≈ 2 hours · With intermission
Last updated: October 3, 2023
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
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
Jack Everly is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic (Artis—Naples), and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. He previously served as Principal Pops Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for 17 seasons. He has conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony, and numerous appearances with The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center.
Celebrating his 14th year as Music Director of the National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth on PBS, Maestro Everly proudly leads the National Symphony Orchestra in these patriotic celebrations on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. These concerts attract hundreds of thousands of attendees on the lawn. The broadcasts reach millions of viewers and are some of the highest-rated programming on PBS television.
Maestro Everly is also Music Director of the AES Indiana Yuletide Celebration, now a 30-plus year tradition. He led the Indiana Symphony Orchestra in its first Pops recording, Yuletide Celebration, Volume One, which included three of his own orchestrations. Some of his other recordings include In The Presence featuring the Czech Philharmonic and Daniel Rodriguez, Sandi Patty’s Broadway Stories, the soundtrack to Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Complete Overtures of Jule Styne.
Originally appointed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Maestro Everly was conductor of the American Ballet Theatre for 14 years, where he served as Music Director. In addition to his ABT tenure, he teamed with Marvin Hamlisch on Broadway shows that Mr. Hamlisch scored. He conducted Carol Channing hundreds of times in Hello, Dolly! in two separate Broadway productions.
Maestro Everly, a graduate of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music in 2021 from his alma mater. In addition, he is a recipient of the 2023 Sagamore of the Wabash Award—the State of Indiana’s highest honour, a 2015 Indiana Historical Society Living Legends Award, and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Franklin College in his home state of Indiana. He is a proud resident of the Indianapolis community, and when not on the podium, you can find Maestro Everly at home with his family.
Nick Adams is an award-winning actor, singer, and dancer. He co-stars as Cooper in the critically acclaimed Searchlight feature film Fire Island (Gotham Award winner, People’s Choice Award Nominee Comedy of the Year, GLAAD Award Nominee). Notably, he originated and starred as Adam/Felicia in the Tony-winning Broadway musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which earned him an honor from the American Theater Hall of Fame, two Broadway Audience Choice Awards, and an Astaire Award nomination for Best Dancer on Broadway. He received national critical acclaim for his portrayal of Whizzer in the North American Tour of Lincoln Center Theatre’s Broadway production of Falsettos (dir. James Lapine). Nick was the final actor to star as Fiyero in the First National Touring production of Wicked. He recently originated the role of Alexis Gilmore in the Broadway World Award-winning world premiere of Drag The Musical! in Hollywood, CA, and can be heard on the studio cast album. He also originated the role of Damian in the world premiere of Mary and Max at Theatre Calgary. Nick was one of the founding members of the Forest of Arden acting company and performed the new work American Dream Study under the direction of Michael Arden.
Other Broadway credits include A Chorus Line, Guys and Dolls, Chicago, La Cage Aux Folles, and The Pirate Queen. TV/Film highlights include Dallas Drake on The Other Two (HBO Max), Sex and the City 2, An Englishman in New York, Still Waiting In The Wings, Smash, As the World Turns,Guiding Light, Go-Go Boy Interrupted, It Could Be Worse. Concerts: NY Pops (Carnegie Hall), Boston Pops, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Erie Philharmonic, guest soloist with NYC Gay Men’s Chorus, guest soloist with Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, Feinstein’s San Francisco, 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, Birdland. He has instructed several master classes nationwide and internationally, has served on the guest faculty of The Boston Conservatory Musical Theatre Dance Intensive and The Broadway Dreams Foundation, and is regarded as a Capezio Dance Athlete. Nick has been featured in several national media outlets including Vanity Fair, Attitude, DNA Magazine, OUT, Paper Magazine’s “Beautiful People” issue, and Dance Spirit and Instinct Magazine covers. Nick holds a BFA from the Boston Conservatory. @thenickadams
Ben Crawford started his Broadway career when he covered the roles of Jean Valjean and Javert in the Broadway revival of Les Misérables at the Broadhurst Theatre. Since then, he’s played the titular character in Shrek, been a big bully in Big Fish, ran around like a sane lunatic in On the Twentieth Century, fathered a spoiled brat in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, and he was blessed to be the Phantom in Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera, which closed in April after its 35 years on Broadway. Ben’s other credits include 110 in the Shade, Hello Dolly, Assassins, Merrily We Roll Along, South Pacific, Beauty & The Beast, and Oklahoma! Check out Ben’s EP Electronic Pandemic on all streaming platforms.
Ted Keegan is proud to be Broadway’s Number 12 Phantom! Ted is a native of Watertown, New York with an undergraduate degree from Ithaca College and a graduate degree from University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He was last seen as the Phantom in Phantom the Las Vegas Spectacular. He starred in the National Tour of The Phantom of the Opera following a very successful run in the Broadway Company. Ted has performed the role in over 24 States across the country. He has had the great pleasure of appearing as the Phantom on television, performing live from Rockefeller Center for the Today Show on NBC. And he has the distinction of being the actor who has sung the role in front of the largest audience ever, when he made a spectacular flying entrance from the dome of Madison Square Garden singing “The Phantom of the Opera” during the half-time show of the NBA All-Star Game. Ted was deeply involved in the George Gershwin Centennial Celebration. He performed unpublished Gershwin at the opening of the George and Ira Gershwin Room at the National Archives in Washington, DC, which The New York Times reviewed as one of the ten best musical events of the year.
