Three Mo' Tenors returning to NYC area by popular demand

Coming to the Queensborough Performing Arts Center at Queensborough Community College at 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364 on Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 3:00 PM

 

(left to right) Phumzile Sojola, Victor Robertson, and Kenneth Alston, Jr.

New York, NY (BlackNews.com) — Three Mo’ Tenors returns to the New York area by popular demand to play the Queensborough Performing Arts Center, in Bayside, NY, at 3pm on Sunday, October 16, 2011 for one performance only. Three Mo’ Tenors is produced by Willette Murphy Klausner and conceived, directed and choreographed by Marion J. Caffey.

Three Mo’ Tenors brings the house down with thrilling performances of opera, Broadway, jazz, gospel, soul, spirituals and blues music. The show begins with Verdi, and soon the music of Motown, Ray Charles and Usher has the tenors grooving on the stage. Three Mo’ Tenors is an extraordinary musical event…all music and all passion.

Three Mo’ Tenors has been captivating audiences and receiving rave reviews around the globe since 2001, when the show as televised on PBS “Great Performances” and RCA released the recording of the show. Standing ovations have greeted Three Mo’ Tenors everywhere they have appeared – in Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Toronto, Edmonton, Canada, Henley-on-Thames, UK, Edinburgh, Scotland (The Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Armenia and Paraguay (hosted by the U.S. State Department). In 2007, Three Mo’ Tenors completed a triumphant run at the Little Shubert Theatre in New York City where it won the prestigious Audelco award while critics hailed the show as “A joy ride” (Roma Torre, NY1) and “Vocal fireworks” (Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News). “A Taste of Three Mo’ Tenors,” a live CD recorded in Chicago at Nederlander’s Oriental Theatre, is available on CD Baby, Amazon.com and ITunes.

Three Mo’ Tenors tenth anniversary season will conclude with a New Year’s Eve concert at Moscow’s famed International House of Music, preceded by concerts in Hays, Kansas at Fort Hays University; San Antonio, Texas at the Carver Community Center, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at Rose State University.

Tickets for Three Mo’ Tenors are $40.00 orchestra and $35.00 mezzanine. Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased by calling the box office at (718) 631-6311 or going to www.visitQPAC.org. Tickets can also be purchased by going to the theatre Box Office located at 222-05 56th Avenue on the ground level of the Library building.

For more information about Three Mo’ Tenors, please visit:
www.ThreeMoTenorsOnTour.com
BIOGRAPHIES:
MARION J. CAFFEY (Conceiver, Director and Choreographer)
Although Mr. Caffey began his career as a song and dance man performing in the US and around the world, he now completely dedicates himself to conception, writing and directing. Cookin’ at the Cookery, his first writing effort, has played more than 35 productions, and counting and has garnered many awards and nominations including New York’s Drama Desk, Drama League and The New York Times critics choice as best musical of 2003. He has served as director and/or choreographer on Bowfire, Blackbirds of Broadway, Chicago, Forever Plaid, Jelly Roll: The Music and the Man, Little Shop of Horrors, Tintypes, The All Night Strut, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Purple Victorious, Ruthless, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Spunk, The Colored Museum and 1940’s Radio Hour.

Three Mo’ Tenors opened in New York City to critical and audience acclaim in August 2000. Three Mo’ Tenors is a theatrically staged concert celebration of the African-American tenor voice, crossing eight musical forms and spanning 400 years of music in one evening. These forms include opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, spiritual, new school and gospel. Three Mo’ Tenors has appeared on NBC’s “Today Show, “The White House, Kennedy Center, The Mark Twain Awards, Fox News, NAACP Image Awards Show and recorded a CD and DVD for RCA. The concert was awarded its own TV special on PBS.
JOSEPH JOUBERT (Musical Director/Orchestrator/Arranger)
Mr. Joubert is currently the pianist for Elton John’s Broadway Musical Billy Elliot and was previously pianist/ associate conductor for Oprah Winfrey’s The Color Purple on Broadway and has credits for additional orchestrations. His Broadway and regional credits include serving as musical director (New York’s Shakespeare Festival Gala), orchestrator (Caroline or Change), orchestrator, musical director and pianist (3 Mo’ Divas world premiere), conductorl arranger/pianist (Three Mo’ Tenors PBS special, and CD on BMG), staff pianist (Porgy and Bess, Metropolitan Opera Company), assistant musical director (Five Guys Named Moe) and assistant conductor/pianist (Big River).

Joseph Joubert began playing the piano at the age of eight’ and graduated with a Masters Degree in Music from the Manhattan School of Music. He won the piano competition of the National Association of Negro Musicians, received Drama Desk Award nominations for Violet at Playwrights Horizons, and multiple Grammy Awards nominations for Best Classical Cross-Over Album and Best Instrumental Accompanying Vocalists.

As a solo artist, Joubert has appeared in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. He has collaborated with such luminaries as Judy Collins (musical director), Kathleen Battle, Ashford and Simpson, Diana Ross, George Benson, Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Holiday, Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross, Patti Austin, Diane Reeves, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and The Boy’s Choir of Harlem.
WILLETTE MURPHY KLAUSNER (Producer)
Willette Murphy Klausner has produced Three Mo’ Tenors since 2001. The show has traveled nationally as well as internationally in Edinburgh, Scotland the UK, Paraguay and Armenia. Klausner produced the Three Mo’ Tenors CD “A Taste of Three Mo’ Tenors,” which was recorded at The Oriental Theatre in Chicago. Three Mo’ Tenors have performed at the NAACP Image Awards, NAACP Theatre Awards, Minorities in Business Prism Awards, Mayor’s Arts Awards at The Kennedy Center, as well as Jazz Meets Pop Series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Currently, Ms. Klausner is co-presenting the 75th Anniversary US and International Tour of the opera Porgy and Bess and she is co-producing the Broadway-bound musical Twist – An American Musical, an American version of Oliver Twist. Ms. Klausner also co-produced Kat and the Kings on Broadway; Twist, at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia and the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey; and Hurlyburly starring Sean Penn and Danny Aiello in Los Angeles.

Willette was the first African-American woman in fashion merchandising at Bloomingdale’s in New York and the first female corporate VP at MCA Universal Studios. Ms. Klausner serves on the Board of Directors of the American Cinema Foundation and has served on the Boards of Directors of the Los Angeles Music Center, the Women in Film Foundation, the Audrey Skirbal-Kenis Theatre and the Constitutional Rights Foundation. She is a member of The Women’s Trusteeship for the Betterment of Women and the National Women’s Forum.

Ms. Klausner is married to attorney Manuel S. Klausner and they are co-founding members of the American Institute of Wine and Food. They have eaten their way through over 50 countries, and have been featured in many prestigious articles on food and wine.