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NEWS RELEASE — NEW YEAR’S EVE 2016 POP ROCKIN’ CELEBRATION AT HILTON LOS ANGELES/UNIVERSAL CITY WITH SPECIAL GUEST POP ICON BELINDA CARLISLE

CHRIS ISAACSON PRESENTS
AND
HILTON LOS ANGELES/UNIVERSAL CITY
PRESENT
NEW YEAR’S EVE 2016
A POP ROCKIN’ CELEBRATION
WITH SPECIAL GUEST
POP ICON BELINDA CARLISLE
ALSO STARRING
FRENCHIE DAVIS, ROGELIO DOUGLAS JR.,
DAVID HERNANDEZ, MAYA, AND JAKE SIMPSON

Belinda CarlisleChris Isaacson Presents and the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City have announced NEW YEAR’S EVE 2016: A POP ROCKIN’ CELEBRATION with special guest pop icon Belinda Carlisle and also starring Frenchie Davis, Rogelio Douglas Jr., David Hernandez, Maya, and Jake Simpson, performing hits from the 80s to today as well as fresh arrangements of favorites from the Great American Songbook and classic rhythm and blues. The festivities will begin at 7pm in the Hilton’s elegant Sierra Ballroom.

The evening will be a return to the traditional supper club experience. Ticket packages give guests the option of a four-course dinner, pre-show artist meet and greet, premium top shelf bottle service at tables, or simply a ticket for the show. Regardless of the package, all patrons will have access to the Sierra Ballroom’s large dance floor, live concert entertainment, full bar, celebratory champagne toast, party favors, balloon drop, and much more.

Belinda CarlisleTickets are on sale now and prices range from $87—$325. Purchase online at www.TicketWeb.com and www.ChrisIsaacsonPresents.com, or via phone at (866) 468-3399. For guest room reservations at the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City for New Year’s Eve, call (818) 506-2500, extension 1. Use code NYEPR.


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11-23-15

PHOTOS OF BELINDA CARLISLE COURTESY OF CHRIS ISAACSON PRESENTS.

NEWS RELEASE — “HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR” STARRING SAM HARRIS — OPENS JANUARY 23, 2016 AT LA LGBT CENTER’S RENBERG THEATRE

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The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
In Association with Susan Dietz and Elaine Krauss
Presents

HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR
Written and Performed by SAM HARRIS
Directed by BILLY PORTER
Musical Direction by TODD SCHROEDER

January 23—February 7, 2016

Sam Harris by Timmy BlupeDirect from a critically acclaimed off-Broadway run, HAM: A Musical Memoir will make its West Coast debut at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre with previews beginning January 21 and opening night set for Saturday, January 23. HAM: A Musical Memoir will play a strictly limited engagement through February 7.

Based on Harris’s book HAM: Slices of a Life (Simon & Schuster), the musical play hilariously, passionately, and poignantly takes us from a conflicted childhood in Bible-Belt Oklahoma to the dizzying roller coaster ride of a life in show business to the fulfillment of the impossible dream of fatherhood, culminating in the lessons of a life well lived. Well . . . lived.

HAM: A Musical Memoir is directed by Tony Award-winner Billy Porter and musical direction is by acclaimed pianist and composer Todd Schroeder.

Sam Harris is a multi-million selling recording artist, Tony-nominated Broadway and television actor, award-winning playwright, composer, director, and most recently, best selling author. Before American Idol, before The Voice, Harris first exploded into the public eye as the premiere winner of TV’s Star Search. On Broadway, Harris starred in The Life (Tony, Outer Critic’s Circle, Drama Desk nominations), The Producers, and Grease (Drama Desk nomination). National Tour, off-Broadway and regional credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Hair, Pippin, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cabaret, The Jazz Singer, and The First Wives Club. On television, Harris was a series regular on the CBS sitcom The Class, had a recurring role on Rules of Engagement, and made other guest star appearances. He has performed on numerous specials and every talk show from Leno to Oprah to Fallon. He has nine studio CDs to his credit, has toured the globe in concert, and he made Rolling Stone’s list of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Harris is the author of the stage musicals Hard Copy, Different Hats, Revival, Hurry! Hurry! Hollywood!, and SAM. He co-wrote Liza’s at the Palace (Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event), co-created/co-wrote the TV sitcom Down To Earth, musically supervised segments of Michael Jackson’s 30th Year Anniversary Special at Madison Square Garden, and co-produced the PBS special Love Letter to New York. Harris is married to businessman Danny Jacobsen and they are the proud parents of seven-year-old Cooper Atticus Harris-Jacobsen.

