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CRANK IT UP!, featuring live performance, photos, choreography and dance...
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CRANK IT UP!, featuring live performance, photos, choreography and dance clips of Lawrence Leritz. This track was created by TK Record's famed producer Cory Wade (KC & The Sunshine Band, Foxy, T-Connection, Peter Brown). As a recording artist with Spectrum Records, Mr. Leritz scored a smash hit singing the re-make of Peter Brown's CRANK IT UP (with additional lyrics by Lawrence Leritz) climbing to the top of the Hot 100 dance music charts. Leritz has performed his hit songs from coast-to-coast & continued on worldwide tour to Europe and Australia. Leritz is also the winner of the ASCAP Pop Music Special Awards for songwriting. Other recordings include Wild Man, Bright Light and his New York City debut club hit, It Takes Two To Tango (with the original "Little Shop Of Horrors" Do-Wop girls, Jennifer Leigh Warren and Tony Award winner Leilani Jones doing funny back-up vocals). Leritz has appeared with Chaka Kahn, The Weather Girls, Laura Branigan, Sylvester, Viola Wills, Divine & Natalie Cole, from NYC's The Limelight to LA's Paladium & Circus Disco and recently headlined at the legendary Las Vegas Stardust Hotel for the ex-Playboy Bunnies Reunion! Leritz also choreographed the hit movie Berry Gordy's "The Last Dragon" for Motown, featuring DeBarge, Vanity and Charlene.
Broadway dancers featured includes Catherine 'Ady' Cooper, Mollie Smith, Lisa Embs, Michael Ragan, Jodi Mocchia, Karen Harvey, Bob Brubach and Gayle Samuels.
Clip created by Broadway's Walter Willison.
www.lawrenceleritz.com
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Pizza Every Night is a Boobs! The Musical showstopper written by legenda...
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Pizza Every Night is a Boobs! The Musical showstopper written by legendary singer/songwriter Ruth Wallis for the long running Off-Broadway hit show, Boobs! The Musical. Lawrence Leritz produced and choreographed. The Pizza stars are Katie Pees and Benji Randall at Dillions Theatre..
Boobs! The Musical: The World According to Ruth Wallis is a musical revue with lyrics and music by 1950s and 1960s star Ruth Wallis. Using 23 of Wallis' songs combined with comedy skits, Boobs! told the story of Ruth Wallis' international career and struggles in performing her naughty songs. Boobs! The Musical opened at the Triad Theater in New York City on May 19, 2003 to critical praise and eventually transferred to Dillon's Reprise Room; by closing date it had played nearly 300 performances. It had subsequent long runs in New Orleans (2004) and Wichita (2005). Also notable were the costumes by J. Kevin Draves ("Sex And The City") and Robert Pease ("Third Watch") and the set design by Emmy winner Eric Harriz ("All My Children"). Book by Steve Mackes and Michael Whaley. Donna Drake ("Chorus Line") directed. Boobs! The Musical won the 2005 New Orlean's Big Easy Award & Ambie Award and Lawrence Leritz was nominated for the 2004 Mac Awards for Best Musical Revue.
Boobs! first had a workshop at The Pulse Ensemble Theatre on the Off Broadway 42nd Street Theatre Row in Dec. 2000. Various notable cast members from the three New York productions included J. Robert Spencer ("Next To Normal", "Jersey Boys"), Jenny-Lynn Suckling ( "Fosse", "The Producers" ), Robert Hunt ("Les Miz") , Kristy Cates ("Wicked") , Clyde Alves ("Anything Goes" "Nice Work If You Can Get It") , Alena Watters ("The Addams Family" "Sister Act"), Brad Bradley ("Spamalot") and the New York theatre debut of Gennifer Flowers.
www.boobsthemusical.com
THE NEW YORK TIMES: "The six-person cast is expertly choreographed by Lawrence Leritz"
SHOWBUSINESS: "The show is actually clean as a whistle- we supply the dirty minds it takes to finish their jokes. The real boobs are in the audience. This formula of mock surprise and genuine hilarity works wonders for the show. For Boobs! more than any other production I've seen off-Broadway or Broadway do the offstage figures deserve commendation. The cast brings comic ability and good singing voices, but they are enhanced by Robert Pease's and J. Kevin Draves' phenomenal costumes and Lawrence Leritz's choreography and musical staging are exceptional-flawless."
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