“Razzle Dazzle! My Life Behind the Sequins” features Mitzi’s often hilarious recollections of famous friends and costars including Frank Sinatra, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Irving Berlin, Howard Hughes and she shares personal stories, moving reminiscences and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from her life and remarkable show business career including those of starring in such classic motion pictures as There’s No Business Like Show Business, Les Girls, The Joker Is Wild, and her Golden Globe® nominated role in the blockbuster adaptation of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific.  

“Razzle Dazzle! My Life Behind the Sequins” also reunites the Golden Globe® nominee with the original creative team behind her acclaimed television specials and concert performances -- world renowned fashion icon Bob Mackie, who has designed new breathtaking costumes for Ms. Gaynor’s return to the stage, Emmy® Award winning director/choreographer Tony Charmoli (Woman of the Year) and Emmy® Award nominated musical arrangers Dick DeBenedictis (Funny Lady) and Bill Dyer (An Evening with Diana Ross).

Along with a seven piece orchestra led by musical director/pianist Ed Czach, orchestrations are by Ovation Award winner Colin R. Freeman (Lorna Luft's Songs My Mother Taught Me) and Helen Hayes Award nominee Nick DeGregorio (42nd Street National Tour), Mitzi will perform a virtual songfest of signature musical hits from her film, television and nightclub catalog including “There’s No Business Like Show Business”, “Honey Bun” and “You Are The Sunshine of My Life” in addition to a diverse slate of song selections from John Kander and Fred Ebb and Peter Allen amongst others, while also tackling new material from the recent Tony® winning Broadway hit The Drowsy Chaperone, ­ all set to brand-new staging by Mr. Charmoli.

MITZI GAYNOR first took the concert and nightclub world by storm in 1961 at Las Vegas’ fabulous Flamingo Hotel.  Her debut was met with overwhelming acclaim - Life Magazine noted “Gaynor started at the top and climbed even higher”, The Los Angeles Times called her “The nation’s number one female song and dance star”­ - and for the next four decades she dominated stages across the United States and Canada, as her Emmy® winning television specials delivered her performing magic to the millions of viewers who looked forward to those annual must-see events.

The legendary musical performer has been in show business for sixty five years beginning her career at the age of twelve in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera as a featured performer in productions including Naughty Marietta, Roberta, Jollyana and The Great Waltz in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia and on Broadway in the New Century Theatre production of Gypsy Lady.  She transitioned from stage to screen at age nineteen with her first film role opposite Betty Grable in My Blue Heaven.  She starred in seventeen motion pictures (earning a Golden Globe®  nomination for South Pacific), nine network television specials (garnering seventeen Primetime Emmy® Award nominations) and returned to live performing with countless concert productions nationwide for over forty years.

This new production, scripted by Ms. Gaynor and conceived and constructed by Emmy® wining producers Rene Reyes and Shane Rosamonda, will feature personal stories as only Mitzi can tell them as well as classic elements of her fabled concert performances along with video footage culled from her television, concert and film work in an all new up-to-date setting.

RAZZLE DAZZLE! MY LIFE BEHIND THE SEQUINS celebrated its world premiere January 10, 2009 at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater.  She is bringing the show to the mid-west and east coast with the 2010 premiere launch on March 26, 2010 at the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville, IN followed by announced stops at the Parker Playhouse (March 28), the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium in Palm Beach, FL (March 31), Feinstein's at Loews Regency (May 18 - 29) and we're extremely honored to announce that TWO SHOWS WILL OPEN THE BRAND NEW WOLD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT LYNN UNIVERSITY IN BOCA RATON, FL (April 17 & 18).  Additional cities will be announced shortly.

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ABOUT GREEN ISLE, INC.

Green Isle, Inc. is a production company founded by producer Jack Bean. Green Isle originally produced and currently represents the eight Emmy® Award wining television spectaculars starring legendary musical performer Mitzi Gaynor.  Green Isle recently co-produced an all new musical documentary Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years for broadcast on PBS and DVD release which recently won the 2010 NATAS Emmy® Award for outstanding entertainment program/special.  Green Isle is currently in production on Miss Gaynor’s one-woman stage show My Life Behind the Sequins, in addition to her forthcoming memoir.