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Do you ever feel like you’ve got all your eggs in one basket, six balls in the air and 7,000 emails to return? Well, gather ‘round The Water Coolers for a high energy, laugh-out-loud evening of award-winning song and sketch comedy.

For anyone who’s ever been held captive by a help line (“And Hold Please”), stalked by a sales parent (“Who Will Buy – This Crap for My Kid’s School?”), or found themselves judged by how many words a minute they can type with their thumbs (“Blackberry”), The Water Coolers take a hilarious look at what we go through just making every week happen.

Simply put – it’s your life, but killer funny.

Based in New York City, The Water Coolers has become a working home for some of the finest and most exciting comics and singers in professional show business.

Each year Edgar Cruz performs more than 200 concerts and has played throughout America, Europe and South America. He has been a headliner at the prestigious Chet Atkins Guitar Festival in Nashville since 1995 and is a strong icon at major festivals in Oklahoma. Those who have witnessed Cruz’s performance immediately become entranced at the precision, speed and complexity with which his fingers strike the strings of his guitar to create a symphony of sound unusual to just one instrument.

Cruz offers an incredible live repertoire of the greatest hits of the guitar, such as “Malagueña,” “Classical Gas,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “In the Mood,” “Dueling Banjos,” “Hotel California,” a classical medley, Latin favorites, originals and medleys on the fly. Audience interaction, participation, clapping, singing, dancing, snapping, “olés” and “yee-haws” are all encouraged. Seventeen CDs and two DVDs are currently available. They cover moods from Latin, classical, international, rock, jazz, mariachi, romantic, Christmas and originals. Future works include a live video.

Edgar has been named the Oklahoma’s Top Performing Artist and/or Acoustic Guitarist for more than 10 years by the Oklahoma Gazette. He has received numerous civic acknowledgments for his contributions to various charitable events. He also performs a wide variety of bookings including concerts, festivals, weddings, receptions, banquets, schools, churches, conventions, fiestas, memorials or any special occasion. Edgar holds a bachelor’s of music degree in guitar performance from Oklahoma City University.

His YouTube video of “Bohemian Rhapsody” has more than 10,000,000 hits worldwide.

This New York born, New Jersey raised actress starred on Broadway in the acclaimed Kennedy Center Revival of RAGTIME, for which she received a Helen Hayes Nomination. She made her Broadway debut starring in JEKYLL & HYDE, creating the role of Emma. Ms. Noll received an Ovation Award for her comedic turn as Hope Cladwell in the National Tour of URINETOWN, wowed audiences again as Vanna Vane in the new musical THE MAMBO KINGS and soared as Jane Smart in the American premiere of THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK.

Ms. Noll has been living up to her reputation as being “one of the most versatile actresses in the American Musical Theatre” with a varied repertoire in Broadway, Opera, Operetta and Jazz. She has been a frequent guest soloist as part of Bravo Broadway with symphony orchestras around the world, including the National Symphony and Marvin Hamlisch, the Cincinnati Pops and Eric Kunzel, the Jerusalem Symphony and Don Pippin, the Philadelphia Pops and Peter Nero, as well as appearances with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, The San Francisco Symphony, the Sinfonica Brasileira in Rio, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Prague Symphony. She has released four solo CD’s, CHRISTIANE NOLL – A BROADWAY LOVE STORY and THE IRA GERSHWIN ALBUM, both on Fynsworth Alley, as well as LIVE AT THE WESTBANK CAFÉ on 2Die4 Records and MY PERSONAL PROPERTY for Jay Records. She supplied the singing-voice of Anna in the Warner Brothers animated feature THE KING AND I, and starred on Broadway in IT AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT THE BLUES.

David Pomeranz in

Chaplin: A Life in Concert

In this stunning multi-media event, the multi-platinum performer and composer dramatizes in music the life story of the brilliant yet controversial Chaplin.

