New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Rex Smith and Tomasina Abate recently teamed up for a cover of the Oscar-winning Best Original Song, Shallow, from the film A Star is Born.
Rex and Tomasina are both currently starring in LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE, currently running at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE is the multimedia concert celebration of one of the most beloved holiday films of all time. The show is now running through the weekend following Christmas (December 29).
Returning from the 2018 production are Rex Smith (RIAA Gold® recording artist), Carrie Manolakos (Broadway's Mamma Mia!, Wicked), Doug Kreeger (Broadway's Les Misérables), Tomasina Abate (For The Record's Scorsese: American Crime Requiem, Tarantino), Carson Higgins (international tour of Green Day's American Idiot) and the multi-dimensional Emily Lopez. New this year to the lineup of outstanding performers are Rogelio
Douglas Jr. (In the Heights and The
Little Mermaid on Broadway),
Declan Bennett (Once, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Taboo in the West End, American Idiot and Rent on Broadway), Jon Robert Hall (Fox's Grease: Live, "Glee"), Chris Mann (NBC's "The Voice," The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Tour),
James Byous (Scorsese: American Crime Requiem, Netflix's "
Westside"), Ruby Lewis (Cirque du Soleil's Paramour,
Lights Out: Nat 'King' Cole), singer/songwriter/actress Aubrie Sellers (one of Rolling Stone's best country albums of the year), Gabriela
Francesca Carrillo (American Mariachi, Netflix's Homecoming), Levi
Jesse Smith (A Bronx Tale: The Musical, It's a Wonderful Life, Mary Poppins and The
Music Man on Broadway), young singer/actress Nayah Damasen, John Battagliese and accomplished violinist
Molly Rogers.
LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE is adapted and directed by Anderson Davis, with musical supervision and arrangements by
Jesse Vargas, vocal design by Tony Award nominee AnnMarie Milazzo, musical staging by Sumie Maeda, scenic design by Emmy Award winner Matthew Steinbrenner, lighting design by Michael Berger, sound design by Ben Soldate, costume design by Steve Mazurek, video design by
Aaron Rhyne, casting by Stewart/Whitley and co-produced by Shane Scheel, Siobhan O'Neill and the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts.
Ticket prices are $39-$125 (subject to change) and go on sale Friday,
September 20. The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is located at 9390 N.
Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills. To purchase tickets and for more information, please call 310-746-4000 or visit TheWallis.org/Love.
