What were you up to in 1964? As your memories kick in, we'll see how they connect with the themes offered by the new musicals of that year, and 1964 was an enlightening time: for starters, the great Fiddler on the Roof (the dangers anti-semitism and the importance of community), Anyone Can Whistle (the perils of conformity) […]
Two Matinee Performance Options!
Friday, December 15 at 2:00 pm
Saturday, December 16 at 2:00 pm
Tickets available through Stocker Arts Center at Lorain County Community College
Three Evening Dinner Performance Options:
Sunday. December 17--
Monday, December 18--
Tuesday December 19
Three Evening Dinner Performance Options:
Sunday. December 17--
Monday, December 18--
Tuesday December 19
Three Evening Dinner Performance Options:
Sunday. December 17--
Monday, December 18--
Tuesday December 19
Once again TMTP and members of Cleveland Jazz Orchestra team up for an evening of the Great American Songbook-- this year it's the chapter on Broadway's Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The two of them, along with the Gershwins and Cole Porter, raised the bar on the art of sophisticated song: "This Can't Be Love," […]
Why did Ella Fitzgerald record no less than eight songbook albums devoted to famous composers--all of them (except Duke Ellington) white songwriters for theater and film? "Because the songs are great!" she said, and many of her African American colleagues from the classic era agreed: Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Johnny Hartman, Maxine Sullivan, Louis Armstrong, Bobby Short--the list goes on. Jazz pianist Joe Hunter and his trio and singers including the wonderful Evelyn Wright and Nicole Sumlin-- will take us on a tour spiced with video clips.
Lerner and Loewe's masterwork boasts hit songs ("Almost Like Being in Love," "The Heather on the Hill"), but more important, this 1947 musical pierces the heart: It's the story of Tommy Albright, an American who has been emotionally scarred by World War II, but who reclaims his soul in the Scottish Highlands with a lass […]