A Night on Broadway

April 7 & 8, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Gloria Shott Performance Hall

The NGCSU Madrigal Singers and soloists will be presenting an evening of Broadway favorites, along with a short comic opera, during "A Night on Broadway" on Thursday, April 7, and again on Friday, April 8, at 7:30 pm in Gloria Shott Performance Hall.

The concert will open with a brief example of the predecessor of American musical theater, classical comic opera. The singers will perform a staged version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Impresario, the story of an unscrupulous opera director who, in an effort to increase his income, tries to talk two famous prima donnas into sharing the same stage. Accustomed to having the limelight to themselves and highly jealous of each other, the two singers insist they will not appear together and take turns insulting and trying to out-sing each other, with hilarious results. This performance is a part of the University's celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.

The second half of the concert, "Thoroughly Modern Musicals: A Contemporary Broadway Retrospective," is a revue of the many significant changes that American musical theater has seen over the past half century. Beginning with West Side Story (1957) and ending with Wicked (2003), the show will present some of the greatest songs to come out of Broadway over the past several decades, including selections from Godspell, A Chorus Line, Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, The Lion King, and many others.

The concert is free and open to the public. Gloria Shott Performance Hall is located in the Nix Cultural Center, just below gold-steepled Price Hall on the NGCSU Campus in Dahlonega. For further information, please contact the Fine Arts Department at 706-864-1423.

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