This preview has been provided by the North Carolina Symphony.
The legendary Patti LuPone will perform with the North Carolina Symphony on Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12, at 8 p.m. in Meymandi Concert Hall in downtown Raleigh. The concerts, which will be led by Resident Conductor William Henry Curry, are part of the Symphony’s 2013/14 Pops season.
Ms. LuPone has made her mark in the world of entertainment as a Tony Award-winning star of Broadway, a Grammy Award-winning singer, and as a best-selling author. Her much-lauded career includes Tony Awards for “Evita” and “Gypsy,” two Grammy Awards, Emmy Award-winning telecasts of “Passion” and “Sweeney Todd,” and roles in the films “Heist,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” and “Witness,” among many others. Her autobiography, “Patti LuPone: A Memoir,” was a New York Times best-seller. Recent projects on Broadway include David Mamet’s play “The Anarchist,” and the musical “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.” A founding member of the Drama Division of The Julliard School, Ms. LuPone is also a founding member of John Houseman’s The Acting Company.
In her program with the North Carolina Symphony, titled “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda,” Ms. LuPone will perform songs from hit Broadway musicals that include “Hair,” “Bye, Bye Birdie,” “Funny Girl,” “West Side Story,” “Peter Pan,”, as well as numbers from her Tony Award-winning performances in “Evita” and “Gypsy.”
Tickets to Patti LuPone’s performance with the North Carolina Symphony range from $28 to $89. For more information, go to the North Carolina Symphony’s website at www.ncsymphony.org, or call 919.733.2750 or toll free 877.627.6724.
Pops Series partners are CEI: The Digital Office, Duke Medicine, and Duke Realty.
In recognition of A.C. Hall, Jr.’s generous support of the North Carolina Symphony at the Pinnacle Circle Level, this concert has been named in his honor, and in memory of his wife Dot Hall.
Meymandi Concert Hall is located in the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E. South St., in Raleigh.
About the North Carolina Symphony
Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony gives more than 200 performances annually to adults and school children in more than 50 North Carolina counties. An entity of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, the orchestra employs 66 professional musicians, under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn and Resident Conductor William Henry Curry.
Based in downtown Raleigh’s spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts and an outdoor summer venue at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C., the Symphony performs about 60 concerts annually in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary metropolitan area. It holds regular concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington—as well as individual concerts in many other North Carolina communities throughout the year—and conducts one of the most extensive education programs of any U.S. orchestra.
April 11-12 Concert/Event Listings:
North Carolina Symphony
William Henry Curry, Resident Conductor
Patti LuPone, vocalist
Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12, 8 p.m.
Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh
April 11-12 Program
North Carolina Symphony
William Henry Curry, Resident Conductor
Patti LuPone, vocalist
La Vie parisienne, Overture on Themes of Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Arr. Antal Dorati
No, No, Nanette, Selections for Orchestra
Vincent Youmans (1898-1946)
Arr. Robert Russell Bennett
Introduction
Take a Little One-Step
I Want to be Happy
Too Many Rings Around Rosie
No, No, Nanette
Tea For Two
Peach On the Beach
An American in Paris
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
Musical Direction by Joseph Talken
Conceived and Directed by Scott Wittman
Dialogue by Jeffrey Richman and Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone, vocalist
