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 LOS
ANGELES, CA - The Village Voice
recently noted “There’s no business like
Gaynor’s show business” and now fresh on
the heels of attracting a new generation of fans with her acclaimed
Emmy®
winning PBS
musical documentary,
Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special
Years, -- Green Isle Inc. proudly announces Mitzi Gaynor’s
return to the stage in all new
one-woman show,
RAZZLE DAZZLE! MY LIFE
BEHIND THE SEQUINS.
Legendary star Mitzi Gaynor lights up the
stage in an intimate evening of laughs, love and
music from her show-stopping life and career in
Razzle Dazzle! My Life Behind the
Sequins.
This unforgettable love letter to a great era of
show business is part concert and part
autobiography. Mitzi shares
about her life through
side-splitting stories and song, along
with stunning video footage culled from her
television, concert and film work,
in a glittering multimedia one woman
tour-de-force.
Her reminiscences are intimate reflections from
her personal life - her brief love affair with
Howard Hughes, her first date with
husband-to-be, producer Jack Bean (and a
marriage that lasted 52 years), an amusing
monologue about getting dressed to go to the
legendary club El Morocco in the high-glam
1950’s - and feature often hilarious anecdotes
of her famous friends and costars including
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Rossano Brazzi, Ethel
Merman, and Marilyn Monroe.
Along with a seven piece orchestra led by
musical director/pianist Ed Czach,
orchestrations are by Ovation Award winner
Colin R. Freeman (Lorna Luft's Songs My
Mother Taught Me) and Helen Hayes Award
nominee Nick DeGregorio (42nd Street
National Tour), the
Emmy®
winner and Golden Globe®
nominated star of blockbuster musicals including
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific,
Les Girls and There’s No Business Like
Show Business performs a virtual
songfest of signature musical selections from
her film, television and nightclub catalog
including a cavalcade
of Broadway, Hollywood and Pop hits by
Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin,
Peter Allen and Stevie Wonder such as
“There’s No Business Like Show Business”,
“Honey Bun”, “Everything Old is New Again” and
“You Are The Sunshine of My Life” amongst
others, while also tackling new material like
“Show Off” from the recent Tony® winning
Broadway smash The Drowsy Chaperone, all
set to staging by director/choreographer Tony
Charmoli (Woman of the Year).
This new production, which recently completed an
acclaimed two-week engagement in New York City,
is scripted by Miss Gaynor and conceived and
constructed by Emmy®
winning producers Rene Reyes and Shane
Rosamonda and features
six new breathtaking costume creations by
legendary fashion designer Bob Mackie.
Razzle Dazzle! My Life Behind the
Sequins
is a once in a lifetime opportunity to
experience the electrifying magic and incredible
spirit of a true entertainment icon.
MITZI GAYNOR
first took the concert and nightclub world by
storm in 1961 at Las Vegas’ fabulous Flamingo
Hotel. Her debut was met with overwhelming
acclaim - Life Magazine noted “Gaynor
started at the top and climbed even higher”,
The Los Angeles Times called her “The
nation’s number one female song and dance star”
- and for the next four decades she dominated
stages across the United States and Canada, as
her Emmy® winning television specials delivered
her performing magic to the millions of viewers
who looked forward to those annual must-see
events.
The legendary musical performer has been in show
business over sixty years beginning her career
at the age of twelve in the Los Angeles Civic
Light Opera as a featured performer in
productions including Naughty Marietta,
Roberta, Jollyana and The Great Waltz
in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia and
appeared on Broadway in the New Century Theatre
production of Gypsy Lady. She
transitioned from stage to screen at age
nineteen with her first film role opposite
Betty Grable in My Blue Heaven. She
starred in seventeen motion pictures including
There’s No Business Like Show Business
(with Ethel Merman and Marilyn Monroe),
Anything Goes (with Bing Crosby
and Donald O’Connor), Les Girls
(with Gene Kelly), The Joker is Wild
(with Frank Sinatra) and South
Pacific (earning a Golden Globe® nomination
for her role as Ensign Nellie Forbush.) She
dominated television for over a decade with nine
of her own annual network television specials
such as Mitzi…And 100 Guys, Mitzi…Zings Into
Spring and Mitzi…Roarin’ in the 20’s (garnering
eighteen Emmy® Award nominations and six Emmy®
Awards) and returned to live performing with
countless concert productions nationwide for the
next forty years.
She recently received the
2010 NATAS Emmy® Award
for Outstanding Entertainment Program/Special
for her PBS musical documentary, Mitzi
Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years,
which focused on her annual network television
specials featuring clips and commentary from
Mitzi herself along with comedy icon Carl
Reiner, Bob Mackie, Kristin Chenoweth, Kelli
O'Hara and Tony Charmoli.
For booking information or press inquiries
please email your request to
pollyoentertainment@gmail.com or
scott@scottstander.com.
ABOUT GREEN ISLE, INC.
Green Isle, Inc. is a production company founded
by Miss Gaynor’s late husband, producer Jack
Bean. Green Isle originally produced and
currently represents the eight Emmy® Award
winning television spectaculars starring
legendary musical performer Mitzi Gaynor. Green
Isle recently co-produced an all new musical
documentary Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The
Special Years for broadcast on PBS and DVD
release which recently won the 2010 NATAS Emmy®
Award for outstanding entertainment
program/special. Green Isle is currently in
production on Miss Gaynor’s one-woman stage show
My Life Behind the Sequins, in addition
to her forthcoming memoir.
ABOUT POLLY O. ENTERTAINMENT, LLC
Polly O. Entertainment, LLC is an artist
management and production company founded by
Emmy® Award winning producers Shane Rosamonda
and Rene Reyes, the team behind the 2009 public
television holiday special and DVD release
Christmas with the King Family (available
through Collectors’ Choice Music) and the
acclaimed Emmy® Award winning documentary
special and DVD release Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle
Dazzle! The Special Years. In addition to
their work on that film, Mr. Reyes and Mr.
Rosamonda conceived and constructed Miss
Gaynor’s new theatrical stage show, Razzle
Dazzle! My Life Behind the Sequins, which is
currently touring across the U.S.
Additional credits include the Los Angeles and
West End productions of Songs My Mother
Taught Me starring Lorna Luft, the U.S.
Postal Service 2006 gala ceremony launch of the
Judy Garland commemorative stamp at Carnegie
Hall, and the BBC Television production,
Somebody’s Daughter, Somebody’s Son. The
team also serves as talent managers for
Hollywood Legend Mitzi Gaynor as well as the
most celebrated and prolific TV families of all
time, The King Family. They have also served as
creative consultants for entertainers including
Lorna Luft and Roslyn Kind. They are based in
Los Angeles. |
