Back by popular demand, two
of the three "MEN" from last year's smash evening
"3 Men and a Diva" will return to wow audiences
with a brand new show called "Rat Pack Revisted",
a tribute to the wonderful music of the 60's and the
days of Sammy, Frank and Dean.
Returning will be Tony-nominee,
Broadway and Soap Star Brian Lane Green, and highly acclaimed
singer/pianist Johnny Rodgers along with "new man"
Award-Winning Recording Artist Lee Lessack. Rat Pack Revisited
is a fun-filled evening of glamour and style, featuring
solos, duets, trios and harmonies galore, including such
memorable songs as "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime",
"Me and My Shadow", and of course a Sinatra medley
including "Night and Day", "I've Got You
Under my Skin" and "Luck Be A Lady".
Tony Award nominee for "Best Actor in a Musical"
for his performance as Spacepunk in "Starmites",
Green made his Broadway debut as Huck Finn in "Big
River". He went on to star in the first national tour
of that show and also in the national tour of Andrew Lloyd
Webber's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat".
He appeared on Broadway as Jo Jo in the Cy Coleman musical
"The Life". Green's regional theater credits include
"West Side Story", "The Pirates of Penzance",
"Pippin", "Camelot," "La Cage Aux
Folles", "1776", and "Julius Caesar",
in which he played Marc Antony.
On television, Green has guest
starred on numerous prime-time shows, including "Sabrina
the Teenage Witch", "Murder, She Wrote",
"Matlock", "Hotel", and "Highway
to Heaven". Daytime audiences know him as Alan Brand
on "Days of Our Lives", Sam Fowler on "Another
World", and Brian Bodine on "All My Children".
Brian's latest CD, "Waiting for the Glaciers to Melt"
has just been released on LML.
From Off-Broadway theaters to
the Manhattan nightclub scene, Johnny Rodgers has been knocking
audiences out with his powerful vocals, sophisticated piano
and emotionally charged original songs. Johnny has shared
the stage with such diverse luminaries as Paul McCartney
and Chrissie Hynde at the PETA Humanitarian Awards, Michael
Feinstein at Carnegie Hall, Liza Minnelli at Gotham Hall,
and was featured on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home
Companion" on National Public Radio. Last year, Johnny
appeared in the Off-Broadway production of "Our Sinatra".
In March of this year, Johnny headlined at Birdland, New
York's most legendary jazz club, with an evening of original
music.
Johnny has been the recipient
of many performance and songwriting awards, including the
prestigious Abe Olman Scholarship from the Songwriter's
Hall of Fame, the Manhattan Association of Clubs (MAC) Award
for Best Male Debut Performer, the Backstage Magazine Bistro
Award for Outstanding Debut, the Gerald Marks Award from
the New York Sheet Music Society, Show Business Weekly's
Best One-Man Show Award and numerous ASCAP scholarships.
Johnny's new CD, "Box of Photographs", funded
in part by the ASCAP Foundation and featuring Grammy Award
winner Randy Brecker, is now available on the PS Classics
label.
Lee's elegant vocal styling continues
to delight fans around the world. An accomplished cabaret
and recording artist, Mr. Lessack has toured extensively
in the United States and Europe to sold-out performances
and stellar reviews. He was recently invited to headline
on Cunard's new QM2 (Queen Mary 2) as she set sail from
the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Lessack's reputation as artist,
writer and producer goes from strength to strength, promoting
not only his own singing abilities but those of others too,
and the world of contemporary cabaret is greatly enriched
by his talent, enterprise and energy. With four acclaimed
solo albums already out, his most recent CD is titled "In
Good Company" comprised of all duets and features such
music notables as Michael Feinstein, Amanda McBroom, Maureen
McGovern, Stephen Schwartz, Ann Hampton Callaway, and Susan
Egan, Lee Lessack has still found the time to form his own
record company: LML Music. LML Music currently features
over sixty noted cabaret, Broadway and jazz vocalists. Visit
LML on the web at LMLmusic.com
