Dick & Arlene Van Dyke and Chris Isaacson Presents
An afternoon with DICK VAN DYKE with Arlene Van Dyke, The Vantastix, and special guests! (VANDY CAMP)

Dick Van Dyke is an American actor, singer, entertainer, comedian, and producer. His award-winning career has spanned seven decades in film, television, and stage.

Van Dyke began his career as an entertainer on radio and television, in nightclubs, and on the Broadway stage. In 1961, he starred in the original production of Bye Bye Birdie alongside Chita Rivera, a role which earned him the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Carl Reiner then cast him as Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966), which made him a household name. He went on to star in the motion picture musicals Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Mary Poppins (1964), and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and in the comedy-drama The Comic (1969). He made guest appearances on television programs Columbo (1974) and The Carol Burnett Show (1977), and starred in The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971–74), Diagnosis: Murder (1993–2001), and Murder 101 (2006–08). Van Dyke has also made appearances in the motion pictures Dick Tracy (1990), Curious George (2006), Night at the Museum (2006), Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).

Van Dyke is the recipient of five Primetime Emmys, a Golden Globe, a Tony, and a Grammy Award, and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995. He received the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the SAG Life Achievement Award, in 2013. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard and has also been recognized as a Disney Legend. In 2021, Van Dyke was honored with the Kennedy Center Honors. 

Arlene Van Dyke is an Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer and Actress, known for Days of Our Lives, Carolina, Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic, and Coldplay: All My Love music video.

Dick Van Dyke and The Vantastix is an a cappella quartet based in Los Angeles, CA. Formed in 2000, after a chance meeting at a coffee shop, the group has performed at a number of benefit and charity events, and released a children's album 'Put On A Happy Face' in 2008, produced by BAMP productions.

The Vantastix including Van Dyke, Eric Bradley, Bryan Chadima and Mike Mendyke. 

Tony Guerrero is an award-winning musician, composer and Grammy-nominated producer.

He has released 19 solo & group albums which have received widespread radio airplay and Top 10 / Top 20 chart success, toured the world as a solo artist, and has earned an international following and widespread critical acclaim.

His work as a songwriter and producer has been heard on radio, television, and movies and covers multiple music genres. He has played on, composed or arranged for, and/or produced over 300 albums by other artists. Tony has recently been touring the country as Music Director for Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch’s cabaret show, “See Jane Sing” and composed and produced a new Christmas single for Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke.

Tony has worked with musical icons such as Paul McCartney & Brian Willson, pop artists like Chance the Rapper & Sheila E, and jazz legends like Freddie Hubbard & Joe Sample. Tony produced Arturo Sandoval’s “Rhythm & Soul” release which was nominated for a Grammy in 2023. He’s also had recent Billboard Top 10 & Top 20 singles in both the Adult Contemporary and Jazz market.

Dustbowl Revival is a folk-brass collective that began busking on the Venice Beach boardwalk and a decade and a half later, have now played in 11 countries and counting, releasing 6 albums and being listened to over 20 million times.

The enchanting and effervescent ukulele chanteuse Janet Klein performs obscure, naughty and
lovely tunes from the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Together , Janet and her Los Angeles based band , The Parlor Boys”
share spirited and inspired renditions of Tin Pan Alley, early hot jazz, vaudeville & ragtime and
other early 20th Century rare gems performing at historic theaters in Hollywood and Los
Angeles and other landmark venues and around the world.

Janet has produced 10 CDs with her group since 1998. Their CD release “Living In Sin” was voted in the Top Ten Jazz and Pop Critic’s Award Poll of the Village Voice

Dan West is a Los Angeles based jazz and rock musician, pianist, songwriter and producer. Known for his versatility and virtuosity as a multi-instrumentalist, he has worked with a diverse range of artists including Paula Kelly, MaynardFerguson, Joe Williams, Sky Saxon, El Vez, The Jazz Bakers, Aguafantastica, Azalia Snail, and Sidewalk Society.

His production credits include albums for LoveyDove, Mystery Rose, Frieda’s Roses, and You, Me & This Fucking Guy featuring John S. Hall from King Missile. The LA Times describes his music as “an extraordinarily perfected and intricate brand of modern, underground pop.” The LA Weekly writes: “Never flashy, always genuine, Dan West is a pop stylist of rare quality, one whose originality and intimate involvement with music guarantees any listener soul-deep satisfaction.”

