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Marcelli's next venture was serving as General Manager for Grammy Award-winning country legend Roger Miller's publishing firm, Roger Miller Music. At an age when most teenagers were worrying about getting their driver's license, Rick was signing top country recording artists like Michael Martin Murphy to the publishing company.

Marcelli was also the first to book rock 'n roll acts for Universal Studios as their Outdoor Entertainment Director while also managing the tour's biggest attraction, Universal Studios' Stunt Team. When the opportunity arose to work for Hollywood commercial production studio FilmFair Inc., Marcelli signed on as assistant to owner/director Gus Jekel and Sr. Vice President Ben Norman. Working with Academy Award-winning cinematographers James Crabe, Conrad Hall and Haskel Wexler, he moved up the ranks editing, producing, directing and writing.

At the age of 21, he orchestrated a joint venture between ABC Records Distributing and The Southland Corporation's 7-11 stores creating what Billboard Magazine called "the largest singles outlet in the history of the record business." This venture brought Marcelli acclaim in the business world as a young entrepreneur, not to mention instant wealth.

Rick then parlayed his business experience into personal management, signing the husband and wife mime team Shields and Yarnell. Over a short period of time, he transformed these street performers into a worldwide touring attraction with their own Emmy-Award winning CBS TV series.

Rick's association with variety entertainers led to meeting and signing magician David Copperfield. With Rick behind the scenes creating Copperfield's image as the most romantic illusionist in the world and David's talent, his career blossomed and he became a theatrical box office record-setter, the star of several CBS Emmy Award-winning TV specials, and a worldwide celebrity.

Returning to FilmFair to serve as Executive in Charge of Production for their new Music Video Division, Marcelli began developing and marketing music videos for Al Jarreau, the Charlie Daniels Band, and Dwight Twilley. On the side, Marcelli talent coordinated Disney's "The New Vaudevillians" starring Harry Anderson, and NBC's "The Magic in the Magic Kingdom " hosted by international magicians Sigfreid and Roy and the late George Burns.

By the time he established The Marcelli Company in 1986, Rick had built a spectacular roster of comedians, magic acts, and variety entertainers including then, stand-ups George Lopez and Bobby Gaylor and stand-up comedienne Jenny Jones, comic puppeteer David Strassman, and the late, award-winning choreographer Steve Merritt of "Beach Blanket Babylon" and "Chippendales" fame. By bringing Jones to TV's Star Search, where she became the first female comic to win the show's $100,000 Grand Prize, Marcelli paved the way to Jenny Jones' longtime career (for over a decade now) as a TV talk show host.

One of the other unique adventures Rick achieved was to manage and produce Rudy Coby. To quote Dick Clark and Rolling Stone “The Jim Carey Of Magic.” Creating a larger than life image for the performer, he landed Coby his own TV show, "The Rudy Coby Show," on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Co-produced by Marcelli, the show received a Montreaux Rose Award nomination as the BBC's "Best Variety Show." On the heels of that success, Marcelli teamed up with Dick Clark Productions, co-executive producing the Fox TV specials, "Rudy Coby: The Coolest Magician on Earth" (1995) and "Rudy Coby: Ridiculously Dangerous" (May 1996).

Award Winning Comic/Puppeteer David Strassman was another renowned talent whose career flourished with Rick's direction. Under Marcelli, Strassman went from a little known variety show performer to setting a new standard, worldwide, for performance in robotic puppetry winning his own critically-acclaimed, hit TV series, "Strassman," which aired in the United Kingdom , Australia , and New Zealand . Rick Marcelli also created and designed one of Strassman’s most unique character Ted E. Bare.

Another Marcelli protégé is TV's vastly entertaining, critically-acclaimed comedy/performance artist Daniel Rosen, who recently taped episodes of CBS' The Price is Right working alongside the legendary Bob Barker. Currently he's touring Nationwide starring in "The Price Is Right - Live" at Harrahs. The Price is Right is the longest running television game show in History. Rosen is also the star of "Wirez," the new comedy/variety show he's written with Ron Richards, featuring an ensemble cast. Possessing the inventiveness and creativity of off-Broadway shows "Stomp" and "Blue Man Group" but with a decidedly more "street appeal," "Wirez" is now in pre-production and is set to launch in the near future with Marcelli as producer .

Marcelli partnered up for a few years with Ken Kragen, the man who produced "We Are The World," and blockbuster charity events like "Hands Across America," and "NETaid." Ken also managed the careers of Lionel Ritchie, Kenny Rogers, Travis Tritt, and Trisha Yearwood, to name a few.

After going their separate ways with their Personal Management Companies they currently will both now Co- Executive Produce with Paul Riser and Craig Nizek  a Television movie on  the legendary Smothers Brothers "The Smothers Brothers will  be coming back to TV -- this time, via a two-hour telepic from Paul Reiser's NBC-based Nuance Prods. Tom and Dick Smothers have agreed to play themselves in a hybrid biopic/mockumentary in development at Nuance" - Daily Variety

In addition, Marcelli once again manages the Legendary and world renowned “The Pendragons” The Internationally known illusionists, are the most groundbreaking magical couple in the world. They have been performing together for over 27 years. Stunning audiences with their incredible illusions that have included  Presidents of the United States, the Queen of England, the Royal Family of Monaco and the Prince of Wales. 

Targeting talents to high profile TV arenas, Marcelli is again doing what he does best - with predictably, high achieving results to come. In the course of devising important career strategies for his clients, Marcelli has brought each the success and notoriety they deserve, as well as increasing their profitability.

Marcelli's Midas touch in business has well served the longstanding career of David Copperfield. In association with Copperfield for over 27 years (as Personal Manager and Executive Vice President of Copperfield's Marketing Group), Marcelli continues to hold a presence for the man Forbes magazine calls, "the sixth-highest grossing entertainer in the world."

While achieving excellence managing, producing, and marketing talent for stage, TV, and film, Marcelli has built a reputation of integrity, vision, and as a no-nonsense, creative businessman. His success as a personal manager comes from a highly- perceptive ability to spot the "diamond in the bowl of glass" -- then polishing it until it shines!