Features Fine Dazzling Broadway Stars — One Performance Only!
University Park, IL—(ENEWSPF)—September 17, 2014. Following an enthusiastic audience response to hit Broadway revue, Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway, Berg now brings his new production, “101 Years of Broadway” to the Center for Performing Arts stage, a musical revue with more of the greatest songs from hit Broadway musicals of the century. This highly anticipated return engagement features a dazzling cast of five Broadway stars accompanied by an all-star New York band is returning on Saturday, September 27, at 8 p.m. Tickets for “101 Years of Broadway” are now on sale at www.centertickets.net or through the box office at 708.235.2222.
“101 Years of Broadway” recreates the biggest moments from the finest shows of the century featuring the actual stars of shows such as “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Les Miserables,” “Evita,” “CATS,” “Wonderful Town,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,” and “Fiddler on the Roof.” These amazing performers light up the stage with songs from the hit shows in which they starred. Neil Berg presents brilliantly revived arrangements of Broadway classics as well as thrilling songs from Broadway’s newest hit shows.
Past productions of this popular show have featured Betty Buckley, Liz Callaway, Ben Vereen, and Alex Santoriello among others. Along with musical director and pianist Neil Berg, this production will feature Richard Todd Adams who has the distinction of portraying The Phantom, Jean Valjean, and Javert; Jeannette Bayardelle who starred as Celie in the National Tour of “The Color Purple;” Rita Harvey from Broadway’s latest revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” with Rosie O’Donnell and Harvey Fierstein; Chuck Wagner, who played Rapunzel’s Prince in the original Broadway cast of “Into the Woods” and who originated the title role in Frank Wildhorns’ “Jekyll & Hyde;” and Danny Zolli who has performed in over 23 productions of “Jesus Christ Superstar” as both Jesus and Judas.
Neil Berg is the 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.”
Songs in the show include:
This is the Moment (Jekyll & Hyde)
Stars (Les Misérables)
Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You (Jersey Boys)
Luck Be A Lady (Guys & Dolls)
I’m Here (The Color Purple)
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Motown)
This Nearly Was Mine (South Pacific)
Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)
|If I Can’t Love Her (Beauty & the Beast)
And I Am Telling You (Dreamgirls)
Phantom of the Opera (The Phantom of the Opera)
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (Hair), and More!
Note: Song list is subject to change.
Tickets range from $30-40 and can be purchased online at www.Centertickets.net or by calling (708) 235-2222. Governors State University is located at 1 University Parkway, University Park, Illinois. The box office is open 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday-Saturdays and two hours prior to performances. Series packages are available through the box office. Programming is supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Source: govst.edu
