FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Robyn Truslow
410-535-0291
Calvert Library Prince Frederick is hosting Twin Beach Players Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra USO Show: Vietnam on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 7pm. This show will be a tribute to veterans of all wars and showcase the music of Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope humor. The performers are Sid Curl as Bob Hope, Jamie Zemarel as Frank Sinatra, Jeanne Larrison as Gina Louise. Robert Snider will perform on drums and Bill Resnick on keyboard. The musicians and actors all have long and colorful resumes. Thanks to sponsorship from the Calvert Arts Council, Calvert Library is able to offer this show free so don’t miss the opportunity to laugh, learn and honor our veterans. Twin Beach Players is a non-profit community theater based out of Chesapeake Beach and North Beach. For more information, call Robyn Truslow at 410-535-0291.
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Details about the performers:
ROBERT C. SNIDER (Percussion) A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Bob has lived in Calvert County for over last 30 years. He recently retired from the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C., after 30 years of service. While there, he served as National Tour Director, Support Staff Chief in Charge, percussionist and later timpanist with the Concert Band and drummer for the Country Current, country/bluegrass band. He has also performed numerous times as a percussion soloist/clinician for major music conventions around the country. Snider is a busy freelance percussionist in the Washington, D.C. area, a first call substitute music teacher for the Calvert County school system, Artist-in-Residence: music, for the Twin Beach Players local theater group and maintains a home percussion/piano studio in Owings, Maryland.
Bill Resnick (Keyboards) hails from Miami Florida. He studied at Miami Dade junior college and at the university of Miami. His teachers were: Bernie J Harding, Lucas Drew, Mike Trenni and in Maryland, Albert Daily. He has been playing jazz and modern American music since the age of 14. He has toured with a number of famous groups through America and the Orient. He currently is an instructor of piano and upright bass at the Garrett music Academy in Owings.
Jeanne Larrison (Gina Louise) was born a Jersey girl, who majored in Theatre Arts at an Iowa college, attended the professional actor's training at Circle-in-the Square Theatre on Broadway, then maintained an existence for 20 years in New York City as the proverbial Struggling Actor. She performed in at least 40 of the 50 United States, on tour and in stock and dinner theatres until the fateful production of MY FAIR LADY where this "Eliza Doolittle" met the "Henry Higgins" who would later become her husband. Some favorite roles include being "Alice in Wonderland" for 10 months in Paris, France, and "Charlotte" of CHARLOTTE'S WEB from coast-to-coast in the USA. A recreational runner, Jeanne has been singing the "Star-Spangled Banner" at marathons and other race start lines for the Annapolis Striders, Montgomery County Road Runners, and Baltimore Road Runners since 2007.
JAMES ZEMAREL(Frank Sinatra) may be familiar to local audiences from the Twin Beach's Memorial Day Celebrations of 2014 and 2013, when he performed in past re-creations of USO shows. At Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, he has performed in musical tributes to Johnny Mercer and Rodgers and Hammerstein. Jamie’s theatrical career has included roles ranging from the Prince of Peace, in “Jesus Christ Superstar”, to the Prince of Darkness in“Dracula”, from the accident prone Pirate King in “The Pirates of Penzance”, to the suave Frenchman Emile in “South Pacific”. He’s been the crazed Dentist in“Little Shop of Horrors” and the perfectionist linguist, Henry Higgins, in “My Fair Lady”, where he first met his lovely wife, Jeanne, playing his Eliza. Jamie appeared in the National Tour of “Gigi” as Gaston, opposite Louis Jourdan, and with the New York City Rockettes at Harrahs, Atlantic City, as Aristede in “Can Can”. His vocal resume spans genres from Rock and Roll to Big Band to musical theatre. At various Maryland venues, he has channeled Bing Crosby in a one-man show entitled “Remembering Bing”. At Toby’s in Columbia, he performed in “My Way, The Music of Frank Sinatra”, which came quite naturally to him having performed for many years as a vocalist in his father’s Big Band, The Zim Zemarel Orchestra. For the past 20 years, apolitical Jamie has appeared in the DC area, Off-Broadway and across the USA as a member of the political satire musical comedy troupe “The Capitol Steps”, in roles varying from Presidents Clinton and Bush, to rockers Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson (the white years). Jamie dedicates tonight’s performance to all who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States.
Sid Curl (Bob Hope) returns as one of his favorite characters. Sid is a veteran of the Viet Nam war era and cherishes the chance to play Mr. Hope again as he heard him in Frankfurt, Germany. Sid is the Board President of Twin Beach Players and has been an actor and director for them since 2000. Mr. Curl has designed or lighting designed over 500 shows in the MD area. Sid has traveled the East Coast from Massachusetts to North Carolina designing lighting shows for many national tours of various musicians along with several Grammy winners and one Academy Award winner, Dr. Ralph Stanley. Lately Sid directed The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for the Players and will be the lighting designer for the next children's production of Babes in Toyland opening day after Thanksgiving.
Robyn Truslow
Public Relations Coordinator
Calvert Library
850 Costley Way
Prince Frederick, MD 20678
410-535-0291
410-535-3022 (fax)
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