Franc D'Ambrosio Concert (Tehama County Community Concert Series) March 14, 2008

Hollywood/Broadway Hits!

The Tehama County Community Concert Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing quality live entertainment to Tehama County, California. Tickets to concerts are sold on a membership basis; single concert tickets are only available through special arrangements. Our membership drive takes place in late March for the following season (September through April), although memberships may be purchased after the season has started if space is available.

For ticket information, call 527-0730, or email us at concerts@tehamacommunityconcerts.org.

Franc D'Ambrosio is best known for his role in the stage version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera". For this role he earned the title, "The World's Longest Running Phantom", having completed over 3000 performances, including the national tour and the San Francisco run of over 5 years.

Franc D'Ambrosio grew up in the Bronx, New York, in a family of bakers. After high school he attended the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT. He then had the opportunity to study at the famed Vocal Academy of Lucca in Italy. While there, he was personally invited to study with legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti at his home in Pesaro.
Back home, Franc made his Broadway debut in the first revival of "Sweeney Todd". It was while he was in this production that Francis Ford Coppola discovered D'Ambrosio. Paramount Pictures had been conducting an international talent search (for well over a year) to fill the part of Anthony Corleone - the opera-singing son of Al Pacino & Diane Keaton in "The Godfather III". Their search was finally over - D'Ambrosio was cast and he had the honor of singing the Academy Award winning theme song, "Speak Softly Love" (Brucia la Terra) on the Original Motion Picture soundtrack.

"Franc D'Ambrosio's Broadway" - conceived by Franc and the director Abe Reybold. The show is a celebration of the music that has established Broadway as an American art form. With the success of his 3 year, 150 city, sold out tour with this one man show - Franc has joined the ranks of the famed Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman , as one of the handful of Phantom alumni to successfully crossover into a flourishing solo career. The CD "Franc D'Ambrosio's Broadway" earned a Grammy Consideration for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album 2005.

2007 sees Franc introducing his new show "Franc D'Ambrosio's Hollywood". It is billed as is one man's humorous, nostalgic look at America's "Dream Factories" and the songs they immortalized. After debuting March 13, 2007 at the world famous Empire Plush Room in San Francisco, the show will tour the US.

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