PROHIBITION
Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 7:30pm
Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center
A Schirmer Theatrical/Greenberg Artists co-production Arrangements by Jeff Tyzik
POWERHOUSE By Raymond Scott
MY CANARY HAS CIRCLES UNDER HIS EYES Music by Jack Golden, Lyrics by Ted Koehler and Eddie Pola
PUT A TAX ON LOVE Music by Gilbert Wolfe and Harry Warren, Lyrics by Al Dubin
WHAT’LL I DO By Irving Berlin
HALLELUJAH Music by Vincent Youmans, Lyrics by Leo Robin and Clifford Grey
DIZZY FINGERS By Edward Elzear “Zez” Confrey
LA VIE EN ROSE Music by Louis Guglielmi, Lyrics by Edith Piaf
DE TEMPS EN TEMPS By André Hornez and Paul Misraki
LA CONGA BLICOTI Music by Jen Charles, André Giot de Badet, and Armando Bega Orefiche
TWILIGHT IN TURKEY By Raymond Scott
JONNY By Frederick Hollander
ALABAMA SONG from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Music by Kurt Weill, Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
MACK THE KNIFE from The Threepenny Opera Music by Kurt Weill, Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
BEI MIR BIST DU SCHöN Music by Sholom Secunda, Lyrics by Jacob Jacobs; English version by Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn
~ INTERMISSION ~
BLACK BOTTOM STOMP Music by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon
ST. LOUIS BLUES By William Christopher Handy
SWEET GEORGIA BROWN Music by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, Lyrics by Kenneth Casey AT AN ARABIAN HOUSE PARTY By Raymond Scott
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME Music by Jay Gorney, Lyrics by Edgar Yipsel Harburg
WE’RE IN THE MONEY Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Al Dubin
DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME Music by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt, Lyrics by Gus Kahn
MIDNIGHT, THE STARS AND YOU By James Campbell, Reginald Connelly and Harry M. Woods
ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET Music by Jimmy McHugh, Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
SHOUT FOR HAPPINESS Music by John Hart and Tom Blight
PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ By Irving Berlin
ALL ARRANGEMENTS AND IMAGERY LICENSED BY SCHIRMER THEATRICAL, LLC Creative Team
Robert Thompson, Creative Producer • Jeff Tyzik, Producer & Arranger Jami Greenberg, Producer & Booking Agent • Alyssa Foster, Producer • Alex Kosick, Associate Producer Eric Tarlo, Technical Coordinator • Tyler Hanes, Choreographer • Adam Grannick, Video Designer & Consultant
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This concert is generously sponsored by Chris & Anita Murray
We want to thank The Mob Museum, the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, for collaborating with us on this performance and for their incredibly generous contribution of curated artifacts.
WILLIAM WALDROP, conductor
Broadway Music Director, Conductor and Pianist, William Waldrop, currently serves as the Associate Conductor for Broadway’s longest running musical, The Phantom of the Opera. In 2017 he finished a highly celebrated run as Music Director and Conductor of the Broadway revival of Cats at the Neil Simon Theatre. Equally comfortable on the podium with the orchestra on stage or conducting from the pit, Maestro Waldrop has been hailed for his ‘dynamic conducting’ and has been praised in cities all over the US and abroad.
Waldrop is a frequent guest conductor with orchestras throughout the United States, including the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Sarasota Orchestra, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Long Beach Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Lexington Philharmonic, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Greenville Symphony Orchestra.
Waldrop has been associated with The Phantom of the Opera since 2008. In addition to working with the Broadway company, he is also the Associate Musical Supervisor for the current international tour which launched in 2019. In 2018, Waldrop was the Musical Supervisor for a new production in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has also been involved with other productions worldwide, including Oberhausen, Germany (Associate Musical Supervisor), the US National Tour Music Box (Music Director) and Las Vegas (Assistant Conductor).
In 2014, Waldrop completed a 30-city tour as the Music Director and Conductor of the revival of Evita (Broadway National Tour) and conducted the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra in Washington, D.C. for the tour’s final performances. Prior to leading the very successful national tour, he was the Associate Conductor for the Broadway production at the Marquee Theatre starring Ricky Martin, Elena Roger and Michael Cerveris.
In addition to working with other esteemed musical artists such as Michael Lynche and Leona Lewis, Waldrop has collaborated (as a conductor, music director or pianist) with many Broadway and cabaret stars, including Betty Buckley, Rachel York, Christiane Noll, and Klea Blackhurst. Waldrop has also played or conducted in the pits of other Broadway shows including Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, On The Town and Fiddler on The Roof. He has led chamber ensemble productions of Grey Gardens (Bay Street Theatre) South Pacific (Asolo Repertory Theatre) and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Off-Broadway).
