The Soundtrack of Our Lives is a pop-Broadway show starring American actors Deborah Rennard and Al Sapienza. They sing and dance, accompanied by films and slides in an autobiographical journey featuring hit songs of the 60s and 70s as they share stories of how these songs affected their lives and careers. The duo has performed all over the United States, including opening to an audience of 9,000 people for Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits at the PNC Bank Arts Center, as well as Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. of The Fifth Dimension. They have also taken their musical numbers abroad to Canada, Europe, and the Philippines, where they played for a live audience of 16,000 people, which streamed over thirty-three media outlets to 400,000 people. Soundtrack of Our Lives regularly returns to many beloved venues across the states, including The PNC Bank Arts Center, as well as the prestigious Myron’s Cabaret At the Smith Performing Arts Center in Las Vegas, Herb Alpert’s Vibrato Grill Jazz in Los Angeles, and iconic rock venue The Cutting Room in New York City.
The band is led by the highly acclaimed musical figure Joey Melotti, musical director of Liza Minnelli, Grammy-winning pop singer Michael Bolton, and, for the last thirty years, the phenomenal Barry Manilow. Melotti assembles the four-piece band of additional performers, all who are top-notch Broadway musicians.
Sapienza’s time in the musical spotlight started with character Ringo Starr in Broadway’s BEATLEMANIA, but he is best known for his role as Mikey Palmice in THE SOPRANOS and Marty Spinella in HOUSE OF CARDS. Living in New York but traveling wherever his craft calls, including the second season of Amazon Prime’s original series REACHER.
Deborah Rennard famously starred as Sly Lovegren in 186 episodes of DALLAS, co-starred with Jean Claude Van Damme in LIONHEART, and most recently appeared in the CBS pilot for EAST NEW YORK and in her leading role in Hulu’s original film APPENDAGE.
DEBORAH RENNARD
ACTOR | SINGER | WRITER | PRODUCER
Deborah Rennard is an American actress who spent 10 years playing JR Ewing’s secretary, Sly, on the enormously successful TV series, DALLAS. She then starred opposite Jean Claude Van Damme, in the 1990 feature film LIONHEART, for Universal. She has also co-starred alongside Jim Belushi in GANG RELATED, Mathew McConaughey in CONTACT, and in KAZAAM, with Shaquille O”Neal.
Rennard has done over a hundred national commercials and dozens of guest starring and recurring roles on television, such as, DAYS OF OUR LIVES, SILK STOCKINGS, DUE SOUTH, FAMILY LAW, MICHAEL HAYES, KUNG FU, HARDCASTLE AND MCCORMICK and SHOW ME A HERO. In 1988, she performed in a special episode of CBS' television show CIRCUS OF THE STARS, by walking across a tightrope in high heels. She segued to writing and producing, continuing to work with CBS by writing for DUE SOUTH and co-producing the critically acclaimed EZ STREETS.
In a 1988 theatrical production of CARNAL KNOWLEDGE she played, Cynthia, “the ball busting bitch” a production also starring Gregory Harrison, David Marshal Grant and Marilu Henner. Her play ENOUGH was read at NYSAF and then optioned off-broadway in 2008 at the Peccadillo Theater Company. Her play FOR WORSE was read at NYSAF and then was given a full production at NJ REPERTORY COMPANY in 2016, and was a huge hit. One reviewer likening it to the Italian comedies of the 60’s and 70’s by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Her third play MORE, was a finalist in the New Play Series at the PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE in Memphis Tenn, and read in NYC at the DIRECTORS COMPANY with Dana Delany and Carla Cugina. The play continued to make its rounds, and in 2024, was given a developmental reading at the RUSKIN THEATER GROUP with Deborah, Marcia Cross, and Ray Abruzzo.
Her producer work includes co-producing IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH for Warner Independent, starring Charlize Theron and Tommy Lee Jones, as well as, 3RD PERSON, with Olivia Wilde, Liam Neeson, Adrian Brody, Mila Kunis and Maria Bello. Deborah returned to acting in 2022, guest starring on FBI MOST WANTED, LAW AND ORDER, and the CBS pilot EAST NEW YORK, as well as playing a leading role in the Hulu Original, APPENDAGE. She is featured in the thriller THE MAN ACROSS THE STREET, starring Dylan Walsh, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Terri Polo.
AL
SAPIENZA
ACTOR | SINGER
New Yorker Al Sapienza, best known for his award-winning portrayal of Mikey Palmice on THE SOPRANOS, began his career four months after graduating NYU when he landed the role of Ringo Starr in the first Broadway Juke Box Musical, BEATLEMANIA, at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1977. Sapienza took up the drums in the 2nd grade, the day after he saw The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. He formed his first rock band in the 5th grade. Then at 12 years old, he decided to become an actor while being mesmerized by the film, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Saving up his money from BEATLEMANIA, Al moved out to Los Angeles in 1982, where he studied with the legendary acting teacher Milton Katselas for fourteen years. It was in that acting class where he met his future singing partner, Deborah Rennard of Dallas fame.
During that time, Al landed roles in PRETTY WOMAN, UNDER SIEGE 2, FREE WILLY 2, KNOTS LANDING, FALCON CREST, CAGNEY AND LACEY, and MELROSE PLACE, among many others. He was one of the founding members of the Alliance Repertory Company in Burbank where he starred in and produced many award-winning West Coast Premier Plays. In 1998, THE SOPRANOS brought Sapienza back home to NY and propelled him into many Recurring and Series Regular roles on TV such as BROTHERHOOD (5 years as Mayor Frank Panzerella), CBS’s PERSON OF INTEREST (5 years as Teragi Hanson’s partner, Det. Raymond Terney), and season 1 of PRISON BREAK as Chicago Mafia Don Philly Falzone, along with numerous guest-starring Roles in 24, NCIS, The OC, NYPD, CSI, and many more. Some film credits include THE BIG SHORT, GODZILLA, THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, TAKEN 3, MARGIN CALL, SHOCK AND AWE, and MILLION DOLLAR ARM.
Most recently, Al starred on 2 seasons of SUITS as Tommy Bratton, The premiere season of JACK RYAN as Secretary Of Defense Marcus Trent, and guest starring in GOTHAM, QUEEN OF THE SOUTH, DOPESICK, and THE GOOD FIGHT. He just wrapped on a Sony Pictures biopic HEART OF A LION, and THE GEORGE FOREMAN STORY in which AL plays legendary Sports announcer Gil Clancy. Al is currently filming Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video's REACHER.