MAC-AWARD WINNING KOOKY TUNES RETURNS TO MAMA'S FOR CD RELEASE SHOWS

"Keith Thompson's Kooky Tunes," the highly acclaimed musical comedy review directed by two-time Tony Award winner Thommie Walsh, and featuring Jay Rogers, Patrick DeGennaro, Vanessa Jones and Perry Payne, reopens at DON'T TELL MAMA (343 West 46th Street, NYC - 212-757-0788 - http://www.donttellmamanyc.com/) on September 30th for an album-release celebration and limited run. The show plays Mondays and Tuesdays, September 30th through October 8th, at 8:30 pm. There is a $15 cover charge and 2-drink minimum. Live cast albums will be available for purchase at all performances.

Following sellout runs at EIGHTY EIGHT'S, the Laurie Beechman Theatre at the WESTBANK CAF¸, and DON'T TELL MAMA, the show was picked up for a live album recording by John Yap and Jay Records, completed last July at Clinton Studios and now ready for a September 30th release.

The show features specialty material penned by Thompson, an award-winning musical theatre and television composer who wrote Off-Broadway's "White Lies" with standout screenwriter and playwright Douglas Carter Beane.

Thompson's MAC-award nominated specialty songs, punny patter and comedic characters are brought to life by an eclectic and appropriately kooky cast including long-time collaborator and funny man Jay Rogers. Rogers, one of New York's best musical comics, received the Drama Desk nomination for his hilarious torch songs to Newt Gingrich, Strom Thurmond, and Rush Limbaugh in the Off-Broadway smash hit "When Pigs Fly," and is a MAC and Bistro award winner.

Rogers and fellow Kooky Tunester Perry Payne, who just completed a sold-out Off-Broadway run as Sylvia Fine Kaye in "Danny and Sylvia" at CHASHAMA THEATRE (135 West 42nd Street, NYC), were chosen for InTheater's compilation of the "Ten Funniest People in Cabaret" in its final "Best of the Best" issue for their "Kooky" performances. Acclaimed pop/rock singer and recording artist Patrick DeGennaro and "Lion King" veteran Vanessa Jones deliver knockout vocal performances to round out the diverse and accomplished ensemble.

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