Paul Williams Joins SOUNDTRACK OF YOUR LIFE at VTA

Victoria Theatre Association announces a change in cast for its presentation of The Soundtrack of Your Life. Due to scheduling conflicts, Oscar® nominee Lamont Dozier will be replaced by Grammy® award winner Paul Williams.  The Soundtrack of Your Life plays April 23, 2011 at the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center. 
 
Paul Williams has won Oscar®, Grammy® and Golden Globe Awards and is also an inductee to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He has contributed songs to a long list of films and television shows including: Bugsy Malone, Phantom of the Paradise, A Muppet Christmas: Letters to Santa, Jim Henson's Emmet Otter, Cinderella Liberty, and The Muppets Christmas Carol. Two of Williams' songs grace the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 Movies of All Time: "The Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie and "Evergreen" from A Star is Born.
 
Williams' other hits include "We've Only Just Begun," "Rainy Days and Mondays," "Let Me Be The One" and "I Won't Last A Day Without You" - The Carpenters; "You And Me Against The World" - Helen Reddy; "An Old Fashioned Love Song,' "Family Of Man" and "Out In The Country" - Three Dog Night.
 
Jimmy Webb is the only artist to ever receive Grammy® Awards for music, lyrics and orchestration. In addition to being inducted into the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame, Webb was named the 1933 recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Academy of Songwriters. According to the music licensing firm BMI, Webb's song "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" has been the third most performed song in the last fifty years, with "Up, Up and Away" on the same list in the Top Thirty. His song "Wichita Lineman" has been listed in MOJO Magazine's worldwide survey of the best one hundred singles of all time in the top fifty, and was singled out in the Oct/Nov2001 issue of Blender as "The Greatest Song Ever."
 
Webb's hits Include: "The Highwayman" - Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson, "Wichita Lineman" and "By The Time I Got To Phoenix" - Glen Campbell, "Up, Up and Away" - The Fifth Dimension, "MacArthur Park" - Richard Harris, " Worst That Could Happen" - Brooklyn Bridge, "All I Know" - Art Garfunkel, and "Easy For You To Say."
 
Barry Mann, together with his wife, lyricist Cynthia Weil, is one of the outstanding creators of American Popular music. In addition to his Grammy® Awards, Mann has amassed 56 pop, country and R&B awards from broadcast Music Inc., recognizing highest performance popularity on American radio and television. His "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" (written with Weil and Phil Spector) has the distinction of being the most played song of the twentieth century and the most performed song in the BMI catalogue. It has garnered more than 14 million plays, the first BMI song to ever achieve that milestone. This rock and roll classic has also received 14 pop awards-another record achievement - and The Righteous Brothers' recording has been selected for inclusion in the Grammy Hall of Fame. In addition to countless other industry accolades, he has been inducted into the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame, The Robert J. Burton Award for the Most Performed Country Song of 1977 ("Here You Come Again"- Dolly Parton), and the 2003 Heroes Award from the New York Chapter of NARAS.
 
Mann's additional hits include "On Broadway" - George Benson, "Somewhere Out There"- Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram, "Don't Know Much" - Aaron Nevile, "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" - The Righteous Brothers, "Sometimes When We Touch" - Sergio Mendes, "Just Once" - James Ingram, and " Only In America" - Jay & The Americans.
 
Tickets start at $36. For tickets call Ticket Center Stage at 937/228-3630, 888/228-3630, online at www.ticketcenterstage.com or visit the Box Office in person, located in the Wintergarden of the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center.  
 

 

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