Festival welcomes back composer and co-lyricist for conversation, music and book-signing
Sedona, AZ. — The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to welcome back Marc Shaiman to help kick off the 32nd annual event with “An Evening with Marc Shaiman” at the Sedona Performing Arts Center on opening day, Saturday, Feb. 21 at 4 p.m.
Award-winning composer and co-lyricist Marc Shaiman (“Hairspray”, “Sister Act”, “Smash” and many others) gives us a look behind the curtain of life on Broadway, in Hollywood and on Television, with a conversation about his new memoir, Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner.
Part showbiz tell-all, part love letter to the melancholy that fuels creativity, told with perfect comic timing — along with a few wrong notes, and plenty of standing ovations
Emerging from community theater in his teens, sparking a decades-long collaboration with Bette Midler in the ’70s, surviving the AIDS crisis of the ’80s and bursting into Hollywood and Broadway glory, Marc Shaiman has spent 50 years making some of the most beloved musicals and film scores of our era. Candid, hilarious, and deeply human, Shaiman’s story is a tribute to the power of music, the pull of the spotlight, and the beat that never stops.
Join Marc — and his special guest Kerry Butler — for a candid, uproariously fun evening of backstage stories from a shared life in show business, on and offstage.
A book signing follows the event.
“An Evening with Marc Shaiman” will take the stage at the Sedona Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Feb. 21 at 4 p.m. Tickets are $18 General Admission or $15 for Sedona Film Festival Members.
For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.