Wednesday, June 14, 2000
Wednesday, June 14, 2000 |
| LaGrange
College to host 'A Grand Night For Singing' BY MICHAEL
BOYLAN Move over, Broadway, and make way in LaGrange for the upcoming musical revue “A Grand Night For Singing,” produced by The Opera and Musical Theater of West Georgia (TOMTOWG). Straight from rave reviews in New York, “A Grand Night For Singing” is an evening of music and romance featuring more than 30 Rodgers and Hammerstein songs, both classics and lesser known discoveries. Rodgers and Hammerstein were the duo behind such classic works as “Camelot” and “The Sound of Music.” Their family-friendly productions remain fan favorites and Broadway mainstays. The production of “A Grand Night For Singing” will feature songs from such classics as “Oklahoma,” “Carousel,” “State Fair,” “South Pacific,” “The King and I,” “Cinderella,” “Flower Drum Song” and “The Sound of Music.” “With the tremendous success of `Amahl and the Night Visitors' last December, we wanted to offer the community another production with broad appeal and I am convinced this is it,” stated Anne Duraski, Artistic Director of TOMTOWG. This production is for the entire family. With such a variety of songs such as “If I Loved You” from “Carousel,” “Some Enchanted Evening” from “South Pacific,” “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'” from “Oklahoma” and “Maria” from “The Sound of Music,” it will be two hours of complete entertainment, Duraski continued. Greg Thompson, resident director of the Savoyards Music Theatre Co. in Atlanta, will direct and choreograph the production. A veteran of more than 200 productions, Thompson has had extensive experience and has performed on stage with such notables as Sophia Loren, Chita Rivera, Melanie Griffith, Patricia Neal and Robert Goulet. “A Grand Night for Singing” will be held Friday and Saturday nights, June 16, 17, 23 and 24 at 8:00 p.m. in Price Theater, LaGrange College. Tickets are $15 each and can purchased at the Lafayette Society for Performing Arts (LSPA) ticket office, 210 Bull St. Additional information is available by calling LSPA at 706-882-9909.
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