LoveyDove is the seductive, modernist pop duo of lo-fi indie rock pioneer Azalia Snail & pysch-rock virtuoso Dan West. 

Instant Joy! is our DJ moniker, and we spin tunes that lift the spirit. From the collected archives of two devoted record collectors, LoveyDove has made our mark all over the world, from Ace Hotel and The Freehand in Los Angeles to venues all over the UK, Europe, and New Zealand. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoveyDove

Stu's career in television and broadcasting dates back to the early 1970s when he began as an audience coordinator for game shows and sitcoms.

In 1982, he received his performing break when he was given an opportunity to do the audience warm-up at the popular situation comedy, "Diff'rent Strokes". He did so well that he was assigned regular warm-up duties the following season on the Ricky Schroder sitcom, "Silver Spoons", a position he held for two years. Stu has also done warm-ups for "The Jeffersons", "Mama's Family", "Amen", and many others. Behind the scenes, he's been the owner/operator of Shokus Video, a company dedicated to the preservation of 1950s TV shows on DVD and video tape, since 1979. He was also the
producer and director of "The Jack La Lanne Show Commemorative Special" home video, as well as Lucille Ball's personal film archivist for the last ten years of her life. He produced, wrote, and directed a bonus featurette for Shout! Factory's "Leave it to Beaver - The Complete Series" DVD box set that starred the series' Ken Osmond and Frank Bank (Eddie and Lumpy), along with supplying a generous amount of vintage archival footage and several "Stu's Show" interviews for the release. He most recently hosted an on-camera bonus video and co-produced Shout! Factory's "Dennis the Menace Season One" DVD set. He also worked as a consultant on all three subsequent seasons of the series.

"Stu's Show" continues to attract new audiences each week with its impressive lineup of celebrities in the
entertainment industry, both in front of and behind the cameras.

Read more about Stu Shostak in this informative article from Voyage LA Magazine.

Chris Isaacson Presents (CIP) has created, produced, and promoted over 1500 events since the company’s founding in 2004. From small clubs to major theatres, CIP has presented many of the most influential stars of this generation including Grammy, Tony, Emmy, and Academy Award-winning musicians, actors and recording artists.
 
Highlights include coordinating and producing an elaborate premiere celebrations for Emmy Award-winning series POSE (FX Networks) starring Billy Porter, Janet Mock and Our Lady J , Emmy Award-winning series Feud: Bette & Joan (FX Networks) starring Susan Sarandon, co-produced the Grammy Award-nominated "Considering Matthew Shepard" at Ford Theatres (earning CIP a proclamation from City of West Hollywood) with guests hosts Tim Bagley, Candis Cayne, & Joely Fisher, producing the West Coast charitable event GAIN: Brighter Futures starring Alisan Porter (winner of NBC’s The Voice) for Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, high-flying events for LA Pride, Rolling Stone, The Grove LA and Americana at Brand, serving as Producer on the critically acclaimed feature documentary Studio One Forever directed by Marc Saltarelli starring Thelma Houston, Chita Rivera, Melisa Rivers, Lance Bass, and Bruce Vilanch, and most recently, working with Dick and Arlene Van Dyke, and Tony Danza on "Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic" for CBS Television.
 
Isaacson returned to produce the 2023 Creative Business Awards ceremony in West Hollywood at The 1 Hotel honoring the Sunset Marquis Hotel, presented by West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. This event was hosted by Kate Flannery and Jackie Tohn with special presentations by Academy Award-winner Billy Bob Thornton.

Isaacson’s concerts have been featured on MTV, CNN, Access Hollywood, Extra, ABC's On the Red Carpet, KTLA Morning News, Good Day LA (Fox), and in the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and The New York Times.
 
He is committed to humanitarian and social causes including Ronald McDonald House Charities, Youth Emerging Stronger (Yes!), La Fuente Recovery, Entertainment Community Fund, and The Trevor Project.
 
For more information on upcoming CIP events, visit ChrislsaacsonPresents.com