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Occupation(s)
  
Beatles Tribute Band

Website
  
Moptops.com

Years active
  
1980–present

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Members
  
Carlo CantamessaLenie ColacinoJim FilgateJohn DelgadoMark Templeton

Past members
  
Mitch Weissman, Leslie Fradkin, Joe Pecorino, Louis Colucci, Jimmy Pou, Tom Teeley, Bob Miller, Alan LeBoeuf, Marty Feier, P.M. Howard.

Origin
  
New England, United States

Similar
  
Les Fradkin, Mitch Weissman, Tony Kishman, 1964 the Tribute, The Buggs

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The Cast of Beatlemania is a U.S. Beatles' tribute band formed in 1980. The Cast is one of longest running Beatles' tribute band in the world. The group currently features Lenie Colacino, a former cast member of the 1977 Broadway musical Beatlemania. The group has performed in all contiguous U.S. states, and over twenty foreign countries, including Canada, England, Mexico, Central and South America, Brazil and Japan.

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The Cast recreates the sights and sounds of The Beatles from an era of the 1960s when the world was engulfed in the throes of Beatlemania. Three different costumes coincide with the changing music and times during their existence.

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History

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The Cast was individually selected from hundreds of musicians who auditioned from all over the U.S. for the Broadway show, Beatlemania.

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The Cast originally started when the members of the ending Broadway show were let go as the show came to a conclusion in late 1979. Those four members (Lenie Colacino, Richie Gomez, Mike Palaikis and Bob Forte) started The Cast and the same group name has been in existence since the early 1980s.

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This current incarnation of the show is the most popular version since inception, having retained the same members for the longest period of time.

Members

The current members are:

  • Carlo Cantamessa (as John Lennon) — rhythm guitar, bass guitar, piano, lead vocal
  • The manager of the band.
  • Lenie Colacino (as Paul McCartney) — bass guitar, piano, lead vocal

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    The first left-handed member of the original Broadway production of Beatlemania.Has provided three of the four voices of the “Beetles” on the Nickelodeon show Wonder Pets
  • Jim Filgate (as George Harrison) — lead guitar, lead vocal.
  • Previously played with Cinema and New Joy.
  • John Delgado (as Ringo Starr) — drums, percussion, lead vocal
  • Mark Templeton — keyboards, musical director, arranger
  • Previously played with Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Chuck Berry, and Kenny Garrett.

    Songs

    Act I
  • "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
  • "Yesterday"
  • "I Saw Her Standing There"
  • "Act Naturally"
  • "This Boy"
  • "Lose That Girl"
  • "From Me to You"
  • "Help!"
  • "Please Please Me"
  • "In My Life"
  • "All My Loving"
  • "Nowhere Man"
  • "A Hard Days Night"
  • "I Feel Fine"
  • "Happy Just to Dance"
  • "Day Tripper"
  • "I Call Your Name"
  • "Twist & Shout"
  • Act II
  • "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
  • "Back in USSR"
  • "With a Little Help From My Friends"
  • "Birthday"
  • "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
  • "Something"
  • "Strawberry Fields Forever"
  • "Penny Lane"
  • "I Am the Walrus"
  • "Lady Madonna"
  • "Taxman"
  • "Hey Jude"
  • "While my Guitar Gently Weeps"
  • "Here Comes the Sun"
  • "Got to Get You into My Life"
  • "Get Back"
  • "Come Together"
  • "Revolution"
  • References

    The Cast of Beatlemania Wikipedia