B’way star pulls out Huey Lewis tunes from ‘Heart of Rock & Roll’
Musical theater star Matt Doyle is proud to report that he won’t be doing anything terribly new in his Feinstein’s at the Nikko debut in The City this week.
“It’ll be me and a piano, performing some of the songs that shaped me along the way, from Broadway shows I’ve been in or pop tunes I know and love; I get to do all my tried-and-true favorites,” says the singer-actor, whose credits include lead roles in “The Book of Mormon,” “War Horse” and “Spring Awakening” in New York, and, most recently, the premiere of “The Heart of Rock & Roll” in San Diego.
The Bay Area cabaret debut also represents a homecoming for the former Marin County resident, whose performing life started in middle school, when he appeared in community theater musicals in Marin presented by Marilyn Izdebski.
Next, at Redwood High School in Larkspur, under the leadership of teachers Eric Berkowitz and Britt Block (whose retirement party he’ll attend when he’s in town) he graduated to more challenging, heavier duty dramas including “Marat/Sade” and “Romeo and Juliet” — a good preparation for studies of the classics that followed in London.
