The new collection, EVERYONE HAS A STORY: THE SONGS OF ADRYAN RUSS, offers Broadway, pop, cabaret — even a holiday song — by this lyricist/composer of Inside Out, the award-winning off-Broadway musical about five women in group therapy that played New York’s Cherry Lane and many theaters country-wide. Adryan last year participated in a tribute to Charles Strouse, with Michael Feinstein, at Carnegie Hall and in Chicago’s “ASCAP Cabaret: Her Turn” with Karen Mason, Sharon McNight, Babbie Green, Christine Lavin, Lindy Robbins, Patty Morabito, Dan Stetzl, Beckie Menzie and an array of Chicago cabaret performers, hosted by Jason Graae.
EVERYONE HAS A STORY, produced by Bruce Kimmel, is graced by some of Los Angeles and Broadway stages’ finest singers. Among them, Susan Egan (Tony nominated for Beauty & The Beast, recently played Sally Bowles in Cabaret, currently starring in “Nikki” on the WB network), Jason Graae (Falsettos, Forbidden Broadway, Ragtime), Cindy Benson (Les Miserables, Cats, Nunsense), Sharon McNight (Starmites Tony nominee, Sophie Tucker Songbook), and Joan Ryan (star of Ruthless! The Musical). A fellow of the Cabaret Symposium in Connecticut, Adryan sings a song herself. Accompaniment has sometimes solo, sometimes full arrangements of legendary guitarist, Grant Geissman; and the classic piano stylings of music director, arranger, composer Shelly Markham.
EVERYONE HAS A STORY: THE SONGS OF ADRYAN RUSS is a collection of songs written for shows, cabaret performances, individual artists and sometimes, she says, “pure therapy.”
Everyone has a Story - SONG LIST
1. Everyone Has A Story v Joan Ryan
Music & Lyrics by Adryan Russ
2. Great Things v Juliana Ashley Hansen
Music by Brad Ellis v Lyrics by Adryan Russ
3. Out Of Time v Jason Graae
Music & Lyrics by Adryan Russ
4. Matters Of The Heart v Tami Tappan
Music by Adryan Russ / Lyrics by Adryan Russ & Doug Haverty
5. Them v Barbara Deutsch
Music & Lyrics by Adryan Russ
6. I Slip Into This Place v Sharon McNight
Music & Lyrics by Adryan Russ
7. Friends v Michelle Nicastro, Kirby Tepper, Susanne Blakeslee
Music & Lyrics by Adryan Russ
8. I Hate To See You Go v Susan Egan
Music & Lyrics by Adryan Russ
9. The Better Love Is, The Worse It Is When It’s Over v David Burnham
Music & Lyrics by Adryan Russ
10. What He Can Do With Words v Lisa Richard
Music & Lyrics by Adryan Russ
11. Hopscotch v Karen Benjamin
Music & Lyrics by Adryan Russ
12. I Don't Say Anything v Cindy Benson
Music by Adryan Russ / Lyrics by Adryan Russ & Doug Haverty
13. Number v Adryan Russ
Music & Lyrics by Adryan Russ
14. I Want To Live This Love v David Burnham, Tami Tappan
Music by Adryan Russ / Lyrics by Adryan Russ & Doug Haverty
15. The Gift v Guy Haines
Music by Brad Ellis / Lyrics by Adryan Russ
