Legendary Boston Pops and Keith Lockhart Come to Philadelphia, August 21
July 9, 2007
Keith Lockhart
Making their Kimmel Center debut on the Kimmel Center Presents series sponsored by Citi, Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops salute music from the glitz and glamour of the Academy Award's Oscar® and the American Theatre Wing's Tony® on Tuesday, August 21 in Verizon Hall at 8pm. Joining Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops are "Broadway's golden couple" Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley. Both will take time off from their current starring roles on Broadway—Marin, in "Monty Python's Spamalot" and Jason, in Kander & Ebb's "Curtains"—to join the Boston Pops in an unforgettable night of musical marvel.
This "Tribute to Oscar and Tony" is the ultimate setting to hear the most memorable award-winning themes from the golden age of cinema to the latest Hollywood blockbuster, and from the classics of the Great White Way to the most recent Broadway hit musical.
Tickets for Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops are $75, $65, $47 and $40, and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office, open daily from 10pm to 6pm and later on performance evenings. (Additional fees may apply.) For group sales call 215-790-5883.
A limited number of $10 tickets are available for every Kimmel Center Presents performance at the Kimmel Center. Tickets go on sale the day of the event and can be purchased at the Kimmel Center box office beginning 2.5 hours prior to curtain time and 11:30am for matinees. Limit one ticket per person.
During the 2007 season, his thirteenth as Boston Pops Conductor, Keith Lockhart surpassed the milestone of his 1,000th Boston Pops concert. In February 1995 he was named 20th Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra since its founding in 1885. During his tenure, he has made 64 television shows, including 38 new programs for PBS’s Evening at Pops; the annual July Fourth spectacular, produced by Boston’s WBZ-TV and shown nationally on CBS Television; and the orchestra’s annual holiday special, produced and aired in Boston on WBZ-TV. The Boston Pops’ 2002 July Fourth broadcast was Emmy-nominated, and the Evening at Pops telecast of "Fiddlers Three" won the 2002 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Keith Lockhart was an October 2006 recipient of the Bob Hope Patriot Award. He has led the Boston Pops on 29 national tours, four overseas tours of Japan and Korea, and in performances at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall. Under his direction the orchestra has performed to enthusiastic audiences in concert halls and sports arenas across the country. In September 2004 they appeared live on national television with Sir Elton John during the NFL Season Kickoff special. In February 2002 Mr. Lockhart led the Boston Pops in the pre-game show of Super Bowl XXXVI at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. In November 2004 he and the Boston Pops released Sleigh Ride, the orchestra’s first self-produced recording, which was followed in June 2005 by America. Both recordings are available online through www.bostonpops.org. Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded eight albums with RCA Victor&mdashh;Runnin’ Wild: The Boston Pops Play Glenn Miller, American Visions, the Grammy-nominated The Celtic Album, Holiday Pops, A Splash of Pops, Encore!, the Latin Grammy-nominated The Latin Album, and My Favorite Things: A Richard Rodgers Celebration.
