Broadway Comes to GPAC
1/05/09
BROADWAY COMES TO GPAC
The Germantown Performing Arts Centre presents the all-star Broadway concert "Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway" on Saturday, February 7 at 8 p.m. Featuring five dazzling Broadway stars from such hit musicals as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors, Jekyll & Hyde, and Man of La Mancha, just to name a few, it's an exciting, tune-filled tribute to the Great White Way with songs from Jerome Kern to Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cole Porter to Kander and Ebb. This show is a must-see for anyone who loves Broadway musicals!
WHO: Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway
WHEN: Saturday, February 7, 8 p.m.
TICKETS: Single tickets are $30, $40, and $50, plus handling fee, and are available now by calling (901) 751-7500 or online at www.GPACweb.com.
Box Office Hours: Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. and noon the day of performance. All major credit cards accepted.
WHERE: Germantown Performing Arts Centre
1801 Exeter Road
Germantown, TN 38138
CONTACT: For more information or to arrange an interview with the artist(s), please contact Carrie Corbett at (901) 751-7501 or carrie@gpacweb.com.
IMAGES: See attached
ARTIST WEB: www.neilberg.com/broadway/main.php
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
Neil Berg is the composer/lyricist of the hit Off-Broadway musical "The Prince and the Pauper," which ran for two years at the Lambs Theater in New York City. The New York Times raved "(Berg's) music soars on angel's wings".
Neil is currently the composer for the new Broadway musical "Grumpy Old Men," based on the contemporary movie classic starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. His musical "Tim and Scrooge" was voted "one of the best musicals" of the inaugural NYMF festival in NYC, and opened at The Queens Theater in the Park in December of 2006, with a tour to follow, and a production in Austin, Texas in 2008. "The Man Who Would Be King" also played in the inaugural NYMF festival in NYC.
He was the composer/music supervisor on the feature film "Searching For Bobby D." featuring Carmen Electra, Sandra Bernhard, and Mario Cantone. The film was released in November of 2006. Neil also composed the new musical "Heidi," commissioned by the Walden Family Theater in San Francisco, which ran for over 80 performances in its regional premiere.
Other commission works include "Percy Penguin" for the Penguin Repertory Theater (Joe Brancato, Artistic Director), "Threads" for the Helen Hayes Theater and "Fiona: The Mother Goose Musical". Other works include "Asylum in the Night" (1995 Bistro Award for Best Musical), and the upcoming rock opera "Twelve".
As owner of Leftfield Productions, Inc., Neil has produced over a thousand Broadway concerts across the world with such stars as Michael Crawford, Rita Moreno, Bernadette Peters, Ben Vereen, Betty Buckley, Donna McKechnie, Liz Callaway, Eden Espinosa and many other greats.
For the past 15 years, Neil has been the musical director/entertainment coordinator for The Leukemia Society of America and Covenant House. He has produced countless corporate events all across the world for such organizations as UBS/Paine Webber, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte Touche, John Hancock, Marriott Corporation, IBM, The United Hospice Organization, The American Red Cross, YMCA, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Retired Officers Association of America, Jewish Family Services, The Archdiocese of NYC, BC/EFA, and many others. For his charitable contributions Neil was honored in 2001 as The American Red Cross Man of the Year and was honored again in 2003 by The United Hospice Foundation.
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