Holiday Pops-December 13-22-Heinz Hall
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn Choir, Broadway star Ashly Brown and various other vocal soloists, come together for an explosion of holiday cheer at the yearly Highmark Holiday POPS. There is nothing like the full sound of the orchestra to augment favorite holiday songs and I love a sing along! This should be another perfect reprieve from shopping and all that preparing that we all seem to be doing during this time of year.
Deck the halls with me on weekends December 13-15 and December 20-22 at Heinz Hall. (For Tickets go to pittsburghsymphony.org.)
Home For the Holidays-December 17, 2019 -Benedum
Home for the Holidays is a concert featuring some of
Pittsburgh’s best talent as they come home for the Holidays. This event benefits
the Pittsburgh Food Bank and celebrates the season mixing rock, blues and soul
in a night of Holiday musical classics with:
Kevin Garrett, Clinton Clegg, Scott Blasey, Lyndsey
Smith, Billy Price, Margot Bingham, Joy Ike, Anthony Jardine, Jimbo Jackson,
Morgan Erina and John Schisler and more special
guests.
Join me on December
17,2019 for a musical celebration when Pittsburgh’s best come “Home for the
Holidays.” For ticket go to trustarts.org. .
Forever Plaid
-Pittsburgh CLO October 31-December 29,2019- Greer Cabaret Theater
In this hit musical, the
1950’s male musical group “The Plaids” who met their demise in a car crash
are revived to give the musical performance that never was. It’s a night of laughs and classic harmonies with 1950’s hits : “Catch a Falling Star,”
“Three Coins in the Fountain,” “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing” and “Magic
Moments” and more.
Join
me in for a nostalgic night or to hear these song for the first time in this hilarious comedy. For ticket go trustarts.org.
Phipps Conservatory- Holiday Magic-November 29, 2019-January 12, 2020
Holiday Season often involve that panic rush feeling "to get it all done.” We forget as my blog inspiration book, “Everything I Learned About Christmas, I Learned From A Little Golden Book”, reminds us that Christmas should be a “time of wonder, a time like no other time of the year.” At Phipps Conservatory, the beauty brings back the wonder of the season as you navigate through the 8 rooms of nature infused with lights, Christmas trees and poinsettias, as well as 6 permanent botanical gardens.
Join me for Holiday Magic at Phipps Conservatory and share the wonder of the season.For Tickets go to phippsconservatory.org.
The Telly Leung Quart-Trust Cabaret-Monday November
18, 2019
The Cabaret Series is bringing Broadway’s TThe Telly Leung Quart (Disney’s Aladdin, Godspell, Rent and Fox’s Glee) along with trio form NYC for
a night of Broadway, Pop and Jazz. At the Greer Cabaret theater you get an intimate
encounter with the music and the artists (see Day 350).
Join be for The Telly Leung Quart on November 18, 2019 for another Monday night immersive musical experience. For
tickets to shows: 7:00 pm or 9:30 pm go
to Trustarts.org.
ODC/Dance with Mendelson Choir of Pittsburgh-Path of Miracles – November 6-9,2019 -Trinity Cathedral (328 Sixth Ave)
Pittsburgh Dance Counsel brings ODC/Dance from San Francisco to preform the Path of Miracles with the Pittsburgh Mandelson Choir in Pittsburgh's historic Trinity Cathedral. This show dances the "Camino de Santiago" a pilgrimage across northern Spain where today many hike or bike this trail finding spiritual refection and growth. This show is an interactive dance experience as the audience takes a pilgrimage through the cathedral during four movements.
Join me and travel along with the dancers in this unique venue as ODC/Dance merges movement with the 2005 choir work of British composer Joby Talbot. For tickets go to trustarts.org.
Mean Girls (the musical) comes direct
from Broadway and kicks of the Pittsburgh Broadway series. Based on the movie
comedy Mean Girls, with Lindsey Lohan, this show written by Tina Fey, is
sure to be night of fun. I remember trying to fit in during high school and the roller-coaster of teen
romance. This show is about the new girl’s triumphant navigation through the “female jungle” of a big city high school.
Join me October 29 through November 1, 2019 for a
high energy flash back to your high school
days in this musical comedy where “girl
power” prevails. For tickets go to trustarts.org.
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Pittsburgh Opera- Don Giovanni- October 12,15,18,20,
2019 -Benadum
Pittsburgh
Opera starts the 2019-2020 season with Mozart’s classic Don Giovanni. Sung
in Italian, this opera tells the story of a notorious womanizer who operates without
morals or a conscience. He even keeps a journal of his many conquests but eventually
his deeds catch up with him.
Join me for Don Giovanni and experience one of Mozart’s greatest musical
scores in this comedy/tragedy on October 12,15,18, and 20, 2019 at the Benedum Theater.
For ticket go to Pittsburghopera.org.
Blog post here.
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Cabaret Series-Deborah Cox- October 14-Greer Cabaret Theater
The Trust kicks off the Cabaret Series with Grammy Award-nominated, multi-platinum R&B/Pop recording artist, Deborah Cox. I saw her in the Broadway musical “The Bodyguard” where her powerful voice filled the theater in the role originally played by Whitney Huston. I can’t wait to experience her show in the small intimate Greer Cabaret Theater.
Join me for a musical night with Deborah Cox on October 14, 2019 at 7:00 pm or 9:30 pm at the Greer Cabaret Theater. For tickets go to trustarts.org.
Blog post here.
Blog post here.
Catapult: The Amazing Magic of Shadow and Dance -October 10, 2019
Byham Theater
Catapult uses dance and body transformation to produce shadow silhouettes of shapes that will make you laugh, tell a story and amaze. I saw Catapult as a finalist on the Television show America's Got Talent. I could not figure out how, by only using the human body, they created dancing shadows of the world: mountains, a full-size elephant, helicopter and more (watch here).
Join me for a night of dance and shadow imagery on October 10, 2019 at the Byham Theater. For tickets go to trustarts.org.
Blog Post here.
Blog Post here.
