THE QUAD TRIBUTE:

FIRST-EVER STAGED PRODUCTION
OF THE QUADROPHENIA ALBUM
SET FOR GROVE OF ANAHEIM
NOV. 18-19

Executive Producer Bill Schultz
Wrote Treatment as a Tribute to 1973 Double Album,
Will be Performed by The Who Show
with Stephen Shareaux with Co-Production by Bill Aucoin.

LOS ANGELES, October 12, 2005—Although he became successful in the orthopedics and sports medicine business, it has always been a dream of Bill Schultz to stage a production of this Who fanatic’s favorite album, Quadrophenia, which was released on Oct. 19, 1973 as the successor to Tommy and Who’s Next.

With the live premiere of The QUAD Tribute, a spectacular salute to the Quadrophenia album, at the Grove of Anaheim for two shows only on Nov. 18 and 19, at 8 p.m., a lifelong dream of Schultz’s is about to become a reality.

Quadrophenia contains some of the Who’s best-known songs, including “Love Reign O’er Me,” “Real Me,” “5:15,” “Drowned” and “Bell Boy,” all of which will be performed in The QUAD Tribute by a talented cast of actors and musicians, including Who tribute band The Who Show and singer Stephen Shareaux playing the lead role, Jimmy.

The show’s plot, featuring lead character Jimmy’s journey of self-destruction and self-discovery, is set against the backdrop of the ongoing Mod-Rocker wars on the shores of Brighton Beach told entirely through the album’s songs. Veteran director Peter Uribe will lead a cast of 23 talented actors and musicians, featuring singer Joey Grillo, guitarist Darren Lolk, bassist Mike Bisch and drummer France DiCarlo, with Shareaux as Jimmy. Musical direction and arrangement is by Brynn Arens.

“The story has universal meaning, and this is a show that will impress teenagers and middle-aged rockers alike. We will bring forth an experience that theater and concert goers will not forget as drama and rock will blend together on the stage,” says Schultz, a St. Paul, MN, native who originally came to Los Angeles to attend UCLA for theatre arts and playwriting, but ended up starting his own medical distribution company, and postponing those ambitions some 25 years before putting pen to paper for his treatment about a year ago. “When Quadrophenia first came out, I believe it was misunderstood and ahead of its time. But it moved me then, and it continues to, for its universal themes of teen angst, conformity and nonconformity, when the idealism of youth turns into the pragmatism of adult reality.”

Schultz is funding the quarter million dollar production with his partners, which include KISS founder and noted rock producer Bill Aucoin, who saw his musical interpretation and recognized its potential right away for a possible road show, Broadway opening or Las Vegas engagement.

For ticket information, go to
www.thegroveofanaheim.com
or www.ticketmaster.com.

Quadrophenia was previously made into a 1979 movie directed by Franc Roddam with Phil Daniels as Jimmy, though it is probably best known today for the film debut of one Sting, who played Ace, the chief Mod of them all. The band played the entire album in concert during their 1996 tour.

“Our production will be very much unlike the movie,” explains Schultz. “The main character, Jimmy, will come across as more sympathetic. Growing up I related to Jimmy’s dilemma and felt a kinship. Our show will journey into his head and present the contents on-stage, from the tenacious arguments with mom and dad, to the fights on the beach between Mods and Rockers, to a yearning for the beautiful girl he can’t have. It’s basically West Side Story crossed with Romeo & Juliet. This is my way of completing the circle from the first time I first heard Quadrophenia.”

For More information, please contact: Jonathan Wolfson (wolfsonpr@hotmail.com) or Aaron Meza (aaron@wolfson-pr.com) at Wolfson Public Relations p: 323-466-0499

Taken from: http://www.myspace.com/quadtribute