Had It Only Begun... Press Release
LAURA DAVIS
Publicist At Large
521 W. 47th St., #2C
New York, NY 10036
(646)734-2934; Fax: (212)586-3681
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For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Davis (646)734-2934
November 3, 2000
Broadway Performer Tom Schmid Makes His Solo Cabaret Debut in
Had It Only Begun…
Four Shows at Don’t Tell Mama on November 14, 21, 27 & 28
Tom Schmid, currently on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun, is making his cabaret debut in his solo show, Had It Only Begun…, with musical direction and staging by Fred Tessler, beginning on Tuesday, November 14 at 9:00 PM at Don’t Tell Mama (343 West 46th Street). There will be four performances: Tuesday, November 14 & 28 at 9:00 PM; Tuesday, November 21 at 11:00 PM, and Monday, November 27 at 9:00 PM. Tickets: $10.00 plus a 2-drink minimum. Reservations: (212) 757-0788.
Had It Only Begun… explores the theme of a small town boy searching for love in the big city. "I was stimulated to put together my own cabaret show—my repertoire was growing with songs of love never fulfilled—and my life had started to mirror my repertoire," says Schmid. Had It Only Begun… offers standards, show tunes and seldom-heard original pieces. Songs include "It Would Have Been Wonderful," "Better Off Without a Wife," "The People That You Never Get To Love," "Proud Lady" (from The Baker’s Wife) and selections from Annie Get Your Gun.
Tom Schmid has been in New York for four years, after leaving Minneapolis and his career as a lawyer to pursue acting and singing in New York. (Ironically, he has been cast as a lawyer on ABC’s "One Life To Live.") During the past year Schmid has been on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun,
playing the role of Mac and covering the roles of Frank Butler, Buffalo Bill and Chief Sitting Bull. "They’ve cast me as an Indian--it must be because I’m originally from Brainerd, Minnesota – Sioux territory!" jokes Schmid. He has done the show over 400 times: "As Annie Oakley, Bernadette Peter, Susan Lucci, and Cheryl Ladd kissed me nightly."
Tom Schmid has previously appeared on the New York stage in The Last Empress at Lincoln Center, in The Great Debate at The Lamb’s Theatre, Queen of Hearts at the Harold Clurman Theatre, and Side By Side By Seymour Glick at The West End Theatre. Schmid has toured Korea in The Last Empress, playing the German Ambassador, and Europe, playing Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera. Regionally, he has performed in Titanic and 1776 at Gateway Playhouse in Long Island, and in Twin Cities productions of The Music Man, (Harold Hill), Falsettoland (Whizzer), Fiddler on the Roof (Perchik) and The Taming of the Shrew (Pertruchio).
Schmid has also performed for two years in The Big Barry Birthday Bash at Don’t Tell Mama, the annual June cabaret celebrating the birthday of Barry Manilow. This gala event, produced by Laura Davis, originated five years ago in Minneapolis; Tom Schmid was an original member of The Big Barry Birthday Bash before he moved to New York, and jumped back on the bandwagon when the production was imported to New York in 1999. Schmid was praised for his performance in this cabaret: "One of the discoveries of the evening was Tom Schmid, who displayed a thrilling voice in "Ready to Take a Chance Again" and a heroic romanticism in "Who Needs to Dream?"(Barbara and Scott Siegel, In Theater); "Tom Schmid has a wonderful stage presence and a pleasing, clarion voice which he uses to full advantage." (David Roberts, Theatre Reviews Limited).
Tom Schmid performed in other cabaret shows in Minneapolis, at The Bryant-Lake Bowl, a popular cabaret/ wine bar/restaurant/bowling alley. "My first cabaret experience was in a bowling alley, in a theater where you could hear the pins crashing in Lane 10," laughs Schmid. "Now in my cabaret show at Don’t Tell Mama, rather than hearing pins fall, hopefully we’ll be able to hear a pin drop!"
Visit Tom Schmid’s website (he is also a freelance web designer) at www.tomschmid.com.
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