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Celina Carvajal (aka/ Lena Hall), fresh off A.R.T's dynamic reimagining of Prometheus Bound, lends her mind-blowing rock vocals to the fabled Janis Joplin catalogue. On August 29, two weeks after her historic performance at Woodstock, Janis took the stage at the Blossom Music Center to perform a set of her most acclaimed hits including Summertime, To Love Somebody, and Try (Just a Little Bit Harder). 42 years later Celina strips these classics down and also pays tribute to other perennials from the great American songbook. Janis fave Southern Comfort is your drink of choice for the evening...Guest stars TBA.

As a skilled rock vocalist, Celina Carvajal has worked with Cyndi Lauper, Duncan Sheik, Serj Tankian, David Bryan and Phil Collins. She has performed as a special guest singer at numerous benefits and concerts around New York City, including the Arts Horizons tribute to Paul Simon. At eighteen, she landed the role of Demeter in the Broadway production of CATS, the youngest performer ever to play the role on Broadway. Following her early success with CATS, Celina appeared as Anytime Annie in Broadway’s 42nd Street and understudied the lead female roles in the Broadway productions of Dracula and Tarzan. She has also garnered significant exposure off-Broadway, playing leading roles in The Toxic Avenger and Radiant Baby. Other theatre credits include roles in Prometheus Bound at A.R.T, The Last Goodbye at W.T.F, Bedbugs!!! at NYMF (for which she won an Outstanding Actor Award) and Green Eyes in the New York Fringe Festival.

In addition to her stage work, Celina has performed extensively on the screen. Her film work includes Sex and the City, The Big Gay Musical, The Stepford Wives, and The Graduates. She has also played a recurring character on television’s All My Children and appeared in MTV’s Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods. Equally successful in the arena of voiceover work, Celina has recorded jingles and demos for a variety of companies, including AMEX, IO Digital Cable, My Little Pony, Dannon, Queso Dip, Jello and Wendy’s.

Celina is the lead singer of the popular NYC-based rock band The Deafening, known for singing with a style that combines the clean vocal quality of Anne Wilson with the grit and soul of Janis Joplin. The band has recorded two EP’s (currently available on iTunes) and played at major venues around the New York and Boston area, including Webster Hall, Crash Mansion, and Harvard University’s Oberon Theatre.

For more information on Celina go to www.LenaHall.com

Rob Evan starred in the original Broadway cast of Jekyll & Hyde, playing the title roles for three years on Broadway and over 1,000 performances world-wide. His rendition of This Is the Moment has been performed at numerous prestigious events including the 2001 Inaugural Gala for President George W. Bush, the Millennium Independence Day US Naval Revue aboard the USS JFK for President Clinton, the Millennium World Forum Conference with guest speaker Mikhail Gorbachev, the 1998 Goodwill Games, the New York City Mayor’s Inaugural Gala, the 1998 and 1999 NY Yankees World Series Celebration at City Hall, The Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards Telecast, the Today Show, and Monday Night Football. Rob created and starred around the world in Jekyll & Hyde: The Concert, including a 16-show run in Seoul, South Korea’s Olympic Hall . Rob, also, appeared on Broadway as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables and recently reprised his performance for the newly envisioned Les Miz in Atlanta, Washington DC, Kansas City and Houston. He played the role of Kerchak in Disney’s Tarzan at the Richard Rodgers Theater. Rob starred as the sadistic Orin Scrivello D.D.S. in Little Shop of Horrors with Joey Fatone from *NSYNC on Broadway and he had the pleasure of performing the role of the Count von Krolock in Jim Steinman’s Dance of the Vampires at the Minskoff Theater. Off-Broadway, Rob created the roles of The Dancin’ Kid in Johnny Guitar and the hero Miles Hendon in The Prince and the Pauper.

As a vocalist and recording artist, Rob is a member of the platinum selling rock band, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and he is featured on their recordings The Lost Christmas (Platinum/Atlantic) and most recently Night Castle, which debuted at #5 on Billboard's Top 100. He recently toured the US and Europe as Beethoven in TSO's Beethoven's Last Night. Rob was lead vocalist for Jim Steinman’s The Dream Engine and co-founded the prog rock band Menrva Realm, which released their debut album entitled Angels (Ectronia Records).

In concert, Rob has been a featured soloist for many leading symphonies around the world including recent appearances in Hong Kong, San Francisco, San Diego, Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Alabama, and Indianapolis as well as upcoming appearances in Bravo Broadway’s Broadway Rocks with the Prague, Cleveland, Minnesota, Utah, West Virginia, and National Symphonies. Rob created and starred in ROCKTOPIA (formerly titled The Rock Tenor) in Philadelphia at The Wilma Theater and garnered rave reviews. The show will debut in NY this fall. He has appeared in the touring production of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, which originated at the Kennedy Center in 2004. Rob tours frequently with Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway around the US. He is a recipient of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame Talent Award in 1989. He was awarded the 1999 “Shining Star” award by the Leukemia Society of America and honored by the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America for his charitable support. TV credits include a stint on All My Children (ABC). Rob is currently Associate Artistic Director of Nederlander Worldwide Events in New York. Other recordings include Jekyll & Hyde (OBC, Atlantic), The Civil War (Atlantic), The Prince and the Pauper (OOBC, JAY), Johnny Guitar (OOBC), Jekyll & Hyde: Resurrection (KOCH/Globalvision), and his long overdue solo project TBA on Legacy Records.

Carly Jibson - Broadway: Cry Baby (Pepper Walker) Hairspray (Tracy Turnblad) National Tour: 1st National Tour of Hairspray (Tracy Turnblad) TV: All my Children. NYMF: Fat Camp the musical. New York: Wrote and starred in rock cabaret, as a part of the Ghost light SHK-ka-boom Joe's Pub concert series, "Not a Bitch, Not Yet a Woman" Currently releasing solo original country album "Carly Jibson....best of me" this October!

Trapper Felides is thrilled to be backstage at LPR where he has recently produced and/or music directed: A Very Trappy 2011, Emma Hunton at LPR, and the Meeting's fundraiser for the Ali Forney Center. Other recent concert work: Trappy's Bringing Down the House, Our Hit Parade, Trapper's Greatest Hits, The Molly Pope Show, and Bridget Everett's We've Got Tonight (Time Out New York's pick for Top Cabaret Show of the year), all at Joe's Pub. Recent highlights include music direction for Arts Horizons' Tribute to Paul Simon (with Paul himself in attendance), and music directing and producing Jay Kuo and Blair Shepard's "It Gets Better" which benefited the Trevor Project and became a benchmark of its namesake campaign. Additional charitable work includes benefits for The Point Foundation, GLAAD, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS The Human Rights Campaign, Susan G. Komen for a Cure, United Cerebral Palsy, The Make-a-Wish Foundation and the LA Gay and Lesbian Center. Trapper has been seen on The Today Show and Nightline, and he has been filmed for E! and the Oprah Women's Network and profiled in the New York Post and the New York Times. Trapper founded LA's famed Upright Cabaret with Shane Scheel and Chris Isaacson where he performed with the best talent in stage and screen and also has extensive credits in the recording studio. Tune in for upcoming pop albums from teens Samantha Fly and Allie Trimm, a lifestyle/cookbook with food authority Helen Kimmel, and Trapper's own untitled reality show.