Molly Ringwald -- yep, that Molly Ringwald -- to sing jazz April 23 at the Dakota

The "Breakfast Club" star will be singing for the supper crowd in her local debut as a jazz singer.

March 1, 2013 at 11:36PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Ringwald at the Oscars in 2010, the year they paid tribute to John Hughes.
Ringwald at the Oscars in 2010, the year they paid tribute to John Hughes. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

You loved her in "Pretty in Pink," "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club," and you might have even enjoyed her books or her recent TV stint in ABC's "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." But are you going to like Molly Ringwald as a jazz singer?

Find out April 23 when the Molly Ringwald Quartet makes its local debut with two shows at the Dakota. Go to www.dakotacooks.com for tickets, priced $35 (7 p.m.) and $25 (9 p.m.).

Singing isn't exactly a new thing for Ringwald, 45. She sang in her dad's jazz band as a kid and has starred in Broadway musicals such as "Cabaret" and "Sweet Charity." Oh, and she also sings "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)," the theme song to "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." Click here for a news clip that one of her hometown TV stations in Sacramento did on her new side-career.

All you John Hughes movie-weaned Gen X-ers can admit it, though: Even if she's a hack singer, you kind of still want to be there, right?

about the writer

about the writer

Chris Riemenschneider

Critic / Reporter

Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.

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