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SMOKE CABARET -- Starring Lori Rivera

A former member of the acappella vocal group, The Bobs, LORI RIVERA has performed Leonard Bernstein's MASS at Carnegie Hall and the Vatican. But the spiritual and lusty Ms. Rivera equally enjoys performing in churches, cathedrals or neighborhood bars.

According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Ms. Rivera's "musical repertoire is wide and diverse. Some of her numbers are delivered with the pathos of a Lisbon fados singer; others explode with the ribald passion of Carmen."

This version of SMOKE by Joe Ortiz (the full two-act version originally staged in Carmel, Monterey, Santa Cruz and Capitola) will be performed in a piano bar setting at MARTUNI'S in San Francisco. Accompanying Ms. Rivera on solo piano will be MARSHALL OTWELL, who served as Carmen McRae's pianist and musical director for eight years.

The intensity is sure to be explosive in this intimate 40-seat San Francisco watering hole.

Come and be part of the show as Ms. Rivera works the room, acting and singing her way through twelve Ortiz original tunes, including OYSTERS ANYTIME OF THE DAY, WE TOOK IT OFF THE MENU and YOU ELECTRIFY ME.