When a global corporation sought to hold a high level client event on the eve of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, KY, they turned to Empire Entertainment to help them secure the right talent for this very special event.Empire worked with the client to help guide the selection of talent based on a variety of criteria and ultimately helped the client decide upon a fabulous Motown show featuring two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, the Temptations and the Four Tops.The show took place in a tent and followed a sumptuous barbecue dinner.

First up were the Four Tops who performed a 60 minute set that included many of their greatest hits such as "Baby, I Need Your Loving," "I Can't Help Myself (Sugarpie, Honeybunch)," "It's the Same Old Song," "Reach Out (I'll Be There)," "Bernadette," "Walk Away, Rene," "Standing in the Shadows of Love," "Shake Me, Wake Me," and "Still Waters Run Deep."Then, after a set-change of just 4 minutes, the Temptations took the stage and got the crowd dancing again with a high energy, 60 minute set that included "The Way You Do The Things You Do," "My Girl," "You're My Everything," "Get Ready," "Ain't Too Proud To Beg," "(I Know) I'm Losing You," "Cloud Nine," "Runaway Child, Running Wild," "Ball Of Confusion," "I Can't Get Next To You," "Masterpiece" and "Just My Imagination."Both acts displayed their distinctive Motown stage choreography and both bands performed with the backing of a powerful 10 piece horn section provided by the Tuscaloosa horns.For this engagement, Empire provided all talent contracting and coordination, air, room & ground transportation logistics, production coordination, backstage wrangling and onsite stage management.

Whether a classic oldies act or today's newest musical superstars, more companies turn to Empire Entertainment than any other company to help them secure the right talent for their events.

At a recent multi-day technology conference for high level customers in Seattle, Empire presented former Doobie Brother and five time Grammy Award-winning singer songwriter Michael McDonald. For this intimate event which took place at the Triple Door Club in Seattle, Michael performed a greatest hits concert with a band consisting of keyboards, bass, drums, guitar, a hirn section and backing vocals.Michael performed a career retrospective concert including Doobie Brothers hits as well as his more recent Motown work. The 90 minute set included such hits as "It Keeps You Runnin,'" "I Keep Forgetting," "Reach Out," Grapevine," "I Second That Emotion," "You Belong to Me," "Minute by Minute", "What a Fool Believes," "On My Own" and "Takin' it to the Streets" among many others. Michael's distinctive voice was in perfect form as he thrilled the audience and ultimately got them up dancing before the encore. For this event, Empire booked and contracted Michael McDonald, provided all air, room and ground transportation logisitics, coordinatied production and stage managed the show Onsite.

Empire is a leading producer of headline entertainment for corporate meetings and events.

When a certain a Fortune 500 firm with global presence wanted to wow its European division's diverse audience with a precedent-setting concert, it called on Empire to help them source a contemporary, affordable concert act with undeniable Euro-appeal. Empire put its research and relationship skills to work and found a perfect, routed opportunity for international chart-topper SealWhen Seal hit the stage, the multinational crowd went mad. Almost 5,000 attendees wandered to the show along the misty cobblestone streets of Copenhagen, arriving at the Forum — one of the city's premier venues — for cocktails and dinner before Seal took the stage.

The audience stood shoulder to shoulder throughout a high energy show of almost 90 minutes, dancing and singing along with the pop-star as he performed all of his hits along with a couple of cover tunes. Following the show, Seal graciously gabbed with VIPs for almost 30 minutes before gathering his lovely wife, Heidi Klum, and heading back to the hotel. Empire's client, indecisive before the concert about whether to have a follow-up concert the following year, has vowed to make it an annual event.

Each year one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer products holds a supplier recognition awards gala to honor and recognize achievement in partnership among their largest suppliers. In 2005, this multinational corporation turned to Empire Entertainment to help them produce their event and raise the quality of every aspect of the production. Working with a new client, in a new venue, on a new program and in a city in which Empire was relatively unfamiliar, Empire was quickly able to grasp the client's needs and design and execute a flawless, high quality event that exceeded the client's expectations.

Empire worked to coordinate all aspects of this program including catering, design and decor, logistics such as check-in, valet parking, security, tenting & guest flow, cocktail and dinner entertainment, stage design, lighting design, audio, graphics production, audio visual and stage management of the evening. In addition to a cocktail hour at which the Tommy Whitten Trio performed and a dinner at which the University of Richmond vocal harmony group the Octaves performed, Empire also arranged for a surprise appearance of the popular "Three Waiters" opera singers whose performance was a smash success. The awards program recognized achievements of 8 major suppliers to the client company and ran smoothly, in perfect sync with meal course service and ahead of schedule. In the end, the glorious event was a success on every level and the clients were thrilled with the success of the evening and Empire's contributions to the event.

