A Toast to Prohibition
Celebrate the 103rd anniversary of Prohibition with flappers, gin fizz and a cabaret concert featuring "lost" speakeasy songs. From secret wine cellars and doctor-prescribed alcohol to Carrie Nation, destroying saloons with her hatchet: If it happened during Prohibition, someone wrote a song about it! Did you know that veterenarians could prescribe alcohol? Or that Al Capone was a songwriter? Grab a cocktail and toast some the quirkiest bits of American history. Featuring (forgotten) 1920s hits: "I Never Knew I Had a Wonderful Wife (Until The Town Went Dry)" and "Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar."
Starring Melanie Gall from Piaf and Brel: The Impossible Concert & Stitch in Time: A Knitting Cabaret. "A star in the making," Broadway Baby ★★★★★ Edmonton Journal ★★★★★ Arts Review Edinburgh
Presented by: Melanie Gall with Emma Knights Productions
Melanie Gall is an internationally-acclaimed vocalist. She holds five opera degrees and has performed in Africa, South America, Asia and the Caribbean. She has sung at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, and recently performed a Vera Lynn concert for the Jazz series at Royal Albert Hall.
Melanie has written and toured a dozen different shows, and she has won several awards, including the ‘CBC Award for Best Musical’ at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival and sold-out laurels for three consecutive years at the Edinburgh Fringe. Melanie has recorded several albums, including Sweeter in a Sweater, with songs about knitting from WWII. Melanie is also the author of "Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the Golden Age of Hollywood," the first-ever biography of 1930s Hollywood sensation Deanna Durbin.