Imagine if you will the many music entertainers who got their start into show business by just being at the right place at the right time. Now imagine a young man coming home from Spring Break during his first year of college, all tanned and ready to get back to it. With a stop at the former Front Row Theater in Highland Heights after Spring Break, Russell Joseph Anthony Mascia found himself in the actual front row of the theater and entertained by the classic singing trio, The Lettermen.
Born into an Italian family no doubt brings out one’s passion for music. Russell Mascia found that very passion at an early age. Raised by Italian parents – a father from Little Italy and a mother from the Gordon Square area – Mascia was surrounded by the voices of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como and more. But a true to life ‘like Father, like Son’ moment came to be when Mascia’s Father, Peter, was at the former Moe’s Main Street Lounge when one Tony Bennett came in to perform.
Even after several years of performing in front of recorded music inside restaurants, lounges, and smaller venues, the missing ‘live band’ element didn’t lend to building a musical career he so longed for since that moment on stage at the Front Row Theater.
Prior to December 2015, an idea came to Mascia that would put him back on track to focus on a career that resembled HIS ‘American Songbook’ and highlight the voices that filled his home as a child: Sinatra, Dean, Darin, Perry, and Tony. On December 12th of that year, Mascia’s celebration of Frank Sinatra’s 100th Birthday sold out two shows at the intimate Alex Theater at The 9, but forever changed his outlook on where he wanted to succeed.
DOORS OPEN at 7:00 PM and SHOW STARTS at 7:30 PM
VALET is $15 (*after show please present Valet Card to the Gallery Bar to receive sticker)
