Drama
Desk Award Winner Jim Brochu, who dazzled as Zero Mostel in Zero
Hour
puts his stamp on an original musical valentine to the Great White Way.
This
tribute to Broadway’s greatest character actors features the songs they
introduced to musical theatre - Mostel's "If I Were A Rich Man,"
Robert Preston's "Trouble," George S. Irving's "The
Butler's Song," Jack Gilford's "Meeskite," Barney Martin's
"Mr. Cellophane" and Cyril Ritchard's "Who Can I Turn
To?" among others, the two hour show is sprinkled with juicy backstage
lore and and a first hand look at these great faces of Broadway from
one who
knew them, When Brochu was first starting out, his mentor was
two-time
Tony winner David Burns who became his show business godfather and
introduced
him to the world of the New York Theatre. Character Man
delivers the
iconic songs of ground-breaking composers including Jule Styne, John
Kander and
Fred Ebb, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, Stephen Schwartz and Stephen
Sondheim. As the Times Square Chronicles
wrote after a recent New York performance, “It’s just perfect!” |