Jeff Trachta
An international recording artist and actor, Jeff is best known to over 450 million viewers as Thorne Forrester on CBS’s The Bold & the Beautiful, a role he played for over eight years. The Bold & the Beautiful is broadcast to over 100 countries around the world and is the top-rated prime-time show in many of them.
Singing on the Bold and the Beautiful has led Jeff to record three albums, all of which have achieved triple platinum sales worldwide. Jeff has performed sold-out concerts in stadiums and arenas around the world from Holland, Switzerland and Italy to India, Germany and South Africa.
Jeff made his Broadway debut starring as Danny Zuko in Tommy Tune’s revival of Grease at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. Jeff’s award-winning one-man play Agency ran for over a year in Los Angeles. He received rave reviews and won both the coveted Robby and Los Angeles Critics Choice Awards.
Jeff received a prestigious Ovation nomination and won the 1998 Dramalogue Award for Best Comedy Performance for his role as Kenny Brewster in the Los Angeles premiere of Three Guys Naked From The Waist Down.
Jeff’s other stage credits include the title role in Phantom Of The Opera, Birdie in Bye, Bye, Birdie with Rue McClanahan, The Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors, Andy in Love Letters, Prince Charming in Cinderella, with television legends Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows and Rose Marie, and Joseph in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at ArtPark in New York. In the fall of 2000, he did the PBS TV-Special of Nuncrackers playing Father Virgil. In addition to the above, Jeff has played opposite some of the comic greats of our time including Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Carol Channing, and Robert Klein.
Jeff approached The Dragon with four D-98 8-track digital audio tapes of four of his cruise ship shows. The Dragon selected the best components of the four shows and combined them into one live show. In some cases, the recorded material required extensive surgical editing to obtain the correct sound.
When faced with poor quality backing vocal recordings, The Dragon recorded Jeff singing background vocals as a replacement for the cruise ship provided singers.
The Dragon then skillfully mixed and mastered the edited audio to a production CD.