Michele Lee to Perform at the Razz Room and Bucks County Playhouse

Robert Kotonly of The RRazz Room is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Bucks County Playhouse when they present TV and Broadway star Michele Lee at the theater in New Hope. Michele Lee will perform her new concert - Nobody Does It Like Me, The Music of Cy Coleman - on Friday, October 14, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $35/$50/$75 and can be purchased by calling the Bucks County Playhouse Box Office, noon to 5 p.m., or purchasing at

http://bcptheater.org/shows-events/michele-lee-nobody-does-it-like-me-the-music-of-cy-coleman/

Michele Lee will also perform this concert in Philadelphia on Saturday, October 15 at 8 p.m. at The RRazz Room at the Prince Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street. For more information, please visit http://princetheater.org/events/michele-lee.

Kotonly said, "We are honored that Alexander Fraser and the great folks at Bucks County Playhouse have allowed us to be a part of their wonderful programming. The RRazz Room is thrilled that Broadway, Motion Picture and Television Star Michele Lee will perform at Bucks County Playhouse. Michele Lee's new Cy Coleman show has played to packed houses at The John F Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and we are excited that she is bringing this fabulous show to New Hope. The RRazz Room at the Raven will continue to present world class entertainment as well."

Alexander Fraser, producing director of Bucks County Playhouse, said, "I have loved Michele Lee ever since I saw her in "Seasaw" on Broadway. I was thrilled to work with her on Nora and Delia Ephron's "Love Loss and What I Wore". The minute Robert suggested a collaboration, I jumped at the chance. Having Michele Lee launch our new Visiting Artist Series is a dream come true."

After her long run in Broadway's WICKED, Lee developed this show with Music Director extraordinaire, Ron Abel, and it features the music of legendary Cy Coleman, including songs like "Nobody Does It Like Me" and "It's Not Where You Start" from her Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway musical Seesaw, along with other magnificent work and some surprises from Coleman's songbook.

One highlight of the show will be Michele's interpretation of one of Broadway's lead female character found in many Coleman musicals. Using a medley of his compositions including "Big Spender," "Rules of the Road" and "I'm Gonna' Laugh You Right Out of My Life," Lee presents, "a loveable woman with a charitable heart."

The show will also feature Coleman favorites "The Best Is Yet to Come," "Witchcraft" and others, from such smash hits as Sweet Charity to City of Angels and beyond.

A multiple Emmy and Tony-nominated actor, Michele Lee starred in the 14-year run of CBS's Knots Landing, as well as Broadway blockbusters How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Seesaw, Tale of the Allergist's Wife, and WICKED. Michele is the consummate "knock 'em dead" entertainer who enthralls audiences, from stories that tickle the funny-bone to ballads that cut deep into the soul.

The RRazz Room presents performances by local and national artists from a wide variety of musical and theatrical genres including Broadway, pop, opera, gospel, drag, comedy, rhythm & blues and jazz. There are currently four locations - The RRazz Room at the Prince, 1412 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia; The RRazz Room at the Raven, 385 West Bridge Street, New Hope, PA; and two Florida locations, one at the Coral Springs Museum of Art and the other at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center. In addition, is the special concert performance of Michele Lee at Bucks County Playhouse. The venues' intimate settings allow each and every patron to see and experience their favorite performers up close and personal. Visit www.TheRRazzRoom.com for further information and to purchase tickets.
Bucks County Playhouse, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, is the oldest and largest professional Equity performing arts center in Bucks County. Under the direction of Tony Award-winning producers, Alexander Fraser and Robyn Goodman, The Playhouse provides first class professional theatrical entertainment as well as community events, partnerships and arts education programming for visitors and residents of New Hope, Doylestown, Lambertville and the Delaware Valley.

Located between Philadelphia and New York, Bucks County Playhouse opened in 1939 in a converted 1790 gristmill after a group of community activists, led by Broadway orchestrator Don Walker and playwright Moss Hart, rallied to save the building. The Playhouse quickly became one of the country's most famous regional theaters, featuring a roster of American theatrical royalty including Helen Hayes, Kitty Carlisle, George S. Kaufman, Grace Kelly, Robert Redford, Bert Lahr, Walter Matthau, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Alan Alda, Tyne Daly, Liza Minnelli and Audra McDonald and remained in continuous operation until December 2010. In 2012, The Playhouse re-opened thanks to the efforts of the Bridge Street Foundation, the nonprofit family foundation of Kevin and Sherri Daugherty, and Broadway producer Jed Bernstein.

Since its renovation, significant productions include Terrence McNally's "Mothers and Sons" starring Tyne Daly, which moved to Broadway and was nominated for two Tony Awards, and "Misery" by William Goldman based on the Stephen King novel which also went on to a Broadway run in the 2015-16 season. Two of The Playhouse's recent productions -- "Company" starring Justin Guarini, and William Finn's "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" - were named by The Wall Street Journal to its "Best of Theatre" list for 2015. The productions of "Steel Magnolia" and "The Buddy Holly Story" broke box office records in 2016.

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