Join the Princeton Playhouse Ensembles for a concert featuring new music theater arrangements of songs from A Little Night Music, Godspell, Evening Primrose, Kimberly Akimbo, In the Heights, Maybe Happy Ending, Next to Normal, Rent, and Waitress alongside world premieres by student composers and arrangers. The concert will also feature special guests, including tap dance artist and 2021-23 Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love and Playhouse alums Aaron Ventresca ‘24 and Halle Mitchell ‘23. This musical celebration will unite music theater storytelling, performance, composition, arranging, direction, and choreography while featuring the work, perspectives, reflections, and leadership of current Princeton students and alumni. The Playhouse Ensembles are directed by Princeton faculty member Solon Snider Sway, and this performance will be directed by Aaron Landsman, with lighting design by alum Alex Slisher ‘25, sound design by Kay Richardson, and stage management by Milan Eldridge. Along with Snider Sway, music directed and conducted by Matt Cline ‘27 and Marvel Jem Roth ‘28 with student choreography by Ava Kronman ‘26, Destine Harrison-Williams ‘26, Kevin Edouard ‘27, and Rika Nishikawa ‘29. Presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater & Music Theater and cosponsored by the Department of Music.
The concert will also be the Ensemble's debut EP release event! Their new EP, supported by a grant from the Edward T. Cone '39 *42 Fund in Princeton’s Humanities Council, will feature five musical compositions written or co-written by current and former students. CDs available for purchase ($20) after the show.
Event link: https://www.mccarter.org/howtobenotalone