Pops Series

The Best of Broadway

with the NAC Orchestra

2023-10-05 20:00 2023-10-07 23:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: The Best of Broadway

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/33657

In-person event

Jack Everly and the NAC Orchestra bring up the lights on Broadway’s best music—all the “hot-cha” and jazz-hands hits you love from the greatest Broadway musicals ever to spring from the stage. Don’t miss this chance to give your regards to Broadway!  Ben Crawford’s Broadway credits include The Phantom of the Opera, Shrek the Musical, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Les Misérables. Nick Adams is a veteran of the Broadway stage and...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
October 5 - 7, 2023

≈ 2 hours · With intermission

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Last updated: October 3, 2023

Program

VARIOUS Broadway’s Leading Men Prelude

LEONARD BERNSTEIN / STEPHEN SONDHEIM “Maria” from West Side Story

ALAN MENKEN / TIM RICE “If I Can’t Love Her” from Beauty and the Beast

ALAN MENKEN / HOWARD ASHMAN “Proud of Your Boy” from Aladdin

JEANINE TESORI / DICK SCANLAN “Gimme, Gimme” from Thoroughly Modern Millie

STEPHEN SONDHEIM “Comedy Tonight” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

STEPHEN SONDHEIM “Being Alive” from Company

VARIOUS Leading Men of Broadway Medley

 
INTERMISSION
 

MEREDITH WILLSON “Seventy-Six Trombones” and “Till There Was You” from The Music Man

ARTHUR HAMILTON “Cry Me a River”

JULE STYNE / STEPHEN SONDHEIM “All I Need Is the Girl” from Gypsy

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER / CHARLES HART & RICHARD STILGOE “Music of the Night” from The Phantom of the Opera

CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG / ALAIN BOUBLIL & JEAN-MARC NATEL Les Misérables Medley

Artists

  • conductor Jack Everly
  • vocalist Nick Adams
  • ben-crawford-0498
    vocalist Ben Crawford
  • vocalist Ted Keegan
  • katie-scarlett-swaney-alex-kumar-cropped-1
    vocalist Katie Swaney
  • ewashko-singers
    choir Ewashko Singers
  • director Laurence Ewashko
  • manon-cropped
    host Manon St-Jules
  • hunt-mccoy-tobi-fred-cattroll-535
    Stage Manager Tobi Hunt McCoy

Credits

Ewashko Singers

Tenor

Wanda Allard 
Johnathan Bentley 
Elizabeth Burbidge 
Jordan Goodfellow 
Lianna Grace 
Jim Howse 
Andrew Jahn 
Philip Klassen  
David Lafranchise 
Chris Libuit 
Bryan Parker 
Chantal Phan 
Alexis Poirier 
Robert Ryan   

Bass

Russell Baron 
Wallace Beaton 
Terry Brynaert 
Alexandre Charest 
Oleksii Fishchuk 
Nikhil Gopal 
Christopher Mallory 
Matthew Menard 
Eugene Oscapella 
Andrew Rodger 
Stephen Slessor 
Victor Toma 
Christopher Yordy 

NAC Orchestra

First Violins
Yosuke Kawasaki (concertmaster)
Jessica Linnebach (associate concertmaster)
Noémi Racine Gaudreault (assistant concertmaster)
Zhengdong Liang
Marjolaine Lambert
Emily Westell
Manuela Milani
Jeremy Mastrangelo
*Erica Miller
*Martine Dubé

Second Violins
*Georgy Valtchev (guest principal)
Emily Kruspe
Frédéric Moisan
Carissa Klopoushak
Leah Roseman
Winston Webber
Mark Friedman
Karoly Sziladi
Edvard Skerjanc
*Heather Schnarr
*Andréa Armijo Fortin

Violas
Jethro Marks (principal)
David Marks (associate principal)
David Goldblatt (assistant principal)
David Thies-Thompson
Paul Casey
Tovin Allers

Cellos
Rachel Mercer (principal)
**Julia MacLaine (assistant principal)
Timothy McCoy
Leah Wyber
Marc-André Riberdy
*Sonya Matoussova
*Fanny Marks

Double Basses
Max Cardilli (assistant principal)
Vincent Gendron
Marjolaine Fournier
*Paul Mach

Flutes
Joanna G'froerer (principal)
Stephanie Morin
*Christian Paquette

Oboes
Charles Hamann (principal)
Anna Petersen
*Anna Betuzzi

English Horn
Anna Petersen

Clarinets
Kimball Sykes (principal)
Sean Rice
*Shauna Barker

Bassoons
Darren Hicks (principal)
Vincent Parizeau

Horns
*Mikhailo Babiak (guest principal)
Julie Fauteux (associate principal)
Lawrence Vine
Lauren Anker
Louis-Pierre Bergeron

Trumpets
Karen Donnelly (principal)
Steven van Gulik
*Andre Dubelsten
*Shaw Nicholson

Trombones
*Steve Dyer (guest principal)
Colin Traquair

Bass Trombone
Zachary Bond

Tuba
Chris Lee (principal)

Timpani
*William Wozniak (guest principal)

Percussion
Jonathan Wade
*Andrew Johnson
*Tim Francom

Drum kit
*Brian Barlow

Harp
*Angela Schwarzkopf

Keyboards
*Ruth Kwan

Rhythm Bass
*John Geggie

Principal Librarian
Nancy Elbeck

Assistant Librarian
Corey Rempel

Personnel Manager
Meiko Lydall

Orchestra Personnel Coordinator
Laurie Shannon

*Additional musicians
**On leave

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