An Evening With Stephen Schwartz

[camach1]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 1:55pm

Is anyone going to the concert tonight in Santa Clarita? I was thinking about going but wasnt sure if it would be worth the $100 tickets. Also what can I expect if I do go?

[camach1]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 1:56pm

Here whos performing:

ONE NIGHT ONLY! SUNDAY, OCT. 22
Curtain: 7:30 p.m.

Don't miss this magical evening when the amazing
Stephen Schwartz
is joined onstage at the College of the Canyons Performing Arts Center by musical theatre's best and brightest performers!

The all-star cast helping the composer sing his best-known songs for Broadway and Hollywood features Ben Vereen ("Pippin" Tony winner and a star of "Roots" and "All That Jazz"); Corbin Bleu (Disney's "High School Musical"); Nita Whitaker ("Ragtime"); Christa Jackson ("Always Patsy Cline at the Coronet"); Victoria Oscar ("Les Miz," "Annie"); Julia Gregory ("Showboat"); and Michael Leon Wooley ("Little Shop of Horrors"
on B-way and "Dreamgirls" soon on big screens). They'll alll be backed by a 24-voice chorus directed by Steven Jones! The star-studded tribute to Stephen's 35 years of musical magic will be
a night to remember!

[musicaltheater1]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 2:07pm

If there is a planned Q&A, I would ask him on an update on the "Hunchback of Notre Dame" stage musical in the US. The songs from the film and Berlin stage version are amazing and deserve a US stage production. The weird thing is, they are planning a tv show which I thought would conflict with a future stage production. Anybody here can share some light?

Updated On: 10/22/06 at 02:07 PM

[mateo]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 2:13pm

omg I cant believe someone just mentioned Santa Clairta here on BWW.

[Patronus]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 2:15pm

I know!

I was laughing hystrically when I was reading the paper this morning and saw the add for "An Evening of Tribute to Stephen Schwarts" at CoC.

[mateo]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 2:18pm

hahaha oh COC.

Do any of you live in the SCV? I use to for about 10 years then moved.

[Patronus]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 2:23pm

I am in the SFV actually, but on the north side closer to Valencia and Santa Clarita.

[mateo]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 2:29pm

oh ok.

I know the area. I went to VHS, and attended COC- and moved just after the new COC theatre (where the Schwartz night is taking place) was being built.


I find it funny that the SCV is trying to be Art and Theatre friendly, when it just isn't.

[immortalbroadwayLA]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 3:49pm

I saw a similar concert about 7 years ago in Marin(I think much more scaled down) as it was just Stephen Schwartz with Lisa Vroman joining him It was definitely a great evening and worth it. He is so real, down to earth, and really authentic. In addition to being one of the greatest broadway compsers of the 20th and as of now early 21st centuries.

[achancetofly]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 6:08pm

HOLY CRAP.


Wait, some of you guys live in SCV?


HOLY CRAP DUDE I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE.


God, I am so mad about this though.


As you guys will know...NOTHING ever happens in SCV. And then THIS happens. And I'm not going to be able to go. Because I'm in Santa Cruz because I'm going here for school.


Damn me for not having a car up here.


I can't believe like...how insanely strange this is. That something of this scale isn't coming to LA, but effing SANTA CLARITA.


And the ONE time.....I'm not there.

It's been killing me ever since I heard about it last week.

(edited to remove expletives, XDD)

Updated On: 10/22/06 at 06:08 PM

[achancetofly]

Posted: 10/24/06 at 1:35pm

I'm bumping this, hoping someone will write a review.

[SimpleJoysHaveSimpleVoice]

Posted: 10/24/06 at 10:54pm

Anyone go to this??

I heard he was at the Rubicon Theater in Ventura tonight?

Can someone throw me a line?

I need info.