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The Coco & Ruby Variety Hour at The Secret Society

Dates: (2/15/2013 )

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The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St.
Portland,OR 97212

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Phone: 503.493.3600

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Courtney Freed and Rebecca Johnson will star in The Coco & Ruby Variety Hour, a dazzling trip down memory lane and a peek into the hilarious and wacky lives of the these two ginger dames. Coco and Ruby mysteriously fell out of their humdrum lives in 1940’s Newark, New Jersey and into modern day Hollywood to live the dream! These two characters from the hit web series, “Coco & Ruby,” written by Rachel Roderman and directed by Steve Brian, will shuffle-ball-change right out of your computer screen on October 15th to bring you a LIVE show full of old-school comedy and musicianship reminiscent of Lucille Ball and Betty Hutton. The Coco & Ruby Variety Hour will include many of your favorite WWII era standards, as well as vintage takes on contemporary pop songs.

This evening of music and laughter will open with Portland’s own swinging band, The Jenny Finn Orchestra and feature special guests The Portland Rhythm Shakers and local actor/singer/Dapper Dan, Sammy Hawkins. The dynamic pairing of Portland native Courtney Freed as “Coco” and Rebecca Johnson as “Ruby” entangles old Hollywood glamour with clever, contagious revelry and absolutely dynamite, show-stopping vocals.

Most recently, they have been taking Hollywood by storm, performing at such prestigious venues as M BAR HOLLYWOOD, THE CICADA CLUB, CASTAWAYS and THE FEDERAL BAR.

For more information about this crimson twosome and to watch their HILARIOUS webseries, have a little look-see at www.cocoandruby.com.

Courtney Freed is an LA based singer/actress with many colorful credits including cabaret and regional theater. She hails from beautiful Portland, OR and was an active member of the city’s theatre scene, performing with companies such as Portland Center Stage, Pixie Dust Productions, Broadway Rose Theater Company, Lakewood Theatre Company and Profile Theatre. She spent several years working in the vibrant theatre community of Chicago, as well, and created the hit John Hughes tribute musical, “I’ll Stop The World and Belt With You!” She has performed in nightclubs all over the country and since returning to the West, she sings regularly with the Johnny Holiday Program at The Cicada Club in downtown LA. Her most recent joy is playing “Coco” in the dynamic web series, “Coco and Ruby” which premiered on the web last June! Her debut jazz album entitled, "Happy Little Bluebird: The Music of Harold Arlen" is available through iTunes and CDbaby.

Rebecca Johnson has been acting and singing in LA for almost nine years after cutting her teeth on the NYC boards. She has appeared in numerous shows around town including The Real Love at the Pas. Civic Auditorium, Pippin at the Mark Taper, Silk Stockings at MTW, and Children of a Lesser God with Deaf West Theater. She was a regular at First & Hope's Broadway's Best cabaret downtown all last year and sung her way onto NBC's Community as well as guest-starring on ABC's The Middle and FX’s Anger Management, co-starring in the Lionsgate vampire spoof movie Breaking Wind and starred this past December in the world premiere musical, Little Miss Scrooge, at the famed Rubicon Theater in Ventura. Rebecca teamed up this year with Courtney Freed to produce and star in the hilarious web series Coco & Ruby and the rest is history!

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