Tarzan and Little House On The Prairie's Kevin Massey and Hairspray's Lori Marinaci join Matt Lutz, Sierra Rein, and Mick Bleyer in this special evening of songs by Jay Alan Zimmerman.
SMOKIN'! explores the things you shouldn't do, but you're gonna anyway: smoke, drink, eat donuts, and fall in love with the wrong people. Sung by a bunch of hot next-gen Broadway singers, these songs celebrate your vices. It's all written by Jay Alan Zimmerman - who really should give up music because he's deaf now, but what the #$@%?! SMOKIN'! is only 10 bucks, and because you need to stop drinking, there's a two-drink minimum. Sure, it's hazardous to your health, but it's gonna feel soooo good.
Jay Alan Zimmerman is the composer and author of several original musicals including My Café Cinderella and HoliDaze, the variety show JAZ @ The Zipper, the song cycle Punctuated Thoughts, several aerial works, and even a multi-media symphony for musical robots. He composed the music for the plays Booth and Our Brutus, which were both Fringe First Award winners at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and had New York and London productions. His dance/film scores include Do Not Call It Fixity (Special Music Award, Grand Prix International Video Danse Festival and selected North American film in the MOMA retrospective, Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris) and The Last Leaf (Best Score, First Run Festival, NYC). He is also an award winning filmmaker with a BFA in film from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. As he lost his hearing he became a solo performer of his own works, including Evil Eye, DEaF Jam and DEaF Man Mocking, all produced in NY by PACT and Dixon Place, as well as Jay Alan Zimmerman's Incredibly DEaF Musical, which debuted as part of DC's Capital Fringe Festival. For Smokin'! he will accompany the singers at the piano by lip reading. www.jayalanzimmerman.com
Mick Bleyer - just finished playing Zach in A Chorus Line with Modesto Performing Arts. Other Credits include 365 Days/365 Plays; The Three Musketeers at North Shore Music Theatre; Iago in Othello; Rodolpho in A View From the Bridge; Productions of Macbeth at The WorkShop Theater, The Classical Theatre of Harlem, and The Virginia Shakespeare Festival; Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me, Kate; Sebastian in Twelfth Night; multiple productions of A Chorus Line; and the National Tour of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Film/TV credits include Across the Universe, The Manchurian Candidate, Cains Mark, and several spots for Lufthansa Airlines and Spike TV. Mick is a member of both the WorkShop Theater Company and Improbable Fiction.
Matt Lutz - Film: Bringing Down The House, A Walk To Remember, End Of The Spear, and upcoming Port City. TV: Two years as defense attorney Phil Newberry on Hallmark Channel's MCBRIDE series, opposite Emmy winner John Larroquette. Also Las Vegas, Boston Public, Dawson's Creek, 7th Heaven, among others. NY and regional theatre: Glimpses Of The Moon at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room in NYC; A Time For Love; Show Boat; The Most Happy Fella; Thoroughly Modern Millie; L.A. premiere Tick, Tick...Boom! Actors Co-op Hollywood: Translations, Into The Woods, Tales Of Tinseltown, and 1776 (for which Matt was nominated for an LA Weekly Award). Matt is a member of Actors Equity Association, and is married to actress and writer Christy Hall. www.mattlutz.com
Lori Marinacci -Lori recently closed the Broadway production of Hairspray, playing "Shelley" and understudying "Tracy Turnblad" and "Penny Pingleton." Recent credits include Hairspray (Las Vegas company) Chrissy in Hair at Barrington Stage Company, Radio City Christmas Spectacular and Bianca/Lois Lane in the NETworks National Tour of Kiss Me, Kate. Lori received her BFA in Musical Theater from Penn State University. She is excited to be singing the original music of Jay Alan Zimmerman and meeting new friends! Check out www.LoriEve.com for more info.
Kevin Massey - Broadway: Tarzan - Tarzan u/s, Big River; Tours: Grease - Doody (Europe), Tarzan - Tarzan (Hamburg) Big River (U.S.); NYCO/Carnegie: Antony & Cleopatra - Eros; Guthrie & Papermill: Little House On The Prairie - Almanzo; Chicago Shakespeare: Three Musketeers - D'Artagnan; Utah Shakespeare: Pippin - Pippin, All's Well; UFO: Brigadoon - Charlie, Secret Garden - Dickon; Opera: Macbeth, Pagliacci, Mikado; Morehead Scholar, UNC. www.kevinmassey.com
Sierra Rein - After relocating from Los Angeles in 2008, Sierra's first full New York theater experience was the Innovation Award-Nominated Theater Ten Ten's production of Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse, playing both character and puppet Ruth the Bridesmaid (via Matilda the puppet). She recently sang with members of the New York City Opera in a reading of the new opera Strange Fruit, has performed in numerous composer showcases in New York, and is a regular at both the Algonquin Salon and Big Night Out open mics. Favorite credits: Second Soprano in Master Class (Odyssey Theater), Chiffon in Little Shop of Horrors (Utah Shakespearean Festival), Edith in The Pirates of Penzance (Knightsbridge Theatre), Sister Sophia in The Sound of Music and Nimue in Camelot (Fullerton Civic Light Opera), Nadia in Ovation-winning bare (Hudson Theater), and Ellen Beach Yaw in Los Angeles-cult-favorite A Mulholland Christmas Carol (Theater of N.O.T.E.). Represented by Rainbow High Entertainment, Los Angeles. Official website: www.sierrarein.com & www.twitter.com/sierrarein
