Showing posts with label memphis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memphis. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Memphis success continues

Since winning the Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Orchestrations, Best Original Score, & Best Book for a Musical of 2010, the cast recording went from #81 to #9 on the Billboard Charts!

On Friday, July 2nd, ABC will air the President making the finale address in "America Celebrates July 4th at Ford's Theatre. Tony-nominated Memphis star, Montego Glover, joins the star-spangled special by singing her knockout solo, "Colored Woman," and General Colin Powell will honor five distinguished veterans who have recieved the Medal of Honor.

For more updates, visit the Memphis website: http://www.memphisthemusical.com/

If you missed David Armstrong's personal report from the Tonys, check it out here.

Monday, January 5, 2009

EMP Event this Thursday - with David Bryan of Bon Jovi!

EMP Oral History Live! An Evening with David Bryan
Thursday, January 8, 2009 7:00pm
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS BEFORE THEY'RE GONE!

The Oral History Live! series at EMPSFM features intimate interviews before a live audience.JBL Theater325 5th Avenue NorthSeattle, WA 98109

In January, EMPSFM is partnering with The 5th Avenue Theatre to present an interview with David Bryan. As the keyboard player, songwriter and founding member of Bon Jovi, now in its twentieth year, Mr. Bryan’s journey has included selling 130 million albums, traveling the world playing to millions of people in more than 50 countries and circling the globe for 25 years. In his time off from recording and touring, Mr. Bryan began a career as a composer and lyricist of musicals. The 5th Avenue Theatre is opening his newest musical, Memphis, playing January 27 - February 15, 2009. Memphis, written by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro (the author of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and Over the River and Through the Woods), is a rafter-rattling musical that immortalizes the DJs who gave rock its original roll. For more information, visit www.5thavenue.org.

Reserve your tickets in advance: Free to EMPSFM members and 5th Avenue Theatre subscribers; $5 general public, 206.770.2702 or 1.877.EMP.SFM1. Reserved seats unclaimed 10 minutes prior to the event are subject to be released to the wait list.

Visit the EMP site for more info.