RAIN — The Beatles Experience Returns to Philadelphia’s Academy of Music Jan. 4 - 7, Jan. 11 - 14
November 20, 2006
Engagement Extended by Popular Demand! Four Shows Added!
Legendary Impresario Sid Bernstein Raves About Rain
The award-winning Beatles concert, RAIN — The Beatles Experience, makes its return to Philadelphia, adding four additional performances Jan. 11 - 14 at the Academy of Music due to popular demand. RAIN — The Beatles Experience is now slated for eight performances between Jan. 4 - Jan. 14. Part of the Kimmel Center Presents Broadway at the Academy Theater series, RAIN played to near sold-out houses during last year’s Philadelphia premiere at the Academy of Music.
Tickets ranging from $35 to $55 are on sale now and available by calling 215-731-3333, online at www.kimmelcenter.org/broadway, at the Kimmel Center box office, Broad & Spruce Streets (open daily 10am to 6pm) or at the Academy of Music box office, Broad & Locust Streets (during performances only). A limited number of premium box seats are available for $75. Groups of 20 or more call 215-790-5883. Performances include: Thursday thru Saturday evenings (Jan. 4 - 6 & Jan. 11 - 13) at 8pm. Sunday matinees Jan. 7 & Jan. 14 at 2pm.
In a show the Denver Post calls "the next best thing to seeing The Beatles," RAIN boasts a song list of nearly 200 Beatlemaniac favorites, ranging from beloved ballads like "Let It Be" and "Hey Jude" to classic hits including "Revolution," "Come Together," and "Can’t Buy Me Love."
RAIN — The Beatles Experience covers the Fab Four from their very first Ed Sullivan Show appearance through the Abbey Road album. RAIN is a multi-media, multi-dimensional experience...a fusion of historical footage and television commercials from the 1960s lights up video screens and live cameras zoom in for close-ups.
For the four longtime band members—Joey Curatolo (Paul McCartney), Joe Bithorn (George Harrison), Ralph Castelli (Ringo Starr) and Steve Landes (John Lennon), with a little help from their friend Mark Lewis (keyboards, percussion)—the music is first and foremost. For more than two decades, RAIN has distinguished itself by focusing on details, always being faithful to The Beatles with the ultimate goal of delivering a perfect note-for-note performance. All of the music is performed live, with no pre-recorded tapes or sequences. Landes, a Philadelphia area native, hails from Lansdale, Pa.
Legendary impresario Sid Bernstein is undoubtedly one of the greatest music promoters of the 20th century. The man who brought The Beatles to America for the first time with their inaugural 1964 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, is perhaps best known as "The Father of the British Invasion." It was Sid who brought over this subsequent influx of music stars from the United Kingdom in the 1960s, which included such super groups as The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Jerry and The Pacemakers, and numerous others.
Mr. Bernstein, who has certainly seen his share of great music acts, recently had the opportunity to attend a RAIN performance. "When I saw RAIN’s first concert in New York at Town Hall, I knew I had to see them again. This new group got me so excited," he raves. "I thought immediately about Carnegie Hall…the buzz…the first excitement of The Beatles. The music was the same; the feeling was the same. I thought about other venues RAIN could play – Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden…and all the excitement I felt. Thoughts of Shea Stadium flooded my mind. They look like them; they sound like them. This show is totally live. This group could excite 55,000 people playing the music that now belongs to the world…music that so many of us live our lives by. For those who were lucky enough to see The Beatles live, this is a tremendous opportunity to relive that time. For those who haven’t, welcome to RAIN!"
Like The Beatles, the four onstage members of RAIN are not only supreme musicians, but electrifying performers in their own right.
In addition to RAIN — The Beatles Experience, the 2006-2007 Broadway at the Academy theater and subscription season also includes: Pippin (Jan. 11 – 15, 2007); Edward Scissorhands (Jan. 15 – 21); Annie (March 1 – 4, 2007); Monty Python’s Spamalot (March 20 – April 8, 2007); Riverdance (May 15 – 20, 2007); and WICKED (July 25 – August 19, 2007).
All performances of 2006-2007 Kimmel Center Presents Broadway at the Academy are supported by the Philadelphia Coca Cola Bottling Company, WPVI-TV 6, The Philadelphia Inquirer & Philadelphia Daily News. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Broadway at the Academy.
> index of news releases
> For more information, and to request high resolution images for press use, please
send us a message online.