The Third Annual WCSDEF Benefit Concert
The Los Angeles
Guitar Quartet
with
Phil Proctor
in a musical adaptation
celebrating
Cervante’s “Don Quixote”
Wednesday, November 4 , 2009
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $50.00 Orchestra & Mezzanine
$25.00 Balcony
$10.00 Students day of show only
Sponsor opportunities available, please call (562) 789-3000
This program is a benefit for the Whittier City School District Education Foundation. Proceeds are to go towards new libraries for Dexter and Edwards Middle Schools.
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Celebrating their twenty-seventh year on the concert stage, the members of the GRAMMY®-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet continue to set the standard for expression and virtuosity among guitar ensembles, while perennially redefining themselves in their musical explorations. With over a dozen recordings over the past two decades, they have established themselves as masters of the classics, as well as the creators of the unique syntheses of world-music and contemporary styles that have made the "LAGQ-sound" a favorite around the world. Their first recording for Telarc International, LAGQ: Latin, was nominated for a GRAMMY® for Best Classical Crossover Recording in 2003, while the second, LAGQ's Guitar Heroes, won a GRAMMY® in this category in 2005. Their subsequent Telarc release, Spin, gained wide critical acclaim, as did their recent live concert DVD for Mel Bay Records, LAGQ Live at the Sheldon.
Phil Proctor
Phil Proctor has received international recognition as an actor, singer, writer, composer, director and producer, and his musical and linguistic gifts have taken him from Broadway (The Sound of Music, A Time For Singing) across the U.S., Canada, France, and to the former USSR.
He won the Theatre World Award for the Off Broadway musical "The Amorous Flea", was cited as best actor by the LA Free Press in John Guare's "Museeka" at the Mark Taper Forum, and received dual Grammy nominations as a member of the Firesign Theatre, who were also honored by a seminar at the Beverly Hill Museum of Television and Radio and listed as one of the "Thirty Greatest Acts of all Time" by Entertainment magazine.
On screen, he's appeared with Robert De Niro, Orson Welles, Tuesday Weld, Jack Nicholson, Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis and John Astin and on television has guest-starred on "Jag", "Men Behaving Badly", Dave's World", Nightcourt", "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", and General Hospital" to name a few, in "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle", and in the cable movies "Menno's Mind" and "Running Mates", starring Tom Selleck and Fay Dunaway.
He's voiced "Howard", the father of Phil and Lil, for eight seasons on Nickelodeon's Emmy-award winning "Rugrats", and reprised his role in "Rugrats in Paris" (a theatrical release). He's also the villainous son of the Red Skull on "Spiderman", the chief bushrat in "Taz-Mania", King Gerard on H-B's "Smurfs", and did four seasons on Fox-TV's "The TICK" and "Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego". He can be heard as the Drunken circus monkey in Eddie Murphy's "Dr. Dolittle", the scared elephant in Disney's "Tarzan", Snowball the cat in "Hercules", and as various creatures in "Toy Story 1 and 2", "A Bug's Life", "The Iron Giant", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Aladdin", "The Lion King", and "Beauty and the Beast".
He's also re-voice leads in two French films, "Little Indian, Big City" (in Russian and English) and "The Visitors", the latter directed by Mel Brooks. As a singer, he's rap master Vinnie Goomba on the Laurie Records novelty single "Rappidis", and a soloist on Disney's "Pocahontas II", and knowlegeopolis' CD "Here Come the Alpha Bets!".
Oh yeah, he was a founding member of the Firesign Theatre
