Hello Muddah. Hello Faddah... 

 
 
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WHO’S WHO?


Awards for HELLO AGAIN! The Songs of Allan Sherman

2017 - WINNER! - The Encore! Producers’ Award
Hollywood Fringe Festival

2017 - The TVolution - The Best of the Best, Highest Respect to Performer Linden Waddell, Highest Respect to Director Janet Miller

2018 - Nominee - Desert Theatre League Star Awards
Outstanding Production / Oustanding Lead Female Performer / Outstanding Musical Director Marjorie Poe, Outstanding Director Janet Miller

ALLAN SHERMAN:
MASTER OF PARODY

Linden Waddell created and stars in a hilarious, warm, nostalgic look into the comic genius of Allan Sherman and his parody lyrics. 

Before "Weird Al" Yankovic there was another "Al" - Allan Sherman – who became an instant celebrity in 1962 when he sang and recorded his devilishly clever parody lyrics on the album "My Son, The Folk Singer." His zany songs hit just the right nerve with the American public and his first three Warner Bros. albums shot to Number One.

Sherman won a Grammy Award for "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" - a song blaring from record players in every household in the early 1960's. In "Hello Again! The Songs of Allan Sherman," singer/comedienne Linden Waddell performs a compilation of his wittiest ditties, highlighting Sherman's talent and taking us back to a simpler time. It's a performance of laughs and nostalgia for Baby Boomers and new 'yuks' for a younger generation.

Ernest Kearney, TheTVolution

PLATINUM MEDAL! “Side-splittingly funny! A firm two thumbs held up to the stratosphere!”

Tony Frankel, STAGE AND CINEMA     

“If I wasn’t laughing or guffawing, then I was simply grinning from ear-to-ear the entire show. That’s magic.”

“A reverent look at the irreverent comedian.” “Hilarious!

Stephen Fife, Editor-in-Chief, Better Lemons

“So Wonderful!”

“This show could work anywhere, and it really has unlimited potential to please audiences of any kind!”

Daniel Fagin’s review of Fringe Version

“A Great Show - The Laughter Was Raucous!”

Shari Barrett, Broadway World (but posted on the Fringe site):

Get ready to sit back and laugh…we had a ball…totally entertaining!” — BroadwayWorld.com (Barrett)


Elliot Zwiebach, CABARET SCENES

“Waddell did them all justice with her strong, wide-ranging voice, which encompasses a soaring soprano, a Merman belt and a solid feel for sweet irony. When combined with extremely well-developed acting chops, she was in absolutely top form singing great songs with familiar melodies and amazingly funny lyrics.”

 “Terrifically entertaining” * “an evening of solid laughter…”

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Don Heckman, THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MUSIC

A captivating evening of music and humor” * “gales of audience laughter” * “an evening’s worth of hilarious songs overflowing with gag lines in virtually every phrase” * “the packed audience at Gardenia gave Waddell a roar of final applause, the equivalent of a string of curtain calls…”

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Jordan Young, So Cal Arts & Entertainment 6/18/2017

“Solid entertainment … a great time!”

Arts Reviews covering the LA, OC, and San Diego areas of Southern California