Fire On The Bayou
First CD Recording is Now Available!
Featuring:
- An all-star cast including 8 ATAC Globe Award
winners and nominees
with composer Tom Masinter at the piano. - Frank Thomas, the great character actor as BEAUCLAIRE
- Leading baritone and three time Globe Award winner
Steven Bull as TOTU - Heavy specialist Byrd Bonner as the sinister EDUARDO
- CELESTE sung by Award winning New York actress Kim Bianco
- Three time Globe Award winning actress Kelly OBrien as the beautiful THERESE
- The charismatic Roy Bumgarner as ROBERT
- Jeanette Matley of the Houston Opera singing GENEVIEVE
- Award winning actress Anna Gangai as the famous
voodoo queen MARIE LAVEAU - Award winning Sherry Gibbs as Eduardo's companion KRISTINA
- And featuring the talents of Marlene Brehm, RC Thor, Paige Schwinn, Cathy Murphy, Susan Riley and Joe Libby in supporting roles.
- Steve Nathanson, percussionist in the famous Houdin! cult sequence.
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Original Studio Recording Cast
RC Thor. A native New Yorker, RC has appeared in over 75 stage, television and film productions as well as performing with the San Antonio Symphony in a production of Guys And Dolls . Favorite roles have been in Big River, The Secret Garden, Amadeus, The Fantastiks, Hello Dolly!, A Rasin In The Sun, She Loves Me and Assassins . In 1998 RC will be playing Fagin in Oliver! He is been nominated for five ATAC Globe Awards and has won two for Annie and Little Murders .
Joseph Libby. Stage credits include The Sound of Music, Other People's Money and a concert version of Guys and Dolls with the San Antonio Symphony. Joseph toured the Soviet Union in 1990 with the San Pedro Playhouse. The well-known ventriloquist and actor is a University of The Incarnate Word graduate.
Sherry Gibs. A native Texan with a BM in vocal performance, Sherry has appeared in several musical productions, including a Globe Award winning performance as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at The Josephine Theatre.
Roy Bumgarner. Currently starring in young romantic lead roles in musicals, Roy has been nominated for three Globe Awards for his performances in Crazy For You, Anything Goes and My Fair Lady .
Steven Bull. Truly one of the favorite actors of the San Antonio stage, Steven has performed in over fifty production in the past 20 years - Follies, A Little Night Music, Closer Than Ever, She Loves Me, Anastasia, Company, The Secret Garden to name a few. He toured Russia in a production of An Evening with Noel Coward . Steve has been nominated for four Globe Awards.
Kelly O'Brien. Has performed in stage, television and film productions as well as performing with the San Antonio Symphony in a production of The Music Man . Her latest stage roles have been in Company and as the lead role of the musical Cinderella , which was one of her four nominations for Globe Awards. She holds a BM degree in voice/music education and has acted in the "Shakespeare for the Schools" program of Arts! San Antonio. She had major roles in Annie, Annie Warbucks and Guys and Dolls , She appeared in Lips Together, Teeth Apart for San Antonio College's Summer Company
Frank Thomas. Has been on San Antonio stages for many years appearing in productions as varied as Sweeny Todd, Company, The Most Happy Fella, Of Mice and Men and The Bourgeois Gentlemen . One of his favorite roles was Benny in Guys and Dolls.
Cathy Murphy. Well-known for her cabaret and jazz interpretations, Cathy has been singing professionally in San Antonio for the past 13 years. She has introduced several of Tom Masinter's art songs in concert prior to this recording. She has appeared on stage in My Fair lady, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Die Federmaus.
Jeanette Matley. Has sung for many years for the Houston Grand Opera Company performing in such productions as Philip Glass's Akhnaten, Madame Butterfly, Die Meistersinger and in John Adam's Nixon in China. She performed recently at Ovations and the Great Caruso's in Houston and at the Mc Nay Art Museum in San Antonio. Ms. Matley is a soloist at both the Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist and St. Michael Catholic Church in Houston. She has several music degrees.
Anna Gangai. has starred in title stage roles in Irene, Anastasia, Miss Julia and Lysistrata. She has been nominated and astounding eight times for ATAC Globe Awards in Esterella, Six Rms River Vu, Suddenly Last Summer, Dancing at Laugnasa, Frankly, Scarlett!, Ruthless! and winning in If We Are Women and The Secret Garden. Anna has also performed with The Divas and Broadway Tonight cabaret groups and sung with the San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers. She can be heard and seen regularly in commericals on radio and television.
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Track List:
| Louisiana Bayou I | 2:21 |
| Fais Do Do | 7:27 |
| There's A World Out There | 3:17 |
| Love Is You | 3:16 |
| Downtown Paris France | 3:50 |
| Too Much In Like To Fall In Love | 3:27 |
| There Are Things | 3:42 |
| Don't Trust No One Who Don't Make That Roux | 3:08 |
| Louisiana Bayou II | 1:11 |
| Fire On The Bayou | 6:03 |
| Houdin! | 2:57 |
| How Can I Miss You 'Less You're Gone | 1:21 |
| We Give Them What They Want | 4:12 |
| When Laughter Is Through | 4:14 |
Finale -
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5:09 |
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Cd costs $15.99.
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