Critically-acclaimed musical theater singer and comedic cabaret artist Maureen McVerry presents her
ever-evolving cabaret show VERRY McVERRY,witha NEW
salute to female lyricists, love, and the pursuit of gratefulness. Musical
direction is by Dave Dobrusky.
Acclaimed singer and performer Maureen McVerry created VERRY McVERRY
in 1993 and brings this new evolved version to the Eureka Theatre in SF for the
first time. As a cabaret singer in San Francisco she has performed at the New
Conservatory Theatre, Herbst Theatre, the Plush Room, the Venetian Room and the
Alcazar. VERRY McVERRY has also been performed at 88's in NYC and the
Gardenia Room in LA, and at other venues nationally.
VERRY McVERRY follows Maureen's starring role as Winnie Spofford in the
42nd Street Moon production of Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein's Very Warm
for May (May 8 - 23, 2010). As a stage actress Ms. McVerry celebrates
over 25 years in the theatre. At ACT she played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion,
Kitty Packard in Dinner at Eight, the Gypsy in Scapin, Carrie in
The House of Mirth, and Sister Gabriella in the infamous The Pope and
the Witch. At ACT she also played Mrs. Schlemiel in Schlemiel the First
and went on with the show to the ART in Cambridge, MA and the Geffen Playhouse
in LA. McVerry was featured as Kay in the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
production of Oh Kay! and in two long-running San Francisco shows,
Noises Off and The Curse of the Werewolf. At Marin Theatre Company
she has appeared in Side by Side by Sondheim, You're Gonna Love
Tomorrow, Born Yesterday, Me and My Girl, and Room Service.
Maureen has also appeared in four different productions of Noises Off and
gladly would do that show weekly to stay in shape. She is the winner of six Bay
Area Theatre Critics' Circle Awards and two Drama-Logue Awards. McVerry's film
credits include Nine Months, The Dead Pool, True Believer,
Big Business, The Ox and the Eye, and on TV in Full House.
On the Peninsula, Maureen is the Pied Piper of youth theatre at two different
schools where she directs musical theatre. For this work she has been told she
will be given entry into heaven with no questions asked. She has been married to
Rick Alber, who is known as “Dr. Web” on KGO radio, for approximately 4000 years
and has two children, Jack and Flannery.
Maureen is currently nominated for a 2009 Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle (BATCC)
Award for her star turn in Wildcat at 42nd Street Moon.
Maureen McVerry in
VERRY McVERRY