7/9-25: "1776" at Carpenter Performing Arts Center

Tomorrow I begin rehearsals for 1776, the Tony Award-winning musical which dramatizes the events leading to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. A crackling masterwork filled with humor, romance and history that the NY Post called, "brilliant and remarkably moving."


1776
July 9-25, 2010
Musical Theatre West
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Long Beach, CA


Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards, Book by Peter Stone.
Directed by Nick DeGruccio, Musical Direction by Matthew Smedal.
Starring: Steven Glaudini (John Adams), Tami Tappan Damiano (Abagail Adams) and Davis Gaines (Richard Henry Lee), Steve Vinovich (Benjamin Franklin), John Bisom (Thomas Jefferson), Andy Umberger (John Dickinson), Robert J. Townsend (Edward Rutledge), Jessica Bernard (Martha Jefferson), Brad Fitzgerald (Joseph Hewes), Richard Gould (Stephen Hopkins), Michael Kean (The Courier) and Damon Kirsche (Dr. Lyman Hall).

For tickets and further information, visit the Musical Theatre West site.

6/15: Appearing at Carnegie Hall!

I'm back in New York, about to begin rehearsals for Eric Whitacre's "PARADISE LOST: Shadows and Wings," "a hybrid of musical theater, opera, electronica, film score and Asian drumming," which the LA Times deemed a work of "unearthly beauty and imagination."

DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK

THE ART OF PERFORMANCE – THE POWER OF EDUCATION

IRIS DERKE, GENERAL DIRECTOR

JONATHAN GRIFFITH, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

PRESENT

PARADISE LOST:

SHADOWS AND WINGS
(CONCERT VERSION–NEW YORK PREMIERE)
STERN AUDITORIUM/PERELMAN STAGE
CARNEGIE HALL
JUNE 15, 2010 at 8 PM

ERIC WHITACRE, CONDUCTOR AND COMPOSER

DAVID NOROÑA, DIRECTOR AND CO-CREATOR

EXSTASIS: HILA PLITMANN, GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING SOPRANO

LOGOS: DAMON KIRSCHE

IGNIS: DOUG KREEGER

FERVIO: DANIEL TATAR

PIETA: SARA JEAN FORD

AIA: MARIE WALLACE

GRAVITAS: RODOLFO NIETO

GREG CHUN, DJ / NARRATOR

ON ENSEMBLE, TAIKO / PERCUSSION

FANG FANG XU, CELLO

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