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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 02/28/2008 08:41 AM
Updated by: Kim_Hamilton on 02/28/2008 08:44 AM
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Tribute to Broadway Show in Glencoe on March 9th!
Glencoe, CA..."Regards to Broadway", the third concert of the inaugural season of the Arts Committee of Northeast Calaveras County (ACNECC), will take place on Sunday, March 9, at the American Legion Hall in Glencoe, starting at 3 pm. The concert is a vocal tribute to the history of American musical theatre, from the pre-World War I days of George M. Cohen and Victor Herbert to contemporary legends Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim. Along .....
with such beloved standards as "I Got Rhythm", of George Gershwin, "Make Believe" from Showboat and "Some Enchanted Evening", from South Pacific, the audience will be treated to less familiar songs such as Victor Herbert’s novelty song "Art is Calling to Me", Kurt Weill’s "Lonely House" and "Lily’s Eyes" from The Secret Garden. A highlight will be four selections from the ground-breaking West Side Story of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, including "Tonight", "Maria", "A Boy Like That", and "Somewhere."
For some of the most familiar songs, the audience will be asked to join the vocalists in a sing-along format.
Performing the dazzling array of vocal solos, duets and quartets are four veterans of American musical theatre. Mezzo-soprano Julianne Youngblood has been performing everything from opera to showtunes from an early age. She has performed with the Humboldt Light Opera Company, Santa Barbara Musical Theatre, The Lamplighters in San Francisco, the Columbia Theatre in Columbia and Metropolitan Players in San Andreas. Starring roles have included Nellie in South Pacific, Adilade in Guys and Dolls, and Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore. Julianne lives in San Andreas with her husband and two sons, and teaches first grade at San Andreas Elementary. School.
Soprano Mary Peterson is known to audiences throughout the Mother Lode for her many appearances in musicals and drama productions. She has performed with both the Volcano Theatre Company and the Metropolitan Players in San Andreas. In 2001, she won the prestigious Best Supporting Actress award from the Sacramento Regional Theatre Alliance for her performance as M’Lynn in Steel Magnolias with the Blue Mountain Players in West Point. Her onstage roles in musical comedy include Genevieve in Camelot, Louis in The Fantasticks, and Sister Amnesia in Nunsense I, II and III. Mary works as a clerk for the Superior Court of Calaveras County and lives in Valley Springs with her husband and two sons.
Tenor Marcio de Oliveira graduates this year as a music major at Stanislaus State University in Turlock, where he studies with Joseph Wiggett. He has won numerous awards, including first prize in the Kristina Townsend Memorial vocal competition, first place in the San Joaquin NATS vocal competition in 2007 and winner of the Turlock Young Artist Competition in 2006. Last summer de Oliveira participated in the opera workshop at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey and this summer will participate in the prestigious Chatauqua Music Festival in New York. His past roles include Herald in Cinderella, Doody in Grease and Rinuccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.
Baritone Stevens Price has been active in choral programs, church music and musical theatre since the age of eight. As a member of a university chamber choir, he toured California, England and Mexico, where he performed before the President of Mexico. Since moving to Amador County in 1986, he has been active in drama and music with the Community Church of Pine Grove. He works as a vocal coach in the annual musical productions of Amador High School and for the last three years has been a leading figure in the « Breath of Broadway » benefits for the Amador Interfaith Food Bank. He has performed in such musicals as Tommy, Hello Dolly, Once Upon a Mattress, How to Succeed in Business, Dames at Sea, and Thirteen Clocks. Stevens in the owner-manager of the Ice Cream Emporium in Sutter Creek and each year organizes the town’s summer ragtime festival.
Providing musical accompaniment for the show will be pianist Ron Brickman. Having grown up in West Point he has been playing in local musical productions and talent shows from the age of eight. Since his return to the area in 1991, he has been president of the Mother Lode Friends of Music, the regional performance organization of classical music, performing frequently as recitalist, chamber musician, accompanist and soloist with orchestra. He teaches piano in Calaveras and Amador counties.
The musical numbers will be introduced and put into their historical context by Vicki Snead-Hinkell, director of the Blue Mountain Players and ACNECC member.
Introducing with this event a new initiative to bring together the visual and performing arts, ACNECC will feature a display by local artist Brenda Gill for viewing before and after the performance. Ms. Gill received a degree in art from San Francisco State and presents figurative and imaginative subjects painted in oil and watercolor. She has recently started making artistic masks in clay, which will also be on display.
Tickets for the event are $12 for adults and $6 for children through high school. They can be purchased in advance at Sam Snead Real Estate on Main Street in West Point, at the General Store in Rail Road Flat, or at the door. The American Legion will open its bar for the purchase of beer, wine, and mixed drinks before and after the show, and ACNECC will provide coffee, punch and cookies as part of its fund-raising efforts. The American Legion Hall is located on Upper Dorray Road in Glencoe, just off Highway 26.
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