His Lovely Wife, Ira: Ira Gershwin With and Without George Plays The Pheasentry

SAMUEL JOSEPH PRESENTS Mark Nadler- New York Cabaret Star singer/pianist in 'His Lovely Wife, Ira - Ira Gershwin With and Without George'- A brand new show direct from Manhattan

THE PHEASANTRY
152-154 King's Road London SW3 4UT

APRIL 26 - 30, 2011
DOORS 7.00PM| SHOW 8.30PM

BOOKINGS 08456 027 017 | www.pizzaexpresslive.com

Tickets : £25.00

Flamboyant and ebullient staple of the top Manhattan cabaret circuit Mark Nadler returns to London to make his debut at London's leading supper club The Pheasantry with a new show direct from New York 'His Lovely Wife, Ira - Ira Gershwin With and Without George'. Nadler last performed in London at 2009 at Bellamy's.

Mark Nadler has been performing professionally in cabarets, theatres and concert halls since the age of ten. More recently, he recently toured with Russian On The Side, a one-man show that he wrote and performs, which is being groomed for a Broadway production.

He co-wrote and starred in the Off-Broadway revue, American Rhapsody: George Gershwin to the World (Manhattan Assoc. of Cabaret Award, Drama Desk and Lucile Lortel Award nominations). Other shows that Mark has authored and starred in are Something Wonderful: the Music of Richard Rodgers; Always: the Love Story of Irving Berlin (M.A.C. Award and New York Nightlife Award); Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians) (an earlier incarnation of Russian on the Side - Backstage Bistro Award and M.A.C. and Nightlife nominations); The Wildest Party: Songs of Sex, Drugs and Decadence from the Roaring 20's; Write Now: Songs by People Who Aren't Dead; Mark Nadler in a Nutshell and a multimedia tribute to Jimmy Durante for children entitled The Nose Knows, which Mark created for the "Reel to Real" series at Lincoln Center. Mark Nadler's Broadway Hootenanny, which played at the theatrical landmark restaurant, Sardi's, won him the M.A.C. Award three years in a row. At the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, Mark co-wrote and co-starred with KT Sullivan in Are We A Pair: Sondheim's Words and Music, Everything's Coming Up Roses: celebrating the Jule Styne Centennial, A Fine Romance: a Dorothy Fields Songbook, A Swell Party - RSVP Cole Porter, and Make Someone Happy in the Words of Comden and Green.

At Carnegie Hall, Mark has been a soloist with the New York Pops Orchestra, conducted by Skitch Henderson. He has also soloed with the Symphony Orchestras of Baltimore, Ft. Worth, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and Ottawa -- all under the baton of Jack Everly.

Mark Nadler recorded Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians), recorded in performance at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. Recordings with KT Sullivan include A Fine Romance - a Dorothy Fields Songbook, Always: the Love Story of Irving Berlin and A Swell Party - RSVP Cole Porter and with KT Sullivan, Craig Rubano and Dominic Meiman, The Night They Invented Champagne: Operetta and its Musical Legacy. Mark Nadler's Broadway Hootenanny, Live from Sardi's is available on DVD.

www.MarkNadler.com.

'His Lovely Wife, Ira - Ira Gershwin With and Without George'

P.G. Wodehouse said that Ira Gershwin is "the best of the whole bunch". In "...His Lovely Wife, Ira", Mark Nadler examines and exposes the work, life and soul of this exemplary lyricist. Nadler not only sings the songs and tells the stories of Ira Gershwin's life, but he actually takes the audience through Ira's process of composing a lyric. With songs such as "Fascinating Rhythm", "Someone To Watch Over Me", "It Ain't Necessarily So" and "Long Ago And Far Away", this show is deeply moving, intellectually stimulating and thoroughly entertaining! "...His Lovely Wife, Ira" is endorsed by the Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Trusts.

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