Maestra Hicks, a specialist in film music and the film in concert genre, introduced this final BSO pops concert of the season. She explained that the scores selected for representation in th…
It's always a pleasure to welcome back Jack Everly, the BSO's former principal pops conductor, for one of his well-received programs of the Great American Songbook. For this performance he b…
"The Music Man," with music, lyrics, and book by Meredith Willson, is based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. Set in the fictional town of River City, Iowa, the story follows the tra…
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a three-act play by Edward Albee, first staged on Broadway in 1962. It won Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Actress (Uta Hagen), and Best Actor (Arthur Hi…
Maestro Heyward introduced the program as a musical reflection on life. The first selection, AntonÃn Dvořák's "Carnival Overture" (1891), is the second in a trilogy of overtures ti…
Maestro Enrico Lopez-Yanez, an active composer/arranger as well as principal and guest pops conductor of several symphony orchestras, is known for his collaboration with many popular artists…
"Everything That Never Happened," written by Sarah B. Mantell, was developed at the Carlotta Festival of New Plays, Yale School of Drama (2017) and through The Playwrights Realm Writing Fell…
Written just before the pandemic by playwright Eboni Booth, "Primary Trust" was developed at the 2021 Ojai Playwrights Conference and as part of the IGNITE CHICAGO Festival of New Plays. It …
With music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and book by Patricia Resnick, "9 to 5: The Musical" is based on the 1980 film of the same name. After tryouts in Los Angeles, the show transferred to Br…
This concert, a Schirmer Theatrical/Greenberg Artists co-production, featured vocalists Shayna Steele, Chester Gregory, and Terron Brooks with instrumentalists Chris Kuffner (bass) and Jacob…
In 1885 James Whitcomb Riley wrote a poem titled "The Elf Child" in honor of Mary "Allie" Smith, an orphan who lived in his household. The poem's title was eventually changed (via typographi…
This concert, the third in a series of holiday offerings, introduces Baltimore audiences to William Langley, the newly appointed Staff Conductor of the BSO. In this position he will have a b…
"Life of Pi" is a play adapted for the stage by Lolita Chakrabarti from the 2001 philosophical adventure novel by Canadian author, Yann Martel. The novel won the Man Booker Prize in 2002. An…
This concert, the first in a series of holiday-themed programs, features soloists Sherezade Panthaki (soprano), Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Cooley (tenor), Enrico Lagasca (bass), and…
Agatha Christie's 1943 British play "And Then There Were None" was based on her 1939 mystery novel of the same name. In her autobiography, she says, "I wrote the book after a tremendous amou…
"Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start." Those introductory lyrics to "Do-Re-Mi," the most popular song from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music." were firs…
This concert is a tribute to the collaboration of two African-American composer-pianists, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington and William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn, who wrote and arranged many cl…
Felicia Curry, vocalist and a member of Everyman's Resident Company, presents an evening of cabaret entertainment in a return to the popular summer cabaret series which Everyman featured at …
Michael Feinstein, pianist and vocalist, is a music revivalist and archivist of the Great American Songbook. He is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Pasadena Orchestra and the Artistic Dir…
The BSO's final concert of the 2023-2024 season reminded me of the four traditional requirements for the bridal attire at a wedding: something old, something new, something borrowed, somethi…
Did you know that the film "Lawrence of Arabia" exceeds the running time of "Gone with the Wind" by ONE minute and therefore holds the record as the longest film to win the Academy Award for…
"The Importance of Being Earnest," a farcical comedy by playwright Oscar Wilde, premiered at London's St. James Theatre in 1895. Due to a notorious scandal and Oscar Wilde's ensuing legal pr…
"Prohibition and the Roaring '20s," co-produced by Schirmer Theatrical/Greenberg Artists, was an interesting program of music, vocals, and visuals recalling the era of bathtub gin, speakeasi…
"The Hot Wing King," by Katori Hall, premiered off-Broadway at the Manhattan Signature Theatre in 2020. Due to Covid restrictions, it had a limited run but won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama i…
"Beauty and the Beast" marks the first time Disney produced one of its own film adaptations for the Broadway stage. The book by Linda Woolverton is adapted from the 1991 animated musical fil…