As a composer, Waldrop premiered his brand new solo concert Still, and Still Moving: The Music of William Waldrop at New York City’s famed (and former) Metropolitan Room. Waldrop’s music has also been heard in other popular NYC venues such as Birdland, The Laurie Beechman Theatre and New World Stages.
An accomplished vocal coach, Waldrop accompanies and advises many star clients performing in current Broadway productions, national tours and beyond. Also an active educator, he leads regular master classes throughout New York City for such groups as The Growing Studio, Broadway Classroom, Broadway in Motion and Broadway Workshop.
Waldrop’s extensive experience on Broadway as both a conductor and pianist and his love of the American Songbook have made him a sought after conductor and one of the best and brightest new faces on the symphonic pops stage today.
Waldrop received his Master’s of Music degree from The Peabody Conservatory of Music and his Bachelor’s of Music degree from The University of Mississippi.
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SARAH URIARTE BERRY
Sarah Uriarte Berry recently received rave reviews for her portrayal of ‘Charlotte’ in the critically acclaimed production of A Little Night Music at the 2023 Tony Award-Winning Pasadena Playhouse. Dallas audiences may remember her appearance with Disney Princess-The Concert, in 2022! Ms. Berry starred as ‘Belle’ in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast on Broadway: first at the Palace Theater, and 11 years later, paired with Donny Osmond at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. She starred as ‘Cinderella’ in Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella for New York City Opera alongside Eartha Kitt and was the first ‘Belle’ to ever grace the stages at Disneyland. Berry made her Broadway Debut as ‘Eponine’ in Les Misérables after graduating from UCLA, later reprising her role for the 10th Anniversary Production. Ms. Berry won critical acclaim as ‘Franca’ in the Tony Award-winning The Light in the Piazza at Lincoln Center Theater receiving Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and is on the Original Broadway Cast Recording. Other Broadway credits include: ‘Nicola’ in Taboo (Original Broadway Cast Recording), Next to Normal, and End of the Rainbow. New York, Tours, and Regional credits include: Bernstein’s Mass with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Marin Aslop (Cast Recording), and with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Cast Recording); City Center Encores! The Boys From Syracuse and Tenderloin (Cast Recordings); ‘Julie’ in Carousel (Royal National Theater United States Tour); Sondheim on Sondheim at the Hollywood Bowl, starring alongside Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jonathan Groff, and Vanessa Williams; A Little Night Music (Kennedy Center); The Full Mony (Pittsburgh CLO), Showboat (Godspeed Musicals), Guys and Dolls and The Sound of Music (AMT), My Fair Lady and Hello, Dolly! (San Jose), Fiddler on the Roof (Sacramento Music Circus), West Side Story and White Christmas (MUNY), Jekyll & Hyde (Casa Mañana), Almost Heaven (Denver Center Theater), Oklahoma! (Music Circus), and Grease! Film and Television Credits include: Frontera (with Michael Peña, Eva Longoria and Ed Harris), Pretty Bird (with Billy Crudup), Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Live from Lincoln Center, The Tony Awards, The Late Show with David Letterman, and ‘Saint Jellorica’ in the infamous Cats episode of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt! Sarah has headlined with symphonies across the United States, including performances of her one-woman show, For The Love of Judy, and has graced cabaret stages with her new show, Porch Song Trilogy. Sarah is Spanish-Basque, happily married, and the mother of three crazy kids.
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MYRA MAUD
Her intriguing personality and captivating artistry are as diverse as her origins. Living between New York City and Hamburg, born and raised in Paris, with roots in Madagascar and Martinique, Myra Maud is a citizen of the world. As a multi-award-winning singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer, Maud started her career in Paris where she studied piano, saxophone, and dance at the Conservatory. Like many singers, Maud developed her singing and musical craft in church.
After several shows as a singer and Master of Ceremonies in Disneyland Paris in the late ‘90s, Maud was invited to travel the world as a soloist with the Claude Bolling Jazz Big Band and the Orchestre National Symphonique De France. Since then, Maud has shared the stage with superstars such as Mireille Matthieu, Johnny Hallyday, Céline Dion, and Enrique Iglesias. She also performed in the presence of Quincy Jones, in Davos, with her own choir, le Gospel Sans Frontières. In 2001 Maud left Paris to play the lead role of Nala in The Lion King musical in Hamburg. Then in 2006, she played the great Josephine Baker in the French film, Les Enfants Du Pays, starring Michel Serrault.
