EVENT OVERVIEW

Join the Princeton Playhouse Ensembles for their Berlind Theatre concert premiere: From Wind to Wonder! This musical celebration will unite music theater storytelling, performance, composition, arranging, direction, and choreography while featuring the work and leadership of current Princeton students and alumni. The Playhouse Ensembles will be joined by several Broadway performers and musicians, including the viral, genre-bending Broadway ensemble Third Reprise guest soloists Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen, No Hard Feelings, High School Musical), Grammy Award-nominated Mykal Kilgore (The Wiz Live, Motown the Musical, Hair, Book of Mormon, Jesus Christ Superstar Live, Songs for a New World, Into the Woods), and Kuhoo Verma (Octet, Plan B, Murder Mystery 2. The Big Sick and Space Cadet). You’ll hear brand new student-written compositions alongside selections from the musicals Waitress, Wicked, In the Heights, West Side Story, Dear Evan Hansen, Sunday in the Park with George, Seussical, and more. Don’t miss this exciting night of music, wonder, and world premieres! Directed by Solon Snider Sway, Director of the Playhouse Ensembles, and cosponsored by the Department of Music.

DATe

February 24, 2024

HOURS

7 PM

LOCATION

Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center

ADMISSION

Free tickets required

Tickets:

https://www.mccarter.org/season/2023-2024/from-wind-to-wonder/

Press Release:

https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2024/02/lewis-center-for-the-arts-at-princeton-university-presents-from-wind-to-wonder/

Please join the Playhouse Ensembles for their spring Story Time concert in the Lewis Art complex’s Wallace Theater! Featuring compositions and arrangements by current members of the ensemble, a Princeton alum, and two world premieres composed collaboratively through workshops held this spring, it’s sure to be a special evening.

The program includes original works by Halle Mitchell ’23, Aaron Ventresca ’24, Val Vigoda ’87, Kenyon Duncan, and Jim Papoulis, along with freshly commissioned arrangements that reimagine songs from Princess and the Frog, Dear Evan Hansen, Merrily We Roll Along, Shuffle Along, Into the Woods, and more—don’t miss it! View the show program

Presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Princeton University’s Music Department.

Tickets & Details

The concert is free and open to the public but tickets are required. Reserve tickets through University Ticketing

Directions

Get directions to the Wallace Theater, located on the Forum level of the Lewis Arts complex.

Tickets: https://www.rattlestick.org/thebes

January 20th, 2023, 3pm and 7pm ET

From Rattlestick Theater’s Website:

THEBES: A NEW MUSICAL

Written and Composed by Emma Hathaway Sway, Katie Hathaway, and Solon Snider Sway

Directed by Danilo Gambini
Music Direction by Andrea Grody; Percussion: Ashley Baier

Prod. Stage Manager: Jamie Rose Bukowski

CAST

SPHINX Nora Marie Schell

CHRYSIPPUS Heath Saunders

ISMENE Emma Hathaway Sway

ANTIGONE Madeline Seidman

OEDIPUS Jonathan Raviv

JOCASTA Alysha Umphress

LAIUS Harris Milgrim

CREON Yonatan Gebeyehu

ZEUS Lilli Cooper

Stage Directions: Daniel Mazzarollo

Scenic Designer: Jimmy Stubbs

Costume Designer: David Mitsch

In development

Broadway World Announcement

In January 2023, we will host a reading of this exciting new musical in development.

Rattlestick invites you to a special concert reading of new musical Thebes. Night after night, the underground nightclub "Thebes" comes alive, as the ghosts of its former rulers - Oedipus, Jocasta, and their cursed offspring - reenact their infamous demise. When Zeus appears to shut the tired operation down, Thebes is faced with a choice that pits the living against the dead once and for all: Do you embrace your fate or can you write something new?

More info on Rattlestick’s Website:

https://www.rattlestick.org/season-announcement

Broadway World Announcement:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Rattlestick-Theater-Announces-2022-2023-Season-Featuring-Two-World-Premieres-More-20220818

A Playhouse Panoply: Beloved Stories, Reimagined

Presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Programs in Theater and Music Theater in collaboration with the Department of Music

Princeton’s new Playhouse Ensembles are thrilled to present “A Playhouse Panoply: Beloved Stories, Reimagined.” The Playhouse Choir and Playhouse Chamber Orchestra unite to present brand-new arrangements of songs from the musicals Hadestown, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, The Wiz, Shuffle Along, and the beloved Studio Ghibli films. We hope you’ll hear songs and stories you know and love and also encounter some you’ve never heard before. The concert will run under an hour and will take place in Lee Rehearsal Room within the Lewis Arts Complex.

