A Tribute to Johnny Cash
by Derek Keeling
Direct from the National Tour of
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
and Broadway's GREASE
Friday August 9, 8:00pm

With his amazing and quintessential American charisma, Derek Keeling is poised to be one of his generation’s most memorable performers and
songwriters. After receiving his musical training and degree at the University of Kentucky he has performed all over America and across the world. Derek has now moved to Nashville to devote his time fully to his song writing. Earlier this year he recorded his Live EP, of which he was the sole writer, at the infamous Sun Studio in Memphis, TN.

Keeling is best known for his run on NBC’s Grease: You’re the One That
I Want, in which he placed third in Broadway’s largest national
casting call. Keeling made his Broadway debut in the summer of 2008
as Danny Zuko in Grease. He and the musical have an illustrious,
6-year history; excluding his NBC Grease experience, Keeling estimates
he has brought his own James Dean-style swagger to the classic musical
for nearly 1000 performances -- across nearly every state in the
nation, and always in a professional-level production. He has even
taken the All-American story across the border to Canadian and
European audiences. After two high-energy years on the musical’s
national tour -- performing along with pop icons Frankie Avalon and
Chubby Checker -- Keeling feels Broadway was the “cherry on top” of
his Grease experience.

After his successful Broadway run Derek took on a challenging
off-Broadway production called Connect-Disconnect in which he had to
stretch himself as an actor playing two very different roles in the
two person musical spanning comedy and drama. For his efforts he was
awarded the Midtown International Theatre Festival Award for BEST
LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL.

His experience covers a wide range of dramas and musicals, touching
every genre and audience. Keeling has been a part of many new and
upcoming projects, and played the iconic role of Arthur “The Fonz”
Fonzarelli in Happy Days the Musical in Los Angeles and a prestigious,
pre-Broadway run of A Tale of Two Cities, starring as Charles Darnay.
Keeling was seen in the starring role of the regional premiere of All
Shook Up at Musical Theatre West. The performance was hailed by
critics at top publications such as the Los Angeles Times, which calls
Keeling “that rarity seldom seen since the days of Cary Grant --
namely, a hunky guy who can play comedy.”

Derek returned to NYC in the summer to bring his duet concert Sunday
Kind of Love to the infamous Feinstein’s Night Club. Keeling also
recently finished a run of the new Roger Bean musical Life Could Be A
Dream at the Hudson Theatre in downtown Hollywood. In the summer of
2011 he starred in a concert featuring the music of Rodgers and
Hammerstein backed by California Philharmonic.

Most recently Derek took on the role of the Man in Black “Johnny Cash” on the first National Tour of Million Dollar Quartet in the fall of 2011 through 2012, for which he received rave reviews worldwide.

All Tickets $30