled with her family in Hartford, Connecticut, where she helped out at her parents' kosher diner and roominghouse. Surrounded by theater performers at a young age, Tucker began singing for her customers. After a failed marriage, with her her son staying in Hartford, Tucker moved to New York and got a vaudeville job. First performing in blackface, she soon began singing the songs that made her famous, including "Some of These Days" and "My Yiddishe Momma," throughout the world. She played in several films in the 1930s and 1940s. Tucker's financial independence was important to her and her philanthropy included personal, as well as, institutional contributions to actors guilds, Jewish and Zionist causes, synagogues and hospitals. Her work challenged stereotypes of age, size and gender and one historian has labeled her a feminist of pop culture.

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