August 19, 2010 11:35 AM
Romance - musical comedy opening at Franklin Park 8/20&21
Meredith McMath's creative genius strikes once again in this original play premiering Friday night at Frnaklin Park Performing Arts Center in Purcellville, VA:Originally scheduled last February, but snowed out during Loudoun's Snowmageddon, in addition to the talented performers from Loudoun Lyric Opera, there will be an Entr'acte performance from Maddy:August 21& 22
Franklin Park Arts Center
A Light Musical Comedy
Book by Meredith Bean McMath
Music by Mugler; Kern; Bizet; Herbert; Mozart; Meyer, Leslie and Ray; Gounod;
Whiting, Kahn & Egan; Verdi; and Lewis & Young, and many more...
Director Meredith Bean McMath
Music Director Cuong Hung VanStage Director Briana Matthews
CAN GILBERT & SULLIVAN SAVE THIS MARRIAGE?
Meet Opera Expert Nelson Eddington and Broadway Expert Jeanette McAvoy; the two share a marriage and a love of music but not much else at the moment.
It's the summer of 1966, and the couple are set to present an evening of romantic songs from broadway to opera as a tribute to the soon-to-be-open Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.
But, try as they may to rehearse the presentation with the performers, it's clear Jeanette and Nelson aren't going to be able to stay on topic. Or are they? From Vaudeville to Operettas, Broadway music to "serious" Opera, the songs will lead you down Lovers' Lane...
Read more at Loudoun Lyric Opera
Romance from Broadway to Lincoln Center features an entr'acte
performance by MADDY CURTIS. Winner of a trip to Hollywood
in a national singing contest this year, 16-year old Maddy is asenior at Loudoun Valley High School and last appeared with
Loudoun Lyric Opera as "Cousin Hebe" in the fall 2009 production
of HMS Pinafore. In July, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors
chose to honor Maddy for her community service. Her two sold out
January concerts at Franklin Park raised nearly $9,000 for Haitian Relief.
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