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One Night Only: An Evening with Heather Headley and The New York Pops

February 13, 2023

Pairing The New York Pops with Broadway star Heather Headley brought out the best in each. The energy zipping between the orchestra’s music director Steven Reinecke and Headley was palpable. The program was a wonderful musical portrait of Headley. Reinecke, and Headley’s accompanist and personal music director, Ron Colvard did not just support her but became “the wind beneath her wings.” [more]

Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill: A Musical Voyage

February 15, 2017

One of the remarkable things about the theater songs of Kurt Weill is that like the later songs of Stephen Sondheim they are all really little one act plays which give the performers a great deal of latitude in how to perform them. As sung by Karl Josef Com, Rachel de Benedet, Michael Halling and Meghan Picerno and as narrated by Brian Charles Rooney, Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill is an extraordinary musical voyage through some of the greatest theater songs of all time written by among the best talents of the 20th century. [more]

Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1916-1940

February 28, 2015

Director Mindy Cooper’s very well executed transitions between the show’s 27 numbers, the personable Scott Siegel’s erudite remarks, and the variety of gifted performers who participated made "Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1916-1940" a brisk and very enjoyable event. [more]