Critically acclaimed actress and singer Marin Mazzie has been heard in many of the country's major symphony halls, cabaret and concert venues, seen in some of the most memorable musicals on the Broadway stage, appeared in London’s West End, and has released her first album with husband Jason Danieley, Opposite You. Currently starring on Broadway as the Lady of the Lake in Monty Python’s Spamalot, Marin received Tony and Drama Desk nominations and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as Lilli/Katharine in the hit revival of Kiss Me, Kate, and later received an Olivier Award nomination when she made her West End debut in the show. Other Broadway credits include Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics nominations), Passion (Tony nomination), Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods, Big River, and Out of This World as well as Kismet, (Encores!). Off-Broadway she has appeared in The Vagina Monologues, The Trojan Women: A Love Story, and And the World Goes ’Round (also appearing in the national tour). Her regional credits include productions at the Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, the Denver Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, and Pittsburgh CLO. Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley have performed their cabaret/concert "Opposite You" at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series, Joe’s Pub, the Cinegrill, and other venues nationally. Marin has done extensive concert work across the country from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl under the batons of Michael Tilson Thomas, Marvin Hamlisch, Skitch Henderson, Keith Lockhart, Paul Gemignani, Peter Nero, Patrick Summers, John Mauceri, and Doc Severinson, to name a few. On television she played a recurring character on the CBS sitcom Still Standing, and has made guest appearances on Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Jake in Progress, Stacked, Pryor Offenses, and One Life to Live, on PBS "Great Performances" presentations of Passion, My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies, and My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs(all available on DVD), and in the Boston Pops’ tribute to Jerry Herman, on PBS’s Evening at Pops. Her recordings include Kiss Me, Kate (DRG), Ragtime (RCA), Passion (Angel), Out of This World (DRG), My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies and My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs (both Hybrid), Broadway Divas (RCA), The Stephen Schwartz Album (Varese Sarabande), and John Adams’s I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Nonesuch). Opposite You (PS Classics) was released in fall 2005 to critical and popular acclaim. Marin holds an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, Western Michigan University. Visit marinmazzie.com for further information.
Broadway actor, singer and concert performer Jason Danieley has been entertaining audiences from New York's theater district and London’s West End to Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. Currently starring on Broadway in Kander and Ebb’s Curtains, Jason made his Broadway debut as the title character in Candide, directed by theater legend Harold Prince (Theatre World Award, Drama League Award, and Drama Desk nomination). He took it all off for The Full Monty in the original Broadway and West End casts. A frequent guest of New York’s highly acclaimed City Center Encores! series, Jason has had leading roles in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Strike Up the Band. His off-Broadway appearances include The Trojan Women: A Love Story by Charles Mee, Jr., Dream True by Ricky Ian Gordon, and Floyd Collins by Adam Guettel. Among his regional credits are The Highest Yellow by Michael John LaChiusa (Helen Hayes Award, Best Actor in a musical), Beauty by Tina Landau, Casino Paradise by William Bolcolm, 110 in the Shade (Garland Award, Actor in a Musical), and Brigadoon in Los Angeles’ Reprise! concert series. Many of the country’s leading orchestras have invited Jason to be a guest artist, including the New York, Boston, and Philly Pops, Los Angeles Philharmonic (at the Hollywood Bowl), and the symphony orchestras of St. Louis, Utah, Minnesota, and Buffalo. He has starred in fully staged concert versions of Bernstein’s Candide and Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing and Let ’Em Eat Cake (conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas) with the San Francisco Symphony, as well as other major concert versions of Carousel as Enoch Snow with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and South Pacific as Lt. Cable, both at Carnegie Hall. The latter was taped and aired on PBS’s Great Performances in spring 2006. "Opposite You" is the cabaret/concert Jason and his wife Marin Mazzie created for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series. They have performed it nationally at venues from Joe’s Pub in New York to the Cinegrill in Los Angeles. It was recorded on PS Classics and released in 2005. Jason can also be heard on the cast albums of Floyd Collins, Candide, The Full Monty, and, most recently, Dream True (PS Classics), The Stephen Schwartz Album, South Pacific in Concert at Carnegie Hall, Jule Styne in Hollywood (PS Classics), and two RCA Victor albums with the Boston Pops Orchestra and Keith Lockhart, A Splash of Pops and My Favorite Things.
