Tommy Tune Comes to MD's Strathmore, Dec. 16 & 17

By: Dec. 15, 2005
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The Strathmore Music Center (5301 Tuckerman Lane) in North Bethesda, MD will have a nine-time Tony Award-winner in their midst when Tommy Tune & the Manhattan Rhythm Kings take center stage on Friday, December 16 and Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 8 PM.

The performance, entitled Taps, Tunes & Tails, will feature the 6'6" song and dance men saluting the songs of classic Broadway composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Kander & Ebb and more. The concert marks Tune's first solo show in Washington D.C. in several years.

Tune, who is known as something of a theatrical Renaissance man, is one of only two men to receive awards in four Tony® categories: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Featured Actor and Best Choreographer. With unprecedented back-to-back wins for Best Director and Best Choreographer of a Musical in 1990 for Grand Hotel and in 1991 for The Will Rogers Follies, he also won Tonys for Seesaw (Best Featured Actor), A Day in Hollywood/ A Night in the Ukraine (Best Choreographer), Nine (Best Direction of a Musical), and My One and Only (Best Choreography and Best Actor in a Musical). A 3-person show called Tommy Tune Tonite! bowed on Broadway in 1992.

In 2003, Tune received the nation's highest honor for Artistic Achievement, the National Medal of Arts to add to his mantel of eight Drama Desk Awards, two Obie Awards, two Astaire Awards, the American Dance Award, the Drama League Award and the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Currently, Tune is performing around the world with the multi-talented Manhattan Rhythm Kings and exploring his second career as an artist in his Tribeca art studio. He can be heard of the 2004 studio cast recording of the musical Sherry! with Nathan Lane, Bernadette Peters, Carol Burnett and the Manhattan Rhythm Kings.

"Strathmore nurtures art, artists and community through creative and diverse programming of the highest quality and is home to the new Music Center at Strathmore, a 1,976-seat concert hall and education complex," according to notes.

Tickets cost $23, 37, 47, 56, 65. For further information or tickets, call (301) 581-5100 or visit www.strathmore.org.

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