Pittsburgh CLO is proud to announce the cast and creative team for the premiere of My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, which runs February 12 through May 10 at the CLO Cabaret. Relive the magic of an American legend with 56 of his greatest songs, including "Fly Me to the Moon," "Young at Heart," "All the Way," and, of course, "My Way." Tickets are available online at pittsburghCLO.org, or by calling 412-456-6666.
Kristiann Menotiades (Woman One) most recently worked with Pittsburgh CLO in the CLO Cabaret productions of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and Shear Madness. Her previous credits include Alice Miller in My Favorite Year and Paquette in Candide at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Yorah in Children of Eden and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at the CCAC Boyce Campus, Madge in Enlightenment with the City Theater's Young Playwright's Festival, and Grandma Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof with Pittsburgh Musical Theater. Ms. Menotiades is a graduate of Point Park University and is currently an instructor at the Pittsburgh CLO Academy.
John Fredo (Man One) is making his CLO Cabaret debut. He has been involved with My Way since its inception, performing in productions at Artpark at the Church, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, and various theaters across the country. A native of Buffalo, Mr. Fredo has appeared in productions at MusicalFare Theatre in Amherst, New York, for 15 consecutive seasons, including his most recent performance in American Rhapsody. His favorite roles include the title role in Sweeney Todd, Officer Lockstock in Urinetown, John Adams in 1776 and Marvin in Falsettos, earning him the Artvoice Theatre Award as Outstanding Actor in a Musical for all four performances. He has also performed as Al Jolson in Jolson & Company, Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar, Smudge in Forever Plaid, Nathan in Guys & Dolls, and El Gallo in The Fantasticks.
Karen Jeffreys (Woman One) also is making her CLO Cabaret debut in My Way. She most recently appeared as Janet in the Pittsburgh CLO Gallery of Heroes touring production of The Incredibly Innovative Innovators of Pittsburgh, which ran from January through May of 2008. She has previously acted in various productions at the Erie Playhouse, Riverside Inn and Dinner Theater in Cambridge Springs, Pa., and Up With People in Colorado. Her other professional experience includes singing for the Erie-based groups "Starfish" and the "Dave Stevens Big Band." Ms. Jeffreys also has performed as a featured soloist and dancer for the Pittsburgh Swing City Orchestra in Buffalo, Erie, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Ohio, Cincinnati, Boston, Cleveland and Chicago.
Joseph Domencic (Man Two) returns to the CLO Cabaret, where he has performed in Forever Plaid, Forbidden Broadway, Plaid Tidings and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. He toured the country as an actor and assistant music director with The Acting Company in O Pioneers! and The Comedy of Errors, and he has also performed in the Pittsburgh area with Pittsburgh CLO (A Musical Christmas Carol, 1776, Footprints on the Moon, Young Mark Twain), Pittsburgh Public Theater (The Comedy of Errors, Cabaret), Unseam'd Shakespeare (The Constant Prince) and Mountain Playhouse (Glorious). Mr. Domencic has worked as a teacher and music director with area high school and college students for the past 13 years and currently teaches at Seton Hill University and ACT ONE Theatre School.
Tim Brady (Understudy for Man One and Two) returns to the CLO Cabaret after working as stage manager for I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Shear Madness, The Big Bang, Always... Patsy Cline, and Plaid Tidings and performing in Forbidden Broadway: SVU. As an actor, he has appeared in 11 productions of Pittsburgh CLO's A Musical Christmas Carol, the 2008 Summer Season productions of Mame, Annie Get Your Gun and West Side Story and the 2004 summer productions of The Music Man (Charlie Cowell) and 1776 (Judge Wilson), in addition to appearing in Porgy and Bess, Evita, Casper The Musical and the CLO's Gallery of Heroes program for 10 years. Other local theaters that Mr. Brady has performed with include The Pittsburgh Pops, Starlight Productions, The New Pittsburgh Jewish Theatre, Stage Right and The Theater Factory. Mr. Brady was also the managing director of the Conley Inn Dinner Theater in Irwin for 17 years.