In 2010 Maud’s album Afri-Frans, a compilation of traditional South African folk songs performed in French, went platinum, with its sequel album reaching gold status. Her international acclaim grew tremendously in 2011 when she was invited to be the lead singer of the Opening Ceremony for the FIFA Women’s Soccer World Cup in Frankfurt, an event with more than 130,000 spectators. Maud was invited to headline the Eleuthera Jazz Festival in 2015, 2017, and 2018. From 2016 to 2019 she also starred in a series of tribute performances honoring the life and legacy of the legendary Whitney Houston, accompanied by the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra.
In addition to her success as a performer, Maud is a highly sought after vocal coach and workshop facilitator. She continues to take the performance world by storm!
BRONSON NORRIS MURPHY
Recognized for his “prodigious acting abilities” and a voice that has been acclaimed as “masterful, passionate, and soaringly beautiful,” Bronson Norris Murphy is best known for premiering the role of The Phantom in the first North American production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies: The Phantom Returns. Other notable performances include Raoul in the long-running production of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, the world premiere of UNMASKED: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at Paper Mill Playhouse, the 2019 New York City Center revival of Evita, the 30th Anniversary National Tour of CATS as Gus, Growltiger, and Bustopher Jones, and multiple US productions of West Side Story as Tony.
In just over a decade of performing, Murphy’s theatre credits also include New York City developmental productions of: Faustus, the Musical (MTM’s Best Actor Award), I Hate Holmes, Joan of Arc, Catch the Wind, Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David and Maybe One Day: A Fable for the York Theatre. Murphy has performed in over a dozen regional theatres around the country, including two seasons playing Stephen Foster in The Stephen Foster Story, both in the US and Japan.
Also prodigious on the symphonic stage, his concert credits include I Am Harvey Milk at The Avery Fisher Hall, Music City Christmas with The Nashville Symphony, West Side Story in Concert with Norwalk Symphony, The Music Man in Concert with Orchestra Kentucky, The Ocean City Pops Tribute to the American Songbook and as a soloist for Bach’s Cantata No. 140, Ramirez’s Misa Criolla, Saint-Saens’ Christmas Oratorio, Vivaldi’s Magnificat, and Dubois’ Seven Last Words of Christ.
In addition to his work onstage, Murphy is an advocate for music literacy, maintaining regular classroom hours as an active voice and acting teacher in NYC while hosting workshops on vocal production, song interpretation, music theory, and musical theatre audition techniques at New York University, The New York Film Academy, The Joffrey School of Ballet, Broadway Classroom, and The Institute for American Musical Theatre.
ERIC METZGAR, drummer
Eric Metzgar is an in-demand drummer and versatile collaborator who offers his musicianship to various jazz/pop artists and symphony orchestras worldwide. He has had the opportunity to play with numerous first-rate performers including Jeff Tyzik, Sutton Foster, Joe Locke, Jimmy Greene, Shayna Steele, Byron Stripling, and Delfeayo Marsalis.
Metzgar is a passionate educator deeply invested in music teaching and learning. Each summer, he teaches at the Cape Ann Jazz Workshop under the direction of saxophonist Alexa Tarantino. He maintains a private studio and serves as a clinician at grade schools and universities.
Metzgar holds a BM in Drum Set Performance and an MM in Music Teaching and Learning from the Eastman School of Music. He lives in New York City and tours frequently around the world.
ABOUT THE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC
The Las Vegas Philharmonic, led by Music Director, Donato Cabrera, established its presence in Southern Nevada in 1998. The mission of the Las Vegas Philharmonic is to inspire a lifelong appreciation of music through performances and educational experiences for our community that enhance the lives of our residents and the culture of our city.
Music education and engagement are the cornerstones of the Philharmonic’s service to the community. Our free Youth Concerts bring thousands of children annually into the concert hall for a vital music education program, and our Cox Communications education sponsorship recognizes and encourages emerging talent among Nevada youth in music performance through professional coaching, competition, and exhibition experiences.
Our season of concerts showcases local talents alongside stellar nationally and internationally known guest artists on the magnificent Reynolds Hall stage. At the orchestra’s core are 76 contracted professional musicians, many of whom are esteemed educators who also perform in other professional productions in Las Vegas, bringing depth and variety to the organization.
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