MANDY PATINKIN-

Tony and Emmy Award Winner
Mandy Patinkin
Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 8pm
At Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts

Broadway’s master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Paul Ford on piano, will bring his critically acclaimed theatre concert to Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts for one performance only on Saturday, March 15 at 8pm.

Tony and Emmy Award winner Mandy Patinkin has an extensive list of theatre credits that include Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theater. He won a Tony Award for his 1980 Broadway debut as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita and was again nominated in 1984 for his starring role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park With George. He returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden (1991) and appeared as Marvin in Falsettos (1992). His other stage credits include The Wild Party, The Winter’s Tale, The Knife, Leave it to Beaver is Dead, Rebel Women, Hamlet, Trelawney of the “Wells”, The Shadow Box and Henry IV, Part I.

In 1995 Mr. Patinkin won an Emmy Award for his role as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on the critically acclaimed CBS television series, Chicago Hope. He starred in the acclaimed Showtime Original Series Dead Like Me (2003 – 2004) and in the CBS drama Criminal Minds, which debuted in the fall of 2005. His other television credits include the starring role of Quasimodo in a live action remake of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, co-starring Richard Harris, a version of Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass, Showtime’s Strange Justice, and episodes of Touched By An Angel, and Boston Public. His numerous feature film credits include: Pinero, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Men With Guns, The Princess Bride, Yentl, Lulu On The Bridge, The Music of Chance, Daniel, Ragtime, Impromptu, The Doctor, Alien Nation, Dick Tracy, The House of Carroll Street, True Colors, Maxie, and Squanto: Indian Warrior.

Mr. Patinkin’s live performances have received wide critical acclaim. Pamela Sommers of the Washington Post wrote, “The most arresting thing about Patinkin is the conversational, often impassioned quality of his singing…you find yourself listening like you’ve never listened before.” Clive Barnes of the New York Post called Mandy “the greatest entertainer on Broadway today – period.” In the New York Daily News, Howard Kissel called his performance, “the most exciting time I’ve had in the theatre in ages. He could single-handedly revive the American musical theatre.” And the London Evening Standard called him, “a master entertainer of a type once thought to be extinct.”

Mandy Patinkin’s concert career began ten years ago at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, which coincided with the release of his first solo album entitled Mandy Patinkin. Since then he has toured extensively across the United States and Canada as well as appearing in London, performing songs by such masters as Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Adam Guettel and Harry Chapin. In 1998, he debuted his most personal musical project, Mamaloshen, in a sold-out Off-Broadway engagement, which was later recorded and followed by an acclaimed Broadway run. His other albums are Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual, on CBS Records, followed by Experiment, Oscar and Steve, Leonard Bernstein’s New York and Mandy Patinkin – Kidults, and his latest release in the fall of 2002, Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, a figurative journey through Sondheim’s music and lyrics, all on Nonesuch.

Paul Ford was the original pianist for the Broadway orchestras of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George and the Off-Broadway production of Assassins. His other Broadway credits include Tom Sawyer, High Society, Steel Pier, The Rink, Rags, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, The Secret Garden and Falsettos. Mr. Ford was the pianist for the acclaimed Follies concert at Lincoln Center and the Carnegie Hall concert performances of A Sondheim Tribute and Anyone Can Whistle. He accompanied Mr. Patinkin in Mandy Patinkin: Dress Casual at the Public Theater and on Broadway, both the Broadway and Off-Broadway engagements of Mamaloshen, and worked with him on all of his recordings and national tours.

About Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Founded in 1954, the mission of Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts is to present outstanding performing arts and arts education programs, reflective of Brooklyn’s diverse communities, at affordable prices. Brooklyn Center’s presentations explore both the classical traditions and the boldest contemporary performances, embracing the world culture that defines Brooklyn. Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts welcomes over 70,000 people annually, including 42,000 schoolchildren from over 225 schools, in the 2,400-seat Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College.

Mandy Patinkin: In Concert at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College
2900 Campus Road, Brooklyn
Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 8pm; Tickets $40, $25

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