NATURAL WOMAN: A TRIBUTE TO CAROLE KING
Featuring Chelsea Packard with Pianist Jason deBord
Saturday, March 5th @ 8:00 PM
This concert is also made possible with support from Kaleidoscope Genre Underwriters:
Greg & Deb Bolino, DG Reimagined.
Our Kaleidoscope Genre events embrace concerts that blur genre lines in compelling and unique ways.
Kerrytown Concert House is thrilled to present the second of a three-part cabaret series this season by Broadway artist, Chelsea Packard (Wicked, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) paying tribute to iconic American singers.
This concert celebrates Carole King and will feature originals that King wrote for herself, but also music that she wrote as a staff songwriter at the Brill Building and was recorded by other artists. Please join us for what is sure to be an outstanding performance honoring one of the most prolific female musicians in the history of pop music.
COVID-19 Safety Policy for Indoor Concerts
- Moving forward, all patrons and artists who wish to attend or present performances indoors at KCH must provide a valid, complete COVID-19 vaccination card OR proof of a negative COVID-19 test performed by third party within the previous 72 hours prior to entry. Such proof must be presented at concert check-in, may be displayed on a smartphone OR presented as a physical copy, and must also be accompanied by a matching, valid ID for verification.**
- Additionally, according to current CDC recommendations, masks are required for audiences inside the House and can only be removed when seated with a beverage (when available). When performing, artists may wear a mask, or not, at their own discretion.
**Proof of vaccination exceptions will be made for children under 5. These guests must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within the previous 72 hours prior to entry.
music director & piano
Broadway credits include: Wicked, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, and the Original Broadway Casts of Promises, Promises, Hands on a Hardbody, and The Radio City Spring Spectacular. National Touring credits include: Kristin Chenoweth Some Lessons Learned Album Tour, Wicked. Select Regional credits: Marriott Lincolnshire: Legally Blonde, Buck’s County Playhouse: Meet Me In St. Louis, Summer of ’42, Paper Mill Playhouse: A Funny Thing…Forum, Kansas City Starlight: Aida, Public Theatre NYC: Rock Bottom. Her voice can be heard on the television show Smash and the Tony Awards broadcasts from 2014-2017, and A Christmas Story: Live. Chelsea is an Associate Professor of Musical Theatre Voice at the University of Michigan. She studies with world-renowned voice coach Joan Lader and sings with the Grammy-nominated gospel choir, the Broadway Inspirational Voices. Chelsea received her BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan. She is a proud member of Actors Equity.
music director & piano
Jason DeBord was appointed to the University of Michigan Department of Musical Theatre faculty in September 2014 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020.
Jason DeBord was the resident music supervisor for both the Broadway and national tour productions of Once – The Musical and cast the production of the show in Seoul, South Korea. His Broadway credits also include Shrek, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Rock of Ages, Legally Blonde, All Shook Up, and Rent among others. Other New York credits include Bare – The Musical, Fat Camp, Bat Boy – The Musical, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, City Center Encores!, and countless developmental productions of new works. In the summer of 2020, he served as segment producer for the St. Louis Muny’s Online Variety Hour. He also created new dance, vocal and song arrangements for the revised version of Lerner & Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon, which was produced at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, the Ordway Theatre in St Paul and the St. Louis Muny.
DeBord played and conducted the national tours of A Chorus Line, Rent, and Urinetown – The Musical. His playing is featured prominently in the 2009 Sony Pictures Classics release Every Little Step, and he has played on multiple recordings for stage, film and television. Regionally, DeBord has worked on new musical theater productions at the Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, A.C.T., the Alliance Theater, and the 5th Avenue Theater.
From 1993-94, DeBord served as an accompanist in the Vocal Music Department at the University of San Diego; he has also taught at the McCarter Theatre, San Diego Junior Theater and the American Theater Wing’s Springboard program. He has served multiple guest artist residencies in the theatre department at the University of Colorado – Boulder. DeBord has coached private vocal and piano students and provided audition training and master classes throughout his career. He served as music director for Music Academy International’s summer musical theatre intensive in Mezzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy from 2016-2019. DeBord was proud to share credit for the design of the SMTD minor in Musical Theatre Composition with his colleague Catherine A. Walker in 2019.