*NOTE: Tickets are currently sold out through University Ticketing, however we will do our best to accommodate all patrons who show up to attend on Sunday. A stand-by line will form outside the door of the Lee Music Room on 11/20 beginning at 3:30 p.m. 

About The Princeton Playhouse Ensembles

The Princeton Playhouse Choir is a new ensemble, founded in 2021, housed jointly with the Lewis Center’s Programs in Theater and Music Theater and the Music Department, and focusing on repertoire beginning in a broad range of theatrical traditions and expanding into a realm of experimental and innovative music-making. The core of the group’s repertoire is music connected to theater and reimagined for creative ensemble configurations through new arrangements and interdisciplinary collaborations. Playhouse incorporates large and small ensemble singing, a cappella and accompanied singing, vocal solos, dance, spoken word, new music commissions, and collaborative projects with artists across departments to facilitate a vibrant and inclusive rehearsal environment. The Princeton Playhouse Orchestra is a new instrumental chamber ensemble specializing in the performance of new music commissions, music theater repertoire, popular song, and film music.

Concert Program:

https://music.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/A-Playhouse-Panoply-Princeton-Playhouse-Ensembles-112022.pdf

I’ll be playing keyboards for this performance of the new musical “Noble Family” (by Cecilia Lin and David Zellnik, dir. Richard Maltby, music direction by Andrew Gerle) at the Cutting Room in NYC on Thursday, March 3rd at 7pm.

Details and Tickets:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/noble-family-a-romantic-new-musical-tickets-256260400757

THE NOBLE FAMILY is a romantic musical by Chinese-born composer Cecilia Lin(Four-time China Music Award winner) and lyricist David Zellnik (Yank!) under the direction of Tony winner Richard Maltby, music directed by Andrew Gerle, featuring an all-star Broadway cast and is set to open in both New York and Beijing in 2022! Enjoy songs from this brand new musical based on a bestselling Chinese novel and TV series. Let the magic of music bring you back to the fascinating age of China in 1926.

So excited to be conducting the ensemble I direct at Princeton (The Playhouse Choir) in a world premiere of Georgia Stitt’s new oratorio: “The Circling Universe.”

More info:

https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2021/12/photo-gallery-the-circling-universe/

The Circling Universe

In the final class presentation from a Princeton Atelier course, hear music from award-winning composer Georgia Stitt, performed by members of the Princeton Playhouse Choir, as well as original student work created to illuminate the ideas of “The Circling Universe.” FREE tickets required; open to University community.

EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED!

Enjoy an evening of new songs by composers and collaborators Katie Hathaway, Emma Hathaway, and Solon Snider, featuring tight vocal harmonies, smooth piano solos, and the occasional mandolin/violin. The program will feature songs from multiple new musicals, including their newest collaboration, “Thebes,” in development through Quinnipiac University and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in collaboration with director Danilo Gambini.

More info here:

https://www.briefcameoproductions.com/elementnext

or

https://www.ivorytonplayhouse.org/our-season/on-site-off-site-summer-series-2021

Event Link:

https://fb.me/e/3LHPohEJr

Come see the latest music from Crescent City Baby! Presented by Art Klub, New Orleans.

Event info at this link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2016092092025560/

https://artklub.org/calendar/2019/2/2/crescent-city-baby

"Crescent City Baby"--
Art Klub resident composer Solon Snider's latest musical.
Doors open 10pm, show starts 10:30pm!
Music and Lyrics by Solon Snider

Join us for an hour-long concert showcase with familiar faces:

Vocals: Cyrille Aimee, Jamison Ross, Gabrielle Cavassa, and Solon Snider!

Piano: Tom McDermott
Bass/Tuba: Ben Fox
Drums: Devon West, Mario Abney
Trumpet: Xavier Molina, Mario Abney
Reeds: Joe Goldberg
Trombone: Russell Ramirez

Choreography by Kimmie Allen and Natalie Cohen

Ticket info:
$10 at the door*
*no one turned away--pay what you can!

Journey back to 1933 and take in the music of a world eerily reminiscent of our own: new technologies (radio) were emerging, new politics were shaking up peoples' daily lives, and people were forming radical new relationships with sexual and racial identity. Nowhere were these forces more present than in New Orleans, where music told the history more clearly than anything else could, while resonating throughout the world. Come explore the music of this world, featuring local performers you're sure to recognize!

https://artklub.org/