The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Presented by Dallas Summer Musicals
Music Hall at Fair Park
April 20-25
edited by Madelyn Miller, the TravelLady
 The Music of Andrew Lloyd
Webber will star six performers who are noted interpreters of Lloyd
Webber’s music and well known to Broadway fans: David Josefsberg (Les
Misérables, Grease); Kevin Kern (Wicked, Les Misérables); Howard McGillin
(The Phantom of the Opera, Bounce); Charlie Pollock, (Nine to Five the
Musical, Urinetown); Laurie Gayle Stephenson (The Phantom of the
Opera, A Chorus Line;, and Kathy Voytko (Nine, Oklahoma!); Shoshana Bean,
(Hairspray, Wicked); and Deone Zanotto (A Chorus Line, Zorba).
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber is a grand concert showcasing the Tony®,
Grammy® and Academy Award®-winning composer’s biggest and most memorable
hits. A full onstage symphony orchestra will accompany the soloists,
recreating countless extraordinary moments and thrills created by one of the
most acclaimed composers of our time. It will be an evening to revisit such
legendary musicals as Cats, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset
Boulevard, Jesus Christ Superstar, Whistle Down the Wind, Starlight Express,
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and more.
Presented by Jeffrey Finn Productions, this new version of the concert
was personally devised by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Following a sold-out
engagement at the Kennedy Center,
The Washington Post raved, "Very impressive. The hits come crashing at you
in an evening dedicated to crescendo and climax."
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber is presented by special arrangement with
The Really Useful Group. The creative and design teams for this
engagement will reunite the team behind the 2004 production: director Tom
Kosis, musical supervisor and conductor Edward G. Robinson, lighting
designer Brian Nason and sound designer Lucas J. Corrubia, Jr. Robinson, who
will be center stage conducting the 30-member orchestra, has a long history
working on Andrew Lloyd Webber shows including Cats, The Phantom of the
Opera and previous tours of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER is the composer of The Likes of Us, Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita,
Variations and Tell Me on a Sunday, Song & Dance, Cats, Starlight Express,
The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down
the Wind, The Beautiful Game and The Woman in White. He composed the film
scores of Gumshoe and The Odessa File and Requiem, a setting of the Latin
Requiem Mass, for which he won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Composition.
He has also produced in the West End and on
Broadway, not only his own work, but the Olivier Award-winning plays La Bête
and Daisy Pulls It Off. In 2004 he produced the film version of The Phantom
of the Opera. In 2006 he oversaw a new London production of Evita, Phantom –
The Las Vegas Spectacular and pioneered television casting for musical
theater with the hit BBC series How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?”
which won an International Emmy. He followed this with the equally
successful series Any Dream Will Do. His awards include seven Tonys, three
Grammys, six Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, an International Emmy, the
Praemium Imperiale and the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical
Theatre. He was knighted in 1992 and made an honorary life peer in 1997.
He’s a 2006 Kennedy Center Honoree.
DAVID JOSEFSBERG’s Broadway credits include The Wedding Singer, Grease,
Les Misérables and On The Twentieth Century. Off- Broadway credits include
Altar Boyz (Drama League nomination), Joys of Sex and Night Blooming
Jasmine. He has been touring both Europe and the
United States
for the past year with comedy legend, Stephen Lynch. He has been performing
his own original material, as well as songs co-written with Lynch and Jeff
Gurner (Carnegie Hall, Central Park, Vegas and
Miami
comedy festivals). Josefsberg was seen as TV icon Arthur “the Fonz”
Fonzarelli on NBC’s The Mork and Mindy Story, and in the films Limbo and
Carlito’s Way. Josefsberg is rejoining The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
after most recently performing the show at the
Kennedy Center in
Washington,
D.C.
HOWARD McGILLIN is best known for his record-setting title appearance in
The Phantom of the Opera, a role he performed more than 2,500 times on
Broadway. He appeared in Stephen Sondheim’s musical Bounce and was nominated
for a Helen Hayes Award for his performance. His Broadway and
West End credits include Kiss of the Spider Woman, She Loves Me,
Mack and Mabel, The Secret Garden, Anything Goes (Tony and Drama Desk
nominations), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Tony and Drama Desk nominations,
Theatre World Award) and Sunday in the Park with George. On tour, he has
played in Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby. His numerous televised concerts
include Stephen Sondheim's Follies, Kennedy Center Honors and the Boston
Pops. He has also provided voices for animated films such as
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and The Swan
Princess. He released a solo CD, Howard McGillin: Where Time Stands Still.
CHARLIE POLLOCK originated the role of “Dwayne Rhodes” in 9 to 5 the
Musical and played “Bobby Strong” in Urinetown, The Musical on Broadway. He
also originated the role of “Bobby Strong” in the first national tour of
Urinetown. He starred as “Paul Bertolet” in Carnival, at The Paper
Mill Playhouse and played “Dwayne” in 9 to 5 at the Ahmanson Theatre in
L.A. Some of his off-Broadway credits include I
Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, The Original company of Jonathan
Larson’s Tick, Tick…Boom!, Don’t Quit You Night Job, The Last Starfighter
(world premier), “Ken Star” in Monica the Musical!, Loot, Lola, Opus
Profundum and Cock and Bull Story(NY premier). Across the country
Charlie has appeared as “Steve Jobs” in Nerds! The Musical, “Jerry Lukowski”
in The Full Monty, “Judas” in Jesus Christ Superstar, “Jesus” in Godspell,
“Tommy” in The Who’s Tommy and “Eddie” in King of the Moon. He worked
with Stephen King and John Mellencamp on their new musical The Ghost
Brothers of Darkland County, and played Maffio in the new musical Dangerous
Beauty, written by Grammy Award winner Amanda Mcbroom. His TV/Film credits
include the recurring role of Bud Mcgann on “As the World Turns”, “P.S. I
Love You” with Hilary Swank, the Palm Springs Film Festival award-winning,
“Walking Charley”, “Law and Order”, and “The Guiding Light” Please visit
www.charliepollock.com.