Whether in Richmond, VA or Cairo, Egypt, whether a black tie awards gala or a street festival, Empire Entertainment is a partner that can be relied upon to deliver beyond a client's expectations.

When the National Geographic Channel sought to bring their channel to life and to express their message of "The Difference Revealed" to their target audience of advertisers and media buyers, they turned to Empire Entertainment to make it all happen. Working to the client's brief to secure a location that had plenty to reveal, Empire was able to secure Charlie Palmer's Metrazur space, located on the East Balcony of the historic Grand Central Terminal. The event space was designed with a beautiful lighting plan that up-lit the Terminal's 100-foot walls in the Channel's colors of red & yellow. Red & yellow floral displays, votive candles and fabrics complemented a giant 18' wide X 7' high lighted logo billboard that overlooked the main concourse of the terminal from atop the venue's marble stairs which were modeled after those at the Paris Opera House. Inside the cocktail area, Empire designed and created a series of "Video Tables" consisting of 51" flat-screen monitors built to display face up inside cocktail tables made of material that matched the marble of the terminal's grand staircases. These six bar-height Video Tables were capped with a non-scratch Lucite surface and surrounded with bar stools. Empire created a series of yellow and red animations for these tables to tie-in with the lighting and decor in the venue. The tables were also used to display the presentation, and to loop 'video wallpaper,' an animated logo and a slide show of National Geographic Channel images throughout the event.

To complement the amazing food and specialty cocktails provided by Metrazur, Empire arranged to have two large ice sculptures created for the bars: one of a tornado and one of a volcano that emitted dry-ice steam from its caldera. To promote the channel's programming, there were a series of interactive activities, each themed to a different series or special. For Relentless Enemies, an animal station featured a red kangaroo, a black leopard cub, two Syrian black bear cubs, and a 5' green iguana. Handlers fed and cradled the animals and answered questions from guests. A large-scale version of the Operation game with a life-size Bigfoot called "Yeti Operation," was a fun a tie-in to the channel's "Is It Real?" series.

The channel promoted its Spartacus special with a photo booth, where guests donned gladiator, Athenian citizen, and other costumes and posed for digital snapshots printed on-site. A sculptor created small-scale versions of famous buildings and ships featured in the "Mega Structures" series out of white clay. Also on hand was a space-themed ride to promote "The Space Race."As an extra special treat, Empire arranged for guests to have special VIP tours led by Grand Central chief historian, Dan Brucker, which included Grand Central's top secret underground power station, Manhattan's deepest point, which will be featured in the channel's Inside Grand Central special. Following a presentation of channel programming by senior executives, guests were beckoned to the balconies, where Empire had arranged for a choreographed stunt featuring 36 people to suddenly unfurl yellow strips of fabric on the floor of the terminal to create the shape of National Geographic's yellow border logo. The perfectly timed stunt generated spontaneous applause. In the words of the client, the well-attended event "Was truly a unique experience for our guests. It even caught the attention of local and national media."

Empire is a leading producer of event marketing programs and is an essential partner to businesses seeking to create experiential, tangible and interactive representations of their brands.

When Hakuhodo DY Media Partners (an affiliate of Hakuhodo - Japan's 2nd largest advertising agency) contacted Empire's offices in Tokyo, Japan to help them create and develop concepts for a series of short films that their client NTT Docomo (largest wireless carrier in Japan) could use as the central piece for the launch of the stylish new Sony premini-II phone, Empire knew exactly what to do.Working with the client, Empire identified and contracted Jordan Rubin, an accomplished comedy writer for such comedy television shows as Comedy Central's "The Man Show" & "Crank Yankers" and NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly," to develop concepts for the series of vido shorts.

Empire then helped to translate the comedy and worked with a Japanese director, writer and local production team in Tokyo to localized the humor for the campaign. The comedic shorts focused on both style and comedy and helped make sales points about the stylish Sony premini-II phone. The short movies were launched in serial volumes to maintain interest throughout the launch period of the new phone. To view the clips and see Jordan Rubin's profile, visit http://premini.tv

Empire Entertainment's Tokyo office is a fast growing resource of talent, speakers and integrated production and creative services for Japanese clients earching for talent from outside Japan as well as for all corporations looking to execute projects in Japan, China, Korea and throughout Asia.

