Emily Bergl

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Kidding On The Square is a highly theatrical cabaret that brings the audience on a roaring 20’s ride through love, heartbreak, and everything in between. It’s an old fashioned evening of entertainment told from the perspective of a modern girl and the eccentric characters she inhabits. In her debut musical performance, Broadway, film and television star Emily Bergl with acclaimed musical director and pianist G. Scott Lacy, creates a cabaret world that blends classic Fats Waller and Cole Porter hits with vintage takes on modern favorites from Roy Orbison to Madonna.

“Emily Bergl is an actor of uncommon talent, great integrity . . . a strikingly real presence. She seems less like an actress and more like a person you might actually know".

”The Village Voice“

"Ms. Bergl, a cherubic beauty with a porcelain complexion, brings infinite nuances”

"The New York Times“

"G. Scott Lacy is simply a musician who seems to enjoy his work so much that it’s downright contagious, affecting everyone in the room to reach a higher level of joy. The audience feels his aura and his aura is nothing less than feel-good.”

"San Diego Theatre Scene"

Emily Bergl is one of a rare breed of actresses today with a substantial career in film, television, and the theatre. Her work includes diverse roles in both comedy and drama, and characters from several different centuries. She has worked with award-winning directors on film and television including James Mangold, Antoine Fuqua, Steven Shainberg, and Jonathan Kaplan, and on stage with directors Doug Hughes, Daniel Sullivan, Michael Greif, and Michael Mayer. Ms. Bergl’s  career began when she was chosen from a nation wide casting call to play the lead in MGM’s“The Rage: Carrie 2,” and leads in independent films such as “Fur,” “Chasing Sleep,” and “Happy Campers” soon followed. She has starred in three Broadway plays, and acted opposite Laurence  Fishburne, Stockard Channing, and GabrielByrne. Off Broadway she originated roles in plays by Wendy Wasserstein, Steven Dietz, and Christopher Shinn. Ms. Bergl has also worked across the country in theatre companies such as South Coat Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, the Globe Theatres, and the Williamstown Theater Festival. On television, she starred in Steven Spielberg’s “Taken,” and has guest starred on countless shows, including“Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Good Wife,” “Medium,”“CSI: Miami,” “ER,” and two seasons on the“Gilmore Girls.”For two years, she played the eccentric Annie on"Men in Trees,” an ABC comedy starring Anne Heche about a small Alaskan town. This fall, she begins production on the third season of JohnWells’ TNT drama “Southland,” where she plays the troubled photographer and detective’s wifeTammi. Although Ms Bergl is currently making her musical debut, she has spent a lifetime studying music, including classical and contemporary singing, piano, and the concert harp.With “Kidding on the Square,” she finally bringsher personal passion for music and cabaret to her professional life.

G. Scott Lacy is one of California’s most sough after musical director, vocal coach and performers.  He has musical directed over 100 productions in California working with such theatre companies as the Tony award winning La Jolla Playhouse, the award winning Lamb’s Players Theatre, the Musical Theatre Guild of Los Angeles, Diversionary Theatre , New Conservatory Theatre, 42nd Street Moon, SanDiego Repertory Theatre, San Diego Opera, NorthCoast Repertory Theatre, the Emmy Award Winning Malashock Dance Company and many others. Mr. Lacy has had the honor of working with some o fthe theater’s finest directors including Michael Greif, Neel Keller, Peter Schneider, Les Waters, Regina Taylor, Susan Booth, Todd Neilson, CynthiaStokes, John Malashock, Mindy Cooper, Robert Smyth, Deborah Smyth, Greg McKellan, and Kerry Meads. Mr. Lacy is a successful vocal coach whose clients include Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Golden Globe Award Winning performers. His students have attended such prestigious universities as NYU, Harvard, Carnegie Melon, North Carolina School of the Arts, UCSD, UCLA, and Sarah Lawrence. Mr. Lacy was a faculty member of the San Diego Opera’s Summer Intensive Program for Singers for three years and served for 8 years as the Vocal Coach for the Tony Award Winning La Jolla Playhouse’s Summer Conservatory Program. Mr. Lacy is a successful cabaret and recording artist  He works with cabaret singers Steven Fales, SandyCampbell, Angelo D’Agostino, Tyler Kent and performs a number of one man shows. He performs regularly at “Sunday Cabaret” at Lamb’s Players Theatre in San Diego and has performed in NYC (Joe’s Pub, Metropolitan Room), Los Angeles (Upright Cabaret), Atlanta (Paris on Ponce) SanDiego (Schroeder’s, Palace Bar), Shanghai (JW’s,Nessun Dorma) and Beijing (Flow Bar). He has recorded 11 albums with various performers and released his own inspirational album/cd, “ A QuietPlace” in 2000.

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