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native Texan, Anne began her career in show business attending The Academy
of The Washington Ballet for high school before graduating from The Juilliard
School of Drama when she was only twenty years old. She worked extensively
in classical theatre (major roles in Shakespeare, Miller, Ionesco and the
like...) before making her Broadway debut as Grace Farrell in Annie. This
lead to an opportunity to sing at the White House Easter party for President
Reagan, and later for Itzakh Shamir for the fortieth birthday of Israel.
Film work includes playing Dudley Moore's wife in Marshall Brickman's Lovesick,
as well as appearing in Clean and Sober, and in Peter Weir's Fearless.
She also made numerous appearances on series television. One of her favorite
musical appearances was starring with Amanda McBroom in Harry Chapin,
Lies and Legends in Chicago (also recording the cast album of that show).
Returning to Broadway to appear in Threepenny Opera with Sting in
1990, she followed that by creating the role of Margaret in the musical
Jekyll and Hyde opposite John Cullum. In 1996, Anne made her debut
cabaret appearance at The Gardenia in Hollywood. Her husband, renowned guitarist
and four-time Grammy nominee Robben Ford, produced her first solo CD, In
the Nest of the Moon, which Josef Woodard of The L.A. Times called,
"An impressive debut CD...simply a celebration of the American popular
song." Anne then began her longtime collaboration with her musical
director John Boswell on a tribute to Stephen Sondheim and his mentor, Oscar
Hammerstein, which LA Weekly called, "An earful of some of the
best interpretations of both Hammerstein and Sondheim," and caused
LA Jazz Scene to declare, "She is more than ready for stardom."
Selections from that show entitled Something Wonderful was released
on the LML Music label in 1998. In Spring of 2000, Anne was the vocalist
for the Kurt Weill's centenary in Cologne, Germany, also touring to Dusseldorf
and Liege, Belgium. Her husband Robben was the featured guitarist in this
program conducted by Roger Kellaway, who also wrote the arrangements. In
May, 2001, joined by a twenty seven piece American big band, she made her
US concert debut with an encore presentation of this Weill concert at The
John Anson Ford Amphitheater in Los Angeles. Anne returned to The John Anson
Ford Amphitheater in 2002 to be the vocalist in Blue Skies, a collaboration
with her husband and jazz great Russell Ferrante. 2006 brings the release
of her third CD, Weill, a collection of fifteen songs from the composer's
German and American songbooks, the majority of which was recorded live with
WDR's Big Band in Cologne's Philharmonic Hall. Regular appearances have
included The Mabel Mercer Cabaret Conventions on both coasts, LA's Gardenia,
Cinegrill, Jazz Bakery, Boston Court Theatre and Alex Theatre, as well as
Sculler's in Boston, San Francisco's Plush Room, and Blues Alley in Washington
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