Gabi Epstein

Vocalist

Hailed “Canada’s Queen of Cabaret” by CTV, Gabi Epstein is a DORA award winner and one of Canada's leading stage/cabaret performers best known for playing Audrey in "Little Shop of Horrors" at the Stratford Festival and Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl" at the Segal Centre and in concert for the Harold Green Jewish Theatre. Gabi most recently performed the role of Countess Charlotte Malcolm opposite Cynthia Dale and “Will and Grace” star Eric McCormack in the acclaimed staged concert of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” at Koerner Hall. Just before that, you could catch her rocking out in “More Entertainment”’s inaugural production of “Rock of Ages” at the Elgin Theatre. 

Her professional career has spanned almost 20 years and has included leading and supporting roles in musicals such as Funny Girl, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd, Fiddler on the Roof, Candide, Billy Elliot, The Sound of Music, Blood Brothers, We Will Rock You, 9 to 5: the Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Once with companies such as Mirvish, Stratford, Talk is Free Theatre, The Musical Stage Company, Stage West, Drayton, The Capitol Theatre, and the Harold Green Jewish Theatre. Gabi has performed in concerts/cabarets all over North America in such acclaimed venues as Koerner Hall, The Sony Centre, The Jane Mallett Theatre, Roy Thompson Hall, The Jazz Bistro, Revival Bar, Buddies and Bad Times, The Old Mill, and Don’t Tell Mama in NYC where her show was named “Best Cabaret of the Year” by the Times Square Chronicles. 

She released her sophomore studio album and love letter to Barbra Streisand, “Gabs Sings Babs” in 2022 which is available on vinyl, CD, and all digital platforms. Her one-woman show also called “Gabs Sings Babs” has been performed at the Toronto Jazz Festival, the Segal Centre, Globus Theatre, the Port Stanley Festival Theatre, Theatre Collingwood, and will be make its cross country debut in January of 2024 at the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre. 

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