Todd Schroeder began playing piano at the age of four. His musical family introduced him to everything from Claude Debussy to Neil Diamond to Ray Charles to Elton John to Jerry Lee Lewis. This variety of influences led to a wide range of musical accomplishments as composer, producer, arranger, musical director, and performer. Schroeder has musically directed for Harris for over 20 years including appearances at Carnegie Hall, The White House, with The Boston Pops, and at many other prestigious venues. His original music has been featured in films and on television. He co-wrote Roter Mond: The Braveheart Musical and he co-composed music and lyrics for Unbeatable: A Bold New Musical (which he also directed in 2013). Schroeder has recorded four of his own CDs. In addition to his work with Harris, Schroeder has musically directed/written/arranged for and performed with such artists as Angela Lansbury, Nell Carter, Jason Alexander, Rita Coolidge, and David Burnham. He is the musical director for Universal Studios Japan and is the founder of The Todd Schroeder Young Artist Grant, an annual scholarship presented to graduating high school students wanting to pursue careers in the arts.

Billy Porter is a Tony and Grammy Award-winning singer, composer, actor, playwright, and director. He won the 2013 Tony Award for Lead Actor in a Musical for his performance in Kinky Boots. Other Broadway credits include Miss Saigon, Five Guys Named Moe, Grease, Smokey Joe’s Café, and Dreamgirls. Porter’s off-Broadway and regional credits include Angels in America, Romance in Hard Times, The Merchant of Venice, House of Lear, Radiant Baby, Birdie Blue, Going Native, Jelly’s Last Jam, Topdog/Underdog, Songs for a New World, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Chorus Line and Chicago. His solo show, Ghetto Superstar: The Man That I Am, debuted at The Public Theater in 2005. Directing credits include The Wiz and Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Music of Stevie Wonder, and Being Alive, a musical celebration mixing the canons of Sondheim and Shakespeare and combining them with musical styles of the African-American experience. He won a NAACP Theatre Award for Best Director of a Musical for Once on This Island at Reprise in Los Angeles, where he also conceived and directed a musical revue entitled The Soul of Rodgers. Last spring he directed George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum at Boston’s Huntington Theatre. Other directing credits include Five Guys Named Moe, Altar Boyz, and Rent.

HAM: A Musical Memoir will play two preview performances on Thursday, January 21 at 8pm and Friday, January 22 at 8pm, and opening is set for Saturday, January 23 at 8pm. The regular performance schedule is Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm through February 7. Tickets are $20 for previews and $35 for regular performances and are available online at lalgbtcenter.org/theatre or via phone by calling (323) 860-7300. The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre is located at 1125 N. McCadden Place (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Boulevard), in Hollywood, 90038. Free onsite parking is available.

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11-16-15

Sam Harris in “Ham: A Musical Memoir.” Photo by Timmy Blupe.

NEWS RELEASE — MACK & POPPY RETURN TO LA WITH “LET IT SNOW!” — TWO PERFS ONLY, NOVEMBER 28 & 29

MACK & POPPY
AMERICA’S BEST LEAST-KNOWN LOUNGE ACT
STAGE AN EARLY HOLIDAY RETURN WITH
LET IT SNOW!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 AT 8PM
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 AT 7PM

CAVERN CLUB CELEBRITY THEATRE
INSIDE CASITA DEL CAMPO IN SILVER LAKE

Mack and Poppy - Let It SnowM&P Productions has announced that Mack & Poppy will return to Los Angeles with their new holiday entertainment, Let It Snow!, for two performances only on Saturday, November 28 at 8pm and Sunday, November 29 at 7pm at the Cavern Club Celebrity Theatre inside Casita Del Campo Restaurant in Silver Lake. Kicking off this year’s holiday season, Let It Snow! promises to be festive, irreverent, loaded with humor, and full of wonderful holiday music to warm the cockles of your cockles.

Mack & Poppy are the creation of Christopher Michael Graham and Tod Macofsky. Crooner Mack Diamond (Macofsky) began his career as a child star, singing on street corners with his two older brothers, Shlomo and Moishe. Later, Mack suffered a decade of depression and alcoholism in Las Vegas, where he spent eight years performing his solo show, A Yiddishe Mackie, at The Imperial Palace. He met the lovely Poppy Fields while she was in the chorus of Jubilee!, and the rest is showbiz history. Southern Belle Poppy Fields (Graham) escaped the narrow-minded confines of Possum Trot, Alabama, and traveled the world as a singer/dancer/actress, entertaining celebrities, businessmen, and heads-of-state. After a successful beauty pageant career, the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas called, where Poppy wed and divorced four husbands before finally meeting and marrying the “Sensation of the 24-hour Buffet,” entertainer Mack Diamond.

With musical direction by the legendary Jack Cheddar (John Randall), Mack & Poppy: Let It Snow! is sure to sell out and early reservations are recommended. Tickets will be available beginning November 1 ($15 in advance, $20 at the door), and may be purchased online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2259589 or by calling (800) 838-3006. For more information, visit wwww.mackandpoppy.com.

Casita Del Campo is located at 1920 Hyperion Avenue in Los Angeles, 90026. Valet and street parking are available.

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