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Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway
Saturday
February 6, 2010
8:00 PM
100 Years of Broadway recreates the greatest moments from the finest Broadway shows featuring stars from The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, CATS, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Jekyll & Hyde. These amazing performers light up the stage with songs from the hit shows in which they starred.
100 Years of Broadway is two and a half hours of fun! … Neil puts on these hit-filled concerts featuring a bevy of Broadway performers singing some of the theater’s most well known tunes. It brought down the house, and it doesn’t get much better than that.” – Robert Diamond, Broadwayworld.com
NEIL BERG Composer/lyricist of the hit off-Broadway musical The Prince and the Pauper, which ran for two years at the Lamb’s Theater in New York City. The New York Times described it as “...soaring on the wings of theatrical fun.” Berg is currently writing the music for the Broadway bound musical Grumpy Old Men, based on the hit film. Two of Berg’s new musicals have been selected for the prestigious New York Musical Theater Festival: The Man Who Would Be King, a musical realization of Rudyard Kipling’s novella, and Tim and Scrooge, the sequel to A Christmas Carol.
RITA HARVEY starred recently as Hodel in the hit Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof with Rosie O’Donnell and Harvey Fierstein. She made her Broadway debut performing the lead role of Christine Daee in The Phantom of the Opera, after two years performing the role with the second national tour. She starred off-Broadway as Lady Edith in the hit musical The Prince and the Pauper. Rita has performed as a featured soloist around the world with such stars as Robert Evan, Betty Buckley, Ben Vereen, Craig Schulman, Lillias White and Michael Crawford.
RAYMOND JARAMILLO MCLEOD A Broadway veteran, most recently Mr. McLeod appeared as ‘Wreck’ in the Tony Award winning production of Wonderful Town. He has also worked in shows with such stars as Michael Crawford, Placido Domingo, Taye Diggs and Will Smith. However, his daughters only know him from his work with Disney on the soundtracks: Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladin and Pocohantas.
CARTER CALVERT New York credits include starring in the original Broadway production cast album, and touring productions of It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues. Mr. Calvert also toured Europe in Smokey Joe's Café, played Grizabella in the national tour of Cats, and appeared as the title role in Always, Patsy Cline.
DANNY ZOLLI Best known for his monumental number of performances as "Jesus, Judas, and Annas" in more than 15 productions of Jesus Christ Superstar throughout the world. Mr. Zolli’s unique and stirring performance of the aria "Gethsemane" is debated among fans as one of the best. Danny has just completed and will soon be releasing his second solo album entitled "Sometimes Simple is Best". ERICK BUCKLEY was the first person in the world to perform both the roles of Marius and Jean Valjean in Les Miserable. Other roles include Piangi in "Andrew Loyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, Dave in The Full Monty, Roger in the broadway revival of Grease!, and Gangster #1 in the Tony winning Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate, Camelot opposite Robert Goulet and critically acclaimed concerts around the world.
Songs from past performances include: And All That Jazz, This is the Moment, Think of Me, Some Enchanted Evening, I'm a Woman, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Cabaret, When You've Got It, Flaunt It!, Man of La Mancha, Impossible Dream, Buenos Aires/Don't Cry for Me Argentina, How Long Has This Been Going On?, Being Alive, A Boy Like That, The Phantom of the Opera, The Wizard and I, Gethsemene, Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries and Seasons of Love.
Ticket Information:
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