The Countess and Friends Cabaret

COUNTESS AND FRIENDS

BIOGRAPHY Countess Luann is a reality television star, author, actress, singer and mother. An original cast member of Bravo’s hit TV show The Real Housewives of New York, Luann just finished filming her tenth season with a weekly viewership of three million.

Most recently Luann appeared in her first cabaret show #CountessAndFriends at Feinstein’s 54 Below. After rave reviews, demand grows for more shows as they continue to sell out. #CountessAndFriends is now set to go across the country this summer.

Luann is presently working on a new single to add to her global dance hits “Money Can’t Buy You Class”, “Chic C’est La Vie” and “Girl Code.”

Author of Class With The Countess, she is also at work on her second book.

#cOUNTESSANDFRIENDS Luann de Lesseps—known as the Countess on “The Real Housewives of New York City”—is a television personality, pop singer and author. She has broken all box office records at New York’s famed Feinstein’s 54 Below with her acclaimed, long-running neo-cabaret variety act, #CountessAndFriends. The string of sold-out successes continues as de Lesseps plays to standing room only crowds in the most desired theaters and supper clubs around the globe.

Hip as a New York minute and classically chic, the glamorous life of de Lesseps in the fast lane on several continents (together with a solid decade at the center of reality TV) provides fodder for hilarious stories, one-of-a-kind anecdotes and, of course, some standards and pop songs in her inimitable style. In #CountessAndFriends she is joined by an eclectic group of the most sought after stars of stage and screen, both iconic and ascendant, delivering a glorious return to the heyday of cosmopolitan evening entertainment. #CountessAndFriends is written and directed by Out Magazine’s “The Midas of Cabaret” Ben Rimalower with musical direction and arrangements by Grammy winner Billy Stritch.

“Countess Luann de Lesseps of The Real Housewives of New York City fame takes to the stage in a cabaret show entitled ‘#CountessAndFriends’ (hashtag hers) at Feinstein’s 54 Below, a venue whose Haunted Mansion meets bordello décor was more than suited for the occasion.

Luann de Lesseps is arguably the classiest and most royal-seeming of the housewives... A VISION OF CLASS!! And countess who is a-THRIVING! Luann donned a floor-length beaded white gown that had me screaming Oh God Yes! YESSSS! To The Dress.” ~ Michelle Collins, Vanity Fair

TALENT Alexis Michelle (TV: RuPaul’s Drag Race) Amy Phillips (Reality Checked, Bravo) Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Broadway star,

Newsies, Tuck Everlasting, TV:

Submissions Only) Rachel Dratch

Barrett Foa (TV: NCIS Los Angeles, Broadway:

Avenue Q) Bridget Everett (Solo artist, Film: Patti Cakes,

TV: Gynecological Wonder, Inside Amy Schumer)

Bridget Everett

Charles Busch (legendary downtown

playwright and drag star) Cheyenne Jackson (TV: American Horror

Story, 30 Rock, Tony nominated

Broadway star) Frances Ruffelle (Tony Award winning

Broadway/West End star, Les Miserablés,

Starlight Express)

Jake Shears

Jackie Hoffman (Emmy nominated TV and

Broadway star) Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters front man, solo artist, author, star of Broadway’s Kinky Boots) Jai’Len Josey (Broadway: Spongebob) Jane Monheit (Grammy nominated jazz singer)

Jenni Pulos

TALENT Jenni Pulos (TV: Flipping Out) Laura Benanti (TV: “Melania” on The Late

Show, Supergirl, Tony Award winning

Broadway star)

Cheyenne Jackson

Lesli Margherita (Laurence Olivier award

winning Broadway star, Mathilda, TV: Homeland) Murray Hill (Downtown drag king icon) Natalie Joy Johnson (Broadway: Kinky Boots,

Legally Blonde)

Laura Benanti

Nathan Lee Graham (TV: LA To Vegas, The

Comeback, Grammy winning singer, actor) Rachel Dratch (TV: 30 Rock, Saturday Night Live) Sharon McNight (Tony nominated Broadway star) Shoshana Bean (solo pop artist, Broadway:

Wicked, Hairspray)

Jackie Hoffman

Spencer Day (Billboard charting jazz artist,

TV: Star Search) Tony Yazbeck (Tony nominated Broadway

star, Prince of Broadway, On The Town) Vivian Reed (Tony nominated Broadway star,

The Wiz, Bubbling Brown Sugar)

Sonja Morgan

“Standing in front of a baby-grand piano in her bright Upper West Side penthouse, freezing rain tapping gently against the windows, Ms. de Lesseps studied a printout of her introductory remarks for #CountessAndFriends, a cabaret show that will debut at the Manhattan nightclub Feinstein’s/54 Below on Feb. 27. As the Grammy-winning composer Billy Stritch played “With a Little Help From My Friends,” she addressed an imaginary crowd...To know that the show was totally sold out and people are still trying to get tickets is a really great feeling,” said Ms. de Lesseps. ~ Rachel Dodes, The New York Times

Upcoming shows New York City May 15th May 18th - 19th May 30th - 31st June 3rd - 4th June 26th - 29th

San Francisco June 22nd - 23rd

CONTACT Agent Richard Super rsuper@gersh.com PR Caroline Hartman caroline@dvmcpr.com Director Ben Rimalower benjaminrimalower@gmail.com Marketing Evan Hungate evan@ariamnes.com

www.countessluann.com

www.countessluann.com