"Ingersoll is an enthralling performer... a star of the highest magnitude." -Two on the Aisle
ANGELA INGERSOLL: ENTERTAINER, ACTRESS, SINGER, COMEDIENNE
“I never really learned my right from my left. I have a decent sense of direction, but not left and right. Secretly, I always rub my index and middle fingers together, to feel for the pencil bump callus that I built up in grade school to help me find my right hand.”
Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Second City Theatricals present the mercurial musical comedy THE PEOPLE VS FRIAR LAURENCE, OR THE MAN WHO KILLED ROMEO AND JULIET for Chicago’s Shakespeare 400 celebration. Second City veteran and writer Ron West directs and appears as as Lord Capulet, with Bruce Green (Friar Laurence), Devin Desantis (Romeo), Lauren Creel Sauer (Juliet), Jonathan Wagner (Mercutio), Angela Ingersoll (Benvolio), Roberta Duchak (Lady Capulet), Nathan Hosner (Prince Escalus), Greg Anderson (Tybalt), and Lisa McQueen at the piano.
Trio channels Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Patsy Cline
Angela Ingersoll, who performs the songs of Judy Garland in the show “I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues: A Salute to Ella, Judy & Patsy,” has a simple formula for entertaining audiences. “We are just doing a concert and just being ourselves, presenting it with love,” said Ingersoll about the show that she performs with two other singers, “and that creates the magic.”
Trio performs Patsy Cline, Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald
Each songstress was a powerhouse. Each voice was immediately recognizable and unique. Had they ever shared a stage, it would have been a concert of titanic proportion… “I couldn’t help but notice these legendary women had similarly terrible lives,” said Angela Ingersoll, who packaged this show and performs Garland’s songs. “It’s pretty lonely being a legend.”
MUSICAL SALUTE HIGHLIGHTS 3 LEGENDS
“They are wonderful; they’re both dynamos and talented, and Michael’s production skills are off the charts and amazing. Angela’s not just simply a performer herself; she has many attributes. Her vocals are incredible, her acting is amazing and her writing takes you to another place. It takes you inside the minds of these individuals as they go through their life journeys.”
“I’m a lesbian. Plain and simple. I don’t make any bones about it.”
Angela was tickled pink to join loud and proud About Face Theatre for a special revival of their revolutionary smash-hit PULP. ABTS’s deliciously campy homage to the sultry, jazzy world of lesbian pulp fiction was resurrected for two nights only with an all-star Chicago cast. And wouldn’t you just know it, Angela appeared as the bad-girl. Bing. Bing Cherry. Written by Patricia Kane and directed by Jessica Thebus. VISIT ABOUT FACE THEATRE
Angela sang our National Anthem at Arlington International Racecourse for their Fourth of July celebration before a crowd of 40,000.
Husband and wife duo Michael and Angela Ingersolls share a heartwarming chat with WGN Radio Host Lisa Wolf on the Hollywood 360 Radio Show. The couple’s flair for good old fashioned entertainment is on display as they discuss the premiere of their concert My Baby Just Cares For Me at Northlight Theatre.
Married musical theatre standouts team up for local benefit
“Michael Ingersoll compares the show to the couple hosting a party in their living room. It consists of classic pop tunes, punctuated by lighthearted banter reminiscent of the popular comedy duo of George Burns and Gracie Allen.”
Have a listen to Kevin Moore’s popular “civilized culture and conversation” program on WSBC Radio. This episode features Michael and Angela Ingersoll as they launch a hilarious and heartwarming new concert to benefit Northlight Theatre.
On seasons 1-4 of the NBC hit drama, Ingersoll appeared in recurring role of Annie, Detective Lindsay’s (Sophia Bush) best friend from her rough and sordid past.
Showbiz couples learn to cope when parts keep them apart – and bring them back together again
…Like Cudia and Voytko, the Ingersolls met on the stage; they were asked to prepare the marriage proposal scene from The Importance of Being Earnest for a regional theater. It wasn’t long before they were rehearsing their own marriage proposal scene.
It’s hard to imagine actors with this much talent attributing their success to “perseverance” and “discipline.” But that’s exactly what Michael and Angela Ingersoll say when asked by Metropolis Insider…
Angela relays, “You don’t have to be the most talented or beautiful or the smartest. You have to do everything you can to make it happen for yourself.”
CENTER STAGE: She’s known her passion forever: the desire to be center stage, in the heat of the lights, acting and singing her heart out. “I remember being three years old, taking my clothes off and saying, ‘Look, I’m Gypsy Rose Lee.'” While the stages have changed and the costumes have been a bit more complete, the passion of theatre and the drama of drama have stayed right in the heart of Ingersoll.
AI: The element of surprise in that is what I like, because we can be having a very realistic conversation, and suddenly one of us gets an idea that sends us into a rhapsody. All of the sudden you’re carried into all of these feelings and emotions coming from musical exploration. I really enjoy that about musical theatre. And then come back, to the simplicity of going on with regular life. But all these things are inside of you!
Live Lunch Broadcast: Host Kacky Walton interviews Angela Ingersoll on her award-nominated role as Aldonza in Man Of La Mancha, live from the stage of Playhouse on the Square. Topics include Cervantes, compliments, and corsets.
F & F Magazine: Without forcing you to become too philosophical, why do you think this show has had such a profound effect on the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community?
Ingersoll: I think many in the LGBT community can identify with that child who feels no one at home understands them and must forge out into the world to find their own identity. And once they get out into the world, realizing they can’t use the tools they were given growing up, must now utilize new tools as they’re discovered. Even the ‘home’ everyone is looking for is simply the realization that you must be comfortable with yourself.