Lorna Luft "Songs My Momma Taught Me!"
Saturday, February 11, 2012 • 8:00 pm
Midland Memories Series/Sponsored by The Place Off The Square
Tickets: $50.00, $46.00, $38.00 and $28.00
Lorna Luft, born to legendary entertainer Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft, began her career at age eleven on her mother's TV show and has flourished ever since.
Theatrical credits include : Promises, Promises; Snoopy; Extremities (with Farrah Fawcett); SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME: The Judy Garland Songbook; They're Playing Our Song; Guys and Dolls; Grease; Marne; The Unsinkable Molly Brown; Little Shop of Horrors; Girl Crazy; Gypsy; The Magical World Of Musicals; White Christmas; Babes in Arms; Wizard of Oz and Pack of Lies.
International film and television credits range from the movies Grease 2 and Where the Boys Are '84 to roles on Trapper John, M.D and Murder She Wrote, just to name a few.
Ms. Luft is the co-executive producer of Life with Judy Garland, the fivetime Emmy-Award-winning miniseries based on her best-selling memoir Me and My Shadows. She celebrates her mother's legendary songbook in an acclaimed one-woman show, SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME: The Judy Garland Songbook, which has toured internationally. An album of the same name is now available on First Night Records.
SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME: The Judy Garland Songbook is pure musical excitement; a lovingly staged extravaganza melding one of the world's most familiar songbooks with intensely personal, often hilarious memories of mother and legend, Judy Garland. For the first time, Lorna embraces her mother's illustrious songbook resulting in a truly phenomenal celebration of Judy Garland's musical genius.
Season Series and Sponsors
The Midland Memories Series
Thanks to the support of The Place Off of The Square, The Midland Theatre is proud to present such performers as Tim Conway, The Kingston Trio, Lorna Luft and The Glenn Miller Orchestra. learn more
