Actor ; Beaches , Company , ACE and Side By Side By Sondheim at Signature Theatre ; Chaplin at La Jolla Playhouse ; A Wonderful Life at the Goodspeed Opera House ; Eden and Unknown Soldier at The O ’ Neill Theatre Center ; Ragtime , My Fair Lady and Carousel , all at the Paper Mill Playhouse ; West Side Story at The Muny ; and Legally Blonde , Swing !, Les Miserables and Sunset Boulevard opposite Liz Callaway all at Pittsburgh CLO . Television credits include All My Children and appearances on the 2006 and 2009 Tony Awards . He is featured on the recordings Sondheim On Sondheim , Jerome Kern : The Land Where The Good Songs Go , and Noel And Cole .

Dwayne Cooper

Dwayne Cooper got his start singing in a Christian a capella group in his hometown of Florence , South Carolina , but quickly realized that New York was where he needed to be as a vocalist and entertainer . Mr . Cooper has performed on Broadway in Motown : The Musical and Hairspray and is also an aspiring songwriter and producer . His music made the Billboard charts in the top 10 Dance Club play and also placed on the CBS hit show “ Mike and Molly .” Mr . Cooper graduated from the University of South Carolina .

Russell Fischer

Ask Russell Fischer from Broadway ’ s Jersey Boys where he grew up and he answers just as a true Jersey boy would , with an exit number on the New Jersey Parkway or Turnpike . Mr . Fischer hails from Port Reading , where he launched his career in theater by pretending that his backyard shed was an amphitheater . Mr . Fischer , at 5 ' 6 " with a tenor voice and falsetto range , played Joe Pesci in the Broadway company of Jersey Boys . He spent the next six years as an understudy for Frankie Valli as well , performing the role many times . Mr . Fischer appeared in the second national tour of Big : The Musical and has worked extensively on regional stages . On film , Mr . Fischer has appeared in many indie features , including Waystation in the Stars , which played at multiple film festivals

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and is now available on IndieFlix . On TV , he has appeared on the live Broadcast of the 2015 Belmont Stakes , the 2009 Tony Awards and Nick TV Land ’ s 60 sec . sitcoms . He currently wrapped a new indie short entitled October Pain .

Dominic Scaglione , Jr .

Dominic Scaglione , Jr . most recently played the role of Frankie Valli with the Broadway company of Jersey Boys . He has also played the role in the Las Vegas and Chicago companies . Mr . Scaglione was personally asked by Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio to sing for Mr . Valli ’ s induction to the New Jersey Hall of Fame . He has also performed on “ The Oprah Winfrey Show ” and The Tony Awards . Early in his career , Mr . Scaglione was a member of the Sony music group called Sygnature and toured with Christina Aguilera and Destiny ’ s Child . The Doo Wop Project has been a dream come true and he is proud of how far it has come .

Sonny Paladino

( Music Director , The Doo Wop Project ) Sonny Paladino is the music supervisor for the Broadway bound musical Natasha , Pierre and the Great Comet of

1812 and is music director / conductor for the Broadway revival of Smokey Joe ’ s Café . Recently , he was associate conductor and keyboard player for Sting ’ s Broadway musical The Last Ship and was associate conductor of the Tony-winning revival of Pippin . Other Broadway credits include assistant conductor and keyboard for Jesus Christ Superstar , Billy Elliot , Grease and Priscilla , Queen of the Desert . Mr . Paladino played keyboards for Guys and Dolls , Mamma Mia , Promises , Promises , Addams Family and Women on the Verge and was music supervisor for Disney ’ s High School Musical ( which toured Italy ). He has worked with the national tours of Disney ’ s High School Musical , Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Grease . Mr . Paladino has also worked with Alicia Keys , Ke $ ha and Matthew Morrison . His works as a composer include The Return of the Blue Cat , with poet F . D . Reeve . On television , he has worked on The X-Factor in Australia and The Next Big Thing . Mr . Paladino received his BFA in Jazz Piano from City College of the City University of New York .

This is The Doo Wop Project ’ s debut with the BSO .

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