LAURIE GAYLE STEPHENSON made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning
The Secret Garden. The Dallas
native starred for two years on Broadway as Christine in The Phantom of the
Opera. Stephenson made her debut as Christine with the first national
touring company at the Kennedy
Center. She was an
original cast member of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber in Concert, touring
the U.S.
singing opposite Michael Crawford. She was part of Stephen Sondheim's 75th
birthday celebration concert at the New Amsterdam Theatre. She is a regular
soloist with the popular Bravo Broadway, having sung with most major
symphony orchestras across the country. Her national tours include Annie,
Camelot and Dames at Sea. She has also been seen in the revival of Follies,
A Chorus Line, Grease, A Day in Hollywood, A
Night in the Ukraine,
110 In the Shade and in the world premiere of Startime. She can be heard on
the original cast albums of The Secret Garden, Prom Queens Unchained, Radio
City Christmas Spectacular, Bravo Broadway I, Bravo Broadway II and her
debut solo album, Till You Find Your Dream.
KATHY VOYTKO made her Broadway debut in the original revival cast of Oklahoma! directed by Trevor Nunn and
choreographed by Susan Stroman, and was also in the Tony Award-winning
revival cast of Nine the Musical starring Antonio Banderas and Chita
Rivera. At Lincoln Center, she originated the role of
Ariadne in The Frogs opposite
Nathan Lane. She was chosen by Hal Prince to play
Eva on the 25th anniversary tour of Evita. Voytko played Christine on the
national tour of The Phantom of the Opera. She was in the original cast of
Boublil and Schonberg’s The Pirate Queen, and was also the standby Grania,
which she performed several times in Chicago and on Broadway. She has sung in
concert at Carnegie Hall in Showboat, and most recently in the live-recorded
concert of Kristina. Voytko has performed in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Weber
in other cities.
SHOSHANA BEAN made her New York
city
debut in the off-Broadway revival of Godspell, and soon after made her
Broadway debut in the original cast of the Tony Award-winning production
of Hairspray. She went on to be the first replacement for the green-skinned
witch Elphaba in Broadway's Wicked later reprising her performance on
the Wicked national tour. She performed in The Music of Andrew Lloyd
Weber at the Kennedy Center and Joseph and the. . .Dreamcoat at
Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Most recently she headlined in the Las
Vegas burlesque revue Peepshow and made her New York City concert debut to a
sold-out crowd at Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, a special production of Dallas Summer
Musicals, presented by Comerica Bank, comes to the Music Hall at Fair Park
April 20-25. Tickets, ranging in price from $15-$71, are on sale now
at The Box Office, 542 Preston
Royal
Shopping Center, or any area TicketMaster
location, online at
www.ticketmaster.com, or by calling 214-631-ARTS (2787). Tickets
for groups of 15 or more are available by calling 214-426-GROUP.
The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber will open Tuesday, April 20 at 8 p.m.
All performances are at the Music Hall at Fair Park,
with the following performance schedule:
Tuesday
April 20
8 p.m.
Wednesday
April 21
8 p.m.
Thursday
April 22
8 p.m.
Friday
April 23
8 p.m. Saturday
April 24
2 and 8 p.m. Sunday
April 25
2 and 8 p.m.
Next up for Dallas Summer Musicals will be LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
THE MUSICAL, with Melissa Gilbert as “Ma,” May 11-23; WICKED, May 26-June
27; DREAMGIRLS, June 30-July 18; and the State Fair of Texas musical, SHREK
THE MUSICAL, September 28-October 17, 2010.
Season sponsors for Dallas Summer Musicals, presented by Comerica Bank,
are WFAA TV Channel 8 and American Airlines. Now celebrating its 70th
season, Dallas Summer Musicals, Inc. (DSM) is the largest producer of live
theatrical entertainment in the Southwest, the second oldest summer theater
organization in the United States, and the sixth largest non-profit theater
company. DSM has been entertaining North Texas audiences with the finest in live, musical
theatre entertainment since 1941. In addition to presenting national
Broadway tours, DSM also produces shows on Broadway, presents and tours
local productions, and is involved in developing new works. Dallas
Summer Musicals’ affiliates include DSM Management Group, Inc. (DSMMGI),
which manages the Music Hall at
Fair Park.
As a non-profit organization, DSM relies on a variety of funding sources
to bring the Best of Broadway to
Dallas
at affordable ticket prices, as well as to preserve the beautiful historic
theatres, educate young audiences and create important community programs.
DSM’s Seats for Kids program provides a meaningful arts education experience
to thousands of low income, at-risk and special needs children. DSM and the
Dallas Police Department partner together to provide positive incentives for
youth that are at risk for gang membership through the Stage Right program.
In addition, the DSM Academy of Performing Arts offers professional theatre
arts training and scholarships to talented students in need. Ticket
sales alone do not sustain these endeavors. Only support from
committed businesses, foundations and individuals make these programs
possible. For more information about Dallas Summer Musicals, presented by
Comerica Bank, visit their website at
www.dallassummermusicals.org
or call (214) 421-5678.
Madelyn Miller is a travel and food writer who loves the music of Andrew
Lloyd Weber. She has seen his performances in London, New York and Las
Vegas, and is so happy to be able to hear it in her almost backyard.
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