Franc D'Ambroiso Continues Headlining 76 City Concert Tour

Franc D'Ambrosio, who starred in the title role of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award winning musical The Phantom of the Opera for over six years, has just completed a special musical guest star appearance on the NBC Network special Brian Boitano's Skating Spectacular which first aired January 1, 2005 and has been scheduled for rebroadcast on January 29, 2005, 2:00 – 4:00 pm EST.

In promotion of the special (preceding its first airing), Brian Boitano chose to perform to D'Ambrosio's extraordinary vocal rendition of "What Kind of Fool Am I?" on The Today Show in late December, 2004.Written by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley for the hit Broadway show Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, "What Kind of Fool Am I?," is the featured cut on D'Ambrosio's first solo CD which includes a compilation of musical selections from other such legendary Broadway shows as Chicago, Brigadoon, Damn Yankees, Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, Jekyll & Hyde, The Phantom of the Opera and many others. Franc D'Ambrosio's Broadway was released nationally January 4, 2005 and is being featured on United Airlines In-Flight Entertainment Radio during January/February 2005.

D'Ambrosio has also been set as a special musical guest on a second NBC special titledThe 2005 Tribute to The Movies on Ice. He will join pop recording artists Michael Bolton and Kimberley Locke in this unique presentation which will be taped live at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, CA February 18, 2005, and has been set to air on February 27, 2005 (1:00 and 3:00 pm EST).Having received nightly standing ovations from more than five million theatergoers, D'Ambroiso's association with The Phantom of the Opera earned him the title of "The World's Longest Running Phantom" after completing over 2600 consecutive performances. As a result, he served as the red carpet correspondent for the popular entertainment news program Access Hollywood at the New York premiere of Joel Shumacher's musical film version of The Phantom of The Opera on December 12, 2004.Predicated on the music and the title of the CD, D'Ambrosio continues to headline Franc D'Ambrosio's Broadway .. a 76 city U.S. National concert tour which began its 2005 dates on January 7. The tour is produced by D'Ambrosio and Lee Lessack of LML Music and its Concert Division. Also noted for portraying Al Pacino's opera singing son, Anthony Corleone, in The Godfather Part III (after an international search lasting more than a year,) D'Ambrosio's CD features the never-before-recorded love theme from The Godfather Part III.

More recently, D'Ambrosio was personally chosen by Barry Manilow to create and star as the lead in Manilow's pre-Broadway tour of Copacabana. In the role of Tony, D'Ambrosio earned a National Theatre Award nomination for Best Male Performer in a Musical. D'Ambrosio will also be featured (singing a duet with Lee Lessack) on the upcoming CD In Good Company (LML Music) to be released during spring, 2005. Additional featured artists include Michael Feinstein, Amanda McBroom, Ann Hampton Callaway and Maureen McGovern.