Sam Harris Launches Kickstarter to Film One-Man Show HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR

Sam Harris, the Tony award-winning actor, recording artist, playwright, composer, director and best-selling author, is bringing his critically beloved one-man show HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR to audiences everywhere.

Based on Harris's NY Times Best-Selling book HAM: SLICES OF LIFE, Sam is teaming up with Kickstarter in order to film the hit musical at a historic Los Angeles theater. The Kickstarter link launches today and provides details on the campaign, plus a hysterical video starring Sam.

Together with a team of Tony and Grammy Award-winning directors, producers, composers and choreographers, HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR is the funny and poignant story of a boy (Sam) growing up in the bible belt of Oklahoma, gay, an outsider, who found himself through the escape of singing and writing and acting. His public singing debut was when he was three. He auditioned for the role of Helen Keller when he was five. He wanted to be Jewish because they were the chosen people. He won first, second and third place at his school talent show. He was the only white boy in the black church in "colored town." His house burned down. Twice. He left home at fifteen and fell in love with another boy in a show-an abomination-which led to an attempted suicide at age sixteen. He became famous at age twenty-two and went on the hamster wheel of show business, but something was always missing. In an emotional flashback to an exchange between teenaged Sam and his very wise high school psychology teacher, Sam is finally able to come to terms with the drive that made him a success but cloaked a constant need for something more. Years later, Sam is married and becomes a father. And that . . . is more than enough.

Sam Harris has appeared on numerous national talk shows including Leno, Jimmy Fallon and Oprah, but first burst onto the scene as the premiere winner of Ed McMahon's "Star Search." Before "American Idol" and before "The Voice," 25 million viewers tuned in every week to watch Sam beat back the competition and triumph each time. Sam became the first singer since Judy Garland to claim "Over the Rainbow" as his own and Jimmy Fallon called this legendary performance, "One of the best musical performances I've ever seen ever aired on television ever!" Harris went on to tour the country, selling out prestigious engagements at Carnegie Hall. Broadway called and Sam answered where he starred in numerous Tony Award winning and nominated productions including Cy Coleman's The Life, The Producers, and the revival of Grease just to name a few.

Watch the Kickstarter video!