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Emily Yancey
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    About Emily

    "Emily Yancey’s performance convinces me that our theater community has rather underrated and underused her.  

    She is remarkable... She sings like an angel and is achingly funny."


    - Anthony Chase, The Buffalo News

    A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER Review

    "Emily Yancey delivers emotional excellence and powerful vocals... her performance... is stunning... a triumph."


    - Anthony Higgins, Buffalo Rising

    CHESS Review

    Reviews (Musicals)

     "Emily Yancey’s leading performance is a revelation.  She is a fine comedian with earned emotion and killer instincts.  I can’t wait to see more of her work."


    - Ben Siegel, The Buffalo News

    KILLER RACK: THE FEMINIST HORROR MUSICAL COMEDY Review 


     "Emily Yancey... has clearly emerged as one of Buffalo’s foremost comic leading ladies... hilarious, and at times [with] arguably shameless gusto."

    - Anthony Chase, Theater Talk Buffalo

    THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE Review

     

    "Emily Yancey delivers her signature tenacious wit and bubbly energy. [She] continues to outdo herself, showcasing her talent."

    - Steven Maisonet, Buffalo Born

    THE MIGHTY MAISIE Review

    Reviews (Plays)

     

    "Emily Yancey plays... with ferocity and a genuine, lived-in quality... Yancey... has big, expressive eyes, a strong, powerful voice, and a brave physicality that serves the character well."

    - Anthony Higgins, Buffalo Rising

    JUICY AND DELICIOUS Review


    Current & Upcoming Performances

    Opening Night of THE FOREIGNER - Desiderio's Dinner Theatre (February 18th - April 4th)

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    DESIDERIO'S DINNER THEATRE WEBSITE

    CURRENT & UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

    THE FOREIGNER: running NOW at Desiderio's Dinner Theatre through April 4th!

    DESIDERIO'S DINNER THEATRE WEBSITE

    THE FOREIGNER (Catherine) - Desiderio's Theatre - 2/18 - 4/4

    Director: Jay Desiderio

      Trying to forget his marital problems, dull and doleful Charlie Baker takes a fishing lodge holiday in the Deep South, and to avoid being pestered by the locals pretends that he is a foreigner who speaks no English. 

    DESIDERIO'S DINNER THEATRE WEBSITE

    SWEENEY TODD (Beggar Woman) - MusicalFare - CLOSED

    Director: Randy Kramer

     Attend Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s dark, witty and Tony Award-winning tale of love, murder and revenge, featuring everyone’s favorite murderous couple, Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett.  This masterpiece is sure both to thrill and delight audiences. 

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    JUICY AND DELICIOUS (Miss Bathsheba) - Ujima Theatre -CLOSED

    Director: Curtis Lovell

     Life is juicy and delicious until the world starts to fall apart.  Hushpuppy and his friends must learn to care for each other while they battle the fearsome aurochs in this magical Southern fantasia that inspired the movie Beasts of the Southern Wild.

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    GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE&MURDER (Phoebe) - MFare - CLOSED

    Director: Doug Weyand

    When a distant heir to a family fortune sets out to speed up the line of succession by using a great deal of charm and a dash of murder, uproarious hilarity ensues.  A sold-out hit at MusicalFare in 2022, two weeks of the run were lost due to COVID outbreaks.  Now everyone can see it this time! 


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    COME FROM AWAY (Bonnie) - MusicalFare - CLOSED

    Director: Randall Kramer

    The inspiring true story of 7,000 stranded airline passengers on 9/11 and the small town in Canada that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust and gratitude grew into enduring friendships. An uplifting example of the very best of human nature!

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    "Ain't It A Pretty Night" from SUSANNAH by Carlisle Floyd

    From the televised opera SUSANNAH, produced & recorded by Buffalo Opera Unlimited and WNED-PBS/Channel 17 Studio

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    KILLER RACK: THE FEMINIST HORROR MUSICAL COMEDY at Alleyway Theatre, 2017

    KILLER RACK: THE FEMINIST HORROR MUSICAL COMEDY at Alleyway Theatre, 2017

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    Lady Capricorn Empowering Portraits, Delaware Park Rose Garden

    Photo by Melissa Kagan Chromiak

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