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| General on sale begins tomorrow, May 30, for Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin at 59E59 Theaters | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:11 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| General On Sale Begins Wednesday, May 30 for HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN At 59E59 Theaters Performances August 24-October 28 Opening Night: Wednesday, September 5 General on sale begins Wednesday, May 30 at Noon for award-winning actor and piano virtuoso Hershey Felder in his wildly acclaimed one-man show, HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN at 59E59 Theaters (Val Day, Artistic Director; Brian Beirne, Managing Director). The production, featuring music and lyrics by the great American songwriter Irving Berlin, book by Hershey Felder and directed by longtime Felder collaborator Trevor Hay, will play from August 24 through October 28, 2018, with opening night scheduled for Wednesday, September 5. Felder returns to 59E59 Theaters, where he recently played a sold out engagement of MAESTRO (Leonard Bernstein) and adapted, directed and designed the sold out THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE. Since its premiere, HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN has played 15 record-breaking engagements at some of the country’s leading theatres, including the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, where it was called “richly entertaining and touching” by the Los Angeles Times, Chicago’s Royal George Theatre, where the Chicago Tribune said it delivers “a great deal of pleasure to the good people of Chicagoland,” and the Majestic Theatre in Boston, where the Boston Globe hailed it as “a warm portrait of an unassuming genius.” Prior to New York, the production will play an engagement from June 7-24 at the Cleveland Playhouse. Jerome Kern famously said, “Irving Berlin has no place in American music—he is American music.” George Gershwin called him “the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.” HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN brings the man behind the iconic music to life in an evening reflecting his remarkable journey from his inauspicious beginnings as a Russian Jewish immigrant of five, to his rise to become America’s most beloved and prolific songwriter. From Tin Pan Alley to Carnegie Hall, from The Great White Way to The Silver Screen and from the pop charts to the steps of the nation’s capital, Berlin’s music provided America with the soundtrack of a century. Berlin’s catalogue includes over 1,500 songs, 18 Broadway shows, 16 feature films, 232 top-10 hits and 10 #1 hits. Berlin’s songs have been performed by a diverse list of artists including: Fred Astaire, Aretha Franklin, Ethel Merman, Willie Nelson, Paul McCartney,Elvis Presley, Luciano Pavarotti, Ella Fitzgerald,Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Barbra Streisand, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe and Lady Gaga. HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN features some of the composer’s most popular and enduring songs, including “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “Always,” “Blue Skies,” “God Bless America,” “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” and "White Christmas.” HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN features scenic design by Felder and Hay, lighting design by Richard Norwood, projection design by Christopher Ash and Lawrence Siefert and sound design/production management by Erik Carstensen. The show is produced by Eva Price, Samantha F. Voxakis and Karen Racanelli, in association with The Town Hall. TICKET INFORMATION – HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN at 59E59 THEATERS Tickets $25-$70 (59E59 Members $25-$49) can be purchased online at www.59e59.org, by phone by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 (12:00-8:00 PM daily), or in person at the 59E59 Theaters box office, from Noon-6:00 PM. HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN is featured as a part of the 59E59 Theaters subscription series. 59E59 Theaters is located at 59 East 59thStreet, between Park and Madison Avenues. HERSHEY FELDER (Irving Berlin/Playwright/Co-Design) Recently named to Time Magazine’s 2016 Top 10 Plays and Musicals, Hershey Felder has played over 5,000 performances of his self-created solo productions at some of the world’s most prestigious theatres over the last 25 years, consistently breaking box office records. American Theatre Magazine has said, “Hershey Felder is in a category all his own.” His shows include: GEORGE GERSHWIN ALONE (Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre, West End’s Duchess Theatre); MONSIEUR CHOPIN; BEETHOVEN; MAESTRO (LEONARD BERNSTEIN); FRANZ LISZT IN MUSIK, LINCOLN: AN AMERICAN STORY, HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN, and OUR GREAT TCHAIKOVSKY.His newest work, Hershey Felder: A PARIS LOVE STORY, featuring the music of Claude Debussy, will premiere in 2019 at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley followed by engagements at the Wallis Theatre in Los Angeles, and the Laguna Playhouse. His compositions and recordings include Aliyah, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Fairytale, a musical; Les Anges de Paris, Suite for Violin and Piano; Song Settings; Saltimbanques for Piano and Orchestra; Etudes Thematiques for Piano; and An American Story for Actor and Orchestra, various compositions for Cello and Piano. Hershey is the adaptor, director and designer for the internationally performed play with music, THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE; as well as producer and designer for the musical LOUIS AND KEELY: ‘LIVE’ AT THE SAHARA, directed by Taylor Hackford; he has just opened his new production as writer/director/designer of FLYING SOLO, featuring opera legend Nathan Gunn, as well as two solo stage works, as well as the upcoming THE STORY OF MY CELLO for cello virtuoso, Antonio Lysy. Current upcoming composition projects include: a musical adaptation of the book OUT ON A LEDGE by Eva Libitzky. Hershey has operated the full-service production company Hershey Felder Presents since 2001. He has been a scholar-in-residence at Harvard University’s Department of Music and is married to Kim Campbell, the first female Prime Minister of Canada. TREVOR HAY(Director) directed the world premieres of AN AMERICAN STORY FOR ACTOR AND ORCHESTRA, ABE LINCOLN'S PIANO, HERSHEY FELDER AS FRANZ LISZT IN MUSIK and OUR GREAT TCHAIKOVSKY. He is Associate Director for Mona Golabek's “The Pianist of Willesden Lane.” Former member of the historic Old Globe Theatre in San Diego where, at the age of nine, his first position was selling Old Globe memorabilia. Over the next 32 years, Mr. Hay went on to various aspects of production on more than 80 presentations, including the Broadway productions of Jack O’Brien’s DAMN YANKEES, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS andTwyla Tharp’s THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’. Included in his 23 seasons at the Old Globe were eleven seasons of the Summer Shakespeare Festival Repertory, as well as work on Tracy Letts’ AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, directed by Sam Gold, and Hershey Felder’s GEORGE GERSHWIN ALONE, MONSIEUR CHOPIN, and MAESTRO BERNSTEIN. |
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