Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp are coming to the New York's TOWN HALL Monday, January 10, 2011 at 8pm. Tickets will go on sale Wednesday, July 7th and are available from Ticketmaster and Ticketmaster.com starting at noon. General public tickets will cost $25-60 and limited VIP seats will cost $95. Town Hall is locarted at 123 West 43rd Street (between 6th Avenue & Broadway).
For the first time, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, the stars from "RENT," will embark on a National Concert Tour exclusively through rj productions. The concert will feature a full pop band (Piano, Bass, Drums, Guitar). Both Adam and Anthony will share the band. The evening will feature material from both of these artists solo shows: Anthony's concert features well known pop songs and original material:Cool songs with a hot band, plus fun stories. Adam's MEANDLARRYset, featuring Musical Director Larry Edoff, offers original material as well as classics from "AIDA", "CABARET," CHESS" and cool and hip arrangements of classic standards. Together, they'll share stories about working on Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize winning musical and offer duets as they performed them in both the Broadway and National Tour engagements as well as in the film.
Adam Pascal was born on October 25, 1970, in the Bronx and raised in Syosset, New York. He started singing in various rock bands when he was 12, playing the local New York club scene for many years, and has been singing in bands, as a solo artist, in movies, or on the Broadway
stage ever since. In 1995, his band, Mute, recorded a self-titled album that was released in Japan by Zero Corporation. In 1996, Adam tried out for the then unknown, off-Broadway production of Rent. He landed the role of Roger Davis. Adam was nominated for a 1996 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical), and won a Drama League and Obie award for his performance as Roger. The Show went on to become a worldwide success and one of the longest running shows in Broadway history. In 1997 He reprised the role of Roger (the first of several times he would do so) for the West End Premiere of Rent.
In 1998, Adam's career expanded to the big screen in the independent film SLC Punk! In 2000, Adam was cast as Radames in Elton John and Tim Rice's new Broadway musical Aida, for which he received a Drama League award. He would stay with the production for over 3 years. In May of 2000, his debut solo album, Model Prisoner, was released on Sh-K-Boom Records. Also in 2000, Adam co-produced the hit off-Broadway play Fully Committed with fellow former Rent cast member, Jesse L. Martin. The show went on to garner many awards and played to sold out houses in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and London.
In October 2003, Adam once again visited the Broadway stage, this time, asked to be the final Emcee in the Sam Mendes/Rob Marshall production of Cabaret at Studio 54, as part of the closing cast. Also during that time Adam was cast along side Jack Black, as Theo, the lead singer of "No Vacancy" in 2003's School of Rock. Finally in 2004, Adam's second CD, Civilian, was released in November, again on Sh-k-boom records.
In 2005, Adam reprised the role of Roger in the movie version of Rent and helped bring a new generation of fans to the Broadway show and its music. Adam's journey with Rent finally came to conclusion when in 2009, he reprised the role one last time along side Anthony Rapp, in "Rent The Broadway Tour", which traveled all over the U.S. as well as Japan and South Korea.
In 2008, Adam played the role of Freddie Trumper in the Tim Rice/Abba Musical Chess, alongside Josh Groban, and Idina Menzel for two sold out performances at The Royal Albert Hall, in London. The DVD is currently on sale worldwide.
Adam's latest CD entitled Blinding Light is currently in release and he is touring with his band "Me & Larry." He has two films currently in release, Falling Star and American Primitive.
Finally, Adam is currently developing a musical for Broadway based on the concept album "Operation Mindcrime", by the progressive rock band Queensryche.
Anthony Rapp has been acting and singing professionally since he was nine years old. With an extensive list of achievements, Rapp is best known for originating the role of ‘Mark Cohen' in Jonathan Larson's Tony Award-winning rock opera, Rent, for which he shared an OBIE Award
with the rest of the cast. He reprised his role in Chris Columbus' film version opposite other members of the original cast. Rapp recently visited the role once more with original cast member Adam Pascal in the Rent Tour. Anthony will next be seen in Don Roos' 17 Photos of Isabelle opposite Natalie Portman, Lisa Kudrow and Jefferey Dean Morgan.
Anthony has an extensive theatre background, his most recent Broadway show was Second Stage Theatre's Some Americans Abroad. Other Broadway credits include the revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation. His Broadway debut was in Precious Sons with Judith Ivey and Ed Harris, for which he received an Outer Critics Circle award and a Drama Desk nomination.
Film credits include Adventures in Babysitting, School Ties, Dazed and Confused, Six Degrees of Separation, Man of the Century, David Searching, Road Trip, and A Beautiful Mind (SAG Award nomination for Ensemble). He has also appeared in Winter Passing, a film written and directed by his brother, Adam Rapp.
A writer as well, Anthony wrote a book entitled Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent (Simon & Schuster) about his struggle to balance the demands of life in the theatre with his responsibility to his family during his mother's battle with cancer. He recently adapted the book into a one-man show entitled "Without You" which he has performed on stages throughout the country.
On television, Rapp has appeared in The Lazarus Man, The X-Files, The Beach Boys: An American Family, Kidnapped and Law & Order: SVU.
In 2000, he released his debut album, Look Around. He has performed his music in clubs and colleges throughout the country.
Rapp is proud to support and continue to help raise funds for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Friends In Deed.
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