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DuPage Symphony Presents "Broadway Spectacular" with Lisa Vroman March 15 and 16

The DuPage Symphony Orchestra continues its 60th Anniversary Season with “Broadway Spectacular”, a concert featuring internationally acclaimed soprano Lisa Vroman.  Music Director Barbara Schubert conducts the DuPage Symphony—honored by the Illinois Council of Orchestras as the 2013 Community Orchestra of the Year—in two performances at Wentz Concert Hall, 171 E. Chicago Avenue in Naperville, on Saturday, March 15 at 8:00 PM and Sunday, March 16 at 3:00 PM.

 

Co-sponsored by the North Central College Department of Fine Arts, these performances feature Broadway favorites by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, sung by acclaimed soprano Lisa Vroman.  One of America's most versatile artists on stage and in concert, Ms. Vroman starred for many years on Broadway, in Los Angeles, and in San Francisco as Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera.  Her Broadway debut was in Aspects of Love, and she was the first to play both Fantine and Cosette in Les Misérables.  Cameron Mackintosh, producer of Phantom & Les Miserables, called her “one of American musical theater’s most beautiful voices.”  Ms. Vroman’s many starring roles have included Lili Vanessi in Kiss Me Kate, Marian Paroo in The Music Man , Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, and Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella.  She starred as Johanna in Sweeney Todd, a 2001 Emmy Award winning PBS television special, as Laurey in Oklahoma at the BBC Proms Festival, and sang and danced opposite Dick Van Dyke as Mary Poppins at the Hollywood Bowl.  Ms. Vroman has also sung on separate occasions for Queen Elizabeth, former President Bill Clinton, and former Vice President Al Gore.  A selection of energetic orchestral showpieces, including Gershwin’s Girl Crazy Overture, Johann Strauss’s Fledermaus Overture, Bruce Healey’s A Tribute to Irving Berlin, and Leonard Bernstein’s Candide Overture, round out this exciting Broadway program.

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Tickets for the March 15 and 16 performances by the DuPage Symphony are $35 balcony/$30 main floor for adults, $31 balcony/$26 main floor for seniors (65+), and $17 balcony/$12 main floor for students.  Tickets can be purchased by calling the North Central College Box Office at 630.637.SHOW (7469) or online at www.dupagesymphony.org.

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Celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2013-2014, the DuPage Symphony is a 90-member ensemble of talented area musicians dedicated to the orchestra’s mission of “Surrounding Our Community With Music”.  The DSO presents a season of five subscription programs and a family holiday concert at Wentz Concert Hall in Naperville, a series of intimate chamber music concerts in Wheaton and Lombard, and outreach performances throughout DuPage County.  For more information, call the DSO office at 630.778.1003 or visit the orchestra’s web site at www.dupagesymphony.org

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