Cheri Amour 

Play It Forward is the annual benefit for Ensemble Theatre’s Education and Outreach programs, uniting award-winning theater pros and Broadway performers with talented young actors and community artists. This year’s benefit performance features a new concert version of All of Me, the comedy-musical formerly known as Hello! My Baby, written by longtime Montecito resident Cheri Steinkellner. The reimagined work by the Tony nominee (Sister Act) and Emmy winner (Cheers), which in its former guise premiered at the Rubicon Theatre back in 2012, finds Tin Pan Alley’s teen King of the Song-Pluggers falling for a factory girl who’s a musical demon, creating a recipe for comic romance in a whirlwind of mistaken identities, gender performance, first love gone awry, debutantes and gangsters. 

It’s also a celebration of young voices too bold to be boxed in, and a score packed with Great American Songbook hits, which makes it perfect for the Play It Forward format – a tap-your-feet musical for all ages that invites everyone to sing along. Visit www.etcsb.org for details and tickets to the August 9 event.