American Jukebox
SPOT-ON ENTERTAINMENT is pleased to announce Scott Siegel’s AMERICAN JUKEBOX. This totally unique and exciting concert event is specifically designed JUST for YOU and YOUR AUDIENCE!
Jessica Hendy
Ms Hendy’s Broadway credits include CATS in the role of “Grizabella”, AIDA, in the role of “Amneris”, and AMOUR as the standby to the lead women characters. She toured The United States and Canada in, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT as “The Narrator”, and CATS, as “Grizabella”. She has been in numerous Off-Broadway, and Pre-Broadway workshops including, AIDA, DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES, THE MOLLY MAGUIRE’S, and THE JENNY WILEY STORY. Regionally, she played “Woman #1” in SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD at The Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center. “Ellen” in MISS SAIGON at Pittsburg Civic light Opera, and North Shore Music Theatre. In New York City she won a Bistro Award for “Get Your Tickets Now”, and rave reviews for her on woman Cabaret “A Life To Call Your Own”. She recently won an Acclaim Award for her portrayal of “Jeanne” in THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati. Jessica has had the distinct pleasure of singing with several Symphonies around the country under the direction of Stephen Reineke, who has just been named the new resident POPS conductor in New York City at Carnegie Hall. While under the direction of the very talented Steven Reineke , she has sung with the Long Beach Symphony, as well as the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, and the Modesto Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming in 2009, Jessica will be singing with the Ft Worth Symphony, as well as the Symphony in Grand Rapids MI. She will also be Premiering DON’T MAKE ME PULL THIS SHOW OVER: DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF PARENTING, a new musical written by “Richard Oberacker and Rob Taylor, which won the Cincinnati Fringe Festival Award. Jessica graduated from Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, at the University of Cincinnati. She currently lives in Cincinnati Ohio with her husband and 2 year old son, Beckett.
Lee Lessack
LEE LESSACK’s graceful lyric baritone vocals and sophisticated yet endearing persona have made him a shining star of the international concert scene. Billboard Magazine calls his singing, “Cabaret romanticism of a high order.” Touring extensively in the United States and Europe to sold-out performances and releasing five albums, Lessack has proven himself both as performer and recording artist.
Lee’s newest concert is titled CHANTEUR and is an homage to the Great French Songbook, celebrating music by Michel Legrand, Jacques Brel, Gilbert Bécaud and Charles Aznavour to name just a few. “Chanteur” also marks Lessack’s seventh recording and fourth solo album. In addition to his solo concert appearances, Lessack also tours with critically acclaimed vocal trio, 3 MEN AND A BABY…GRAND!, and appears in concert with television favorite, Linda Purl (“The Office,” “Matlock,” “Happy Days”.)
His fifth and most ambitious recording to date, In Good Company, was released to great acclaim. Intimate and impeccably produced, the album beams with outstanding performances. Featuring duets with music notables like Michael Feinstein, Maureen McGovern, Amanda McBroom, Ann Hampton Callaway and Stephen Schwartz, it has earned a MAC and Bistro Award for Best Recording of the Year.
Mr. Lessack, who attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, has also released four other critically acclaimed albums, including a live recording of a 2001 concert tour Too Marvelous For Words: The Songs of Johnny Mercer. “Too Marvelous,” recorded at the famed Cinegrill in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, was chosen for the preliminary ballot for 2002 Grammy Awards®.
Other recordings include Mr. Lessack’s self-titled debut solo album, his GLAMA Award®-winning, I Know You By Heart, the cast recording of An Enchanted Evening: The Music of Broadway, and a LIVE recording of his critically acclaimed vocal trio, 3 Men and a Baby…Grand Salute The Rat Pack.
A native of Philadelphia, Mr. Lessack makes his home in Los Angeles, where in 1996 he founded LML Music (www.LMLmusic.com), whose catalog of CDs includes over 100 of the country’s top live recording artists and performers.
Scott Coulter
For his work in cabaret, Scott Coulter was awarded both the 2001 Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) Award as well as the 2001 Bistro Award for Outstanding Male Vocalist. He received a 1997 Bistro Award for the revue "Get Your Tickets Now!" and his debut solo show won the 1998 MAC Award for Male Debut. TimeOut NY picked Coulter's "Unexpected Songs" as one of the 'Best of 1999'. Coulter's self-titled debut CD won the 2003 MAC Award for Outstanding Recording and was chosen as the best recording of the year by Scott and Barbara Siegel of TheatreMania and Jeff Rosen of Cabaret Scenes magazine.
Scott has appeared at Town Hall in the 1949 ,1953, 1962 and 1968 editions of the popular "Broadway by the Year" series and can currently be heard on the Bayview recordings of the 1949 and 1953 performances. Other Town Hall appearances include "Sentimental Journey: The Songs of World War II", "From Brooklyn to Hollywood", "All That Jazz: A Tribute to Kander & Ebb" and "Broadway Unpluggged."
Since 1997, Scott has performed around the country with award-winning songwriting duo Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich in their many revues. Currently, he is touring with composer Stephen Schwartz, Liz Callaway and Debbie Gravitte in the revue "Stephen Schwartz & Friends." Schwartz has said: "one of the best things that can happen to a songwriter is to have his or her material interpreted by Scott Coulter."
Scott toured the country as Jinx in "Forever Plaid" and was in the world premiere of "Floyd Collins," directed by Tina Landau at the American Music Theatre Festival. His regional theatre credits include "Into the Woods," "In Trousers," "Cotton Patch Gospel," "Pump Boys and Dinettes" and "As Bees in Honey Drown."
He is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He can be heard in the upcoming Disney film, "Enchanted."