When a multinational corporation hired a leading production company, DEVLINHAIR Productions, Inc., to plan and produce one of their largest annual sales incentive meetings, they then turned to Empire Entertainment for help in securing the evening headline entertainment. The client wanted an upbeat, headline performer who could deliver a fun, dance-oriented show that would include many hits familiar to an international audience. Through Empire's longstanding relationships with talent, Empire was able to deliver the Queen of Disco, Donna Summer, to perform four outstanding dance concerts for audiences of approximately 900 guests each. And what spectacular concerts they were. Singing a 75 minute show including such hits as "Last Dance," "MacArthur Park," "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls" and "On the Radio," Donna Summer had the crowd up from their dinner tables and dancing within minutes. The guests were so thrilled with Donna Summer's performance, that she was rated one of the best performers they have ever had for this annual program.

Empire is the leading source of headline entertainment for corporate meetings and events and often works in partnership with production companies from around the world to assist them with identifying, booking, contracting and producing headline talent of every type.

For the third straight year, the Syndicated National Television Association turned to Empire Entertainment to help them close their day of presentations to the New York advertising community with an amazing, star-studded party. The Syndicated Network Television Association, whose members include Buena Vista Television, King World, NBC Universal, Paramount, Tribune Entertainment, TwentiethTelevision, Warner Brothers, MGM and Entertainment Studios, again chose Empire Entertainment to produce their main event, a dinner and cocktail event that followed their day of presenting their 2005 programming offerings.

The event, which took place in the ballrooms & foyer of the New York Grand Hyatt, was designed to fulfill the client's vision of a winter wonderland. Empire worked with designer Michael Kowalski to create a cool winter vision that heated up into the hot party of the Upfront season. Upon arrival, guests walked into the ballroom, which had been mostly re-carpeted in white. The first vision was a colonnade of tall, silver birch trees lit in blue and white that led to a giant towering ice sculpture. A giant white curtain served as a wintry backdrop. Throughout the space large, white bars, white table settings and chair covers, white stages and furnishings decorated with white floral arrangements lit with winter blue completed the winter vision.

On one stage pianist Bill Graves performed on a white piano, and on another DJ David Chang laid down a dance track for the evening behind a white DJ console. A vodka bar staffed by female vodka specialists served a selection of dozens of vodkas by pouring them through a giant, ice vodka luge track. Empire also provided a 4-screen video projection system that ran changing slideshows of the various programs being promoted by the partner companies and also served to put guests on the big screens while they mingled with the various television stars attending. The 600 - 800 attendees ate, drank, danced and mingled with some of the hottest stars of syndicated television including Ellen Degeneres, Tyra Banks, Regis Philbin, Chris Matthews, Tony Danza and many others.

When NTDTV sought to produce their second annual Chinese New Year Gala event, they again turned to Empire who served as Consulting Executive Producer for the live event and global broadcast into over 200 million Mandarin-speaking homes around the world. Empire oversaw a production team of dozens of individuals and over 400 performers to present a smooth running, sold-out gala event at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Attended by more than 5000 guests, the Gala (conducted in both English and Mandarin) included dozens of acts such as famed Chinese tenor Guimin Guan, The Empire Brass Quintet, the National Taiwan University of Art Dance Ensemble, soprano Min Jiang and the Ying Tang Lions and Dragon Troupe among many others.

The gala program took place on an enormous stage decorated with lanterns, columns and featured an enormous rear wall projection screen with animated graphics and video that set the scene for each artist perfectly. Empire's high level production guidance on this program included venue selection and contract negotiations, the development of a staffing, logistics and communications plan to coordinate the efforts of hundreds of workers and vendors on a demanding schedule, providing direction and oversight in the areas of production management and stage management and providing legal, financial and sponsorship advice throughout the course of the project. The resulting gala was a hugely successful event and the program began worldwide broadcasts and webcasts three days following the live event. NTDTV is a unique, independent broadcast network that provides Mandarin language programming around the globe. NTDTV's programming is available in tens of millions of homes in the People's Republic of China via satellite.

Empire acts as a consultant to and production partner for a variety of major televised entertainment projects each year worldwide.

When the CEO of one of the world's oldest and most respected insurance companies sought a speaker for an extremely high level management group meeting, his company turned to Empire Entertainment to identify and secure the right speaker. Empire was able to deliver George Tenet, the recently retired Director of the U. S. central Intelligence Agency, to deliver a fascinating look at the geopolitical situation as it stands today in a riveting 45 minute speech. This was one of the very first bookings that George Tenet took upon leaving office. Tenet provided the management team with real insights from his unique perspective as the man at the center of U. S. intelligence for many years.

After the speech, Tenet made himself available for a lively question & answer session in which guests could receive their own briefing on the current state of world affairs from the U.S.'s foremost spymaster. In the words of the client, George Tenet was: "A smash success. Everyone enjoyed his candor , openness and intelligence. He fielded questions for at least 30 minutes after his speech. My CEO wasecstatic with his performance."

Many corporate clients around the world turn to Empire to provide the world's leading expert voices from all walks of life to inform, educate and entertain their management audiences.