Travis Moser - Mixtape

International cabaret and recording artist Travis Moser returns to the Laurie Beechman Theatre with his new show Mixtape. Travis, along with music director and pianist Drew Wutke, takes the audience on a journey through the American Songbook as he creates the mixtape of his dreams. Featuring brand new arrangements of songs by Billy Joel, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Irving Berlin and many others, this will be an evening of stories and songs you won’t want to miss! 

TRAVIS MOSER
In a feeble attempt to fulfill an unquenchable need for attention, international cabaret, concert and recording artist Travis Moser has packed houses and won acclaim for his solo shows in NYC and around the country. Travis most recently completed a solo residency of shows aboard the prestigious Sea Cloud Cruises, traveling from Venice, Italy, down the Croatian Coast and back to Venice, Italy. His most recent show, Someday Soon: The Songs of Judy Collins, recently completed a tour of City Winery venues across the country and has featured guests such as two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Judy Kaye and Tony Award-nominee Melissa Errico. His previous show, Just One Look: The Songs of Linda Ronstadt, paid homage to the legendary goddess of music and debuted at NYC's famed The Green Room 42. Travis was joined by cabaret icons Molly Pope, Cathy Cervenka, Daryl Glenn, Jack Bartholet, Elijah Caldwell, and Lillian Andrea De Leon (over the course of multiple engagements), with a full band led by musical director, Drew Wutke. Travis has also explored the golden age of music with his show, This Can't Be Love: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart, which debuted at the legendary 54 Below with special guest Samantha Shafer from Broadway's West Side Story, South Pacific, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and Rocky - The Musical. This Can't Be Love: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart celebrates one of the most prolific and legendary songwriting duos of all time. Travis Moser takes the audience on a journey through the Rodgers and Hart songbook, while offering backstage and personal stories about the songs and the shows from which they came. The show features new arrangements and mashups of some of Rodgers and Hart's most beloved songs. This Can't Be Love: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart recently celebrated a 3rd return engagement at Feinstein's/54 Below!

Due to the success of the initial run, Travis had the honor of performing This Can't Be Love: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart for an extended run at NYC's famed Metropolitan Room. Travis also joined a lineup of performers that included Tony Danza, Pia Zadora, Annaleigh Ashford, and many others to salute Broadway great Elaine Stritch in the Metropolitan Room's Remembering Elaine Stritch. Travis is featured in the annual Love Bites: The Best Duets Ever! show at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater and Madonnathon at Brooklyn Bowl and the legendary Highline Ballroom. Travis has also performed his solo shows at City Winery, Club Cumming, Birdland, The Laurie Beechman Theater, Don't Tell Mama, The Duplex, The Iguana, The National Arts Club and The Strand Theater, among countless others.

Travis' debut album This Can't Be Love: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart, based on his show, was recorded live throughout the run. This recording captures Steven Silverstein's exciting new arrangements of these Rodgers and Hart classics. Travis also had the privilege of teaming up with The Human Rights Campaign to release stripped down versions of some of his favorite songs, including Born for You, Get Here, I've Dreamed of You and Danglin'. Proceeds from the sales of these singles go directly to HRC. Other singles include the Jimmy Webb classic, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a new arrangement of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, with proceeds from each sale gong directly to Planned Parenthood, Fifty Percent from the musical Ballroom, Stephen Sondheim's Sooner or Later, John Bucchino's It Feels Like Home, The Rose and And So It Goes. His 2nd full length album, Travis Moser Live at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, was recorded at the famed venue and features songs of yearning, hope and home from the worlds of contemporary pop and musical theater. His albums, Travis Moser Live at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, This Can't Be Love: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart, Just One Look: The Songs of Linda Ronstadt and So Many People: The Sondheim Sessions (with Drew Wutke) were all nominated for BroadwayWorld Cabaret Awards. All recordings are available on iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, Tidal, Google Play and all other major music retailers. 

Regionally, Travis had the opportunity to work with two-time Tony® Award nominee Margot Sappington in the Pittsburgh Playhouse production of Jekyll and Hyde. Other regional credits include Action in West Side Story, Jack in Into the Woods, Master Nick Cricker in The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and featured soloist in Disney and More: The Music of Menken and Rice at the historic Strand Theater, among others. For more information, check him out online at www.TravisMoser.com, on Instagram at @tavjames and on TikTok at @travisjamesmoser!

DREW WUTKE: 
Drew Wutke is a NYC-based multi-disciplinary artist. Previously with Moser: 2019's acclaimed LINDA RONSTADT tribute concert and Sondheim's Sooner or Later (studio recording). Selected credits: ANDRE DE SHIELDS IS TARTUFFE, LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER w Stephanie Blythe; B'way/OffBway: keys/reh: AMAZING GRACE (sub), KINKY BOOTS; Fiasco's INTO THE WOODS (wkshp MD); tours with Countess Luann; MD/reh accomp: Bebe Winans' BORN FOR THIS (Boston/DC, guest); Co-creator/MD/arr: Kevin Smith Kirkwood's CLASSIC WHITNEY HOUSTON: ALIVE! series, Joe's Pub; Molly Pope's A GAY MAN AND A PIANO series; World Premiere/US Premiere: FOR TONIGHT. In dev: BELLE OF TOMBSTONE; Jim Steinman's THE DREAM ENGINE; Christina Crawford's MOMMIE DEAREST, others. Many collab w drag/queer artists incl Martha Graham Cracker, John Jarboe, Joey Arias, Madge Dietrich. He plays a weekly livestream concert on Wednesdays at Marie's Crisis ft in NYT Magazine/Time Out/NY Post/UK's Daily Mail. Resident MD: JEN WALDMAN STUDIO, now online. He loves Cookie Monster and snickerdoodles. (MM, vocal coaching, OKCU). drewwutke.com