Florida's Cabaret Queen Returns to Broadway

Avery Sommers (Photo Credit: Clare Coco)

(Press Release) (June 9, 2025) 54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Avery Sommers in Showstopppers on Tuesday, September 16 at 7pm to headline her spectacular one-woman show.
Hailed by The New York Times for her “powerhouse voice,” Avery Sommers is familiar to Broadway audiences from her performances in Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Platinum and from her national tour performances in Chicago and Best Little Whorehouse.

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Showstoppers is a collection of songs from roles she has performed (“This Joint is Jumpin’,” “Can’t Help Loving That Man of Mine,” “I Know Where I’ve Been”) and roles she still wishes to play (“Before the Parade Passes By,” “If You Believe”) interspersed with her own showbiz anecdotes and television clips – with music direction by Phil Hinton.

Praised by BroadwayWorld as “show business royalty…  (combining) style and survival, tenacity and talent, originality and individuality,” Avery Sommers is an artist who makes every song uniquely her own and lifts the hearts and souls of her audience whether in an intimate supper club or on a Broadway stage.

Avery Sommers in Showstoppers plays 54 Below (254 West 54th Street) on Tues, Sep 16 at 7pm. Cover charges are $51.50 (includes $6.50 in fees) - $62.50 (includes $7.50 in fees.) Premiums are $101 (includes $11 in fees). There is a $25 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.org. Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00pm are only available by calling (646) 476-3551.

MORE ABOUT AVERY SOMMERS

Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, replacing Nell Carter, Chicago, and Showboat, and was in the first national tours of both The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (starring Ann-Margret) and Chicago (with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey), for which she won a Los Angles Ovation Award for Best Supporting Actress. On TV, she appeared on “Miami Vice,” many episodes of “B.L. Stryker” starring Burt Reynolds, and the CBS soap “As The World Turns.” Film credits include Lost Everything, Mysterious, Letters to God, and Hiding Victoria.

A frequent headliner at The Colony Hotel’s Royal Room, Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Palm Beach Institute for the Entertainment Arts, Arts Garage, and more, Sommers is the recipient of the distinguished 2024 Randolph A. Frank Award for the Performing Arts and is both a Carbonell Award winner and a seven-time nominee. In addition, she is the recipient of a Silver Palm Award for Outstanding Contributions to South Florida Theater, and the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2010 Monaco International Film Festival. Currently, she serves on the boards of directors for both the Carbonell Awards and the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, and on the Honorary Board of Advisors for The Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook.