Tony Award Winner Michael Cerveris Brings Broadway Star-Power to New Orleans in 2015/16

The Broadway @ NOCCA series first launched in early 2013 when it made the leap from its now famous summer home at The Art House in Provincetown, MA. Beginning with no less than the legendary original "Evita" Patti LuPone, Broadway's brightest lights have blazed a path to the Big Easy each season thanks to producer Mark Cortale and Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky.

In this, the series' fourth season in New Orleans, the star-powered tradition continues with Michael Cerveris, 2015 Tony winner for "Fun Home" on December 14 at 7:30 PM. The performance will be presented at NOCCA and will feature series host Seth Rudetsky at the Piano. For tickets please visit www.broadwaynola.com or call 800-838-3006. The series is sponsored by the New Orleans Hotel Collection and Gambit Weekly.

Michael Cerveris was called by Playbill "arguably the most versatile leading man on Broadway" for playing a wide variety of diverse roles, from "Shakespeare's Romeo" to "The Who's Tommy," from the German transsexual rock diva Hedwig in 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' to the homicidal title character of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd."

Michael Cerveris made his Broadway debut in "The Who's Tommy" in 1993 as 18-20 year old Tommy and received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actor in a musical. He has also been seen in the Broadway musicals "Titanic" as Thomas Andrews, in "Assassins" as John Wilkes Booth for which he won his first Tony Award, the revival of "Sweeney Todd" in the title role, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, in "LoveMusik" as Kurt Weill which brought him another Tony nomination, "Cymbeline" as Posthumus, "Hedda Gabler" as Jorgen Tesman opposite Mary-Louise Parker, "In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)" the recent revival of "Evita" as Per�n, and most recently in "Fun Home" as Bruce Bechdel for which he won his second Tony Award.

Michael's television work includes "Fringe" as The Observer, "Fame" as Ian Ware, "Person of Interest" as Jarek Koska, as well as appearances on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "The American Embassy," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Treme," "The Good Wife" and the films "Stake Land," "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant," "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," "The Mexican," and "Lulu on the Bridge."

In addition to his award-winning acting and singing talents, Michael is also an accomplished guitarist, and has played guitar as a member of Bob Mould's touring band. His debut solo album "Dog Eared" includes guest appearances from Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney), Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, R.E.M.), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Kevin March (Guided by Voices), Anders Parker (Varnaline) and Laura Cantrell.

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's ON BROADWAY as well as the host of SETH SPEAKS on Sirius/XM Stars. As a pianist, Seth has played for more than a dozen Broadway shows including "Ragtime," "Les Miz" and "Phantom." He was the Artistic Producer/Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts including "Dreamgirls" with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and "HAIR" with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy Nomination). In 2007 he made his Broadway acting debut playing Sheldon (singing "Magic to Do" in a devastating unitard) in "The Ritz" directed by Joe Mantello for The Roundabout Theater.

Off-Broadway he wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Rhapsody in Seth" (directed by Peter Flynn) at the Actors Playhouse and has also appeared on TV on "Law & Order: CSI" and had a recurring role on "All My Children." As an author, he penned the non-fiction "Q Guide To Broadway," the novel "Broadway Nights" and the recently published "My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan" (Random House). "Broadway Nights" is available on Audible.com starring Kristin Chenoweth, Andrea Martin and Jonathan Groff and "My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan" stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ana Gasteyer and Megan Hilty. Seth played himself on "Kathy Griffin; My Life on the D-List," was the vocal coach on MTV's "Legally Blonde" reality show and starred opposite Sutton Foster in "They're Playing Our Song" for the Actors Fund. Recently, he co-wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Disaster!," a 1970's disaster movie musical which is now slated to transfer to Broadway in 2015. Right now, he tours the country performing with Broadway stars like Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster and Audra McDonald. His newest book, "The Rise and Fall of a Theater Geek," was published this past June by Random House and is available on Amazon.com. For more info visit: www.SethTV.com.

About the series:

This Broadway @ concert series was created in 2011 by Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale at The Art House in Provincetown featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. In its fifth season this past summer the series including some of the entertainment world's biggest stars including Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Audra McDonald, Rosie O'Donnell and Vanessa Williams. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. In 2014-15 the series travelled to Santa Monica @ The Broad Stage, New Orleans @ The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, San Francisco @ The Nourse Theatre, Dallas @ The Dallas Theater Center, and in Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts. Additional artists who have participated in the series include Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Chita Rivera, Cheyenne Jackson, Gavin Creel, Ana Gasteyer, and Joanna Gleason. Info at markcortalepresents.com.

Listing Information

Mark Cortale Presents: Broadway @ NOCCA Michael Cerveris, Two Time Tony-winning star of "Fun Home" and "The Who's Tommy," with SiriusXM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. 1 Show Only, December 14 at 7:30 P.M. at NOCCA, 2800 Chartres Street, New Orleans, LA

For tickets please visit www.broadwaynola.com or call 800-838-3006.