Ted has also sung Gershwin with Audra McDonald in New York and with Marin Mazzie at the opening of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. He appeared in the Frank Loesser Celebration at Symphony Space in New York City and was a soloist at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, singing unheard Bernstein. Ted hosted the Yuletide Celebration in Indianapolis, singing with the 90-piece Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. A few of the orchestras Ted has performed with as a solo performer include the Detroit, Syracuse, Charleston WV, Portland, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Omaha, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Fort Worth, and Edmonton symphony orchestras, the Dayton Philharmonic, and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. Ted made his Broadway debut in the highly acclaimed revival of Sweeney Todd, where he was seen as Anthony. Other Broadway and National Tour credits include Cyrano: The Musical, Mordred in Camelot with Robert Goulet, Freddy in My Fair Lady, Herman in The Most Happy Fella, Constantine in Hollywood/Ukraine, and another Phantom too—in the European Tour of the Kopit/Yeston version.
Katie is a New York City based singer, dancer, and actress. She graduated from Indiana University in 2020 with her BFA in musical theatre and minor in arts management. For The Argyle Theatre: West Side Story (Graziella). For Arizona Broadway Theatre: Gypsy (Dainty June / Louise u/s), Chicago (Ensemble / Roxie u/s). For Bigfork Summer Playhouse: Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie), Jersey Boys (Mary / Ensemble), 9 to 5 (Ensemble / Dance Captain / Doralee u/s). For Cardinal Stage Company: Newsies (Katherine / Dance Captain). Katie also recently performed as a featured artist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Naples Philharmonic.
Formed in 1992 for a live broadcast marking 50 years of Radio Canada International, Ewashko Singers has developed into one of the most flexible vocal ensembles in the National Capital Region.
From Beethoven, Mahler, and Verdi to Richard Rodgers and Howard Shore, they skillfully perform music across a wide range of genres and languages. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Laurence Ewashko, Ewashko Singers regularly highlights Canadian composers and showcases young Canadian talent. In addition to their own concerts, they often collaborate with other local choirs and music ensembles. Recent highlights with the National Arts Centre Orchestra include the Juno Award–winning live recording of Ana Sokolović’s Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, and Harry Somers’s opera Louis Riel as part of Canada 150 celebrations.
Former conductor of the Vienna Boys’ Choir and Cantata Singers of Ottawa, Laurence Ewashko celebrates his 35th season of choral activity in the National Capital Region. As a choral clinician, vocal coach and adjudicator, he makes a significant contribution to the quality and appreciation of vocal music in Canada and abroad. Laurence has prepared choruses for many prestigious conductors, as he regularly does at the National Arts Centre.
A Full Professor of Choral Studies at the University of Ottawa, he conducts the School of Music’s two choirs. Laurence is a recipient of the prestigious Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting and numerous awards from the Canada Council of the Arts. He is the founding conductor of Ewashko Singers which was established in 1992.
Manon has led a bilingual career since graduating from the Acting Program of the National Theatre School. Whether in classical or contemporary pieces, she’s collaborated with companies across the country, specifically in Toronto (Canadian Stage, Festival of Classics, Theatre Direct, Pleiades), Montreal (Denise-Pelletier, Centaur, Segal Centre, Usine C) and Sudbury (Sudbury Theatre Centre, Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario). In Ottawa, she’s performed for French and English Theatre at the NAC, Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC), Arts Court, Théâtre Catapulte, Rouge Écarlate, and Créations InVivo. She’s hosted concerts with the NAC Orchestra, the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala, and several corporate events across the country. Her work on-camera includes dramatic and comedic parts in film, television, commercials, and various multimedia projects. Recent credits include Pour toi Flora (Radio-Canada), Eaux Turbulentes (ARTV and Radio-Canada), the feature Noël en boîte, and three seasons of the youth TV series Amélie et Compagnie.
Along with regular voice work, Manon has done extensive work in translating and adapting various artistic and educational projects. She’s translated plays and librettos and been on the script writing team of three youth TV series, most recently the third season of Gang de hockey (TFO). With her teaching experience at the University of Ottawa’s Theatre Department and coaching both student and professional actors alike, Manon is now transitioning into directing. She’s directed a couple of readings, a production of Aéroportée at the TNO, and assistant directed Benevolence with Eric Coates at the GCTC. She’s currently working alongside French actor Caroline Raynaud to develop a one-woman show. Its first incarnation was presented at the TNO in February 2024.
Tobi Hunt McCoy is enjoying another year as season Stage Manager with the National Arts Centre Orchestra. In past seasons, she stage-managed Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Christopher Plummer in 2001 and Colm Feore in 2014. She co-produced the 1940s Pops show On the Air with Jack Everly for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, a show they co-produced in 2007 for the NAC Orchestra.
In 2018, McCoy made her Southam Hall acting debut in the role of Stage Manager in the Magic Circle Mime Co.’s production of Orchestra from Planet X. Additional professional duties have included aiding Susanna and the Countess in schooling the Count and Figaro on the finer points of marital love during The Marriage of Figaro, keeping her eyes open (for the first time ever) during the flying monkey scene in The Wizard of Oz, mistakenly asking Patrick Watson for proof of identity backstage, holding her breath while marvelling at the athletic ability of the cast during Cirque Goes Broadway, continuing to implement feedback on her British-Columbian French with the choruses of Ottawa, and cheering on Luke and Princess Leia with Charlie Ross, Émilie Fournier, and Eric Osner during the Star Wars Pops concert.
In her spare time, McCoy is the Head of Arts, Drama, English, and Library at Lisgar Collegiate Institute.
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
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
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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