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A Grand Night for Singing
April 13, 2023 - April 16, 2023
The Harris Arts Center and Calhoun Little Theatre are excited to announce the production of “A Grand Night for Singing” directed by Jeri Dunn and musical director David K. Smith. Audiences will have five opportunities to enjoy this festive production – April 13-15 at 7p.m. and April 16 at 3p.m.
Taste and imagination, the two key ingredients for a first-rate revue, abound in this fresh take on the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon, conceived by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie. Over three decades after the duo’s final collaboration, The Sound of Music, took Broadway by storm, this new R&H musical opened the 1994 Broadway season with flair and distinction, garnering wildly enthusiastic notices and earning two Tony nominations, including Best Musical.
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein may never have imagined “Shall We Dance?” as a comic pas de deux for a towering beauty and her diminutive admirer, nor might they have suspected that one day a lovelorn young lad might pose the musical question, “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” But that’s precisely the kind of invention lavished upon this new revue, with innovative musical arrangements, including a sultry Andrews Sisters-esque “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair,” a swingin’ “Honeybun” worthy of the Modernaires, and a jazzy “Kansas City,” proving how terrifically up to date the remarkable songs of R&H remain.
Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 seniors/students and $10 HAC members and may be purchased online at www.harrisartscenter.com or by calling the Harris Arts Center at 706-629-2599.
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