Tickets On Sale for COACH at Marcus Center For The Performing Arts, 2/26

In celebration of March Madness and the 35th Anniversay of Marquette's National Championship, the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce that Cotter Smith will star as Al McGuire in COACH: THE UNTOLD STORY OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL LEGEND AL MCGUIRE and is directed by Heidi Mueller Smith.

This limited engagement will be in the Marcus Center's Vogel Hall on March 28-29. Tickets will go on sale this Sunday, February 26 at 12:00 p.m. at the Marcus Center Box Office at 929 North Water Street, Downtown Milwaukee. Tickets can be purchased by calling 414-273-7206, online at MarcusCenter.org or Ticketmaster.com. Groups 10 or more SAVE by calling 414-273-7121 ext. 210.

As Al McGuire's broadcasting partner for 10 years, Dick Enberg gained intimate access to his friend's colorful, creative, poetic, outspoken, and brilliant life - from his childhood, to winning the NCAA Championship at Marquette University, to his pioneering "off the cuff" style of sports broadcasting. COACH is a touching and inspiring portrait where Enberg allows Al to reveal the inner secrets and private thoughts he carefully concealed from the public, and depicts why the philosophy of this uncommonly funny and profound man had such an important and lasting impact on so many.

Dick Enberg has 25 years with NBC sports, beginning in 1975 as the play-by-play announcer for college basketball. One of the most versatile play-by-play announcers in sports broadcasting; Enberg joined CBS Sports in 2000. His play-by-play includes 41 NFL football seasons, the Super Bowl (8 times), the Rose Bowl (9 times), the Orange Bowl (6 times), the Olympic Games (1972; '88; ' 92; '96;), the American and National League playoffs, the World series, the French Open (24), Wimbledon (27), the U.S. Open Tennis Championships (9), Australian Open (5), the Masters (6), PGA Championship (3), the U.S. Open Golf Championship (5), the Ryder Cup (3 ), the NBA playoffs and All-Star games, and the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship (5).

Enberg has earned a series of national honors, including induction into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, Emmy Awards (14), including the 2000 Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award, the 1995 National Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Award, the 1999 Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Award, 15 Sportscaster of the Year awards, the Ronald Reagan Media Award, the Victor Award as the top sportscaster of the past 40 years. Only person to win National Emmy Awards as a sportscaster, writer, and producer. In 1998 became only the fourth sportscaster to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Is the author of two best-sellers, "Dick Enberg's Humorous Quotes for All Occasions", and his autobiography, "Oh My!"

Cotter Smith is always happy to spend some time again with the amazing Al McGuire. After originally performing this play for the premiere production at Marquette University in 2005, Cotter has since had the honor of traveling with Al to Atlanta for the NCAA Final Four on the 30th anniversary of his national championship there; to Hofstra University on Long Island near the neighborhood where Al grew up; Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina where Al coached before Marquette; the North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach, California; the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego; Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas; the Greenhouse Theatre in Chicago; the Portland Stage Company in Maine; Indiana University; and Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina, where Al began his coaching career.

His New York theater credits include the Broadway production of the critically acclaimed NEXT FALL, which received a Tony Award nomination for Best New Play, as well as Wendy Wasserstein's AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER and Lanford Wilson's BURN THIS. His many Off Broadway appearances include the Pulitzer Prize winning HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE by Paula Vogel with Molly Ringwald and Michael Weller's SIDE EFFECTS with Joely Richardson. He was also a member of The Circle Repertory Company in New York for ten years and is a founding member of the Matrix Theatre Company in Los Angeles. He spent seven years, along with his wife Heidi Mueller Smith, as a Founder and Artistic Director of the Cornerstone Theatre Company in Milwaukee. His television and film work ranges from his debut as Robert Kennedy in the miniseries BLOOD FEUD twenty-five years ago to his role as the President of the United States in the film X2: X-MEN UNITED. He appeared in Barry Levinson's recent HBO film YOU DON'T KNOW JACK, as the prosecutor attempting to convict the infamous Dr. Kevorkian, played by Al Pacino. His work on the film LUNATICS, LOVERS AND POETS received a Best Supporting Actor nomination from the MethodFest Independent Film Festival. Upcoming film roles include THE BOURNE LEGACY and GODS BEHAVING BADLY. He has also appeared in over fifty television shows along the way, from the early days of HILL STREET BLUES to his roles on the recent series THE GOOD WIFE and PERSON OF INTEREST.

He has been teaching acting for many years and is currently on the faculty

for the graduate degree program at The New School for Drama and the conservatory program at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting. He also runs his

own weekly Scene Study class as the New York teacher for the Beverly Hills Playhouse.

Special thanks to his inspiring children who bring joy and wonder into his life, and to Heidi, his own personal cornerstone. And finally, a heartfelt thanks to Dick Enberg for trusting him with this tribute to Al and so movingly sharing with all of us his memories of this memorable man.

COACH: THE UNTOLD STORY OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL LEGEND AL MCGUIRE will be at the Marcus Center's Vogel Hall on March 28-29. Tickets are $40. Tickets will go on sale this Sunday, February 26 at 12:00 pm and can be purchased at the Marcus Center Box Office at 929 North Water Street, Downtown Milwaukee, by calling 414-273-7206, online at MarcusCenter.org or Ticketmaster.com. Groups 10 or more SAVE by calling 414-273-7121 ext. 210.

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