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Ina Jo - Biography
Ina Jo sang songs of strength and
empowerment as the
featured performer at the "Ladies
Night Out at the Ritz-Carlton"
annual benefit sponsored by
the
United Way Women's Initiative of Sarasota.
After a short stint in the musical revue Laughing Matters at Florida Studio Theatre Cabaret, Ina Jo was on the road with her night club act for a tour of Florida's East Coast Condominium clubs and theatres singing Broadway and Pop hits from the 40's through today - and the hurricanes didn't rain on her parade in September 2004 when she brought her show back for a third return engagement !
Ina Jo starred in the Steven Sondheim hit Follies
as the ever acerbic
Phyllis in
2001 and
that was followed with the reunion concert,
"Ladies Sing the Blues... Again"
for the benefit of
Sarasota
in Defense of Animals.
INA JO and the cast of FOLLIES
In December 2001 she appeared at Sarasota Florida's
Theatre Works with
the holiday
season production of the delightful
musical, "The Fantasticks",
but a new twist to the script had Ina Jo playing
"Mother" Bellamy.
Planning "The Abduction" in THE FANTASTICKS
Her
nightclub act has been a favorite throughout the country with annual repeat
bookings in the New York Catskill resorts, and the elegant La Mansion del Rio in San Antonio,Texas.
Velma Kelly in CHICAGO
Ina Jo won the
"SAMMY" critic's award for Best
Actress
in
a Musical for her
performance as Velma Kelly in
Chicago
and, for the same catagory, the
SARASOTA MAGAZINE
award for Gittle Mosca
in Seesaw.
SEESAW with Alex Rotella
Original scripts have given Ina
Jo the opportunity to create a vast range of characters.
At the FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE she was unforgettable as the dead (but still
dancing)
,
Helena Handbasket, in the hilarious Scott Keys - Rober
t Hartmann musical
comedy, Macabaret.
In Second Summer, a new play by Gary Richards, Sheila Haskett is a gal with only two things on her mind - men and golf - and Ina Jo brought Sheila to life in early October 2001 when she starred in the THEATRE WORKS production in Sarasota Florida.
At AMERICAN STAGE she performed a reader's theatre production of the new musical by Scott Keys and Robert Hartmann, Vanishing Point, playing a character from real life, evangelist Aimee Semple McPhearson.
Visit "In Concert" to see Ina Jo in CHICAGO!
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