Ann Hampton Callaway is a multiplatinum-selling singer, composer, lyricist, pianist, and actress. She is best known for writing and singing the theme to the TV series The Nanny, writing songs for Barbra Streisand and starring in the Broadway musical Swing!
Join The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra and very special guest vocalist, ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY, as they Swing into the Holidays – Kansas City style – with their annual holiday show! Keep your Yule cool and join us for exciting classic big band hits and wonderful arrangements of your favorite holiday songs.
Join us Tuesday December 8, 2015 at 7:00 PM Helzberg Hall | Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Purchase tickets here: https://tickets.kauffmancenter.org/single/EventDetail.aspx?p=9229
Callaway was described by the New York Times in 2011 as a jazz-cabaret singer who “smolders more than she sizzles.” She performed for Bill Clinton in Washington, D.C. and was the invited guest performer for Mikhail Gorbachev’s Youth Peace Summit in Moscow. She has recorded and performed the award winning show “Sibling Revelry” with her sister Broadway star Liz Callaway. Callaway is associated with her tireless devotion to The Great American Songbook and has produced two critically acclaimed public television specials called “Singer’s Spotlight With Ann Hampton Callaway” featuring guests Liza Minnelli and Christine Ebersole, towards her dream of an ongoing PBS series.
Callaway signed with the Grammy-winning label Telarc International recently and the result was the CD Blues In The Night, a tribute to her growing up in the Chicago area. Her new CD, At Last was released in February 2009 to unanimous rave reviews. Her 2004 CD, Slow from Shanachie Entertainment is her most pop-inspired album to date. Ann has recorded two holiday CDs: Holiday Pops! with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops and her solo CD, This Christmas (Angel/After 9). Her recording “Signature” features the signature songs of the great jazz legends of the 20th century, performed with pianist Kenny Barron and guest artist Wynton Marsalis. Other CD recordings include Easy Living (After 9), To Ella With Love (After 9), After Ours (Denon), Bring Back Romance (DRG), Ann Hampton Callaway (DRG) and the award winning live recording, Sibling Revelry (DRG). She has also been a guest artist on over forty CDs.
Callaway composed over 250 songs for television, Broadway, off-Broadway and several of today’s leading interpreters of songs. Her music and lyrics have been performed and recorded by Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Patti LuPone, Michael Feinstein, Blossom Dearie, Peter Nero, Karrin Allyson, Donna McKechnie, Harvey Fierstein, Lillias White, Barbara Carrol, Amanda McBroom, Liz Callaway and Carole King. She composed “At the Same Time” for Barbra Streisand and that recording, Higher Ground, debuted nationally at #1, giving Ann her first of three platinum records. Ms. Streisand asked Ann to write lyrics to a Rolf Lovland melody which she entitled “I’ve Dreamed of You” which Ms. Streisand sang to James Brolin at their wedding. The song was later recorded on her CD, “A Love Like Ours”, released as a single and selected for the album, The Essential Barbra Streisand. Ms. Streisand performed both of these songs on her live double CD, Timeless. Ms. Streisand later chose Ann’s song “A Christmas Lullaby” for her holiday CD, Christmas Memories.
The Cole Porter Estate officially recognizes Ann Hampton Callaway as the only composer to have collaborated with Cole Porter, having set her music to his posthumously discovered lyric, “I Gaze in Your Eyes”. It was first recorded by Ann for Ben Bagley’s Cole Porter Revisited series. Later, the song was recorded by Elaine Paige and was featured in the West End hit musical revue A Swell Party. Ann was one of the creators of the Broadway musical Swing!, writing “Two and Four” as well as several additional lyrics to the standards in the Tony- and Grammy-nominated score.
In addition to the theme for The Nanny, she has written the TV themes for Day’s End, Cabaret Beat, and The Jim J and Tammy Fay Show. Ann composed incidental music for the David Weiner play, Baltimore Star and her song “Manhattan In December” was included in the 2005 off-Broadway musical revue A Broadway Diva Christmas. Her songwriting is administered by Williamson Music.
Join us Tuesday December 8, 2015 at 7:00 PM Helzberg Hall | Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Purchase tickets here: https://tickets.kauffmancenter.org/single/EventDetail.aspx?p=9229
