In the skating rink of life…you have your falls, times when you just can’t let go of the wall, and the dreaded saga of couples skate, but everybody has a place on the rink when it’s time for an ALL SKATE!  From Bop, Pop, Disco to Broadway, join four native Californian transplants for one rollicking 60 minute cabaret of sparkle and self discovery as they speed, swerve, dance and backward skate through crazy life in New York City.  Also, free glowsticks!!

Leanne Borghesi: Bi-coastal cabaret and Musical Theatre artist performing San Francisco & New York City. Equity guest artist at Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Cabaret Conference, under direction of Michael Bush, debut one woman cabaret show: BAZAZZ.  Performed alongside Amanda McBroom, Penny Fuller, Marilyn Maye in Accentuate The Positive, A Johnny Mercer Tribute and Jonathan Brielle's original musical, 40 Naked Women, A Monkey & Me. Yale International Cabaret Conference 2011, UK tour included This Summer I Lived, featuring the original music of UK songwriter David Kent. Cabaret performance credits include:  DIVALICIOUS (Metropolitan Room, NYC) “B.O.O.B.S! UnWrapped”(Feinstein’s at the Nikko, SF, Origin of Love with John Cameron Mitchell.  Regional Theatre: Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Rona Lisa Peretti, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dora Bailey, Singin’ in the Rain (Gateway Playhouse, NYC), Jan, Mr. Irresistible (LaMaMa, NYC), Up Your A$$ (P.S.122), Nancy, Oliver (PCPA Theaterfest), Chaperone in The Drowsy Chaperone, Mrs. Medlock, The Secret Garden, Meredith Parker in Bat Boy and Acid Queen in Tommy.  She received the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Award for Mona Kent, Dames At Sea, and solo cabaret DIVALICIOUS.  A proud member of Actor's Equity www.LeanneBorghesi.com

Jerry Lee: recently relocated to Manhattan from Sacramento, California. He has never appeared at Sacramento Music Circus. Mr. Lee founded Sac Impulse Theatre and appeared in five seasons at Sacramento Theatre Company and cabaret shows with Graham-A-Rama.  Favorite roles include The Poet in An Iliad, Javert in Les Misérables, Shrek in Shrek The Musical, and George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life.

Melissa WolfKlain:  Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Melissa WolfKlain most recently played Fannie Brice in Funny Girl. Some favorite roles include Princess Fiona Shrek the Musical, Polly Baker in Crazy for You, Peter Pan in Peter Pan and Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Melissa has a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Arizona.  She received the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Award for Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain, Backstage West Garland Award Honorable Mention for Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street and a McMurtrie Award Nomination for Little Red in Into the Woods. Melissa is a proud member of Actor's Equity. www.melissawolfklain.com

BRANDON ADAMS:  Pianist, singer, and conductor who has recently relocated to New York from San Francisco, where he MD'ed a number of Bay Area premiers, including The Last Five Years, Hwang’s Flower Drum Song, Musical of Musicals, the Musical!, and, most recently, Life Could Be a Dream. Recipient of numerous Bay Area awards for Music Direction. Favorite credits: She Loves Me, Little Me, A Marvelous Party, Me and My Girl, Girl Crazy, Floyd Collins, Something for the Boys, Old Wicked Songs, Xanadu, Grand Night for Singing and Shrek. Brandon has toured Internationally for the last five years with the Grammy-winning Pacific Boychoir Academy, and he has had the pleasure of working with Jason Graae, Darren Criss, Susan Watson, James Monroe Iglehart, and Ana Gasteyer. As a singer, Brandon has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the octet Angel’s Fire with Indianapolis Symphony, and as an oratorio soloist with Pacific Boychoir Academy. He has curated numerous cabarets and revues including Land Where the Good Songs Go (Jerome Kern) for the Houston Jewish Theatre Festival, Don’t Put your Daughter on the Stage (Noel Coward) for the Urban School of SF, and he performed arrangements of Richard Rodgers songs for A Conversation with Mary Rodgers at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum.

Bill Fahrner:  recent Bay Area Californian relocated to NYC!  Lover of life, fine leather shoes, Manhattan and musicals. Too many productions and Galas to count with SF based company 42^nd Street Moon.  Bill is excited to be a special guest this evening with All Skate!