Broadway veterans bringing talents to philharmonic's Pops | MP3

By Roger McBain (Contact)
Thursday, February 5, 2009

• "Some Enchanted Evening"

  Click here to download an MP3 file of "Some Enchanted Evening," one of the songs the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra will perform this weekend.

A team of Broadway veterans will join the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra in The Victory this weekend for "A Rodgers & Hammerstein Celebration."

Soprano Melissa Errico, tenor Gary Mauer and baritone Marc Kudisch come to the Pops program with an impressive list of Broadway, off-Broadway and touring credits.

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Errico was a teenager when she debuted on Great White Way, playing Cosette in "Les Miserables." Since then she's appeared in Broadway productions of "Anna Karenina," "My Fair Lady," "High Society," "Amour" and "Dracula."

She's made three solo CDs and has performed on stage, in jazz clubs and with orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic.

In 18 years in New York, Kudisch has played in Broadway productions of "Assassins," "Bells Are Ringing," "The Wild Party," ""High Society," "Beauty and the Beast," "The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "9 to 5" and others.

He recently played multiple roles in the Broadway revival of "The Apple Tree" while performing in the New York City Opera's revival of "The Pirates of Penzance."

Mauer's Broadway roles include the title role and Raoul in "Phantom of the Opera" and the revolutionary leader Enjolras in "Les Miserables."

He's performed in touring shows and in concert with orchestras around the world.

Saturday and Sunday the trio will sing the songs of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, in a program drawn from some of their best-known collaborations.

The show will feature 23 favorites from a half-dozen shows, including "June is Bustin' Out All Over" and "If I Loved You" ("Carousel"); "It's a Grand Night for Singing" ("State Fair"); "I Whistle a Happy Tune" and "Hello Young Lovers" ("The King and I"); "Some Enchanted Evening" and "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame" ("South Pacific"); "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" and "Oklahoma!" ("Oklahoma"); and "My Favorite Things" and "Climb Every Mountain" ("The Sound of Music").

Alfred Savia, the philharmonic's music director, will conduct the concert, which will feature the instrumentalists in a Rodgers & Hammerstein orchestral interlude.

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