David Pomeranz’s work for television has been extensive. He has contributed songs for scores of other series and specials including Will and Grace, American Idol, One Life to Live, The Miss America Pageant, Midnight Caller, The Seoul Summer Olympics, and, for six seasons, his was the voice heard singing the theme to the ABC series Perfect Strangers. Other projects include writing the theme for the award‐winning children’s series Zoobilee Zoo, Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Years Eve, and Showtime’s Elvis Presley’s Graceland, for which he composed the score.

In the world of musical theater, David is the composer and lyricist (and co-bookwriter with Steven David Horwich) for a new stage musical based on the life of Charlie Chaplin, entitled “Little Tramp.” The show’s UK 1992 premiere lead to a star-studded recording of the featured songs on Warner Records starring Richard Harris, Mel Brooks, Petula Clark, Tim Curry, Treat Williams, Peter Duncan, Lea Salonga and David himself. David is presently developing and starring in a new three‐character concert version of “Little Tramp” called “Chaplin: A Life in Concert,” which had its world premiere at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in April 2008.

The 2011/2012 concert season marks the 10th anniversary of the world changing events of 9/11. To honor this pivotal moment in American history, Matt Davenport Productions Inc. is privileged to present the stirring world premier production of AMERICAN SPIRIT.

Join the multi-talented cast of 10 as they take you on a powerful journey through the events – and introduce you to the people – that define the American Spirit! From the birth of our nation to a spectacular 4th of July celebration, you don’t have to look far to see, hear and feel the true spirit of our great land.

As seen through the eyes of the well meaning, but slightly befuddled mayor of Your Hometown, U.S.A., the show is a powerful 90-minute song, dance and storytelling journey through parade routes and battlefields, town halls and concert halls. Witness moments of the American Revolution mixed with the Industrial Revolution. Hear Prohibition jazz grow out of Civil War spirituals. And enjoy America’s heroes on the battlefield and ball field rubbing elbows with entertainers and politicians alike! Iconic video images are surrounded by the sounds and speeches of our nation’s history.

It’s the music, moments and memories that make us proud to be Americans.

With opportunities to feature soloists and choirs from your community; it’s a show that starts in the town square gazebo and comes marching right down the aisles. Filled with humor and heart, this is a production that will renew your AMERICAN SPIRIT!

Spanish Brass was created in 1989 by five Spanish musicians and quickly gained world renown for its performances, educational activities and creative collaborations. After they won the first prize in the 1996 Narbonne (France) International Brass Quintet Competition, the most prestigious event of its kind in the world, trumpeter Bernard Soustrot said, “Of all the first prize winners of the Narbonne Competition, Spanish Brass is the best since the competition was founded in 1986.”

Spanish Brass has given hundreds of concerts across the globe, in such prestigious events and venues as the Great American Brass Band Festival, New York Brass Conference, Juilliard School of Music, Ithaca College, Festival de Musique de Radio-France, Granada International Festival, Lucerne Festival, Cheju Summer Festival (Korea), Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (Germany), National Auditorium (Madrid), Palau de la Música (Barcelona), Kalavrita Festival (Greece), International Horn Society, Merano Brass Festival and Trento Philharmonic (Italy), Barcelona Auditorium, Festival de Inverno de Brasília, and countless others.

Spanish Brass has been in the forefront of international music education, giving courses and master classes at music schools and conservatories, and with youth orchestras, across Spain, the U.S. (including the Eastman School of Music), and in Hong Kong, Japan, Venezuela, the U.K., Brazil, Puerto Rico, etc. Spanish Brass also runs two major brass festivals in Spain: the SBALZ Festival in Alzira and the Spanish BrasSurround Torrent.

A sampling of their international accolades includes: “They are one of the world’s finest brass quintets, ranking up there with Empire Brass, Canadian Brass and American Brass” (Greg Alley), “… one of the most exciting and artistic brass quintets to come on the scene in recent years . . . a gloriously brilliant performance” (International Trumpet Guild Journal), “they play with amazing cohesion, and they set the highest standard for brass chamber music” (Maurice André, trumpeter), and “I cannot think of a better brass quintet in the whole world” (Christian Lindberg, trombonist).

Spanish Brass has recorded over a dozen CDs. The latest is the 20th anniversary compilation, The Best of Spanish Brass, on the Marquis label.