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Annie
"Miss Hannigan" B. Iden Payne nominee: Outstanding Lead Actress in Music Theatre "...some of the numbers stand out – particularly Emily Bem, Kirk German, and Liz Newchurch traveling a comically seductive "Easy Street..." --Barry Pineo, Austin Chronicle http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A1059959 My Favorite Year "Alice Miller" B. Iden Payne award winner: Outstanding Featured Actress in Music Theatre "Emily Bem and Kirk German play a pair of writers joined at the hip. German’s writer is mute and communicates through an elaborate system of pantomime that Bem then translates...it’s in the best tradition of classic clowns, a point driven home in “Professional Showbizness Comedy,” Bem’s riotous, vaudeville tramp routine." --Joey Seiler, special to the American-Statesman http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/seeingthings/entries/2007/07/23/review_zilker_summer_musical.html "[Songs] were…sold well, particularly "Professional Showbizness Comedy," which Emily Bem, as feisty writer Alice Miller, stole right out from under everybody." --Barry Pineo, Austin Chronicle http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:501847 The Music Man "Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn" B. Iden Payne nominee: Outstanding Featured Actress in Music Theatre "A special treat is to see Emily Bem's work as Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn, the mayor's wife. She's about half a step from the loopiness of a latter-day Liza Minnelli, who, come to think of it, would do brilliantly in the role." --Elizabeth Cobbe, Austin Chronicle http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:813619 Beauty and The Beast "Madame de la Grande Bouche" "Here are local actors in roles indelibly stamped by the film performances who manage to evoke the originals while creating characters that are fresh and personal…Emily Bem's Madame de la Grande Bouche, operatic in her diva-ness…" --Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:643751 Nunsense "Sister Robert Anne" "Oy vey, the voices were so damn good! Austin is blessed as a musical haven, with pros like Emily Bem really selling the show!" --Nora Ruiz, NowPlayingAustin.com http://www.nowplayingaustin.com/event/detail/440119367 Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah "Woman 2" (multiple characters) B. Iden Payne award double-winner: Outstanding Cast Performance; Outstanding Production in Music Theatre "Bem stand[s] out...she has the pipes to take the roof off the house and plays a Jewish mother as well as any actual Jewish mother." --Barry Pineo, Austin Chronicle http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:339233 Henrietta and Her Body Parts "Henrietta" Award for Loudest Kindergartner in a Musical "Em got to be the only human being in the show. The rest of us had to play body parts. I was her stomach and growled. It was really unfair. " --Pedro, disgruntled classmate http://www.justbeingsilly.me |