Dinah and the Dominoes an ABBA night of Music
One NIGHT Only !
NOVEMBER 2 2024
“The music of ABBA” are no strangers to the incomparable sound and look of Sweden’s greatest music export with meticulous attention to costumes, make-up, musical arrangements, movements and the singing, nothing is left to chance. Adding a few of Abba’s live traits such as great solos, musical numbers and a complete live band with back-up singers, ensures an extra dimension unheard of in most similar productions.
Dance, sing along and enjoy the hits such as Dancing Queen, Chiquitita, Waterloo, Mamma Mia, The Winner Takes it All, Fernando, SOS, Take a Chance, Money Money Money, Knowing Me Knowing You, Super Trouper, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Voulez-Vous and many more.
With over 400 million records sold ABBA is Sweden’s biggest export ever! When the Musical “Mamma Mia” hit the American Stages in 2000 it became an instant classic and the ABBA tribute was born.
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​In the summer of 2019, Rivertown Theatre in Kenner, LA mounted a production of the beloved musical “Mamma Mia.” Three local actresses who had never shared the stage were cast as lifelong friends who love to sing together. Throughout the course of the show, Trina Beck, Lisa Picone Love, and Ashley Lemmler found that the roles were a natural fit! A wonderful musical friendship formed through the love of performing the time-honored classics of the Swedish super-group, ABBA. When the show was over, Trina, Lisa, and Ashley weren’t ready to say goodbye to the close-knit harmonies, the disco grooves, or the laughs they enjoyed so much while portraying “Donna and the Dynamos” in the musical, so with the addition of pianist and all-around talented guy, Jonathan Drury, “Dinah and the Dominoes” were born. Together they continue to find opportunities to perform while adding their personal comedic touch to the music of ABBA.
Ashley Smetherman Lemmler is an educator and professional vocalist who performs a variety of genres throughout the New Orleans area. She holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Music/Vocal Performance and has taught Choir and Piano at Fontainebleau High School in Mandeville for the past 17 years where her choirs have consistently earned Superior ratings at District and State Assessments. In addition to performing frequently as a solo jazz vocalist in various venues, Ashley is also a featured with several local bands including Jubilation, NOLA Jazz Revival, the Boogie Men, and Swing Set. Ashley is well known to New Orleans theater audiences; favorite past roles include My Fair Lady (Eliza Dolittle), Mamma Mia (Donna Sheridan), A Little Night Music (Charlotte), The Mikado (Yum Yum), White Christmas (Betty Haynes), and Hello Dolly (Dolly Levi). She has also been the worship leader for the contemporary service at First United Methodist Church in Hammond for the past 15 years and is a member of the Sacred Nine Project Vocal Ensemble.
Trina Beck has been singing, dancing and acting on New Orleans stages for longer than she would care to admit. She has performed leading and featured roles with Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre, Le Petit Theatre, BB's Stage Door Canteen at the National WWII Museum, Rivertown Theatre, the NOLA Project, and the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, among others. She is delighted to perform once again with her all-time favorite dressing roommates and the cutest piano player she's ever seen.
Lisa Picone Love holds an MFA in Performance from University of New Orleans and is a two-time Big Easy Entertainment Award recipient having appeared in many theatrical productions on stages across New Orleans. Lisa attended the prestigious Cabaret Conference at Yale University in 2009 and produced and starred in her own cabaret show Lisa Sings Lee, about the life and music of Peggy Lee, which won the Big Easy Entertainment Award for Best Cabaret Show in 2010. You can see her every February at Rivertown Theatre in Kenner as Francis Trepagnier in Ricky Graham’s And the Ball and All. Lisa is a 16-year breast cancer survivor and sang with the band Chicago at the 2013 Gretna Heritage Festival as part of a benefit for the American Cancer Society!
J.S. Drury (piano + hum-azoo) A native of Greater New Orleans, Jonathan started piano lessons in the 1980s; and continues to explore the instrument with eclectic wonder. In NYC he studied beside German-born Canadian-bred jazz doctor Johannes Wallmann, and shared his music appreciation at Learning Spring School for children on the autism spectrum. In addition to being a Domino, he performs with the Big Easy Boys, & Natural Light All Stars. For Chuquitita, with love.
The Story of Dinah and the Dominoes…
