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Russ
Lorenson News
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September, 2007 |
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Me as "Father Virgil" singing a duet with the
biggest star in country music - Sister Mary Annette
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Friends,
August has been a terrific month, starting with
a great run of
Benedetto/Blessed at the Empire Plush
Room, and finishing out with 7 performances a
week of the wildly popular
Nunsense Jamboree at The Willows Cabaret
in Martinez, California.
September is just as busy with several more
weeks of the
Jamboree, and production meetings
beginning for my upcoming holiday shows. Yup,
that's right, Christmas is just around the
corner (can you believe it??), and the band and
I are getting ready to bring you all the holiday
cheer you can stand! But before that, next
month we'll be in the Milwaukee area with my
Tony Bennett tribute show, so if you know anyone
in the area, please be sure to let them know
we're finally coming to the Midwest!
As always, thanks for your love & support!
Russ Lorenson
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I love being a
priest!
I am having an absolute blast singing and
dancing with the Little Sisters of Hoboken of
Nunsense fame, as we go on tour to
promote Sister Mary Amnesia's new country album
in
Nunsense Jamboree, which runs through
September 16th at the brand-new Willows Cabaret
at The Campbell Theatre in Martinez, California.
 Picking
up where the two previousNunsense
shows left off,
Nunsense Jamboree
is presented as a promotional tour for Sister
Mary Amnesia's newly released album,
I Could've Gone to Nashville.
After regaining her memory, Sister Amnesia
realizes she is really Sister Mary Paul, a
former country singer. Reverend Mother, feeling
that one should not waste God-given talent, gets
Sister Mary Paul a recording contract and now
she is on a national tour. She is accompanied by
some familiar faces along with two new
characters: Father Virgil Manly Trott (played by
me) - a radio personality who just happens to be
Sister Mary Leo's older brother - and Sister
Mary Wilhelm, the superintendent of nursing at
Mount St. Helen's School. This show is filled
with hysterical one-liners and infectious comic
tunes as they answer the big question - will
Sister Amnesia leave the convent for the Grand
Ole Op'ry? You'll have to wait till the finale,
"Do Unto Others" to get the answer!
 Nunsense
was originally produced as a cabaret revue at
The Duplex in New York's Greenwich Village in
1983, scheduled to run for four weekends only.
38 weeks later, the show was a certified hit,
and it was expanded to a full-length musical.
It opened Off-Broadway in 1985, won four Outer
Critics' Circle Awards, and in 1992 became the
second-longest running Off-Broadway musical in
history. The show has been produced in over 25
countries in over 5000 different productions and
has generated ticket sales of over $300
million! Since the original, there have been 6
additional shows in the
Nunsense franchise, including
Sister Amnesia's Country Western Nunsense
Jamboree,
Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical,
and
Nunsensations: The Nunsense Vegas Revue.
And the most exciting part of all of this for me
is that the creator of the
Nunsense franchise, Dan Goggin, has
directed this production himself! We're at the
brand-new home of
Nunsense and
The Nunsense
Museum at the Campbell Theatre operated
by the Willows Theatre Company in the San
Francisco suburb of Martinez, California.
The show runs
through September 16, with 7 performances a
week. Tickets are $15-$25, available by calling
the box office at (925) 798-1300, or
online by clicking here.
And don't miss
out on the $5 discount coupon at the bottom of
this email!!
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Coming soon to a city near you!
He's that
regular guy from Astoria, Queens, who left his heart
in San Francisco. He's the civil rights pioneer
whose groundbreaking friendship with an
African-American Army buddy during World War II
caused his superiors to punish him by making him dig
graves. He's the postwar heartthrob who inspired
hundreds of young girls to wear black outside St.
Patrick's Cathedral on his wedding day. His first
music video - at age 67 - made him the darling of
the MTV generation. He's the consummate artist known
worldwide for his paintings. He's the recording
artist who's sold over 50 million records, won 15
Grammy Awards, and released the best selling album
of his career - at age 80! The world knows him as
Tony Bennett, but his birth name -
Benedetto
- means "blessed", an accurate adjective to describe
both the man and his fans.
Here's what the press has had to say:
"...Lorenson's tribute is solid gold."
~ L. Pierce Carson, Napa Valley Register
"Lorenson sings these Bennett hits with heart.
You can tell that he really is into the music - his
soul won't let him do anything else. I might even go
so far as to say that Lorenson is possessed by
Bennett's hits."
~ Lee Hartgrave, BeyondChron.org
"Lorenson's voice is lighter than Bennett's...a
satisfying instrument for the genre of songs dear to
the heart of Bennett fans."
~ Peter Leavy, Cabaret Scenes
"...a handsome baritone with a lot of charisma...his
adoration for Bennett and that genre of songs is
admirable and the ingredients are all there."
~ John Hoglund, Backstage
"Russ Lorenson has brought the crooner style back
to the cabaret scene...reminiscent of those singers
that I used to hear when the 52nd Street cabarets
were the cat's meow."
~ Richard Connema, TalkinBroadway.com
Upcoming dates for the show (click on a show to
get full details):
October 17, 1:00pm, at the Sharon Lynne Wilson
Center for the Arts in Brookfield WI
March 27 & 28 (2008), at Austin Cabaret Theatre in
Austin, TX
We're adding more dates all the time so watch your
email for a show near you, or check out the
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Book me for your
private party or corporate event!
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Save $5.00! |
The "Nun Dollar" below is worth
$5.00 off any full-price ticket for
Nunsense Jamboree. Simply print out this
email and bring the coupon to the theatre, or
call ahead to reserve your discounted ticket.
All the details are below!
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