The Boston Pops, "America’s Orchestra," performs for nearly 900,000 people annually in Boston, across the country, and around the world, and reaches millions more through its recordings and television broadcasts. In 2007, the Boston Pops marks its 122nd season, comprising more than 40 Symphony Hall concerts and the annual free outdoor Fourth of July concert on the Charles River Esplanade. In December they presented 36 Holiday Pops concerts. Keith Lockhart was appointed 20th conductor of the Boston Pops in February 1995, succeeding John Williams. Named Boston Pops Conductor at age 35, Mr. Lockhart is only the third conductor to lead the Boston Pops since 1930, when Arthur Fiedler began his 50-year tenure at the helm of the orchestra. During the 2007 spring season, his thirteenth as Boston Pops Conductor, Mr. Lockhart surpassed the milestone of his 1,000th Boston Pops concert. He has made 64 television shows, including 38 new programs for PBS’s Evening at Pops; the annual July Fourth spectacular, produced by Boston’s WBZ-TV and shown nationally on CBS Television; and the orchestra’s annual holiday special, produced and aired in Boston on WBZ-TV. He has led Boston Pops performances at Carnegie Hall, 29 national tours, and four overseas tours of Japan and Korea. In September 2004 they appeared live on national television with Sir Elton John during the NFL Season Kickoff special. In February 2002 Mr. Lockhart led the Boston Pops in the pre-game show of Super Bowl XXXVI. The most-recorded orchestra in the world, the Boston Pops Orchestra currently has a discography of more than 100 recordings. Most recently, Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops released Sleigh Ride and America, the orchestra’s first self-produced recordings. Previously they recorded eight albums with RCA Victor—Runnin’ Wild: The Boston Pops Play Glenn Miller, American Visions, the Grammy-nominated The Celtic Album, Holiday Pops, A Splash of Pops, Encore!, the Latin Grammy-nominated The Latin Album, and My Favorite Things: A Richard Rodgers Celebration."...the best-known, most recorded and arguably most popular orchestra in the United States." - The New York Times
Kimmel Center Presents 2007/2008 season is sponsored by Citi. Support for individual series and concerts is provided by: Mellon Financial Corporation, University of Pennsylvania Health System, National Endowment for the Arts, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, ARC Wheeler, The William Penn Foundation, The Wachovia Foundation, Verizon Foundation, The Presser Foundation, PNC Foundation, Philadelphia Music Project and Dance Advance, Initiatives of The Pew Charitable Trust administered by The University of the Arts. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents. Toyota is the Official Vehicle of Kimmel Center Presents Jazz and World Pop programming. NBC-10 is a Media Partner for Kimmel Center Presents. The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com are media sponsors for the Great Orchestras on Tour series.
KIMMEL CENTER PRESENTS
Sponsored by Citi
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 | 8pm
Verizon Hall
The Boston Pops
A Salute to Oscar and Tony
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Marin Mazzie, soprano
Jason Danieley, tenor
Rózsa: Prelude to Ben-Hur
Steiner-Morley: Main Title from Gone With the Wind
Porter-Sebesky: So In Love, from Kiss Me, Kate MS. MAZZIE
Rodgers/Hammerstein-Sebesky: I Have Dreamed, from The King and I MR. DANIELEY
Young: Overture to Around the World in 80 Days
Barry-Reisman: Love Theme from Out of Africa
Jarre: Main Title from Lawrence of Arabia
Sondheim: Move On, from Sunday in the Park with George
MS. MAZZIE and MR. DANIELEY
Brooks-Besterman: Overture to The Producers
Lerner/Loewe: Main Title from My Fair Lady
Sondheim-Hollenbeck: Not While I’m Around, from Sweeney Todd
MARIA PERRY, vocalist (PopSearch 2007 Grand Champion)
Rodgers/Hammerstein-Coughlin: The Sound of Music, from The Sound of Music
MR. DANIELEY
Bernstein/Sondheim: Balcony Scene, from West Side Story MS. MAZZIE and MR. DANIELEY
Lloyd Webber: Overture to The Phantom of the Opera
Schönberg/Boublil: Bring Him Home, from Les Misérables MR. DANIELEY
Lloyd Webber: As If We Never Said Goodbye, from Sunset Boulevard MS. MAZZIE
arr. Sebesky: You Must Remember This: A Cinematic Sing-Along
As Time Goes By—Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head—
Moon River—The Way We Were—Que Sera, Sera—
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah—Over the Rainbow
Warren/Dubin-Sebesky: 42nd Street
FREE AT THE KIMMEL EVENT
Commonwealth Plaza Stage, 6:30pm
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