Big Broadway with Norm Lewis

Pops Series

2024-10-03 20:00 2024-10-05 23:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Big Broadway with Norm Lewis

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36066

In-person event

​Celebrated baritone Norm Lewis brings Broadway to Southam Hall, performing favourite hits from iconic shows like The Phantom of the Opera, Les Mis and more with Maestro Jack Everly and the NAC Orchestra.   A theatre veteran with GRAMMY, Tony, and SAG nominations under his belt, Norm Lewis sings Broadway favourites in this highly anticipated and limited engagement. Having performed in a long list of Broadway shows, his many theatre accolades include being the...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
October 3 - 5, 2024
October 3 - 5, 2024

≈ 2 hours · With intermission

Last updated: October 3, 2024

Program

National Arts Centre Orchestra
Jack Everly, conductor
Norm Lewis, vocalist
Manon St-Jules, co-host

JACK EVERLY Broadway’s Leading Men Prelude

CHARLES STROUSE / LEE ADAMS “This Is the Life” from Golden Boy

DAVID SHIRE / RICHARD MALTBY JR. “Starting Here, Starting Now”

CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG / ALAIN BOUBLIL “Stars” from Les Misérables

MEREDITH WILLSON (arr. Don Walker) “Ya Got Trouble” from The Music Man

MEREDITH WILLSON (arr. Richard Hayman) “Seventy-Six Trombones” from The Music Man

GEORGE GERSHWIN (arr. Robert Russell Bennett) Introduction to “I Got Plenty of Nuttin’” from Porgy and Bess

GEORGE GERSHWIN / IRA GERSHWIN (orch. Gert Wilden & Christopher Jahnke) “I Got Plenty of Nuttin’” from Porgy and Bess

JULE STYNE / BOB MERRILL “People” from Funny Girl

INTERMISSION

EUBIE BLAKE Overture to Shuffle Along

STEPHEN FLAHERTY / LYNN AHRENS “Waiting for Life” from Once Upon This Island

AL CLEVELAND, MARVIN GAYE & RENALDO BENSON “What’s Going On?”

ALAN MENKEN / HOWARD ASHMAN “Poor, Unfortunate Souls” from The Little Mermaid

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER / RICHARD STILGOE Selections from The Phantom of the Opera

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

STEPHEN SONDHEIM “Being Alive” from Company

Artists

  • Conductor Jack Everly
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    Norm Lewis
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    Co-Host Manon St-Jules
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    NAC Orchestra
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    Stage Manager Tobi Hunt McCoy

NAC Orchestra

First Violins
Yosuke Kawasaki (concertmaster)
Jessica Linnebach (associate concertmaster)
Noémi Racine Gaudreault (assistant concertmaster)
Jeremy Mastrangelo
Marjolaine Lambert
Jeffrey Dyrda
Carissa Klopoushak
Manuela Milani
*Marc Djokic
*Sara Williams

Second Violins
Emily Kruspe (principal)
Emily Westell
Frédéric Moisan
Leah Roseman
Jessy Kim
Mark Friedman
Winston Webber
Karoly Sziladi
Edvard Skerjanc
*Sara Mastrangelo

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

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

Double Basses
Sam Loeck (principal)
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
*Melissa Scott

English Horn
Anna Petersen

Clarinets
Kimball Sykes (principal)
Sean Rice
*Shauna Barker

Saxophones
*Jeff King
*Mike Tremblay
*Petr Cancura
*Brian Asselin
*David Renaud

Bassoons
Darren Hicks (principal)
Vincent Parizeau

Horns
**Julie Fauteux (associate principal)
Lauren Anker
Louis-Pierre Bergeron
*Olivier Brisson

Trumpets
Karen Donnelly (principal)
Steven van Gulik
*Amy Horvey

Trombones
*Giuseppe Fu (guest principal)
*Nate Fanning

Bass Trombone
Zachary Bond

Tuba
Chris Lee (principal)

Timpani
*Jonathan Rance (guest principal)

Percussion
Jonathan Wade
Andrew Johnson
*Andrew Harris
*Kris Maddigan

Drum Kit
*Brian Barlow

Harp
*Angela Schwarzkopf (guest principal)

Keyboards
*Olga Gross
*Ruth Kwan

Rhythm Bass
*John Geggie

Guitar
*Pascal Richard

Principal Librarian
Nancy Elbeck

Assistant Librarian
Corey Rempel

Personnel Manager
Meiko Lydall

Assistant Personnel Manager
Ruth Rodriguez Rivera

Orchestra Personnel Coordinator
Laurie Shannon

Stage Manager
Tobi Hunt McCoy

*Additional musicians
**On leave

The National Arts Centre Foundation would like to thank Mark Motors Group, Official Car of the NAC Orchestra, and Earle O’Born & Janice O’Born, C.M., O.Ont.

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