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| Photo by Mike Canale |
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A Short Bio of Paul's Dance Career
Paul has been seen dancing all across the United States, Canada, Brasil, Japan and Europe! He performed with "Gus Giordano's Jazz Dance Chicago" for over 6 years while living in the Chicago area and, before leaving the company, had become the Assistant Associate Director as well as Rehearsal Director and a Master Teacher! He has also performed on Broadway and in the surrounding New York area while living in Manhattan, as well as touring Internationally and Nationally with the companies of "CATS" and "Disney's Beauty and the Beast - The Musical". He's also been seen dancing on TV in "Star Search" and on MTV, as well as comic bits on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and in the John Hughes film, "She's Having a Baby". Since moving to the West Coast and the Southern LA area, he has performed in various benefits and stretched his 'acting wings' a bit. However, not wanting to leave his roots in dance behind, he teamed up with a good friend, Murray Phillips, and choreographed his own FULL EVENING LENGTH ROCK BALLET entitled "La Sparizione (The Vanishing) - A Gothic Rock Experience", which had it's debut performances in North Hollywood at the El Portal Theatre in September of 2004. In August of 2007, he appeared in "South Pacific" at the Hollywood Bowl, starring Reba McEntire! This February of 2009, he is performing in "Evita" with Fullerton Civic Light Opera. Look for more from him in the future!!
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| Paul as "Skimbleshanks" in the CATS EuroTour! |
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| One day ... in an orchestra pit in Baltimore ... a lifelong dream came true! |
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A Short note on Paul, the musician. Paul has been a musician all his life ... singing in church choirs and playing in hand bell choirs and school bands and All-state bands since being old enough to do so. He has sung on and off Broadway and in various regional theatre productions, as well as on National tours of Broadway shows. He plays many different instruments, having started college as a music major. His primary instrument is the Flute. He also is fairly fluent with saxophones, having played alto and baritone sax in his high school jazz band. He also plays piano, where he enjoys writing his own music. Other instruments include: organ, oboe, recorder, and of course ... hand bells.
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